21st January 2009The afternoon started off with 3 of our girls; Sue Rene, Huey Yuen and Yvonne awaiting Coach Nicholes Ong at the MGS front gate. Hmm, it was nearing 2.30pm, and still no sight of Nick. Just when the three girls were about to give up and head to the gym, Nick arrived on his bike with all his equipment. Let the training begin!
Von took the attendance for the day and was shocked to see about 35 players' names signed up to join G12 Floorball Club. Like, wow! But unfortunately, her efforts in making sure everyone was on time pretty much failed. The newbies were a bit
sesat and therefore only entered the gym once she and Charmaine went to hunt them down in the canteen.
Coach Nick started off with getting 4 girls to lead the whole 'herd' for a 5-round run around the field outside the gym. Charm, Valerie, Shu Lynn and Von were his chosen victims. After the tiring run, Charm led the girls with some warm ups.
Nick then paired the Juniors up with a Senior each. Sort of like a mentor-mentee thingy. He wanted the seniors to lead and mentor their juniors all year long. Well, you know us. And things didn't exactly go as planned. It was pretty tough getting the Seniors and Juniors to work alongside each other.
He then got us to do some passings. That was when the Seniors really led the Juniors in teaching them how to pass correctly. Senior, Shu even found her long-lost twin, [Khai Lynn]! They really do look alike! The language barrier was quite an issue, so Shu had to mentor her Junior by speaking to her in
Hokkien. "
Sak ka tua lat tampok!" = "Push harder". It was a very cute sight, the two of them.
After passings, Nick got us to do the snake drill. The juniors didn't know what to expect, and most of them scurried around Nick's
green cones. However, they did try to shoot some balls into the goal post. Kudos to them for that.
Finished off with that, he then seperated us into two groups; Seniors and Juniors combined. He coached the bigger group consisting of more Juniors while Val coach the smaller group. This time it was to train the girls' shooting skills. In the midst of sucessful/unsucessful shots taken, a familiar face in the Floorball family, Kenny Khoo entered MGS's Gymnasium. With a few waves and Hellos here and there, the girls got back to shooting.
Training ended soon after. Now the girls were about to find out why Kenny was really here for. New sticks, of course! The girls surrounded Kenny when he brought out the new sticks. Nick asked the girls to give the man some room to breathe, but with the echoing "ooohh"s and "aahhh"s, together with "sooo prettyyy!" and "how much?! how much?!"; the girls only got closer to the sticks. It sounded pretty much like a market in there. After finding out that the most expensive stick being RM510 and the cheapest stick RM98, the excitement on some of the girls faces drained because they can't afford a stick. Shu and Von took the oppurtunity to put up their sticks for auction, valueing at RM200 and RM50 respectively. Yes, we were that desperate for a shiny new stick.
Some reservations were made on the sticks, some asked for trade-ins but everything can only be settled during the next training, when school reopens after the week-long Chinese New Year holidays.
YAY Factor : The Orientation Day proved to be successful, as we have an estimated total of 25 players this year.
BOO Factor : We might not be able to afford to send in all 5 lines for the upcoming Youthwave.
Highlight of the day : Coach Nick's 'Einstein' hair when he took off his helmet. HAHA!
G12 Floorball Club would like to take this oppurtunity to wish everyone in the floorball family and friends a Happy Chinese New Year!
Gong Xi Fa Chai :)
