I think
that Archery Association of Singapore will set to produce the best results in
term of high performance and high participation within the next 5 years.
In term of
pillar 1, our financial support is actually quite well secured, this can be
said when we have parental support during our school term. We have a high
number of National Archers that are still studying while in the midst of
preparing for competitions. Most of our national archer’s family are supportive
of what their children are doing and therefore giving them a chance to focus on
their training without worrying on the financial status.
In term of
pillar 2, our policies encourage our fellow students in various tertiary groups
to excel in the sports although our students might not be able to afford the
better quality bows.
In term of
pillar 3, we have more and more places having indoor archery and the cost of
learning the introductory archery is cheaper. As mentioned in our worksheet,
for archery it usually starts when we have fun, then slowly we developed into
our interest which resulted in leisure activity which then slowly developed into
the thought of going for competition to gain experiences and then to finally to
win medal. Since the venue and the equipment are much easier to get, therefore
we are should see a rise in participation in Archery compared to before.
In term of
pillar 4, we usually hand-picked our national archers through various
competitions, example; POL-ITE, NTU open, NUS open…. E.t.c. Through such
competitions, we can get the best among the best to join the national team and
from the national team we get the best among the best to go for the major
competitions. So that is the procedure of talent identification &
development system.
In term of
pillar 5, most of our coaches that we have now are our ex-national archers. Therefore
the post-career support is actually given to them to become coaches for our
next generation archers. Since our post-career support group is already fully
readied it would mean that in 5 years time, we would have more certified
coaches and event planners for the archers to gain experience in.
In term of
pillar 6, our training facilities are now growing so in 5 years time, we should
have more capability to have a field or to use the soccer field in stadium for
training 70m and 90m distance purposes. Since international competition is
usually 70m and 90m distance, therefore it is wise that we have such fields and
stadium ready for our usage to train.
In term of
pillar 7, our coach although no clear definitions on how they get their
certification but definitely they are more experienced and know more than our
team manager or training team. Since we have limited coaches, I could say that
our coach have a lot of experiences to coach us to elite team. For example, the
current coach that is coaching RP’s archery team is actually one of our
national archer’s ex-coach before she entered national. With his guidance, this
year in our POL-ITE competition we have gain more medals compared to previous
year although we are still 3rd ranking in overall.
In term of
pillar 8, we have many events going on for the past few years, previously we
only have 3-4 major competition to go for, but in these recent years, we have
6-10 major competitions that we can choose to go. Not forgetting that we need
our archers to have 1-2 weeks of rest before the going back into training. So
therefore by having a larger pool of national archers, we are able to send more
people oversea to gain experiences and to finally to compete in Olympic which
will be the final stage for the archers to compete to win medals.
In term of
pillar 9, we have technology to help our fellow national archers in term of
speeding up recovery of wear and tear of our muscles. We have the various
equipment to measure and to check our skills to ensure that we are doing the
right movement without injuring our muscles. Therefore I strongly believe that
in 5 years time our equipments, nutrients and development of our talent
identification will be at its’ peak.
Therefore
in conclusion, in 5 years time I foresee that archery will be a high
participation and high performance.
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