Well when do we start... the last post "about me" was that I joined the Army and was going to to the jump school. Turned out that just attending the jump school doesn't make you a proper paratrooper, not at all in my opinion. The ROC paratroopers has long lost it's capabilities as a fierce troops. Nowadays, only some of the few who are in the airborne assault squadron (temp. trans) or have been through the scout/sniper trainings still live up to the spirits of spec warriors. The rest of us were just a bunch of dumb-ass low-life camouflage-wearing posers who's done five times of static line from the side hatch of a C-130. Kind of knew this before I went in... but actually experiencing it all is still frustrating. It was a world where image out weighs the real stuff; and frankly, it's not like the image was that good either.
Anyways, after my 11 months of service I got out and went back to school again. While in the army, I made up my mind and decided that instead of regretting for the rest of my life moaning about the "could haves", I was going to take the initiative and pursue my dream of being in the coaching industry. Because I'm keen in my sport (let's use "keen", because love is a strong word), but also feel that it might be a bit late to start now and venture into the quest to becoming a pro. But on the other hand, there are more than enough young riders in Taiwan who's got the stuff of being pro riders, but what they have in talents or commitment, they fall short in the knowledge and the "team". A team of professional supporters, and a good coach. I figured I'd be of much batter use playing the latter part. I called it an industry, because essentially that is THE stuff that it should be: a profession, a career that you could make a living out of trying to achieve something that is valued by people, and mostly a thing so delicate that it has to be a combined efforts of many many sub divisions instead of being done by a jack-of-all-trade sort of guy.
So I submitted to the master's degree program of coaching science by National Taiwan Sports University, the one in Taoyuan (instead of Taichung... yup there are two of them and they use the same English title), studying biomechanics, due to my (sort of) engineering background.
And here I am, aged 26, into the fourth and final semester of the study. Done with the experiments for my thesis and ready to go analyzing the data. It's something to do with high-cadence pedaling action and muscle activation patterns, characterized by track cyclists, especially the sprinters. An area seldom looked upon before. Hoping to get some exciting results.
What else have I done... yeah I also went to Australia for about three months, sponsored by a short-term exchange program, to study the computer modeling of the human body. Some basic, practical stuff. And while I was there (Melbourne Uni) I also grabbed the chance and got a taste of training under a dedicated coach, Carl Brewer, with a small bunch of keen amateur track cyclist who, like me, loves pure speed and couldn't care less about enduring the pain of sub-max efforts.
That was supposed to be a short paragraph of less than a hundred syllables. Well, stories go on, don't they.
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