An American Girl Learning Badminton in China
On the fourth day of class for the new semester I got a little tickle in my throat. Over the weekend my skin was all sensitive and by Monday I had a full-blown flu. Obviously badminton was out as it…
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You may have heard of the 10,000 hour theory that Malcolm Gladwell popularized in his book Outliers. It is the idea that anyone can become a master in any discipline as long as they put in 10,000 hours. Gladwell got…
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My coach and I haven’t started training yet, but we are back to playing and he has taken to playing with me so he can yell at me the whole time. Between being sick and the Chinese New Year holiday…
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Yes people, you read that title right. I’m talking about a stick. A motherfucking piece of wood. But not just any piece of wood, the greatest most-inspiring stick in the world! This is the Seabiscuit, the Rocky, the Jamaican bobsledding…
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As an English speaker who is living and training badminton in China I realize I have a bit of a unique niche. China is the gold star in the badminton world but unless you live here (and speak Chinese) it…
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Today is Chinese New Year and the start of Spring Festival (the biggest holiday in China). Each year has an animal of the zodiac and this year it is the year of the dog. If you were born in 1946,…
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I love notebooks. I have notebooks for diary, to-do list, notebooks with lists, notebooks with travel plans, notebooks with future plans, notebooks for writing and more than a few blank notebooks I have never used yet I loved them too…
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A few months ago I wrote a blog post called Women of Badminton! Stop Doing This… But now I’m turning my eye towards you fellas. Why did it take me so long? Well, honestly? Guys are a little more sensitive…
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It took forever for my coach to finally order them, but we got our new club shirts with our own logo designed by my coach! Our shirts are “in the style” of a Victor shirt and the China national team…
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So two days after my first win of the year, I met my coach for training. He knew I wasn’t feeling super well, and he actually wasn’t either. He had a lingering cold, like me, he couldn’t shake. “So we…
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