Responsibilities

It's been a while since i last blogged. There are many things that came to my mind, and sometimes i want to blog about it, but then again, i guessed it's not that significant, and therefore, i didn't blog about it.

Anyhow, today i am going to blog about RESPONSIBILITIES

I think of myself as quite responsible. Or at least that's what i PERCEIVE about myself. I may be lazy, but when it comes to the things that i am schematic about, i am pretty responsible. So what are the things that are schematic to me? I think currently, rank no. 1 on the list is the Volleyball Club. and so i shall rant about it. XD

It's really hard when you are in the position of a leader. Being a leader means that you will have to balance the needs of everyone including my own needs and it's really tough to balance these needs.

1) The need to win vs the need to train
When we send teams out for competition, definitely the goal is to win. Or at least strive to win, which means that the strongest players will be the main players. This will also mean that the reserve players will most likely sit on bench for the whole of competition. Being the leader, I would also want to reserves to have a chance to play, to compete in competition cause if not, then what's the purpose of coming for training week after week? How to balance? Almost impossible cause it will be forsaking a goal for another, unless of course the reserves player are awesomely good, but that's rarely the case.

Solution? - send out 2 teams. But still there are people whom dislike this, cause obviously the strongest team will be in one side (need to win), and everyone wants to play for the winning team (Goh, 2009). The people who are in the second team might feel that they are 'second class' being chucked aside.

Conclusion - Headache

2) The need for real training and the need for fun
Real training is tough, and not many people like it. Therefore there is a need to balance between being too tough in training and between having fun, which is of course difficult because is it's not tough enough, then it's not stimulating enough and nobody will improve. If it's too tough, then it will be demotivating. And stimulating for a person might mean too hard for another.

Solution - The only thing i can figure out right now is that training should follow the person's progression. Of course, it's easier said than done.

Conclusion - Headache

3) Need for inclusiveness vs my selfish needs
As a volleyball player myself, of course i would want each match to be as stimulating as possible, so that I can hone my skills as well as all others on the court. which in this case would mean that everyone on the court should be good players. It would be a good challenge. But at the same time, I cannot sideline other players, cause they should play with good players as well so that they can improve, but if less good players are in, then the match would be less fun (and yes, i know i am being very selfish with this statement). Also, it's extremely important (or at least i think so) to have the main team train together with other people so that they can have cohesiveness between members. Sadly, when the main team group together, normally the other team don't stand a change, and therefore, normally the strength of the 2 teams are seperated

Solution - this 1 is easier to be balanced. have some games which includes everyone, and other games which is like 'all-star' players. so no biggie. Can ask for friendly with other outsiders, so that the main team can train.

Conclusion - hard to balance and need a lot of planning and hard work to ask people to come play friendly with us.

Oh well.. that's not just all but i guess it's enough la. All in all it's headache, but i do love volleyball very much and that's that.

God Bless~