The Daily Life of a Badminton Court
As I’m at the courts so often, I see a lot of stuff that goes on in the daily life of a badminton court and I’d thought I’d share a few pictures. Life in a Chinese court is different than…
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Personal Experience
Yonex Women’s Badminton Tournament 2017
This weekend I participated in the national Yonex Ladies Badminton Tournament tour in Xiamen. Might as well get the bad news out of the way….we lost. We didn’t just lose, but we lost spectacularly. Out of 9 games we only…
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The Trials, Tribulations and Accidental Celebrity of a White Girl Playing Badminton in China
In many ways, my badminton friends have just accepted me as one of their own. The one you have to talk slower to, listen more carefully to, but still one of them. Then, in many other ways I will never…
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I Finally Won A Competition!
We won! We won, we won, we won, we won!! Second place in women’s doubles at the university competition. I’m not gonna lie though, we should have won first. Our final opponents were good, PE teachers and lifelong athletes, but…
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My Coach and I get into our First Fight
To say my coach and I are close would be an understatement. It was about one year ago today when I went to his house for the first time and sat with him and drank tea. Now I’m a regular…
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I Faced the Beast
OMG, have I got a story for you. Okay, let me start at the beginning. I’ve said before that the badminton playing teachers at my school have been incredibly mean to me with one exception. Her name is Mrs. Bai…
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Control of the Badminton Court–A Female Perspective
It’s not easy being a girl in sports. A few months back, I’d listen to everyone and everything. I had very little badminton knowledge, experience or skills and everyone could teach me something. But I’m learning fast (it feels like…
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The Politics of Badminton
Let me tell you a sad little story that happened to me. My first competition was actually a series of three competitions. Yet I only participated in one. Why? Because of politics. You see, the first one was an individual…
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The Thing I Hate Most About Chinese Badminton
Y’all know how much I love badminton and I know I’m incredibly lucky I get to play in China where the level and quality of the sport is so high. But there is one thing I hate about Chinese badminton…..the…
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The Competition Mindset
I’m one of the most competitive people you will meet. I take Fussball at the local bar as serious as the Olympics, and I can even be bratty about birthdays. (“You’ll never beat me,” I say to younger people on…
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