Today, our fit and fab Paddlers are honored to be part of the iFitness Magazine photoshoot. iFitness Magazine is a home-grown fitness magazine owned by Leonard Si, the director. Today, both his photographer Mave and himself visited PLK Paddlers at the Boathouse for a once-in-a-lifetime feature for iFitness Magazine!
Here are some selected photos for your viewing pleasure. Big thanks to Steven Sung for helping to capture this momentous occasion with his HP.
Our captains and Mentor taking a photo with the Bedok Reservoir as a fitting backdrop!
Our captains and Mentor - with the PLK Paddle and the Pokka Sports drink
A very fitting recruitment poster for 2017 yes?
Our Paddlers taking down this Crossfit-styled workouts with ease.
Paddlers working very hard.
Mave, the iFitness Photographer, capturing the Paddlers in discussion.
Our paddlers are up and training again at the grounds of Bedok Reservoir. Due to Cat 1 lightning warning, Oz had gotten the paddlers to do some crossfit-style weights training.
Paddlers gathering together at the boat house.
Coach Oz ensuring that all paddlers are sufficiently cooled down.
And the stations are set up while the Paddlers get mentally prepared.
Paddlers motivating one another during weights training,
and doing our signature whoosh!
Paddlers are encouraging one another to complete some monstrous sets, while Coach Oz hinted that it will get tougher every training session. While the training sets become tougher and tougher, our Paddlers are more streamlined and fitter than before. PLK Whoosh! *Some of the videos have explicit language.
You may hear our cheers and warcries in our race sites, how we raise the team spirit and morale with a PLK Whoosh. But do you know the significance of the whoosh?
whoosh
wʊʃ,wuːʃ/
verb
1.
move quickly or suddenly with a rushing sound.
"a train whooshed by"
noun
1.
a sudden movement accompanied by a rushing sound.
"there was a big whoosh of air"
exclamation
1.
used to imitate sudden movement accompanied by a rushing sound.
"the starlings gather, then suddenly—whoosh!—flocks rise and swirl"
We aim to be a force, and take all races by storm. Hence, our whoosh signifies a powerful force, a combined strength, a concerted effort of like-minded paddlers, hungry to win, eager to learn, and most important, a good display of sportsmanship, esprit-de-corps and camaraderie in the team.
Train hard PLK Paddlers!
Sunday 3 April 2016
A Big Birthday Shout-out to the following March and April Babies!
There will be no water training on the 3 April 2016! Water training and land training will resume on 9 April 2016, from 2-4pm at Bedok Reservoir boathouse.
This year's Paddlefest brings the PLK Paddlers to unchartered waters of Sengkang, beside the majestic Anchorvale Community Club!
Credit source: Sengkang Properties
HEATS
The first category - GRO Mixed 12
Our first warriors to set the momentum for the day!
GRO Mixed Heats
Our paddlers have done very well, coming in first for the GRO Mix heats! The contenders for the heats were tough, where strong teams like Ironwill (Tampines Changkat), Dumplings @ Tampines North CSC and Team Kiyah-Splashhh fought against our PLK paddlers. But hard training had paid off, as our results had so clearly shown. The GRO mixed crew had certainly lifted the morale of the paddlers, as they exchanged information on the water condition, lanes, and the overall water sense. Such exchange of information allow the fostering of teamwork and camaraderie, and it allows our paddlers to focus onto our common goal, to do the best we can. Next category, our next 12 paddlers compete in the CSC Mixed!
As part of tradition, we will always hold a briefing prior to race. Once everyone is on the same page and affirmed on what to do and what not to do, we took our place in the boat and give it all we have!
CSC Mixed was a indeed a difficult battle. As Sam Lau and the other PLK paddlers described, "all boats were side by side at the initial starts but PLK paddlers managed to pull away from the rest during maintenance and sustained that efficiency and stroke rate, securing a first in the heats."
CSC Mixed Heats
And finally, the last category for heats, our next 12 paddlers took their positions to battle out in the highly contended GRO Opens. This heats is not easy, as formidable teams (Trident, Reach and Punggol North CSC) took their lanes down with ease.
Our handsome GRO Opens paddlers posing for a picture, before going down to give their best.
