Sports Team Sharing
周琦淋
CHAU Kei Lam
Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Data Science and Business Intelligence (BSc-DSBI)
「我就是個頗好勝的人。」– 喜歡挑戰新事物, Sam (重劍)高中時才慢慢接觸運動。
最初接觸的運動並非劍擊，而是游泳和健身。得知大學提供劍擊課，便持著好奇心去嘗試，自此便愛上了這項既特別又具挑戰性的運動。我覺得，劍擊除了看起來古典高雅，也與大部分運動的性質略有不同。比如說游泳，泳手需要與時間競賽，往往以打破個人記錄為目標；反之劍擊則是一個更有互動性的運動，除了上場後每分秒都要額外集中外，我們亦有實體對手，想擊敗對手就需要運用不同的戰術與技巧，成功感更為實在。
還記得剛進大學的時候，我在很多方面都難以適應，對大學裏面的一切都不太熟悉，所有的環境事物、甚至人物關係都要重新建立。很感恩我有機會加入了恆大劍擊隊，恆大劍擊隊就好像一個大家庭般融洽，師兄師姐們都很耐心指導我，令剛接觸劍擊時一無所知的我很快便領悟了許多擊劍的技巧同實戰要點。
還記得教練曾説過：在場上學會控制自己的心態，才是致勝之道 –「如果你控制不到自己，你更不可能控制對手和局面。」
透過不同的實戰經驗，我漸漸明白要在劍擊對戰中取勝，除了需要不斷鍛鍊技術，更要學會調整自己的心態。若心態不夠堅定：「不是對手打低你，而是你打低你自己」
每次訓練後，無論表現的好與否，我都會從中檢討，看看哪裏需要改善，怎樣才能有進步的空間。例如我肌耐力和心肺較差，對戰時間稍長便會顯得很吃力，我便會針對自己這方面的弱點加以訓練，讓自己更容易適應長時間對戰和再施展時變得輕鬆點。
“I am quite an competitive person.” —- Keen on new challenges, Sam (Epee) started to play sports when he was a secondary school student.
The first types of sports I played did not include fencing, but swimming and fitness. As I knew that the university provided fencing classes, I tried them out of curiosity. And I have fallen in love with this special and challenging sport ever since. In my opinion, fencing looks classic and elegant, but it is also slightly different from the majority of other sports in nature. Take swimming as a typical example. Swimmers need to compete against time and often aim to break their personal records. On the contrary, fencing is a more interactive sport. Not only do we have to pay extra attention to the game every minute and second, but we also have physical opponents. If you want to defeat your opponent, you need to use different tactics and techniques, and therefore the sense of success brought about by winning a fencing competition is greater.
I still remember that when I first entered university, I had difficulty adapting to the environment and learning atmosphere here. I had no close friend and all relationship and connection seemingly had to be re-established. I am very grateful that I could have the opportunity to join the HSUHK fencing team. The HSUHK fencing team is as harmonious as a big family. Senior teammates are very patient about guiding me and teaching me different fencing skills, which helps me gradually get more familiar with this sport.
I remembered that our coach once said: Learning to control your own mind on the court is the way to win —– “If you cannot take good control of yourself, it is impossible for you to control your opponents or even the competition.”
Through different actual experiences, I gradually understand that if I want to win a fencing competition, I should not only train my technical skills continuously, but also learn how to adjust my mind. If my mind is not firm enough: “It’s not that the opponent beats you, but you beat yourself.”
After every training, no matter how my performance goes, I review myself to see how I should make improvement or what I should do to make further progress. For example, I am always poor at doing muscular endurance and cardiorespiratory sports. I am easily exhausted when I play in a game for a long time. Therefore, I will focus on training and overcome my weaknesses. I wish that my hard work would help me to become ready for a long-term battle and improve my performance in my next fencing game.