An American Girl Learning Badminton in China
I’ve been saying for awhile now that my life right now is the Rocky montage. It feels like I’ve been training and working to improve forevvverrrrrr but actually it’s been a short time. And if I think of it as…
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I’m gonna come off as sounding like a dick in this post, but this is how I’ve been feeling lately. I’m unsatisfied with playing recently. Not with MY playing, I’ve been doing okay these days, but with everyone else. I’m…
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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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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 had yet another competition, this one spanning a few days in the middle of the week at a court very far from my home (read: hella inconvenient). This one was majestically named the National Fitness Games, but it…
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The other night my friends and I were hanging out. I was talking about how my two-month summer holiday had began and how I was now playing badminton five nights a week. “Wow, you must really suck,” my friend joked….
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I figure these budget posts are pretty boring so I’ll update it every two months instead of every month. Equipment: This was a big month for equipment. I bought some basic stuff, a new pair of shoes, a towel for…
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Get me to start talking about badminton and within the first minute I’ll gush about my super awesome coach who’s the greatestthinginthewholewideworld. We’ve only had four months of class and I know very little about him personally. I know he’s married…
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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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So let me figure out my costs in December and then I can add them all up to see how much money I’ve spent in 2015 (well, basically the last three months of the year, since my spending was negligible…
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