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A 42-pounder for Jan Anderson

2 Regattas this Sunday at RVYC

The general methods of Chi Gong

5th Classroom Charity Classic

Junior football c’ships begin this weekend

Robson cards scratch 71

Meigh & McKnight top leader boards

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A 42-pounder for Jan Anderson

Jan Anderson with his 42-pound King Mackerel.

The “Fish of the Month” for January in Pattaya Sports Club promoted fishing tournaments goes to Jan Andersen. Jan struggled with this 42 pound King Mackerel for 35 minutes on January 20th before winning the battle.

Jan fished with Frank Collins, Frank Pickett, Les Collins, and Phil Cheal, and was sponsored by the Local Fish & Trips Bar. The team went out of Bang Saray with Boat Captain Ting. For Jan, it was quite an experience as this was the largest fish he had ever landed.

This catch currently puts Jan Andersen in first place for the Pattaya Sports Club tournaments. For details on how to compete in tournaments please contact Carl Engel, the PSC Fishing Commissioner at 038-410-228 or contact the Local Fish & Trips Bar or the SGP Bar & Caféon Soi Yodsak.

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2 Regattas this Sunday at RVYC

The Yetsenga 4 Island Multihull Race and the Four Buoys Monohull Race will be held this Sunday, 13 February 2000, at the Royal Varuna Yacht Club in South Pattaya.

Members of the RVYC and their invited guests are eligible, as are all classes recognized by the RVYC.

Briefing will be held at 10:00 a.m., the starting time for multihulls is 11:00, for monohulls 11:07 a.m. The race officer is Richard van den Heuvel.

Courses: Multihulls: start at RVYC flagpole, Koh Chun to port, south mark to starboard, around Koh Krok to port, Koh Sak to port, Koh Krok to port, south mark to port, finish at RVYC flagpole. Monohulls: two back-to-back trapezoids.

There is a 5 hour time limit for the long distance race, 90 minutes per trapezoid race. Handicap: Portsmouth Yard Stick. Scoring will be the low point scoring system.

Prizes include a trophy for the first lady crew on Hobie 16; monohulls & multihulls 1st, 2nd, 3rd (7 boats or more), 1st, 2nd (5 - 6 participants).

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The general methods of Chi Gong

by Patrick Stahl

Chi Gong is an exercise to regulate the mind and breathing in order to control or promote the flow of energy. Since energy plays such an important role in the vital processes of the human body, it is natural that regulation of energy can be used to preserve health and treat disease. This medical practiced Chi Gong is different from physical exercise. The latter is aimed at building up health or restoring physical functioning by enhancing strength (somatic), while the former is focused on mobilization of functional potentialities by regulating the mind (psychosomatic).

Another important difference is that physical exercise expends energy by tensing the muscles and accelerating the heart beat while Chi Gong works to ease, still and regulate breathing to store up or accumulate energy in the body.

Medical Chi Gong can be divided into two main categories: internal or endogenous Chi Gong (performed by the patients themselves) and external or exogenous Chi Gong (performed by a Chi Gong master to help treat diseases).

Today I will be only talking about internal medical Chi Gong, which requires regulation of the mind, body and respiration, among which regulation of the mind is crucial. There are many kinds of internal Chi Gong, some with motion and others without. In quiescent Chi Gong (without motion), adoption of a proper position is necessary. It can be practiced while sitting still, standing upright, or lying on the back or side. The basic requirement is to stay comfortable and relaxed.

The Chi Gong with motion is usually the combination of quiescent Chi Gong with physical exercise or self-massage. There are also many ways to regulate respiration. In most cases, breathing should be natural, deep, slow, long, fine and even, with inhalation through the nose and exhalation through the mouth. Yet, different patterns may be required for different purposes.

The key point of both practices is regulation of the mind, meaning to remove all thoughts and focus on a certain points of the body called ‘dantian” (elixir field). There are three elixir fields. Each has its own function: the lower one is located in the center of the abdomen about three inches below the umbilicus. The middle one is on the mid-line of the sternum between the nipples. The highest one is in the region between the eyebrows. For example, concentration on the highest elixir raises the blood pressure, while concentrating on the lowest point the blood pressure goes down. As the body relaxes, the mind concentrates on the elixir field and all other thoughts are erased, respiration becomes deeper and gradually decreases in frequency; decreased to four or five times per minute, the person falls into the so-called ‘Chi Gong state’.

Next time, I will list examples and explain the patterns of internal Chi Gong.

NRG Center is located at 206/97 Moo 9, Soi Town in Town, Central Pattaya Road. Tel/Fax: (038) 410049 Email: [email protected] Home page address: http://clubs.snap.com/nrg2000/index.lhtml.

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5th Classroom Charity Classic

Classroom One is holding its 5th Annual Classroom Charity Classic Golf Tournament on Friday, 18th February, at Rayong Green Valley. This is a singles Stableford competition, but sign up as a Fourball because there will a special Team Prize for the highest team total.

The local golf tournaments in the past few months have filled up very quickly. Last year, the Classroom Charity Classic had 140 players. The reason is simple. It’s a great tournament and all proceeds go to the Banglamung Boys Orphanage. This year’s tournament should prove no exception, so hustle on down to one of the normal Pattaya golf venues and sign up. You are promised a great day of golf. You are also promised a fun party at Classroom afterwards, with prizes galore and delicious food.

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Junior football c’ships begin this weekend

Teams are gearing up for the Chonburi Junior Football Championships for the 2nd Thai Petroleum and Natural Gas Cup, scheduled for 12-19 February.

Yuttana Winyaphongphan, the Chonburi Administrative Center Manager from the Thai Petroleum and Natural Gas Distribution Department, said the “Junior Football Championships” are for ages 17 and below. The competition will also be used to select teams to represent Chonburi in national competitions this year.

Yuttana Winyaphongphan (2nd from left), Chonburi Admin Center Manager from the Thai Petroleum and Natural Gas Distributing Department, announces the “Junior Football Championships”.

Deputy Communications Minister Sonthaya Khunpleum is scheduled to preside over the opening of the “knockout” competition.

Prizes include trophies and cash awards of 50,000 baht for the winning team and 25,000 baht for the runner-up.

Sixteen teams will also be competing from schools in Bangkok and other provinces from the central and north-east regions. The “Junior Football Championships” will commence at 9.00 a.m. on 12 February at the Chonburi Thai Petroleum and Natural Gas Center Football Field on Om Muang Road in Napa Sub-District.

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Robson cards scratch 71

PSC TAGGS... golf from the Hare House

Wednesday, February 2 - Rayong Green Valley Country Club (Medal)

1st: Darren Robson, 69 net
2nd: Hannu Kemilla, 73 net
3rd: Vic Cross, 73 net

The gentlemen from the Hare House held a stroke play competition at Green Valley on Wednesday the 2nd of February. There is nothing unusual about a net score of 69 winning a medal. There was, however, something very unusual about Englishman Darren Robson’s winning score. His 69 was the result of shooting under par off the sticks. Playing off two, Darren shot a gross 71 on a day when the tees were back and the wind was kicking up a fuss.

Perhaps Darren knew he was going to have a good day when he drove the green on the Par 4 second hole. This 332 yard dogleg left is reachable with the tee shot by even a mere mortal. But holding a two tiered green surrounded by bunkers is another thing altogether. Darren not only held the green; he made his eagle putt en route to a front nine score of 32 gross.

The second place medal went to Finland’s Hannu Kemilla with a 73 net. Back in May, after the President’s Bowl Eclectic, Hannu was playing off a 23 handicap. In eight months he has whittled his handicap down to eleven. On Wednesday he shot an 83 playing in the same foursome with Darren Robson and looks to be on his way to single digits.

Third place went to Vic Cross, who lost out the penultimate spot on the podium in a count back. Playing off 21, Vic shot a 94 that tied Hannu with a 73 net. Vic was in some pretty heady company with the other prize-winners. Michael Dige and Doug Campbell took fourth and fifth place and both play off six.

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Meigh & McKnight top leader boards

PGS from the Bunker Bar

Tuesday, February 1 - Sriracha

Fast greens at Sriracha may have explained the under average scores from the Bunker Boys.

At the infamous ‘Croc Par Three’, Tommy ‘5 Club’ Jeeves said, “Don’t think I can get over the croc pen so I will bounce the ball off that croc’s head,” and to the disbelief of Will, Bill and Roy, he hit the croc on the head, which made the croc jump about 2 feet in the air. The croc and the ball landed about one inch from each other, still inside the pen. Since the ball laid almost touching the croc teeth, Tommy was heard to say, “I think I will take a drop; let the Croc have the ball.”

The match play final was held in the same competition. The result was ‘another tie’. The players, Bert ‘Remy’ Guy and Keith ‘Dogged’ Fortt, will bump heads again at Green Valley on 8-2-2000. Keith was one up and one to go on the last but Remy denied Keith the win and made it all square.

Div I (Stroke)

First: George ‘Nice Guy’ Meigh, -1
Second: Roy ‘Tiger’ Mitchell, par
Third: Bo Ahleen, +1

Div II (Stableford)

First: Gordon McKnight, 34 points
Second: John Preedy, 33
Joint Third: Bert ‘Remy’ Guy and ‘Good Old Tom’ Waldren, 32

Nearest pins: John Simons, Gordon McKnight, John Oke.

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The Final Pit Stop

I lost an old friend the other day. Ted Aspudd, Managing Director of the Jim Russell Racing Drivers School in Thailand, finally succumbed to the cancer he had been fighting for the last six months.

Ted was a real racer. Motor sport was in his blood and he lived it to the full. Ted was one of those sort of guys who just had to have a go - in anything. As long as it had wheels and an engine, Ted would want to make it go quicker.

A native of Sweden, he began racing in 1957, still a teenager. Motorcycles, rally cars, old Porsches. If he could wangle his backside onto or into a seat he was away! In 1960 he moved to the UK to try his hand there and raced sports cars and single seaters, but after 3 years he went to America.

It was in the USA that he began to give notice. He opened a Porsche racing workshop and raced almost every Porsche imaginable (356, 912, 911, RS 60, RS 500, RS 550, 904) and won himself a couple of championships too.

But it was also in America that he almost lost his life in a huge crash in an Elva-Mclaren-Oldsmobile Can-Am sports car. The injuries he received were to keep him out of motor sport for ten years.

Returning to Sweden, he recuperated and bought a Lotus Super 7 as a road car. Passing a racetrack one day he ventured in, got a temporary one day license, entered the race and won it. Between 1978 and 1983 he was to win his class in the Swedish Sports Car Championships 4 times. On his bad years he came 2nd and 3rd!

By now, Ted Aspudd knew that motor racing was his calling and vigorously attacked the sports car scene in Europe, winning the European Sports 2000 cup in a Lola.

In the off season, what does a professional European race driver do? He goes to America and teaches youngsters how to go racing - and that was where Ted found he had the ability to teach the craft he loved so much.

Ted Aspudd (left) at Bira with visiting race driver Julian Harburg in February ’99.

But by 1993 Ted had “found” Thailand and started the Volvo Safe Driving School which he ran at the Bira Circuit just outside Pattaya. From there it was a natural progression to establish the Thailand branch of the Jim Russell Racing Drivers School, and he was working on that business plan till he was found to have cancer last year.

Despite that fact, Ted had ideas to run a little 2 seat “demo” race car at Bira, to take thrill seekers for some “race” laps. “Let’s take each other around and see if we can scare ourselves,” he said last year. Unfortunately, that project remains unfinished, and we never did get that opportunity to scare each other.

Ted is survived by his Thai wife and leaves lots of memories all over the motor racing world. I hope they’ve got something for you to drive up there, Ted. Farewell, old friend.

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