Went for Waikiki 2008 yesterday, an outdoor sports event held by SMU at sentosa. Formed a team of handball and a team of soccer with the floorball people to take part in Waikiki. Our handball team was down on luck, being group with the NUS handball team and the SMU handball team. Needless to say, we were totally trashed. NUS beat us 13-0 while the game against the SMU handball team was slightly better, losing 1-9. Played keeper against the SMU handball team but only managed to stop a couple of shots. The worst is when you went out to help in attack and the opponent keeper tried to score from goal to goal and I got to sprint back all the way, most of the time to no avail. Soccer was better though, we manage to qualify through the group stage to the quarter finals (and I kept 3 clean sheets), sadly losing through penalty shootouts.
Despite not winning anything, it was a fun and memorable event and happy that the other floorball team participating in soccer went against the odds and got first runner-ups. Looking forward to Waikiki 2009!
Next on my agenda will be SP Open, my very first archery competition. To think that I'm participating in the standard class for my first competition, I'm not expected to win anything. Did rather well for training today, scoring a personal best of 297, though no where near to medalist standard, it was a good improvement from last week. And a veteran archer gave me some pointers to improve my form and even gave me a free finger sling!! After which I saw my best grouping ever at 10m. That gave me lot of confidence and I'm thankful to him. Now I got to try to do some changes to my form so that I won't hit my arm. As of now I'm more or less addicted to archery. Planning to go training for the next two days despite all the school work I need to do and now I'm enjoying the Youtube videos of the Korean archers.
