Creativity/Activity/Service
Sports has been my passion for a long time, arts is also my passion, but I know clearly I’m not pursuing either of these two careers, so I was really worried about which path should I go, and about 6-7 months ago, I began to dig into research about kinesiology, because I wanted to increase my vertical jump, and I accidentally found this passion of mine that I can actually pursue, for the past 2-3 months, I’ve been testing out if this passion is an actual long term passion instead of 3-minute passion. And I believe this is actually a long-term passion because I don’t like studying, but I like studying kinesiology, listening to podcast, read some scholarly journals.
I’ve been listening to a lot of kinesiology podcasts such as PJF performance and Andy Galpin, I’ve been watching their videos for a long time and gained a lot of knowledge, they have appeared to be very entertaining throughout the last 6 months. This gave me a lot of directions for research, and PJF performance also taught me a lot about how to conduct research more professionally.
I created a social media platform that simplifies the knowledge I learned about kinesiology and sports science for student-athletes, elderly people, people who have been dealing with injuries, or anyone interested in the topic of sports science, most importantly, I can learn more, for ex, if people ask questions, then I can do research on that topic, this also tracks what I learn, I will be creating a series of posts, my first series is called building explosiveness and prevent injuries, this is targeting student-athletes, the post below is my first post, the post is in both Chinese and English, i will start teaching them some basic knowledge, then as people learn more, I will move on to the more advanced context, the next post will be common tendon injuries and how to prevent them, the third post will be how does tendon stiffness affect vertical jump and how to build tendon stiffness.
What makes this a CAS?
this is creativity because the images are all drawn by me, and I come up with the design too. This will also be an activity because I will be demonstrating exercises, for example, I will be demonstrating some movements that will build tendon stiffness in the following post, meanwhile. This is service because right now, I am helping people in my community, and as the account grows, I will be able to help people outside of my community, the benefits of bilinguality on this platform can potentially help people internationally too.