Badminton Goal

My 1st Victory

2009-07-16T17:38:00.000-07:00

This week I go for the badminton competition. My 1st game was on Monday 6.00pm. I reach the court at 5.30pm. I used half an hour warming up. The registration was started on 6.00pm and competition started around 6.20pm. Then, the judge start to announce and ask the participants go to the following court to start the game.

So this is my challenger, Justin Tan.
This is my 1st preliminary so I quite nervous. Participant get 11 point in 1 match consider as the winner. At the beginning, we say hallo to each other then we started to warm up. After a few minutes, our game was begin. First of all, I quite nervous and I always miss the ball. At middle game, our result is 4-8, I less 4 point from him. After I heard my point ,I’m more nervous than before. Then I try to calm down myself, refresh my mind and try to think why I lose so many point and find his weakness. After that, our game continue. I try to rush for the point and finally I same point with him, 8-8, and I knew that what is his weakness. After a few minutes, our game was end at the point, 11-9.

I WON!!!!!!!

After the game, we shake hand with him and thank to him. So my 2nd preliminary was on Wednesday.

2nd preliminary was on 3.00pm and I'm as usual reach the court early to warm up. On 3.00pm all participants were come and the competition began. So this is ThamYingWei.

As usual, we warm up for a while and our game began. This time, participant who get 21 point in 1 match consider as the winner. First of all, he is quite skilllful, he always hits the ball to the side and I difficult to save the ball. So at the middle of the game, I didn't get any point at all and he got 10 point. Oh my god!!!!!Then we rest for a while and I just take a big breath to calm me down. After that, game continue. On the game, i just try to save the ball and rush the whole court and i control by him. Then, our game end by point 21-7 and i lost. I'm already try my best to play the game. Although I lost the game, but i still very happy because I realize that what is my weakness and i learn many thing on this match. After that, we shake hand with each other and i wish him good luck on the competition.

On the competition, I learn many thing and I know some friends there. Although i lost the game but I very enjoy it. After all I will continue to play my badminton and now it became my another hobby. I will try to improve not only in badminton skill, i also try to learn don't too nervous on the match. If you nervous, you will lose your mind. Therefore, I wish I can play well and try to improve my skill. So, I will continue to play badminton forever and ever.

LOVE BADMINTON.......

After common test...

2009-07-13T01:22:00.000-07:00

After the common test, me, ChunKit, Quey and Tzek went to play badminton at our school. I booked the court at 4.00pm to 6.00pm.
After we changed to short pants, we are start our practise. Today i need to practise well because next Monday i have a competition.
On the game, i ask them challenge me, let me know how good am i improve.
They improve a lot, is quite tough to beat them.
After the game, we discuss and share our experience on badminton.
They also hope me to win on the competition next monday, i will try my best.

God bless me again.....

This is my jumping smash, taking with burst photo mode.

Another week of holiday

2009-07-03T03:44:00.000-07:00

Because of the flu, school off for a week. So i stay for another week at Malaysia.

My mom also didn't let me go out, so doing my revision for the comom test and doing some research at home.
I'm also watch the video Yonex All England 2009 - MS FINAL from the youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00EO-cBr6CU&feature=PlayList&p=51BE032213B8CCFB&index=0&playnext=1
Although LinDan was win, but I didn't not like him.
Why?
LinDan is a legend in the badminton. He won and get champion on Olympic 2008.
You can see that LinDan and LeeChongWei always meet at any final man single badminton competition and LinDan always win.
I don't like LinDan because he don't have Sportsmanship. I still remember that there was a final competition and LeeChong Wei won on that competition.
At the end of the competition, LinDan refuse handshake with LeeChongWei and throw his racket on the floor. It is a bad personality.

Be a badminton player, you should have Sportsmanship. If not everyone will not respect to you although you are champion.

competiton on 13 of July, i will always smile until the end although i lose the game.....

2nd week of holiday

2009-06-26T17:20:00.000-07:00

This week I went back to secondary school because there is a badminton there. When I step into the school hall, I saw many student who are warming up.

After a few minutes,the badminton trainer, Mr.Thong was come. I go toward him and ask him to teach me play badminton for prepare the competition of the school. At last, he allow me to join in the training.

AT the beginning, he took many shuttercock and he hit to me want me to hit back de shuttercock. During hiting de shuttercock, I just miss a few ball, he say I am playing well. Then he correct my skill and teach me the proper way to hit shuttercock . I got learn many skill on that training. After 2hours, traning end. Before I go, he give me some word and wish me can playing well during the compettion. Im very thank you to him, he is a kindly old man.

Thank you very much, Mr.Thong. I will try my best to play well during competition.

<---Mr.Thong

This is my secondary school hall. Those students are warming up before Mr.Thong come.

During holidy, in malaysia.

2009-06-19T17:00:00.000-07:00

During the holiday, i'm go back to malaysia,Ipoh.

This holiday I have to do many thing like prepare for commom test, meet my old friends, go back to secondary school to visit my teacher and also doing something to improve my badminton skill.

1st week of holiday, I ask my best friend, Alex to have a lunch. He is a quite handsome boy, now he is studying form6. He has a hobby that is playing badminton…

During lunch, we not only talk about our schooll life, i'm also ask him about the badminton. He started play badminton when in form1.

On that time, he is also a beginner, then he go to join the badminton club. In the club, teacher saw him was a beginner thn ask a senior to challenge him. When he heard that he quite shock and worry because before that he really don’t knw about the rules and also didn’t touch the shuttercock before. During match, he say he just run for the ball and try to hit it to opponent, but at last he just get 2 mark. After the match, teacher say that he was play very well and welcome him to join the club. After listening, he quite blur and just join the club.

Now he realize that, teacher let him play with senior because teacher wants to knw his weakness and strength. During training, teacher try to improve his skill and always ask senior play with him. Now he can play very well because he always enjoyed play with different player which who has a good skill in playing badminton. Playing with different player nto only can get experience on playing badminton, you also can know more friend...

Before after our lunch, he gave me some tips and hope me can improve my badminton skill

1. Flexible like a water
2. Play by heart not play by hard
3. Don’t dreaming or talking with somebody during competition
4. Always go to middle of the court after you hit the ball
5. Don’t always want to smash the ball and quick end de match. If not u will net the ball and lose many mark

6. Alwys PLAY your opponent like let him run de hold court n let him tired, thn u have a big chance to win
7. Always smile although you lose the match to show that you are a friendly person

8. Victory is not important, the most important is process of the competition

Busy....Busy

2009-06-12T21:32:00.000-07:00

Busy....busy....

This week i'm busy prepare my computer lab test and math quiz. Although im busy on my test, i'm also done some researh about badminton. I'm also found a forum talk about the badminton. From the forum i'm found a post with tittle 'Advice for Beginning badminton players'.
In the forum, i'm found that i have to FOCUS ON CORRECT GRIP.

The most fundamental aspect of badminton technique is the grip. The grip is how a badminton holds the badminton racket. A correct grip is a pathway for a badminton player to improve upon their skills. on the contrary, using an incorrect grip is often a brickwall that leads to poor form and poorly executed techniques. It takes much more time to unlearn a bad technique than to learn one. Many of us have experienced it before the painful way.

The proper badminton grips may feel uncomfortable and unnatural in the beginning, but if you are able to get over that fact, later on you will appreciate what you have learned.There are two basic grips for badminton, the forehand grip and the backhand grip.

2nd, i have to FOCUS ON FOOTWORK.

We cannot stress the importance of footwork more. Footwork is the skill that allows you to move from point to point in the badminton court. While it sounds like an easy concept, in fact it is one of the most difficult skills in badminton. The reason footwork is so important is very simple: if you cannot get there in time, it is useless to have the best racket skill. The Cororary of that is that, the earlier you can get to the shuttle, the more choices of shots you have and the more you can pressure your opponent.

Lee Jae Bok, an ex-Korean national player, once says:"You hit shuttle with your feet."

Footwork is one of the most difficult aspects of badminton. It takes a lot of time to learn, as well as a lot of time to practice. It is often less practiced because of the lack of venue. It is quite uncommon and anti-social for someone to take up Â½ of a badminton court to practice footwork while everybody waits on the sideline. Despite so, it is still very important. A professional player can move around the court very effortlessly solely because they have very good footwork technique, they do make it look very easy but in fact, it takes many years of very hard work to master it.

And there is many useful information about to improve badminton skill in thje forum.

After i read the forum i have know more about badminton and i also got many advice on improve my skill.

Futhermore, i'm also register school badminton competition on 13-17 July(week 13). Hope i can improve my skill and see my result during competition.
God bless me....

Book a Court

2009-06-03T06:40:00.000-07:00

On Sunday, I book a court near of my house. The court is at the Geylang Serai Community Centre. We booked the court is at the night because it always full booked at the weekend.

Now, i have to introduce my cousin, Daniel. He is a good badminton player and he is represent his school to have competition with other schools.

On that night, we just take our racket and didnt take shuttercock.WHY? Daniel said now im not suitable to play badminton 1st, so on that day he just let me to practice my speed 1st.

He want me start to run at the front left corner of the court, then run to the right side of the court, then run to the left back of the court and.........is very confuse. And he say want me to repeat the movement 1 time at 10 seconds. But i run the court by using 20 seconds.......

so on that night, i just run, run, run the court.........like a crazy guy.

<--Me and Daniel
<--my Yonex Racket

These photo is took when i'm practise. And my shirt is already half wet.....very tired.

Never Giving Up

2009-05-26T06:31:00.000-07:00

Without wasting my time, i try to learn something about badminton from the internet. I'm watch some video from the youtube and try to search some book from the book store. I aslo ask my mom bring my badminton racket to singapore. After get my racket, i try to learn how to hold the racket and learn how to swing it. There are many way to swing the racket, like 'drop', 'smash', 'back hand' and others. Learning to swing the racket is not the easy.....

I'm also have to learn how to control my strength and hit the shuttlecock to the place i want to drop.

Furthermore, i'm also a good and fast responce and fast make decision to hit the shuttlecock to the place you want...

so, every day 6-7pm i'm practice at the side of my house. Luckly there is a empty space beside my house to give my a place to practice.....

This is i try to do improve my badminton skill without join the badminton club....

Fail to join the badminton club

2009-05-18T21:43:00.000-07:00

In 2nd week, me and my friends use a long time to explore where is the badminton court. At last, we found it. Then we ask the player in the courts, they say they are not member from badminton club and their practice is on tuesdy & thusdy. Then we suppose to wait until thusdy and try to join. Thursdy.....we ask for joining the club, but the couch told us that badminton club is not the same as the other clubs. All the member of badminton club will be represent Nanyang Poly in any tournament held. Furthermore, he say that you should have great skill and got represent your secondary school. Because we are the beginer so that the couch refuse us.
When i heard that, i felt dissapointed and angry. However, we cant change the couch mind.....:(

At last, although i fail to join in the badminton club but i will find another way to archieve my goal without giving up .

BadMinToN

2009-05-08T21:14:00.000-07:00

First of all, before I’m tell my badminton traning story in school, I would like to you about badminton. Badminton is a racket sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs. Playing badminton should have these basic equipment:

1. Badminton racket 2. Shuttlecock 3. Badminton Sport Shoes

4. And play badminton at badminton court

Bad minton court
The court is rectangular and divided into halves by a net. Courts are usually marked for both singles and doubles play, although the laws permit a court to be marked for singles only.The full width of the court is 6.1 metres and in singles this width is reduced to 5.18 metres. The full length of the court is 13.4 metres. The service courts are marked by a centre line dividing the width of the court, by a short service line at a distance of 1.98 metres from the net, and by the outer side and back boundaries. The net is 1.55 metres high at the edges and 1.524 metres high in the centre.

Shuttlecock
The ordinary shuttle contains 14 to 16 feathers, secured with thread. National associations may authorize substitutes, such as plastic, provided they do not materially alter the shuttle's behavior in play. Its mass is 73–85 grains (4.74–5.50 grams). Surprisingly, the shuttle in competition badminton is claimed to be the fastest object in sports.

Racket
Badminton racket are light, with top quality racquets weighing between 79 and 91 grams including the strings. They are composed of many different materials ranging from carbon fibre composite (graphite reinforced plastic) to solid steel, which may be augmented by a variety of materials. Carbon fibre has an excellent strength to weight ratio, is stiff, and gives excellent kinetic energy transfer.

Badminton shoes
Badminton shoes are lightweight with soles of rubber or similar high-grip, non-marking materials. Compared to running shoes, badminton shoes have little lateral support. Badminton shoes will have a very thin sole, lower a person's centre of gravity, and therefore result in fewer injuries. Players should also ensure that they learn safe and proper footwork, with the knee and foot in alignment on all lunges. This is not only a safety concern, as proper footwork is critical in order to move effectively around the court.

Badminton games can played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles or mixed doubles)

Singles
<--Single games is played by a pair man or women player.

Doubles
<--Double games is played by 2 pair of man or woman players.

Mixed doubles
<--In mixed doubles games, a man and a woman will become a team.

There are many famous badminton good player. This is the list of BWF World Ranking - Men's Singles.

Lee Chong Wei
<--lin Dan

<--Chen Lin