Tested

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The other day we announced that instructor from NCC would be available, we were taken for a surprise. NCC asked us to take the service of Physical Training Instructors (P.T.I.) employed by IIT Kharagpur. With kind support of all concerned we were confirmed of their availability from today's session. The same was communicated to all students yesterday.

We all were excited to have the instructor among us today morning. We expected to learn something new. The student trainers are doing excellent job in the stop-gap period. They were trained for one semester some months back by the best training faculty available. And they were the best of 850 students trained last semester.

We were looking for new knowledge and better supervision from our P.T.I. Probably due to some communication gap, no P.T.I. from Gymkhana arrived. But this time we are certain that their service will be available soon, probably from next session itself.

As it happened before the student trainers came forward, took the responsibility and we had fun-filled session interspersed with clapping, applause for the trainers. We updated the students at the end of the developments through P.A. system and there was a resounding "Yes" on if they got benefit from the workout and a roar of "No" if they have any issue to share with us on this. We also announced special activity common programs and opportunities lying there for each to showcase their talent, leadership, team work etc. On this count, Unit 7 student members appear to be a step ahead. The unit level meeting already conducted by them came up with an interesting idea from students. The unit faculty asked and was assured of necessary funding support. We shall share with our readers what this idea is when it is implemented and gives benefit to the target audience. Till then let there be suspense :-)

By default, all students transferred from other EAA programs to this program, about 13 of them, were accommodated in Unit 10. It resulted in non-uniform unit size. Reallocation of eight students were done today to other units. Finally, we present a video of today's work out showing a glimpse of warm-up, exercise, de-stretching. This is available here (Link) and also appears in the player window given below.

Determination

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Our resolve was tested a little today by rain-god with an overcast sky and light drizzle at about 5 AM. Phone call came at 5:15 AM from student members. We told ourselves that we would wait and watch till 5:30 AM to announce cancellation of today's session, if it rains. And rain-god / nature understood how determined we all are and showered mercy, and not rain :-) Yes, there was not even a drizzle during entire work-out. We could enjoy the lovely morning with light physical training.

We had IIT Kharagpur Gynkhana Athletics student Secretary in the field telling us to limit our activities as there will be athletics meet later in the ground. Accordingly, and also for the wet ground condition we restricted our exercises that does not require running / stamping the ground.

On Track

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We tried but we could not avoid wash-out of our Wednesday session. Heavy rain continued for consecutive days. We apprised all that the session will be cancelled if rain continues. Even then enthusiastic students mailed, rang as late as 11 PM previous evening if the session would be there. On Wednesday morning again, phone call, SMS, email from students and faculty poured in and sent out right from 5 AM. And yes, we could not maintain our 100 percent on-track record due to bad weather.

With bad weather behind us, we regrouped today as usual and an interesting session followed. One important point in today's session had been the huddle of all faculty at the end. We see that our counterparts in NSS and NCC take up special activities. Why we fall behind and not earn credit for the same? Each unit is to have one-to-one session with unit faculty and come up with their activity list which will be spread over remaining three months.

The other notable thing in today's session was the presence of IIT Kharagpur Gymkhana representative. We welcomed him and handed over the P.A. system to him for an announcement from Gymkhana side. Addressing all 1st year students he told that the freshers' athletics event is scheduled tomorrow (25-8-2013) afternoon in the same venue.

Remembering

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We wanted to start video recording of this semester's work out sessions once the trainer from NCC Air Wing joined us. We had only pictures to share for earlier exercise sessions. We remember how well Corporal Josh used to conduct the exercise last semester. That our students leaders are doing well in leading  now is because of the training imparted. Today we share few videos which shows how nicely they are conducting the sessions. We feel proud of them and the discipline the team had shown as a whole. At the same time we miss the inspirational talks of Corporal Josh in between work outs. We shall try again to have him among us, specially for an exposure to our newly joined students.

Glimpses of today's warm up session:

Glimpses of today's exercise session:

Glimpses of today's cooling down session:

This videos are added to our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/IITKGPNSO Finally, few pictures of today's session to end with.

We Can

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We are now in full strength! Today's work-out picture says it all. We took sometime to organize ourselves in three different groups 'A', 'B' and 'C' in each unit and then there was no stopping for us :-) Besides a fun-filled work-out we had some interesting things to learn and prove our worth. This we did with elan, entire team rising to the occasion!!

We had a small hiccup yesterday when NCC Air Wing said that it would not be possible for them to serve like last semester. We thanked them for their help and are grateful for that. We did not get any indication that they wouldn't be able to serve this semester when we talked informally to them some days back. We told them at that time that we would request the service when we have the full strength, that is when the first year students join us.

Do we really need to worry when we have the youthful energy, team spirit and a sense of responsibility among our young members? Mails were sent immediately to all students and faculty explaining the situation. Excerpts placed below.

 "In last few weeks, we had five student volunteers leading the work out session. We request them to sit together, go through training videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/IITKGPNSO and come nicely prepared to conduct the session till further notice. Request Ashutosh Ranjan to lead / coordinate this team. If he is unavailable someday, the next in line will take over and the youth in us, the sense of responsibility in us will overcome all odds, unforeseen events, if any."

 The students leaders started coordination among themselves and went through our training videos. And today we had an excellent and very, verye rewarding session which showed the grit, determination and compose the team have. For new members 'demo' was arranged with 'sit on your toes' position, followed by group exercise. This exactly had been the case how we started last semester. It was great to see that we could do it ourselves! Proud to be a member of this great team.