An American Girl Learning Badminton in China
My motley team of strangers finally got together and played our competition together. We lost–bigtime–but I was totally expecting it and I actually had a lot of fun, so it was kinda a win. I was put together with a…
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Badminton Becky goes national! I was interviewed for a segment on NPR’s Only a Game weekend radio show and it was broadcasted this weekend! Please have a listen by clicking here! NPR Interview. (It’s only 8 minutes long.) For those…
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Now, I talk a lot about my coach and how great he is, but actually I don’t have just one coach, I have a few. And these days, my coaches are trying to do everything in the power to kill…
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I have one big party in me per year, and last year I did a Christmas cookie decorating party for all my badminton friends. It was super fun, but you can’t do the same thing twice now can you? So…
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A lot of badminton stuff has been going on these days, but in the midst of competitions and meeting badminton legends, I’m still keeping up my training. I’m pretty solid on the basics now, so my training has now changed…
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So I went to the Tahoe 2017 China Open in Fuzhou, China yesterday and oh my god you guys, I MET LEE CHONG WEI!!! And we even chatted for a minute and everything. He was super nice, and asked me…
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I’m captain of a badminton team! And no, it isn’t a group at my coaches gym, and it isn’t even people I know. I’m captain of a team of strangers. There is another Jimei Community badminton competition coming up, and…
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Hello my badminton sisters. We need to talk. Cause I see you, I watch you, and I learn from you. But there are some things you do that drive me FUCKING CRAZY and you need to stop. Because what you…
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So, the big competition, the first one my group entered together is over. And…… We lost. We had two teams and each had two men’s doubles and one mixed doubles partnership. My team had two mixed doubles teams sign up…
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This week has all been about training and planning for the competition tomorrow. It’s a big competition, and the first one my club is entering (we are entering two teams–one is called the Xiong Feng Attack Team and one is…
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