Its a hattrick!  3 speeches in a row! 3 best speaker awards! 

1st speech title - What's in a name?  2nd Title : Ethically  now the 3rd Title is Jump!

Jump Sathya Jump.  (I actually jumped)

Thank you TMOD, did as you have asked I Jumped! Now will you ask me to sing as well?

Before you do ….let me sing a rhyme or probably recite it…I tried hard to impress the little

kids around me with this..I have failed many a time ! but never gave up!

Here I go again ……come on and unmute and sing along!

5 little monkeys jumping on the bed

1 fell down and broke their head

Mumma called the Dr. and the Dr. said

No more monkeys jumping on the bed.

Fellow Toastmasters and Dear Guests

We Crawl, We Stand, We Walk & We Run. and Sometimes We Jump,

Jump over obstacles , Jump over hurdles….We Jump in Joy ..like Virat too! (The Ind vs Pak ICC game was to begin)

Jumping is associated with sports …..like long jump, high jump, like they hop skip and jump!

High Jump as a sport was very fascinating for me in childhood and it still is

While I still remember my friends, seniors at school would just compete to get the medal in

High Jump so that they get the individual award in sports since High Jump would be the only

differentiator. I wasn’t good at High Jump at all …..this did not stop me from learning about the sport.

Being an avid quizzer,… did read about the sport, the winners, the records and off course the

rules … I’m sure hardly anyone cared about the records and winners…here I was…

One thing that I could never forget was who won the gold medal in the Mexico Olympics in

1968………… Any guesses anyone ??? Yes it’s a quiz question… Dick Fosbury yes he won the gold for high jump! Now let me tell you that’s not his claim

for fame! So you may ask what was it then?

In high jump till 1968 and for many years later…..jumpers used to jump over the bar with leg

first and then followed with their body and head…… we call it the straight jump…

What Fosbury did was he would run in angle towards the high jump bar and would go with

his head first followed by his back and legs……..This was unique and weird but he still was

successful ….. This is known as the Fosbury Flop …yes Fosbury Flop and not Flip!

With this I learnt in life we have many challenges, some of the challenges are daunting

too….remember try to do the different or the unusual that may help you to overcome the

challenge… Don’t fear and off course Practice and trying new things could help! Like The Fosbury Flop!

High Jump is a unique sport ….you must be wondering why! Let me tell you its uniqueness

A jumper gets 3 chances to jump over the bar! If one does , the bar is raised …and again gets 3 chances… till there are a few people left say

4 or 5 …then 3 then 2 and finally there is 1….. remember the winner is declared only when the winner fails to jump the raised bar!

You aren't a winner until you have failed.

This will help you to stay humble and also strive for excellence,

Aren't we scared of failure. Champions are comfortable with failure …

Yes it is okay to fail and it is not the end of the world.

So its important to believe in your ability to Jump and over come …After every success you

raise the bar… Remember the Fosbury Flop !; You are not a winner until you have failed!

So Sathya Jump back to your seat ! Thank you!