An American Girl Learning Badminton in China
My racket. My beautiful racket given to me 10 months ago by my friends. The racket that took me from a beginner to an advanced beginner. The racket that was with my in my first class with my teacher, the…
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With badminton rackets you need to regularly get them restrung because they lose tension. My friend Xiao He changes his about once every 2 weeks. Meanwhile, I hadn’t changed mine for more than 7 months. Time to figure it out….
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This week was a big badminton week. Monday was a holiday (Tomb Sweeping Day) so no school. But I tutor a young boy every Monday and we still met. His father is a badminton player (he’s been playing 3 times…
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Six months ago I made some goals. Let’s see how I did. Goal number One: Be the obvious best girl in my current group. I’m not quite the number one girl, but I’m certainly in the running. My biggest problem…
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So ever since that soul crushing Wednesday a few weeks back, I have decided to just accept my fate. Wednesday I will focus on my awesome class, and just deal with the humiliation that follows. The other people at the court…
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My one year badminton birthday started off more with a whimper than a bang. On the bus I had a five minute coughing fit. It happens when I am on the mend from a cold and actually signals that I…
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In the world of blogging, badminton blogs are few and far between. Many are just review blogs (for rackets mostly) or have been defunct for year. I guess following stereotypes, jocks tend to not be writers? Or maybe there isn’t…
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So let me catch you up. I was forced off my computer for awhile as I basically had no internet for a solid week. (Damn Chinese internet!) Before the sad Wednesday night I was doing pretty good. Tuesday was a…
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Today is my birthminton! Or should I say badday? (Badminton and birthday are hard words to mash up.) One year ago today I picked up a badminton racket for the first time! Woot! My friends had been playing badminton for…
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I’m combining the first two months of the year together because I was on holiday for two months, part of which was Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) which is a 15 day holiday in which everything shuts down. So, with…
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