The demand for floorball has been escalating of late. "Floorball, floorball and more floorball!", and so goes the resounding chant of many young people in Penang these days. Indubitably, floorball is gradually picking up and getting momentum, especially in the public schools. As such GSN launched its first ever floorball workshop this year, focussing primarily on secondary school students.
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GSN held the workshop at the FRU base at Rifle Range road on the 20th March 2010, a Saturday morning from 9am-1pm. Yes, it was a gruelling 4 hours workshop! It must be acknowledged that the workshop was a collaborative effort between GSN and Team Unihoc, a team consisting of well-equipped, knowledgeable and experienced players. A big thank you to Team Unihoc for stepping in to be part of this workshop! By about 9am, a good number of 26 players arrived with high spirit and anticipation, all ready to absorb every bit of knowledge, skill and advice possible! The workshop focussed on several key elements of floorball such as personal development, offensive and defensive traits and so on. Players were divided into several groups where they were escorted to different "focus station" led by different key players from Team Unihoc. From doing drills that enhances one's understanding on backtracking, fore-checking, body-check, shooting and so on, every player had the opportunity to try-out what they've learnt and also ask as many questions as they want.
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Although it was a tiresome 4 hours workshop, all the players were excited and showed no sign of fatigue! Great sport they are! Like all young people alike, what everyone was dying for was game time and what more with the presence of team Unihoc, everybody wanted a taste of a match with them.

Game time was of course part and parcel of the programme. However, game time wasn't merely to play and to have fun. It was to be a platform for the players to put together what they have learnt in one piece and hopefully, try to apply them on a real game situation. Players are then able to gain confidence through the process of application. Some managed to execute certain skills and techniques while others weren't. It's okay. The important thing about the workshop is to impart knowledge to the students and to try to help them understand certain techniques and above that, to build their confidence as floorball players. 

Overall, the workshop went well. Many came back asking for more! It was fun having the students being part of this workshop and to see their burning enthusiasm on court to learn was definitely a bonus. GSN hopes that this workshop has been a fruitful one for all who came. Don't leave behind what you've learnt but start applying them people! You can only grow from henceforth....

Be the champion that you can be!
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GSN Floorball Workshop 2010!
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Gateway Sports has been expanding since day one and it ain't stopping any time soon! From adopting secondary schools for floorball to the birth of GSN's very own floorball club, Spearhead Floorball Club!

Spearhead finally launched its first club training last Saturday morning, 11am-1pm at Kompleks Belia. The turned out was great! 21 people came with great excitement. GSN truly believes that Spearhead Floorball Club will continue to grow, in fact GSN believes that it will explode into a club that will be the leading element in the Penang Floorball scene! We are excited for Spearhead. As the governing body to Spearhead Floorball Club, we really want to empower the club to be the best they can be. After all, we want to build people, clubs and teams into champions.

(Please click here to go to Spearhead Floorball Club's official blog)

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As a sports network, one of the main goals for 2010 is for us to be actively involved with secondary schools through the means of floorball. GSN targets to adopt at least two secondary schools to take up floorball as a sport. So far, GSN has entered and made connections with 2 different schools and 1 college, namely Bukit Jambul Secondary School (BJ), Convent Green Lane (CGL) and INTI College. The response that we received thus far has been overwhelming!

Out of the three, BJ is the first school to officially come under the adoption of GSN as the  application to have floorball as an official sport in their school has been approved by the principle. Students from BJ have shown tremendous interest in the sport and numbers have been growing ever since! GSN conducted BJ's first ever official training in the premise of their school last Friday and a handful of 45-50 students turned up. Awesome response!

To backtrack a little, GSN first came into contact with BJ sometime late last year. The Christian Fellowship of the school organized a floorball demonstration session for GSN to conduct in November 2009 and from then on, the numbers kept growing! The students were so excited for the sport so much so that they even participated in the inaugural SUKAN PENANG (SUKPEN) Floorball Challenge last December. They stamped their maiden competition by finishing fourth out of nine teams who participated. Not bad at all for a new team!

GSN is excited for BJ and has pledged to build this team of enthusiastic floorballers' into champions! It is our deepest hopes and dreams to see this club achieve great things in the future, not just to win medals, but to be a team that possess solid character and positive influence in the floorball scene in Penang. 
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