The Strike Force Boot Camp

Injuries: Right palm swelling and blue black from hitting djembe, cut on the left foot, muscle aching all over the body esp the hips and neck from the dance class, sun burn on back of neck.

BUT!

overall i really enjoyed the camp, it was totally fun and a good learning experience! we didn't have as much time as we should have, we missed out i think about 3-4 activities planned cos of shortage of time, but overall the camp flowed pretty smoothly.

Thank you to all team members of group 3 DHOOM!! desmond, luke, verene, millie, valerie, shuting, jasmine, rohan, guankeat, julia, weiming, although not all of u guys stayed till the end of the camp, your effort is very much appreciated! Thank you guys for making the camp an enjoyable experience for all! Special thanks to Luke for coming up with most of the sequence, and to verena n the other solo players, for a first attempt i would say its pretty good! Rohan n his audience participation really rocks! also the solid "quarter master" n also all the other players lah! excellent job, i couldn't have asked for a better team, honestly.

Groove lesson: A funky man riding an elephant coming out of the cave! Such a crazy image will be imprinted in our minds, probably for as long as we live!

Playing far from each other: when you can't hear others, you have to reply on your sight.

Playing blindfolded: when unable to see, make sure you are able to hear and rely on your closest neighbour to keep in time with the rest of the group!

Dance lesson: goes to show that dancing isn't as easy n effortless as it looks! i can't stand the hip rotation step thingy, but the sailor step thing was quite easy though. can't play n dance yet! haha.

Team choreography: honestly i think DHOOM should win this cos we're one of thetwo groups who actually managed to finish doing the sequence in the 1.5 days camp! The other group was led by lianghong n they were pretty good, but i think our concept of combining stick tricks with solos and audience participation, as well as the jungle tribal beat created by Luke, really beats the rest hands down, no doubt about it. hahaha! maybe i'm biased, but i'm allowed to be cos Dhoom is MY team! hahaha..

We're not doing it for the prize, we're not doing it for the glory of winning, but we're doing it cos everyone is eager to increase their capacity and skill and team work in the Strike Force!

Poor millie got her 3rd finger on the left hand hit by a stick n it swelled to a gigantic blood clot but after a few mins of medical help from shona, she was ready to play rapanik in the next performance! it was quite amazing n funny also, she kept laughing even though everyone was like super concerned n worried forher finger!

A lot of other super funny things happened (the ultra funny back of the van experiences where it was a Ian shoot out, or rather everyone suan Ian time) and serious things too (the paper concept for new SF idea got kind of confrontational, n you could see some ugly character coming out, a bit of hao-lianism and such) but the team did bond together much more on the 2nd day as compared to the 1st day. n to me, that is really the most important, bridging thegap between the regular players, the church drummers, the new pple n everyone else in the SF. those who didn't attend even a single day or a single session, you will have missed out on a lot.