Saturday, December 16, 2006

Pre-training rituals

There's always alot to do before training starts. Filling of bottles, tying of rudders, back in the day it included the collecting of bailers and paddles for the whole team.

Underlying all this, it's always an issue of politics. Coz somehow, the same few always end up carrying out the pre-training rituals for the benefit of the whole team. They are the ones who quietly go about moving things around so that after warm-ups, all we need to do is just pick up everything and hit the water. And those who arrive later or on time always get away with not contributing. Which sometimes can irritate and piss the quiet sloggers off. But the guilty ones most of the time get their asses moving with a little nudging and explict telling off... now you know it's not always lurrrveeee lurrrvveee lurrvvvveeee in the team.

Oh and not forgetting, after we get up from the water, the whole process is repeated... only in reverse.

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