Despite all the schooling, extra curricular activities, academic tuitions & violin lessons, the boys were still able to put decent hours into the court for Q1 in 2013. This unfortunately was at the expense of some weekend masses and one Sunday school class skipped, which I am not proud of.
Despite the drop in court hours in Q1(2013) vs. Q4 (during 2012 year end holidays) which is expected, their attendance for training sessions were commendable despite their ultra tight schedules.
Year 2012 2013 |
Month Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar |
Court Hours 54 72 109 78 58 74 |
No. Sessions 22 25 36 30 24 27 |
Aaron continues to make rapid progress which we can see from the results of competitive matches he participated in 2013. See below ala BWF style.
RYAN | AARON | |||||||
PLAY | WIN | LOST | % wins | PLAY | WIN | LOST | % wins | |
Career | 25 | 15 | 10 | 60% | 22 | 15 | 7 | 68% |
2013 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33% | 6 | 5 | 1 | 83% |
Ryan on the other hand, learning curve began leveling out. In one of my conversation with Coach Alex to address Ryan’s footwork, he suggested to inject short distance sprinting into his training diet. I took his advice and started the boys with 100m sprints at the
The boys will be sitting for their first term school exams in April and we expect some loss in training hours. What we are more anxious is how they fair in their exams amidst all the hectic activities. We shall see.
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