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Cadangan pembentukan Kelab / Pasukan Mendayung Sekolah Alam Shah, Putrajaya:

1. Pembentukan Kelab/Pasukan
2. Perlantikan Ahli Jawatankuasa
3. Perlantikan Guru/Pegawai/Pengurus Pasukan yang tetap
4. Menetapkan jadual latihan
5. Menentukan kategori dan posisi crew
6. Merangka perlawanan

Pembentukan Kelab/Pasukan:
Memandangkan komitmen yang telah ditunjukkan oleh pihak sekolah, secara peribadi saya mencadangkan pembentukan kelab/pasukan secara rasmi. Dengan penubuhan kelab & perlantikan guru yang bertanggungjawab, segala keputusan & perancangan dapat dibuat dengan teliti. Segala bentuk komunikasi dapat diseragamkan.

Perlantikan Ahli Jawatankuasa dalam kelab:
Berdasarkan pengalaman saya semasa di kampus, perlantikan ahli jawatan kuasa akan dapat melicinkan program latihan di mana jurulatih dapat menumpukan perhatian terhadap pembentukan fasa-fasa latihan. Perlantikan di kalangan pelajar dapat membentuk sifat-sifat kepimpinan dan kemahiran komunikasi sesama mereka. Jurulatih akan memimpin mereka dalam melaksanakan tanggungjawab dan memupuk semngat kerjasama sepasukan.

1. Masalah komunikasi – percanggahan waktu latihan yang tidak tetap, tidak pasti siapa guru yang bertanggungjawab sepenuhnya, tiada keputusan dan sebagainya. Masalah ini diangagap telah selesai dengan penerimaan faksimili yang mengesahkan jadual aktiviti dan guru-guru yang bertugas.
2. Penglibatan pelajar tidak konsisten – jurulatih terpaksa mengajar asas rowing setiap kali latihan kerana masih ada pelajar-pelajar yang baru pertama kali terlibat. Kesinambungan latihan kurang berkesan.
3. Koordinasi & kerjasama sesama pelajar – Hubungan yang dingin antara sesama pelajar yang dibezakan mengikut tingkatan. Pelajar senior lebih cenderung memerintah daripada menunjukkan tauladan yang baik. Namun kawalan jurulatih mengurangkan dominasi & merapatkan jurang.

Saya membayangkan masa hadapan pasukan junior ini sebagai atlit kebangsaan yang boleh bermula seawal tahun 2010. Itupun bergantung kepada komitmen pihak pentadbiran sekolah dalam memastikan kesinambungan ini. Saya difahamkan terdapat 5 buah sekolah di sekitar putrajaya dimana jika dimanfaatkan “The Junior Boat Race” mungkin boleh diasimilasikan. Wah.. tingginya cita-cita. Tapi mana tahu, ada sejarah yang boleh dicipta.

Nota: Untuk pengetahuan, “The Boat Race” adalah acara klasik & bersejarah selama lebih 150 tahun yang masih dianjurkan hingga ke saat ini. Perlawanan bot eight (M8+) antara 2 universiti terkemuka Britain & dunia di Sungai Thames iaitu University of Oxford dan University Of Cambridge. Sila layari website ini : http://www.theboatrace.org/ untuk lebih maklumat terperinci.

Berita terkini, acara disahkan berlangsung di Putrajaya Water Sports Complex, Presint 6 pada 5hb hingga 10hb Ogos 2008. Jemputan ke pertandingan ini akan diedarkan ke institusi-institusi berkenaan. Oleh itu, di harap persediaan awal untuk latihan dapat dirancang.

Imbas kembali: Pembangunan Sukan Rowing peringkat Negeri
Berdasarkan kepada pengalaman-pengalaman yang lepas, kesinambungan sukan rowing tidak dapat diteruskan di peringkat negeri atas sebab kurangnya jurulatih berpengalaman & atlit yang konsisten. Program Klinik Rowing tahunan pernah di adakan mengikut zon-zon seperti berikut:

1. Zon Timur (Kelantan, Terengganu & Pahang)
2. Zon Selatan (Johor, Negeri Sembilan & Melaka)
3. Zon Tengah (Perak, Selangor & Kuala Lumpur)
4. Zon Utara (Penang, Kedah & Perlis)

Saban tahun, penyertaan atlit mengetengahkan muka-muka baru. Acapkali latihan terpaksa bermula dari peringkat asas. Fasa latihan tidak dapat dibentuk dengan sempurna. Disebabkan sukan rowing ini memerlukan masa untuk mengasah kemahiran, tumpuan tidak dapat diberikan bagi meningkatkan kecergasan dan stamina. Pada ketika itu, jika dapat mengimbangkan bot sesama crew dan mendayung ke garisan penamat sudah dianggap satu kejayaan. Tahap kemahiran berada di takuk yang lama.

Insentif perlawanan: Kekerapan perlawanan juga menjadi faktor di mana satu-satunya kejohanan adalah Regatta Rowing Kebangsaan. Tiada insentif perlawanan dapat diberikan memandangkan peruntukan kejohanan yang terhad. Namun itu bukanlah sebab utama kerana ganjaran boleh di cari melalui penajaan. Saya percaya PERDAMA cuba menerapkan nilai bahawa atlit tidak seharusnya mengejar kemenangan demi hadiah kewangan sahaja. Meski perkembangan sukan & atlit rowing tampak hambar dan lembap, namun di sebalik itu segelintir atlit yang dihasilkan mempunyai semangat jitu yang tinggi dan masih ingin meningkatkan kualiti sukan masing-masing.

Tetapi, berdasarkan feedback dari atlit tempatan kurangnya sokongan dari persatuan membantutkan usaha-usaha ini. Jika atlit ini mendapat 60% sokongan seperti projek gemilang 2001 bersama kerjasama MSN, pasti perubahan dapat dilihat. Faktor-faktor berikut dilihat sebagai penyumbang utama:

1. Bimbingan latihan di gymnasium
2. Pemakanan dan supplement tambahan
3. Psikologi sukan : mental training

Jurulatih rowing tempatan sangat terlatih dan pakar dalam latihan di air dan ergometer. Tetapi, untuk membentuk stamina dan kekuatan badan, bantuan pakar dari MSN boleh membantu. Apa yang tidak disedari oleh atlit adalah tindakbalas dari tubuh mereka terhadap rintangan & latihan. Kesakitan, keletihan & kelesuan seringkali di abaikan keperluan untuk memahaminya. Respon tubuh terhadap sesuatu memberikan tanda samada badan dapat menerima latihan atau tidak. Sekiranya PERDAMA dapat memahami keperluan-keperluan ini, pastinya atlit gembira dengan perhatian yang diberikan.

Kembali kepada tajuk di atas, kita cuba bongkar apakah yang boleh membantu meningkatkan prestasi pasukan universiti anda?

1. Ketua/Pengurus Pasukan: Bentuk kelab mendayung di universiti. Lantik seorang presiden kelab, setiausaha dan pengurus pasukan. Rancang aktiviti dan latihan persediaan. Kekalkan pasukan yang sama setiap kali kejohanan. Lantik muka-muka baru sebagai pelapis. Ini bukan sahaja meningkatkan jatidiri anda bahkan kepimpinan dan pengurusan berkesan anda dapat diuji.
2. Kem latihan: Rancangkan aktiviti tahunan berdasarkan kepada kejohanan-kejohanan yang dianjurkan. Buat kertas cadangan dan bentangkan di hadapan pihak pentadbir. Adakan kem latihan sekurang-kurangnya selama 4 hari sebelum setiap perlawanan. Atau dengan lebih konsisten pada/setiap hujung minggu, adakan camping di Boathouse, Empangan Batu Ulu Yam bagi tujuan latihan ini. Kos penginapan dapat dikurangkan yang pastinya pihak pentadbiran universiti sukar menolak kertas cadangan anda melihatkan kesungguhan ini.
3. Coxwain (jurumudi): Jurulatih-jurulatih yang cuba dihasilkan melalui kursus-kursus kejurulatihan kebangsaan kurang menyerlah disebabkan faktor pengalaman & mungkin komitmen. Tanpa minat & kesungguhan yang luar biasa, jurulatih-jurulatih ini tidak akan dapat berdepan dengan cabaran-cabaran dalam pembangunan sukan. Tidak dapat dinafikan juga, faktor elaun dan gaji menjadi penentu kesinambungan. Adakah anda perlu diiktiraf jurulatih untuk meningkatkan prestasi pasukan universiti anda? Ya, di sinilah peranan coxen @ coxwain menjadi penting. Jika anda seorang coxwain, peranan anda sangat penting! Masa latihan di air sangat terbatas. Disebabkan kemudahan bot yang sukar diperolehi berhampiran dengan tempat anda, masa harus dihargai sepenuhnya. Kenalpasti coxwain anda dan pastikan mereka terlatih secukupnya untuk membantu memperbaiki kemahiran crew masing-masing

Dari semasa ke semasa, saya akan mengemaskini perkara-perkara di atas. Sehingga kita berjumpa lagi!

by: Damanhuri @ OCM

As a coach and role model, you will affect the lives of your players.Through your approach to coaching, you will show your players how todeal with many of the challenges they will face in life.

Take Delight in Young People
Liking kids has to be a priority. Your primary reason for coachingshould be to help young people grow, mature and develop in tosuccessful, well rounded and respected adults. If course we all wantto win, but if winning is the only thing that counts, you’ll neverhave the pride and satisfaction that comes from your players succeed at life.
You have to coach for the right reasons. You must focus on teachingyour players proper values. Important values to teach includediscipline, hard work, conquering fear and tension, having pride intheirselves and their teammates, establishing attainable goals, andmore importantly stiving to accomplish those goals.
Don’t coach for the wrong reasons, such as boosting your ego orwanting to be in the limelight. Don’t use your players to fan yourego because then they become pawns instead of people.

Organization
You won’t be able to accomplish everything that you want toaccomplish if you don’t have a concrete, workable plan. Everypractice is a race against time, don’t waste a minute. Determine whatyou want to accomplish for each practice in order to obtain your teamgoals. Your assistants must understand your plan and how you want thefundementals to be taught. You must also listen to imput from yourassistants and be willing to take their suggestions underconsideration. This should be done before practice so that no time is wasted.

Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is a necessity whether you are coaching baseball,basketball, soccer, softball or volleyball. The thought of workingwith your players should motivate you and get you excited about whatthey are accomplishing. You should treat every player as if they wereBabe Ruth or Michael Jordan and every practice as if it were the lastgame of the World Series.

Patience
The ability to go over things again and again, never losingenthusiasm, is a must for a great coach. Every great athlete had amentor who had the patience to teach the fundementals of the sport.One of the greatest experiences of coaching is to see the leasttalented suddenly blossom, all because you never gave up on theplayer. The player will not forget how they became successful andwill take the same values into their lives.

Persistence
It is difficult to differentiate between patience and persistence,they go hand in hand for a coach. You must persist and you must teachyour kids to persist. Persistence in simple words, is never givingup. Each of us has failed at times but what is more important thanfailure is what we do after we fail. The greatest thing about defeatis that it is a powerful learning tool.

Sincerity
You must be sincerely concerned about your players, first as humanbeings and second as players. Being concerned, listening as well asteaching and sharing decision making will empower you players to playtheir best. Sincerity and concern mean that the game and its outcomeare secondary to the people playing it.

Fairness
Being fair goes along with sincerity and concern. Everyone wants afair chance to so what they can do. They want an opportunity! Eachday a coach must re-evaluate personnel. Never discuss one of yourplayer’s abilities with another player on the team. Make onlypositive comments during and after practice and games. Never singleout one player to praise. I try to keep a list during the game andwrite down as many positive things that a player has done that I canfind. After the game I will go through the list and state a couple ofthings that each play did that helped the team.

The team was on their way to Manila Sea Games 2005. Location: KLIA

The scullers: From the left, Tonga (Syukri), Acap (Syahrul), Coach Hadi, Aidy (#1 fan), Dedeq (Nordiana) & Afong (Tan Suet Fong).

Moderator & the scullers.

Adaptive rowing is rowing or sculling for rowers with a disability who meet the criteria set out in the Adaptive rowing classification regulations. Adaptive implies that the equipment is “adapted” to the user to practice the sport, rather than the sport being “adapted” to the user.

The International Rowing Federation (FISA) is the sole world governing body for Rowing, and the sport is practiced by athletes in 24 countries. It was introduced into the Paralympic programme in 2005 and will hold its first Paralympic events in Beijing in 2008.

Adaptive rowing is open to male and female rowers, and is currently divided into four boat classes which are part of the World Championships programme: LTA4+, TA2x, AW1x and AM1x.The LTA4+ and TA2x are mixed gender boats. Races are held over 1000 metres for all four events (although LTA4+ was raced over 2000m until the 2005 World Rowing Championships).

ELIGIBILITY & CLASSIFICATION

A. LTA (Legs, trunk and arms)
The LTA class is for rowers with disability but who have the use of their legs, trunk and arms and who can utilise the sliding seat. LTA rowers must meet minimum disability requirements in at least one of the following three disability groups:
(1) Intellectual disability
(2) Visual impairment
(3) Physical Disability

B. TA (Trunk and Arms)
The TA class is for rowers who have trunk movement but who are unable to use the sliding seat because of significantly weakened function of the lower limbs as defined below.
Eligible TA rowers would typically have a minimum disability equivalent to at least one of the following:
1.
• Bilateral around knee amputation, or impaired quadriceps, or
• Neurological impairment equivalent to a complete lesion at L3 level, or an incomplete lesion at L1, or
• Combination of the above such as one leg with around knee amputation and one leg with quadriceps impairment; or
2.
• have been classified by the international sports federation for athletes with cerebral palsy (CP-ISRA) as eligible to be in CP Class 5.

C. A (Arms Only)
The A class is for rowers who have no or minimal trunk function (i.e. shoulder function only). An A class rower is able to apply force using the arms and/or shoulders only. The classifiers shall adopt a Functional Classification Test in their assessment process, using the scale set out therein.:
Eligible rowers would typically have a minimum disability equivalent to at least one of the following:
• Cerebral Palsy Class 4 (CP-ISRA); or
• Neurological Impairment with a complete lesion at T12 level, or an incomplete lesion at T10, or
• Functional impairment of rectus abdominis (Beevor’s sign).

Refer more details at this link:
http://www.worldrowing.com/index.php?pageid=17
http://www.rowingcanada.org/domestic_rowing/adaptive/

The basic rowing action is a coordinated muscle action that requires application of force in a repetitive, maximal and smooth manner. Every large muscle group will contribute to this action. The muscle requirements have been analyzed by Dr. Thomas Mazzone1. The rowing action has been divided into the following sequence:
1) the catch
2) the drive -> leg emphasis -> body swing emphasis -> arm pull through emphasis
3) the finish
4) the recovery

The Catch
The erector spinae muscles of the back are relaxed to allow for trunk flexion, which is provided by the abdominals. The psoas major and minor and the iliacus flex the pelvis and hips. The sartorius muscle rotates the thighs which allows the body to flex between the thighs to obtain maximum reach. The hamstrings and gastrocnemius are contracting while the knees are in flexion. The quadriceps are elongated and stretched, yet the rectus femoris is contributing to hip flexion. The ankles are dorsiflexed by the tibialis anterior. The elbows are extended by the triceps brachii. The grip on the handle is accomplished by the flexor muscles of the fingers and thumb.
The Drive : Legs Emphasis
The initial portion of the drive demands maximal power from the legs. The quadriceps extend the knee, and the feet are plantar flexed by the soleus and gastrocnemius muscles. A number of stabilizing muscles aid in supporting the lower back. All the muscles of the shoulder are contracting. These include the supra and infraspinatus, subscapularis, teres major and minor, and the biceps brachii. The scapula is stabilized by the serratus anterior and trapezius muscles

Body Swing Emphasis
As the knees are finishing their extension, the hip is also extending by the contraction of the gluteus and hamstring muscles. Back extension is occurring by contraction of the erector spinae.
In the upper body, elbow flexion is occurring via the biceps, brachialis, and the brachioradialis muscles.

Arm Pull Through Emphasis
The knees are maximally extended, and the ankles are plantar flexed. In addition, hip and back extension are being completed. The upper body musculature is contracting with high force to finish the drive. The elbow flexors are dominant. The flexor and extensor carpi ulnaris muscles of the forearm contract to stabilize and adduct the wrist. The shoulder is extended and adducted. The upper arm is internally rotated by the latissimus dorsi and pectoralis major. The teres minor, posterior deltoid, and long head of the biceps are acting on the shoulder joint. The scapula is rotated downward by the pectoralis minor and then drawn backward by the trapezius and rhomboid muscles.

The Finish
The knees and ankles remain constant as the hips complete a full extension. The back extensors are continually contracting, and the upper arms are internally rotated by the contracting latissimus dorsi. The triceps are extending the elbows slightly.

The Recovery
The arms are pushed forward and away from the body by the triceps until the elbows reach full extension. The anterior deltoids contract along with the coracobrachialis and biceps, and the upper arms raise slightly as they pass over the extended knees. The abdominals flex the torso, and once the hands have cleared the extended knees, the slide begins its forward motion through ankle dorsiflexion and hip and knee flexion.

1Kinesiology of the rowing stroke, NSCA Journal, Volume 10, Number 2, 1988, Thomas Mazzone, M.D. Wyoming County Community Hospital, Warsaw, New York

Al Pacino – Any Given Sunday

all comes down to today.
We are in hell right now, gentlemen
believe me
we can fight our way
back into the light.
We can climb out of hell.
One inch, at a time.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
On this team, we fight for that inch
On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone else around us
to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know
when we add up all those inches
that’s going to make the fucking difference
between WINNING and LOSING
between LIVING and DYING.
Now I can’t make you do it.
You gotta look at the guy next to you.
Look into his eyes.
Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you.
You are going to see a guy
who will sacrifice himself for this team
because he knows when it comes down to it,
you are gonna do the same thing for him.
That’s a team, gentlemen
and either we heal now, as a team,
or we will die as individuals.
Now, whattaya gonna do?

~ TEAMWORK~