It breaks my heart, and this is something I will never understand.
Why quit Ultimate?
This is the third girl friend who I know, that has personally declared hands off her disc.
You can play Ultimate. It does not need to be very competitive, where you have to get fit to play ultimate, not playing ultimate to get fit. If league and varsity training is not your thing, there are always pickup games!
Unless the main motivation is not disc, then I cannot see why you would quit it altogether. It can be a very fun sport even if you cannot run that fast, or catch that well.
This is very discouraging, especially for me as a non-club ultimate player in singapore.
You don't have to be a in club/varsity/team to play ultimate.
You don't have to keep fit just to play ultimate.
You are in control of your life. I can't force these stuff down your throat, but please, take my advice if you see this.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Touching words from an ex-teammate
Last Saturday, Ben Ho met up with the guys for beach pickup at Sentosa. On the way back, we decided to take a taxi, because I can make a claim for it, and we live quite near each other.
The talk went quite well, until Ben talked me up about going back to club training.
He was saying that my level of play was quite ok, and my reading of the game situation is quite good during pickup.
Ben has always been giving honest opinions whenever possible. I take it as a compliment.
I know that I've been avoiding this topic for a while now... but I have been staying off clubs whenever I can. I mean, which club would want me? There are better players, and that's what they want.
If I want to run hard, it is because I love to, not because the club wants me to. Sure... this way, the club will improve the players...
Maybe I just don't like to be overly submissive to something I don't like to do. In this case, I'm a really lazy man.
If I were to do such things, I'll rather do it with a group of people who can share their joy/sadness with me. Someone who is willing to go through thick and thin together. Someone who knows to better themselves, rather than have themselves being pushed.
Maybe this is the barrier that Ben has been talking about.
Why did I break my ACL before my first Singapore Open with my poly friends? It is a point in time which I still regret, and as everybody knows, you can't turn back time. D:
The talk went quite well, until Ben talked me up about going back to club training.
He was saying that my level of play was quite ok, and my reading of the game situation is quite good during pickup.
Ben has always been giving honest opinions whenever possible. I take it as a compliment.
I know that I've been avoiding this topic for a while now... but I have been staying off clubs whenever I can. I mean, which club would want me? There are better players, and that's what they want.
If I want to run hard, it is because I love to, not because the club wants me to. Sure... this way, the club will improve the players...
Maybe I just don't like to be overly submissive to something I don't like to do. In this case, I'm a really lazy man.
If I were to do such things, I'll rather do it with a group of people who can share their joy/sadness with me. Someone who is willing to go through thick and thin together. Someone who knows to better themselves, rather than have themselves being pushed.
Maybe this is the barrier that Ben has been talking about.
Why did I break my ACL before my first Singapore Open with my poly friends? It is a point in time which I still regret, and as everybody knows, you can't turn back time. D:
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