The Magic Words
In Chinese, the word for the top level players is 高手 gao shou, which means expert. (It literally translates to tall hands, which is why I chose the picture above. Get it? heh heh…) In economic terms I would say…
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Tag Archive: training
Learned my First Badminton Deception Shot
I’m dumb. Really, really dumb. And in badminton it is painfully easy (and incredibly fun) to trick me. My coach does it all the time, feigning his body left while hitting the birdie to the right. Or jumping up to…
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Badminton Footwork
There was a lot of “I hate you’s” directed towards my coach in class today. Which can only mean one thing: footwork practice. Footwork is, by far, my biggest problem in badminton, and hammering out all my bad habits and…
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Training Like I’ve Never Trained Before
When I came back from my summer travels I wasted no time getting back into the badminton game. And by “wasted no time” I mean, devoted myself entirely. I decided to not see my friends, not go out for lunches…
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When Will my Sore Muscles Adapt? (WU #23)
Now that I’ve upped my game from playing three times a week (for 2 hours a time) to five times a week (4 hours a time) I am basically a walking sore muscle. Even with two rests days, spaced apart,…
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Tips for Breaking into a New Badminton Group
So with my recent upgrade comes a whole host of new problems. With my old group I originally joined because of my friends, so I always had a bunch of people to play with. As I rose up the ranks…
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I Just Leveled up Big Time!! (WU #21)
I did it! I was finally asked to join a high level group of all Chinese badminton players. Woot! Cross another one of the “goals” list! It’s because of my coach of course. At his new badminton place he started…
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Figuring out the Coach/Player Relationship
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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