Sophie Muir recently made history by not only becoming the first Australian long track skater in 16 years, but is also the first ever female long track olympic speed skater. We’re pretty proud of her. But it takes more than just a pretty face to get into the olympics. Literally thousands of hours of...
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Predictions for the first half of the speed skating competition.
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(I would have had this up much earlier, but it took hours to render then even longer to upload)
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So I’m in Canada and, by the end of this season, will have been here for over three months of the previous twelve. Yet it was only recently that we played our first ever game of ice hockey. Ice hockey is Canada’s biggest sport, and they’re pretty good at it. Wayne Gretzky, the greatest...
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Calgary
It is time for another update. After two weeks off without training because of my back, I am now slowly starting to get back into it. How slowly? I raced 5000m on Friday night at an average speed of 33km/h, THAT’S how slowly (that might sound fast, but it is not. The fast guys...
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I am slowly becoming more proficient at this whole video-editing business. I’m probably also getting slightly better with the actual shooting as well, although the learning curve isn’t as steep because I’m already a fairly experienced stills photographer.
Our first introduction is the Olympic Torch. It passed through Calgary a few days ago, and predictably...
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Calgary
Apologies for the lack of updates. The main reason for this is because my trusty MacBook Pro stopped working two Mondays ago, just as I was leaving Holland for Canada. It turns out that it had a faulty logic board which had to be replaced. Luckily (yes, I’m going to pretend that all this...
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So I’ve been here for a year.
I wanted to write a poem but, to the relief of followers of danielyeow.com, had severe writer’s block.
So, instead… I’ve put together the long-awaited second training video (which, btw, uploaded itself at a speed that would have shamed continental drift). Enjoy.
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Today was the start of “zomerijs” (which you might have probably guessed to mean “summer ice” in Dutch) for our team. I didn’t expect much… I expected to be a bit rusty… yet I felt better than I’ve ever felt on the ice before. I was finding my edges, feeling good pressure in my...
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Enschede
Training for the Olympics isn’t easy. It isn’t cheap either. I made a short promotional video recently as part of our quest to find sponsors (it also gives a good introduction to what we’re doing), and here it is in all its glory:
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(reclame is the Dutch word for advertisement)
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Enschede
Those who have seen the movie “Team America” will know that, to go from being a beginner to a being a pro, you need a montage. So I have constructed a montage of our team training in the gym. Those who frequent the Thialf skating facility in Heerenveen for races are probably sick of...
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