An American Girl Learning Badminton in China
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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The week between Christmas and New Years was a sad week for badminton. I had my last week of classes (final exams) and I had the holidays, a birthday, an anniversary, a company meeting and some other events to deal…
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I was playing the other night and this guy, who I never met, walks in and sees me. “Long Xiao Bing!” he calls out in a booming voice. I was in the middle of hitting with a guy but I…
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So in my Monday back-to-back coaching session it finally happened. My coaches disagreed. After our training, my second coach, Han, showed up and he and my coach chat for a bit (they are friends). Then my coach busied himself and…
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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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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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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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So last post I was talking about badminton competitions and how I haven’t had a ton of trouble, but it was something I was worried about. Well, lo and behold yesterday I woke up to my phone lighting up. (It…
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It seems like it is competition season in China (I have four between now and the end of the year) and now that I am getting better I am getting asked to compete in more. This is a really great…
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