Modified Kickball

Wednesday of this week we had a choice of modified kickball or mini soccer game. I had chosen to do modified kickball because I've never really done it so I wanted to learn how it's played ! The concept was apparently alike to cricket, but I don't know how to play cricket so I just tried to understand during demo. This day I wasn't in the mood to do anything at all because my knee was cramping and it was causing me so much whenever I would run or put pressure unto it. I really liked how some students in our class would encourage students to go up which really pushes them to try the activity. An example of this is Danny, he would volunteer me up to kick and actually participate in the activity which I did xD some people might get pissed when people call them out for activities but in my opinion it's just a way for them to try and help you get involve in the activity. When it was my turn I was constantly getting distracted by the pain on my kne therefore I wasn't able to actually try my hardest when kicking or even just running towards the ball when it was getting kicked. Afterwards, I didn't really feel like it did anything to my body to improve it but nonetheless it was a fun activity especially does who likes to run and kick kickballs. 

Adventures with BUNSO

So yesterday (Monday, May25) I was literally just on my desk all morning working on homeworks and projects. I felt so gross just sitting there so I thought of walking around the neighbourhood for fun xD I dragged my sister along with me so I ain't bored ! We just started along 64 and went on random turns and I basically just followed her lead cause I wouldn't know where to go. We ended up walking for 2 hours discovering random pathways and small parks. I just really needed that walk to get my mind off of homework for a bit and at the same time getting my mini workout in because we had pro-d therefore missing a day of PE. BTW . BUNSO  means/is the youngest member of the family. 

Tchoukball

YO THIS ACTIVITY HAS SUCH A COMPLICATED SPELLING TO ITS NAME... I struggled finding out how to spell it, then I realized I should've just googled it. HEH. ANYWAYS. Today it was kind of a choice day but not really. We had a choice between indoor Soccer and tchoukball. I chose tchoukball of course because last time I played it I had so much fun !! We were grouped pretty quickly considering half of us wore dark colours half of us wore lighter colors, so that's how we divided ourselves. NO NEED FOR PINNIES! We followed the general rules for half of the time we were playing the game until we started to get bored of the rules and decided to allow  intercepting. Because in addition of the intercepting rule I started to feel competitive and really in to the game, but at the same time having fun. It was great to see my team and the other team high-5ing their teammates whenever they get a point or even if they missed the shot. Everyone got along so well and it was great to see that no one felt out and everyone had chance to have their hand on the ball and throw it! 

Choice Day

Alrighty! We had a few activities planned out for us which we had to chose to do. Our choices were capture the flag, badminton, indoor ball hockey and weight room. I chose to go to the weight room. I didn't actually lift and use any of the equipment upstairs, but I did dance! I thought that it would be a great day to finally start creating choreo for my cousin's cotillion dance on her Debut and surprise dance performance for her by her cotillioners. A Debut is an entering to womanhood event when a teenage girl turns 18 on her birthday. Firstly, I did a light warm up by doing butt kicks, high knees, lunges, squats and jumping jacks. Secondly, I started listening to the song mix my other cousin put together for her cotillion and surprise production, from there I started thinking of choreo ideas. Honestly, it was so much harder than I expected to create 2 separate choreo. But I tried to put a few pieces together and ended up finishing 1/4 of the choreo for the cotillion and a little bit of the surprise production. After all the dancing I had done I felt so sweaty due to high temperature in the weight room and my legs (especially my knee) were getting a bit shaky because I haven't put that much pressure towards my legs/ knee in weeks. This is definitely a work in progress and I can't wait till I'm able to finish everything and I can finally teach the choreo because the Debut is approaching real quick. LOL

Locomotion!

It was really warm out today so I wished we had done something a little more chill for fitness. Fitness for today was Locomotion which is a really great full body workout, in my opinion. It's not the first that we've done this so I had an idea what we had to do and the intensity of the workout was pretty much up to us as to how hard we will push ourselves. I thought I was going to be lazy and not try at all because the weather made me lose motivation for some reason. I wasn't also suppose to be doing fitness for it will apply more pressure to my broken knee therefore causing more pain, but I totally forgot about it and just did the fitness xD OOPs.  I didn't realize until halfway through locomotion that I was going full out and I was sweating so much xD Though I did noticed that I was starting to slow down and was having trouble catching my breathe. I also stopped and skipped about 3-4 workouts towards the end because I was starting to feel some pain and cramping  towards my knee, which was expected considering I wasn't suppose to do fitness . I still tried to go back whenever I didn't feel the pain on my knee. After fitness I felt exhausted, sweaty but proud of myself that I was finally able to do fitness again ! 

Fitness Friday

I was in such a good mood this day! Weather want too hot or too cold in the morning, which east perfect !! We were given a chance to chose either running intervals around the lower field or yoga. I was really really REALLY hoping I would do the running interval... But Sneha and Neeha remembered that I my knee was nowhere near okay so dragged me into yoga.. Yoga was also the recommended fitness that Mr.Neufeld placed me to do just so I don't put anymore pressure than I already have before on my knees. (I was just being really stubborn, wanting to run). We started with some simple yoga poses and as time goes by the complexity of the poses and actions being told to be done were getting more complicated, therefore challenging us to push forward. Doing yoga wasn't too bad  as I thought it would have been. I discovered that I'm able to put plant my feet over  my head, talk my head with my foot and many more. I already knew that I was quite flexible but it was great that I discovered and learned new ways to improve my flexibility. After yoga, I honestly felt so sleepy especially due to the fact we ended yoga laying down on the mat for almost 2 minutes. I wouldn't mind doing yoga again but it wouldn't be my first choice.. But I found it very calming and relaxing to do after a long week filled with homework and tests.! 

R.U.N.

DA WEATHER WAS SO FIIINE! So I thought "AYE WHY NOT GO FOR A RUN" ! Realistically I'm not allowed to run due to my injured knee but I couldn't pass it up, it's so nice out!!! There were a few times where I had to slow down and lightly jog just so I don't further damage my knee xD I didn't have a specific route of where I wanted to run so I just went with it. I started running a little over 5pm and I returned home around 5:40pm. Afterwards, I just did a few arm and leg stretches. I hope to find time again to run more after school and just taking advantage of the warm weather ! 

Before I ran..

After I ran.. (I got tanned!)

Keeping up with Goals

Hi FAM! Lately I've been thinking about the Goal I made in the beginning of the year and I've found/learned what works for my body that targets my goal. Not too long ago after I made that post I tried out for Rugby not knowing how much I will love the sport. My goal of toning my legs were  getting worked up with all the running and leg warm ups we do prior to practice. Also I notice that because of Rugby I'm able to keep a good pace when I'm running now. My body has gotten used to the concept of running for a long time at a consistent pace when I do so during a Rugby game. On another hand, I've also noticed that I've been more exposed to dancing than I ever had before. I've seen, learned and have been inspired by many choreo from several mega crews and choreographers from different parts of the world through YouTube. It's hard to keep up with some or even most choreography so I just enjoy to watch them and if any day I need to come up with choreo it's as simple as watching them for inspiration. I personally use dancing as my alternative workout because first, it's fun second, I always give my all when it comes to dancing... Well at least I try to . I know for a fact that I dance almost everyday at the  dance studio at lunch, it may not be full out but it definitely helps! I still have a long way in achieving my goal, so far so good ! Something I'd like to add to my goal is having a good diet, a healthy diet gives your body the nutrients it needs to perform physically . 

Copy Choreo

SEE MY ALLITERATION UP THERE! Yeah that made me happy. LOL I have no chill. ANYWAYS. Lately I noticed that I've been getting choreo inspirations from other Mega crew dance groups. One of the dance groups my friend Shawn and I have been loving the choreo of is from GRV. They're style of dancing is more of Shawn's style but I still learned the choreo anyway since Shawn seemed really eager to teach it to me. The part of the choreo he know was the Flexin and Finnesin part by Iggy, which is had a very sassy yet hype choreo to it. My other friends are getting tired of hearing it but I personally enjoy the dance, it requires full body movement and a lot of levels when dancing. Shawn, Kathleen (anther friend of mine who is practically my twin) and  i are trying to learn more of the choreo!!

Here is the link: https://youtu.be/32Z377LiLVU