Bad ethics
Singapore's
rope
skipping scene has been riddled with many bad ethics
conduct. Here are a few that are undeniable examples.
by Roger Yue Jr.
President, Rope Skipping Singapore
24 Dec 2009
Asiah cheated at the Jump
For Joy
2008 competition.
This rope skipping competiton was managed by Jolen and Asiah
of Jump Rope For Heart of the Singapore Heart Foundation. The
foremost rule of this competition is all skippers cannot be from a
school Rope Skipping
competitive team as can be seen on the competition poster.
Asiah blatantly
ignored this rule and sent a
competitive school team she was coaching to compete in this
competition. The other 7 teams complied with this no skipper from a
school Rope Skipping competitive team rule.
December 2010 undate:
Both Jolen and Asiah left the Singapore Heart Foundation in 2009. At
the 2010 Jump For Joy competition with about 6 schools participating
Jolen and Asiah
are running the competition again as volunteers this time. Two schools
associated with Asiah won the competition.
Hansen stole our Rope
Skipping
Singapore name.
Hansen of Vitage Fitness knowingly used our name, Rope Skipping
Singapore, to name his rope skipping business in February 2008
as you can see in this SSC webpage. He eventually ceased the plagiarism
in
August 2008.
December
2010 update:
In
August 2008
Rope Sport Singapore was born out of the need to have a different name
from the incumbent and original Rope Skipping Singapore. Further
incarnation in 2010
sees it formalized as a registered society in which Lee Lay Eng is
vice-president.
Lee Lay Eng concealed
the fact that her skipper was home quarantined on competition day.
Lee Lay Eng, the teacher-in-charge of her school rope skipping team
announced that
there was no time for the senior boys individual and pair to do their
events during the South Zone Rope Skipping Championship 2009 in her
school. Her school's senior boy (Kim Yih) was home quarantined with
chicken-pox during this competition. There
was no reception table to check the age and identities of skippers of
the school teams. This helped conceal Kim Yih's absences from the other
school teams and teachers. If he was called to perform for
his events as scheduled that day he would have been disqualified. Lee
Lay Eng was the emcee, time keeper and in-charge of the competition
ensuring Kim Yih would not be
called to skip.
All this school's coaches were involved in this conspiracy to keep Kim
Yih's absence a secret. Their coaches are Alex of Vitage Fitness and
X-Jump team of Singapore Heart Foundation. Behind the floor seated
school
team they stood
in a line like the terracotta soldiers of China (in red Heart
Foundation
T-shirt) guarding the team's secret through the whole competition.
December
2010 update:
Kim
Yih thus qualified to go to Hong Kong for the Asian Championships in
July
2009 with his school team of 26 skippers selected by Singapore Heart
Foundation. The MOE bird flu travel ban scuttled this trip. MOE lifted
this ban
a few days before the competition and another school, Rulang Primary,
went to Hong Kong as planned. The principal of the Rulang Primary got
several angry letters from parents and skippers from Kim Yih's school
insisting that Rulang Primary skippers should not go to Hong Kong. The
team went and won third place in the prestigeous Asian Cup event.
Lee
Lay Eng transfered to another school in 2010. She again concealed the
absence of someone this
time at Rope Sport Singapore's debut competition this year
resulting in a skipper from her X-Jump team not being disqualified from
the competition.
A ground swell
of fabrication.
There was a complaint letter written against me in 2008 and another in
2009, both written to the Ministry of Education. In similiar vein there
was the suggestion coming out from St Hilda's Primary School that I
incited Rulang primary school rope skipping team to block their school
team from entering the sports hall entrance at the primary school
Nationals in April 2009.
At the Skip'a'Dance contest on 12 July 2009, Asiah of X-Jump broadcast
that I incited the Rulang primary school's team of primary 2's to jeer
at other teams. X-Jump also put malicious material on YouTube and other
websites claiming that my team the Jumping Jewels cheated. At this
competition teacher Lee Lay Eng demanded of the title sponsor representative, Mr Suresh Narayanan
(MD of Nestle), that he shut down the competition for helping the
Jumping Jewels to cheat. Parents and
a competitor from her school (which X-Jump coaches) wrote letters to
the organizer of Skip'a'Dance to complain about the Jumping Jewels who
won the competition. A mother, of a competiting team of two brothers,
was so coarse and hostile to the competition organizers that Suntec
City mall's
security had to be summoned.
Asiah aka sia yaya was the
rope skipping coach of the brothers.
All complaints were investigated and duly dismissed. The Jumping Jewels
became champions of One Minute of Fame 2009
Now this is what a St Hilda's primary school student of Alex of Vitage
Fitness wrote
in an online forum run by Hansen of Vitage Fitness after the primary
school Nationals
in April 2009. Paya Lebar Methodist Girls School has a successful rope
skipping team
that I coach. Alex coaches St Hilda's, Loyang and Greenwood primary
school rope skipping teams. What would make a
primary school child have so much anger against a team she does not
know and love teams she does not know? If it is megalomaniac
manipulation then this puteriadriana is just the tip of an iceberg.
December
2010 update:
Skip'a'Dance
was a quaint family orientated competition created by the good people
of Singapore Press Holdings. Unfortunately abovementioned affront to
civilized behaviour will no longer be tolerated by SPH and so there was
no 2010
edition of Skip'a'Dance.
Puteriadriana
is still schooling at St Hilda's in 2011 and the 3 schools that she
loves
are not featured in the top four divisions at the 2010
Nationals. Alex is
not coaching anymore after the 2010 Nationals.
X-Jump
threatens coaches and team mates
Serene Ng of CCAB, Ministry of Education organized a coach vendor
briefing
and
forum at CCAB on 14th Jan 2010 to talk about their Nationals and
primary school
rope skipping. Consequentially I organized a coaches' meeting on 24th
Jan to discuss how we as coaches can help the primary school Nationals.
X-Jump, whose manager is school teacher Lee Lay Eng, threatened
all coaches to "stay clear and steer away" from this meeting.
December
2010 update:
There are no more meetings organized by CCAB and the secondary school
championships at this years Primary School Nationals announced by
Serene at the meeting was
cancelled. Rope Skipping Singapore offered to help organize this
secondary school event but I have not heard from Serene on the matter
since the meeting.
Lee Lay Eng is on the technical (advisory) committee for the Primary
School Nationals.
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