So for the second time in two years, I'm sitting in front of a computer in the school library typing up some BS year end blog post where I'm supposed to reflect on how I did over the course of the semester. And truth be told, I still think that I should NOT HAVE TO SIT IN FRONT OF A BLOODY COMPUTER FOR PE.
But I can't change how Mr.neuf does things, so let's get this over with ASAP.
The first pillar that we can find on Mr.Neuf's blog (http://teacherneufs.blogspot.ca/) is the pillar of participation (Saying it like that reminds me of the the pillar of autum). This category is entirely based off of what Pe should actually be solely marked on, that being skill, participation in activities, bringing gym strip, and encouraging others amongst other things.
For this semester, I'm going to say that in this category I got an A, say 92% to be specific. I say this because I participated in every activity as much as I felt up to on that given day, more than the amount of effort that I was willing to put into that activity. I brought gym strip everyday save once and I encouraged others when I saw an opportunity. If you don't believe me for that Neuf, feel free to ask either Kabir (the tall one) or Hemat. I encouraged both of them a lot on fitness days, and I'm hoping that they are willing to vouch for me. I think in this category what would hold me down is the fact that I'm horrible at sports, so my mark for the pillar would drop solely for lack of skill.
So if we keep that mark for this pillar as is, that equates to 23% percent for my overall mark.
The next pillar is "Social responsibility and Contribution to class"... This one doesn't remind me of any video games, the title is too long.
As far as this pillar goes, I feel that I got 80%. I helped with equipment for our class whenever I got the chance (There are a lot of other people who help out, sometime there is nothing to grab for the class), and I try to help out with leadership whenever possible, though I will say that taking a role of leadership isn't easy when Mr.Neuf sets someone specific in charge, such as Kabeer or Jag. But when I did get the chance, a good example that comes to mind was tchoukball, I do my best to lead in such a way that everyone has a good time and the game gets underway quickly. The only reason my mark for this pillar drops is because I didn't lead as often as I would have liked to, and I didn't always help with equipment.
So if I got 80% here, that translates into another 20% for my overall mark. Keep that in mind.
The next pillar we have the joy of reading is the pillar for Healthy living. Can you hear the kids in the background? All those kids crying out "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY"? No? That's because this pillar is just as stupid as the blog itself. This pillar kinda confuses me, so I'm going to copy paste this pillar from neufs blog to here as both a reference for me and a reference for you.
3) Healthy Living - this category includes all aspects of your past, current, and future data and goals on your health and fitness. Some of the things to consider would include: your actual fitness scores compared to others and what they teach you, noteworthy changes in your fitness, some of the barriers/limitations you face in participating, dietary choices and extra curricular activity choices and their impact on overall health, injury prevention, management, and rehabilitation, and future plans/goals for overall health choices. This is the connecting piece between class and life… if you have no evidence of choices/activities outside of class you should be failing this section. One major focus should be evidence of choices that specifically relate to the body goal you set. If you have never worked at your goal outside of class you should not be passing this section.
Ah, yes. This one. Eh, for this pillar I'm going to venture off a cliff and say I got 40%. I say that because I really don't have much proof other than those absolutely fantastically horrible videos. Which, I just fixed with the help of Fisher. Thanks Fisher! You should be able to watch them here now, so go check them out. NOW.
So I didn't really monitor anything that I did outside of school, because I do nothing outside of school that relates to my goal. Like, literally nothing. Unless my step-dad asks me to help him build a workbench for his workspace in the basement. But, that doesn't really improve my upper body strength.
I did nothing to change my eating habits, I'm fine with them, even though I know that they are the best of eating habits. If you watch the videos, you'll see I even included evidence of me not giving a crap and eating 10 brownies in a day. Because they were good brownies. And you know what? I don't even feel bad. They were good brownies. My sister made them. And I liked them. So I ate them.
No Remorse.
Oh, wait, 40% is equivalent to 10% for my overall mark. That needs to be included.
And now we get to the fun part. Or pillar. Whatever.
This 4th and final pillar is for our blog. ya, this thing that when you're reading right now. This boring thing that for some reason you're taking the time out of your life to sit and read.
For our blog we were supposed to have a ton of posts by now, have proof and evidence of the things we did in PE, and comment on other peoples' blogs in our class. And I did none of that. I have I believe 7 posts of the recommended 30, 4 videos, no pictures, and I haven't commented on anyone else's blogs. So really, because I have done a bit of work, I'm going to say that I got, meh, let's go with 32% here. Honestly, unlike the other pillars, there's really not that much for me to talk about here, because I just didn't care enough to do the blog.
So, 32% = 8% for my mark. Let's do some math shall we?
23+20+10+8= 61%
Well, there you have it. I need a mark, and that's my mark right there. I believe that to be a C, but I don't know.
That's all I needed to do. I have a mark, a percentage along with it, and a blog to accompany it all.
Thank you for reading people, I hope you enjoyed wasting your life reading this, have a good day, and this will be my very last post. Bye!
~Roman, He who finished and never started again
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
More Videos!
~Roman, the camera man who got hit in the balls with a frisbee
Tchoukball and Frolf (You probably think that I can't english right about now, don't you?)
Tchoukball! The wonderful sport of throwing a ball at a bouncy net thing and actually wanting it to hit the ground! So much fun!
So I first played this game with Mrs.Vaughn back in grade 4, and up until a few weeks ago I hadn't played the game since, and I had totally forgotten about the game. But when Mr. Neuf told us to look up a video, and I saw the nets, everything came back to me. I even remembered that I used to have a name tag on my desk in grade 4 and I had drawn Tchoukball onto the name tag as 1 of the 3 most enjoyable things or memorable things that I learned that year. Best sport ever.
So while we (Short Kabir, Jag and myself) got the rules figured out and organised teams (Jag mostly did that if I remember correctly), I found it really hard to explain the rules to the group because people didn't listen very often. So once we made the rounds to every team and explained all the rules, the game actually worked out pretty well. I will add one more thing and it's that while everyone understood the rules, not very many people took advantage of the fact that we could use both nets to score. I guess the pro sport players were too set on the mind set that one team had one net, the other team has one net. Not both teams have access to both nets.
Next up on the list of boring things to talk about we have Frolf! What is Frolf you might say? Frolf is Frisbee golf, and we played it with a twist. The twist was that we didn't take turns between teams throwing the frisbee, the goal of the game was to mutually pick a target that both teams agreed upon, and then on the count of three, both teams threw the frisbee and did their best between both team members to hit the target, alternating who threw the frisbee on each throw. I have a video of this too, so I'll have that posted soon if everything goes well. Once I have the video up, if I missed anything that I needed to talk about, I'll write them over on that post.
~Roman, pro speed frolfer
So I first played this game with Mrs.Vaughn back in grade 4, and up until a few weeks ago I hadn't played the game since, and I had totally forgotten about the game. But when Mr. Neuf told us to look up a video, and I saw the nets, everything came back to me. I even remembered that I used to have a name tag on my desk in grade 4 and I had drawn Tchoukball onto the name tag as 1 of the 3 most enjoyable things or memorable things that I learned that year. Best sport ever.
So while we (Short Kabir, Jag and myself) got the rules figured out and organised teams (Jag mostly did that if I remember correctly), I found it really hard to explain the rules to the group because people didn't listen very often. So once we made the rounds to every team and explained all the rules, the game actually worked out pretty well. I will add one more thing and it's that while everyone understood the rules, not very many people took advantage of the fact that we could use both nets to score. I guess the pro sport players were too set on the mind set that one team had one net, the other team has one net. Not both teams have access to both nets.
Next up on the list of boring things to talk about we have Frolf! What is Frolf you might say? Frolf is Frisbee golf, and we played it with a twist. The twist was that we didn't take turns between teams throwing the frisbee, the goal of the game was to mutually pick a target that both teams agreed upon, and then on the count of three, both teams threw the frisbee and did their best between both team members to hit the target, alternating who threw the frisbee on each throw. I have a video of this too, so I'll have that posted soon if everything goes well. Once I have the video up, if I missed anything that I needed to talk about, I'll write them over on that post.
~Roman, pro speed frolfer
Fitness test scores and comparison
Alrighty, so over the course of the semester, we did 3 fitness tests to see how we were doing in PE. The general idea that you want for the scores is for the scores to go up (or down on the T-test and the balance board). At the beginning of the year my scores were decent, and all of my scores got better in the second test, and then everything dropped significantly on the third test, and we'll talk about that when we get to it.
My second scores were;
Beep Test: 10.2
Flexibility: 0
T-test: 12.06
Plank: 1:04
Balance Board Touches: 14
Push ups: 24
Height 225 /Jump 280
And the third scores are here;
Beep Test: 9.4
Flexibility: 0
Height 225 /Jump 285
T-test 12.08
Plank 1:40
Balance Board Touches:12
Push ups :30
So looking at the scores and being able to compare them, I really only did worse on the beep test. At around the 3rd level I was starting to get cramps just underneath my rib cage, and I was quite irritated because usually they don't start until about level 5. Either way I kept going, and by level 9 I was starting to miss the beep to get to the line. I was very disappointed with myself for only running a 9.4 as you'll see in the video that I will post later once I get everything edited.
I'll also have to remember to get my first scores on here soon, I don't have them right now because they are still on my Skype account and I recently got my Laptop wiped, so I need to reinstall Skype.
My goal for the year was to improve my upper body strength and to increase my endurance, so I feel that by looking at my plank times and my push up scores, that while not significant, I have improved both of those. My endurance has gone up since I was able to hold the plank for longer, and my upper body strength has gone up because I was able to do more push ups. While this wasn't really the improvement I was looking for, I was looking for a much more significant change in the upper body strength and endurance, like double my original scores or so, this was still an improvement. I didn't really see that much of an improvement because I did very little to actually achieve those goals outside of school.
That's all from me. Ba bye.
~Roman, The worst fitnesser of all the fitnessers
My second scores were;
Beep Test: 10.2
Flexibility: 0
T-test: 12.06
Plank: 1:04
Balance Board Touches: 14
Push ups: 24
Height 225 /Jump 280
And the third scores are here;
Beep Test: 9.4
Flexibility: 0
Height 225 /Jump 285
T-test 12.08
Plank 1:40
Balance Board Touches:12
Push ups :30
So looking at the scores and being able to compare them, I really only did worse on the beep test. At around the 3rd level I was starting to get cramps just underneath my rib cage, and I was quite irritated because usually they don't start until about level 5. Either way I kept going, and by level 9 I was starting to miss the beep to get to the line. I was very disappointed with myself for only running a 9.4 as you'll see in the video that I will post later once I get everything edited.
I'll also have to remember to get my first scores on here soon, I don't have them right now because they are still on my Skype account and I recently got my Laptop wiped, so I need to reinstall Skype.
My goal for the year was to improve my upper body strength and to increase my endurance, so I feel that by looking at my plank times and my push up scores, that while not significant, I have improved both of those. My endurance has gone up since I was able to hold the plank for longer, and my upper body strength has gone up because I was able to do more push ups. While this wasn't really the improvement I was looking for, I was looking for a much more significant change in the upper body strength and endurance, like double my original scores or so, this was still an improvement. I didn't really see that much of an improvement because I did very little to actually achieve those goals outside of school.
That's all from me. Ba bye.
~Roman, The worst fitnesser of all the fitnessers
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
PE vids
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
One more thing while I'm sitting here
Oh yes, I forgot! On Monday we (Fisher and myself) were in the weight room (well, so was the rest of the class, but focusing on us two.) and we were doing the same workout we did at the beginning of the year when I looked a little closer at the descriptions of each workout. Each workout has a little thing above the description and it's really hard to see because it looks like this. It specifically mentions what each of the workouts targets in the body. Most of the workouts included "core" in the list of things they work on, but some of them included legs and other things that Fisher and myself aren't really trying to workout. So I think I'll spend a bit of time hitting up the interwebs for a new site to find a good workout for the things we want to work on. Hopefully a site that doesn't tell us to do 500 pushups. Wouldn't mind using some of the machines that we have at our disposal. What I could do is make my own workout based on what we have after doing a bit of research on what muscle groups can be worked on with each machine. Which, now that I think about it, wouldn't be a bad idea. I know a lot of people in the class hardly use the machines because we kinda know what they do, but no one really knows the specifics. If we actually knew what muscle groups they used we could use the machines that target the muscle we individually are trying to work on. Hm, maybe I will do that. We'll see.
~Roman P./Fang DeShadow
~Roman P./Fang DeShadow
We're back! Sorta
Hello! King Kalshiba here! Or whatever I go by on here, it's been so long since I've done a blog post.
Someone might ask, "Why has it been so long?" My answer would be, "I think it's completely stupid that I should have to do a blog, or anything on the computer for that matter, during PHYSICAL education. Yes, let me exercise my fingers. Ooo, ahhh. Because it's not like I don't that enough at the house."
Either way, to get a semi-decent grade, I need to do a blog. So blog I will.
We had to do a blog about the dance week that we did waaaaaaay back in...April? March? Well, whenever we did dance week, we were supposed to do a blog. I Really enjoyed the Bhangra day. And the line dancing day now that I think about it. Jazz and Hip hop were okay, but I didn't enjoy that as much. In my opinion, they're too complicated. Bhangra is simple and entertaining, as well as a good workout if you actually try.
We also needed a post for our fitness days. Specifically a post for the days when we tested all of our physical attributes, such as the vertical, beep test, T-test and so forth. I'll do a post on that when I actually have the scores in front of me. Because I don't have access to them right now, they are on my skype.
We also were supposed to talk about how the goals that we set for ourselves are coming along. My goal was upper body strength and a higher endurance. If I were to evaluate myself, I'd say that my upper body strength really has not gone up much since the beginning of the semester, and my endurance... well, we could debate on that. Over the course of the semester I haven't learned really so much to endure rather than I've learned how to keep going to my REAL limit rather than when my brain tells me 'Hey...HEY! Ya, your body is tired, stop running.' So, I guess my goal for a higher endurance hasn't been achieved (Not yet anyway, we'll see if that actually comes to fruition.) but I've inadvertently increased my tolerance level when working. I guess what this comes down to is really can I prove it or not. The answer? No. I've had no device to do any sort of progress tracking up until yesterday morning when I finally found my CamCorder. So once I get a bit more video I'll have some clips of me working on here. Hopefully... I said the same thing last year and I think I still have the video of a fitness day from last year. Maybe I should post that too... eh, we'll see.
Let's look at the four pillars to see how I'm doing so far. The first pillar is stuff in the actual class, in my opinion what we SHOULD ACTUALLY BE MARKED ON RATHER THAN OUR BLOG. I say that with all honesty. I can also say with all honesty that during whatever we do during PE, I more often than not give the most that I feel I'm to that day. I'm not feeling to good, I give it 75%. I'm feeling pretty good that day, let's go all the way. And if it's a fitness day I 95% of the time try as hard as I can to at the least be a good example to the others. I'm usually at the front of the class pushing myself as hard as I can. Personally, I really haven't seen this actually help anyone, but eh, I tried.
Second pillar, if I remember correctly, is something like the teamwork, or the leadership pillar. This one, if you couldn't tell, focuses mainly on, whoda thunk it, teamwork and leadership. In my own opinion, I think I do pretty good in this category. I help out with setup and teardown, I try to encourage others when I get the chance, and when Mr.Neuf leaves us to our own buisness, if Jag and Kabir aren't in charge, I try to be. Though, all things said and done, I understand why teachers are the most prone to headaches. Teens, myself included I imagine, I'm not free of guilt, don't listen very much. So it's VERY hard to get anything done. But when I can get them to listen, I do try.
The third pillar is something like lifestyle, which is about life outside of school. I'm going to be blunt, I rarely do anything outside of school to promote a healthy lifestyle. The most I can be said to do is that I ride my bike to and from school. I'll have some videos of that later. Other than that, I eat whatever is put on my plate for dinner, I don't go out of my way to see if it's 'nutritious' or 'what I need to be eating to accomplish my goals'. I take the dog out when he needs to go out, which is literally a 25 foot walk to where the dog usually takes a crap. And then back to the house. My main workout in the house is usually going up and down the stairs. Maybe if I'm waiting for a game to load I'll sit on the weight lifting machine to do a few of each of the things on there. If you haven't already figured it out, I'll have videos of that later.
The last pillar is the blog. We're supposed to have 30 blog posts by the end of the year. I'm not even going to get into that.
If I were to look at everything I've just listed above, I'd say my mark is probably around the low C- area. Anywhere from, say... 50-57%. Really the only thing I need to do more of to get a higher mark would be to get more proof and get it on here. So I'll see to doing something about that.
Either way, so there we have it, a makeup post for everything I've missed. I don't really think I have anything I need to say, so I'll be done for now.
~Roman Plante/Fang DeShadow
Someone might ask, "Why has it been so long?" My answer would be, "I think it's completely stupid that I should have to do a blog, or anything on the computer for that matter, during PHYSICAL education. Yes, let me exercise my fingers. Ooo, ahhh. Because it's not like I don't that enough at the house."
Either way, to get a semi-decent grade, I need to do a blog. So blog I will.
We had to do a blog about the dance week that we did waaaaaaay back in...April? March? Well, whenever we did dance week, we were supposed to do a blog. I Really enjoyed the Bhangra day. And the line dancing day now that I think about it. Jazz and Hip hop were okay, but I didn't enjoy that as much. In my opinion, they're too complicated. Bhangra is simple and entertaining, as well as a good workout if you actually try.
We also needed a post for our fitness days. Specifically a post for the days when we tested all of our physical attributes, such as the vertical, beep test, T-test and so forth. I'll do a post on that when I actually have the scores in front of me. Because I don't have access to them right now, they are on my skype.
We also were supposed to talk about how the goals that we set for ourselves are coming along. My goal was upper body strength and a higher endurance. If I were to evaluate myself, I'd say that my upper body strength really has not gone up much since the beginning of the semester, and my endurance... well, we could debate on that. Over the course of the semester I haven't learned really so much to endure rather than I've learned how to keep going to my REAL limit rather than when my brain tells me 'Hey...HEY! Ya, your body is tired, stop running.' So, I guess my goal for a higher endurance hasn't been achieved (Not yet anyway, we'll see if that actually comes to fruition.) but I've inadvertently increased my tolerance level when working. I guess what this comes down to is really can I prove it or not. The answer? No. I've had no device to do any sort of progress tracking up until yesterday morning when I finally found my CamCorder. So once I get a bit more video I'll have some clips of me working on here. Hopefully... I said the same thing last year and I think I still have the video of a fitness day from last year. Maybe I should post that too... eh, we'll see.
Let's look at the four pillars to see how I'm doing so far. The first pillar is stuff in the actual class, in my opinion what we SHOULD ACTUALLY BE MARKED ON RATHER THAN OUR BLOG. I say that with all honesty. I can also say with all honesty that during whatever we do during PE, I more often than not give the most that I feel I'm to that day. I'm not feeling to good, I give it 75%. I'm feeling pretty good that day, let's go all the way. And if it's a fitness day I 95% of the time try as hard as I can to at the least be a good example to the others. I'm usually at the front of the class pushing myself as hard as I can. Personally, I really haven't seen this actually help anyone, but eh, I tried.
Second pillar, if I remember correctly, is something like the teamwork, or the leadership pillar. This one, if you couldn't tell, focuses mainly on, whoda thunk it, teamwork and leadership. In my own opinion, I think I do pretty good in this category. I help out with setup and teardown, I try to encourage others when I get the chance, and when Mr.Neuf leaves us to our own buisness, if Jag and Kabir aren't in charge, I try to be. Though, all things said and done, I understand why teachers are the most prone to headaches. Teens, myself included I imagine, I'm not free of guilt, don't listen very much. So it's VERY hard to get anything done. But when I can get them to listen, I do try.
The third pillar is something like lifestyle, which is about life outside of school. I'm going to be blunt, I rarely do anything outside of school to promote a healthy lifestyle. The most I can be said to do is that I ride my bike to and from school. I'll have some videos of that later. Other than that, I eat whatever is put on my plate for dinner, I don't go out of my way to see if it's 'nutritious' or 'what I need to be eating to accomplish my goals'. I take the dog out when he needs to go out, which is literally a 25 foot walk to where the dog usually takes a crap. And then back to the house. My main workout in the house is usually going up and down the stairs. Maybe if I'm waiting for a game to load I'll sit on the weight lifting machine to do a few of each of the things on there. If you haven't already figured it out, I'll have videos of that later.
The last pillar is the blog. We're supposed to have 30 blog posts by the end of the year. I'm not even going to get into that.
If I were to look at everything I've just listed above, I'd say my mark is probably around the low C- area. Anywhere from, say... 50-57%. Really the only thing I need to do more of to get a higher mark would be to get more proof and get it on here. So I'll see to doing something about that.
Either way, so there we have it, a makeup post for everything I've missed. I don't really think I have anything I need to say, so I'll be done for now.
~Roman Plante/Fang DeShadow
Thursday, 12 February 2015
Gym 10 semester start!
What's up guys, I'm back and ready for some more action! This year we're coming back to a fit lifestyle starting in the weight room, and if you remember anything about me last year, you might remember that I specifically said I wanted to work on upper body strength. That didn't work out too well last year, so this year we're retracing our steps and getting right back to it. But this time I'm also looking to increase my endurance, so that I can run for longer, or at the very least be able to bike from the school to home without being completely out of breath.
So yesterday we started in the weight room, and Fisher (my bestest buddy, I don't care about the grammar behind that.) and I both worked from a website that told us we would be working on general strength and toning. I'm OK with that, so we started our workout, working hard until we had to go.
http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20306785_2,00.html
We were able to do full reps (8-13 sets) and stopped our workout after the "alternating dumbbell fly", which I will say was not easy, haha.
Since we went through almost the entire workout, I'm think that we may have to find a different workout, as doing the same workout day after day may get tedious. But maybe not. I mean, doing the same thing over and over and over again may help because it will constantly focus the same areas.
One more thing that I forgot to mention, after the workout yesterday, my shoulders and biceps were quite sore, which I think means that I''m hitting the right areas with this workout, since those are basically what I want to work on.
All right, that's all from me guys, thanks for taking the time out of your day to read and I hope you have a spectacular weekend. PEACE!
~Roman Plante, the one with Sore shoulders
So yesterday we started in the weight room, and Fisher (my bestest buddy, I don't care about the grammar behind that.) and I both worked from a website that told us we would be working on general strength and toning. I'm OK with that, so we started our workout, working hard until we had to go.
http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20306785_2,00.html
We were able to do full reps (8-13 sets) and stopped our workout after the "alternating dumbbell fly", which I will say was not easy, haha.
Since we went through almost the entire workout, I'm think that we may have to find a different workout, as doing the same workout day after day may get tedious. But maybe not. I mean, doing the same thing over and over and over again may help because it will constantly focus the same areas.
One more thing that I forgot to mention, after the workout yesterday, my shoulders and biceps were quite sore, which I think means that I''m hitting the right areas with this workout, since those are basically what I want to work on.
All right, that's all from me guys, thanks for taking the time out of your day to read and I hope you have a spectacular weekend. PEACE!
~Roman Plante, the one with Sore shoulders
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