An American Girl Learning Badminton in China
Every week I recap how my week in badminton went. I play three days a week: games with my regular group on Tuesday and Thursday and class with my teacher on Wednesdays. Tuesday started off pretty good. With a week break for feeling sick, I was…
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So, ever since I’ve gotten into badminton, there have been constant tournaments which the best of the best have played. Every day on my facebook and youtube there are highlights and awesome match videos to watch. I knew they were…
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Where I come from, New England in America, we experience all kinds of weather. Way more than the typical four boring seasons. We also have mud season, black fly season and so on. In fact, there is a joke about…
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Every week I recap how my week in badminton went. I play three days a week: games with my regular group on Tuesday and Thursday and class with my teacher on Wednesdays. Badminton is a kind of magic. Ever since I have started playing it, I…
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Allow me to get all “girlie” here but can I say how disappointed I am in badminton clothes? I like the general cut of the shirt (especially the square neck style) but I hate the colors and designs of them….
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Badminton is a no contact sport, so injuries beyond knee, wrist and shoulder problems are rare. But every now and then you get stuck on the wrong side of a slam and the birdie smashes into you going quite fast….
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My racket, not content to just sit at home bored everyday, took a day off and went to the beach!
Every week I recap how my week in badminton went. I play three days a week: games with my regular group on Tuesday and Thursday and class with my teacher on Wednesdays. This week, I had a lazy weekend. Well, not lazy, I saw Anna Karenina…
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So I stumbled across this article, which was one of the highest shared badminton articles on Facebook this past week. It was shared and liked thousands of times (about 48k). The article is about Gronya Sommerville, an Australian up-and-coming player…
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The biggest holiday in the world that you’ve never heard of, just happened. In China November 11th (11-11) is Singles Day. Cutesy idea so single people can revel in their singleness. But no one cares about that anymore, that’s because…
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