An American Girl Learning Badminton in China
So I did it. I pulled the trigger and got a new racket. It’s a Wish brand, which might not be familair to most player, but it’s a common racket in China, and the company is based in Xiamen so…
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Both are racket sports, both are played on a similar looking court with a net in the middle, both are hitting things back and forth. Both have their origins in England and adhere to strict rules of etiquette. It’s common that…
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Tuesday was a bad day for rackets. I broke my beloved beautiful racket in the middle of a game. Luckily my friends have extra and a guy lent me one. In 10 months I have almost never even touched another…
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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 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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