Post-Japan and Competition Review

Well. Thus ends my 2nd overseas competition.

I guess I did kind of reasonably in the Quals and qualified for Finals 6th/14. It's the first time I've qualified through merit in a qualifying round. I think I scored 40.xx in the 2015 Hong Kong comp but that was 1 person/country (club?) and we only had 1 Singaporean in that competition so technically I qualified by default. At least this time I scored 42.550 in Quals, so it was a better showing and at least there was some improvement.

I messed up a little more in finals... and ended 6th again :/ I could feel myself screwing up as the routine went on and I was struggling so hard to complete that 2nd routine. I did manage to pull it off in the end (surprisingly), but I have so much more work to do.

I said I was doing reasonably well going into this competition - that was absolute bullshit, and it shows how much my own standards have slipped. 1 acceptable routine out of 10 is terrible - though that wasn't the best thing to tell myself right before comps. There's so much more work I need to do now and so little time to do it in. I looked at my routines post competition, and they looked quite terrible, even compared to my Singapore Open routines! Not quite sure why - could be lack of power or lack of familiarity (or may even lack of mental strength - it did feel like I couldn't apply my mind or think as well as usual), but I was struggling to keep my openings even at the 3rd skill, whereas my openings and shapes were... not neat, but passable (0.1-0.2 deductions) at Singapore Open. An execution score of 7.3 (1st routine) and 7.15 (2nd routine) is absolute bullshit. I got 8's at Singapore Open (I did do that one a lot better), and the two routines I did this round were crap.

I've been enjoying myself on holiday over the last week in Japan while everyone else has gone back to Singapore... and I've missed one training session along the way :( I mean, sure this is a much needed holiday (for my fiancee especially, I don't envy her stress levels and I'm glad we managed to enjoy the 1 week of break!), but now that it's come to an end I'm looking forwards to going back to training and pushing myself even farther.

Few things for me to think about:
- Consider seeing/making appointment with a physio for my right leg issues (I might explain more about this in a future post, haha). :(
- Future skills - 42/, 800o, LB and check if my back still hurts when I do it :(
- More sleep. No more 6-6.5 hour nights. I'm used to sleeping 5.5 hours from Uni, but that was/is a terrible habit. I need at least 7... and I'm not currently doing that.
- Grab a synchro partner for next March's Machida competiton :3

Right. Bye Japan; it's been fun. I'll see you again... next March, probably.