the Boss is Saying Again...

I still remember the first time I took the team as captain for the first competition of the academic year. It was a pressured time as the juniors were showing unsatisfactory training results for their first competition. The fears of tarnishing the victorious name of the team and the pressure of producing results for the school increased as the days to the competition drew close. I guess it was the idea of not letting efforts made by the seniors that led the team to glory for many years to be wasted by each batch of junior archers. However, much to my amaze, the juniors did the team proud and garnered top positions in their events for their first competition. All worries were lifted.

It was a year ago, and the rest were history. It was an eventful year and I felt that the team maintained their standard. Having set down as captain and shooting as a “backstage” archer, made me realised how the seniors felt when they saw the management of the team. There always seems an urge to step in and interfere with the new captain’s ways to ensure that the trainings or the ideas that you thought it had worked for you or for the team to be made known to the juniors. When the discipline drops, you will pop over the shoulders of the captain and give him the hint. Amazingly, those were exactly what seniors did when I was still incharged. It does make me annoyed at times, it is like questioning your ability and competence at work.

Come to think of it, I guess it was purely with good intentions for the team.

I guess this is like a culture for the team, where the seniors look after the juniors and the juniors maintain the culture and pass it on to their juniors to come. Without coaches, we train together as a team and help each other out and improve together. It is not about coming down to the range, shoot 100 over arrows for the day and just leave. It is about sacrificing each others individual shooting time to help the weaker archer. These are something all of us should be proud about. In my own opinion, it is not about making individual winners but about a winning team.

It is the time of the year again when all the juniors are going for their first competition. And as usual, their training scores kinda suck big time. I guess I just have to have faith in the captain and let him do his stuff. Everyone has their own style of doing things. A small defeat in competition may eventually boost up everyone’s determination and hunger for victory. Hopefully everyone will enjoy the shoot over the coming weekend.

"NTU 杀!"