Anybody know any girls that can jumpsmash???
in vancouver??

check with peter lsd, he might direct you to some:D

Originally posted by sqwai
Anybody know any girls that can jumpsmash???
in vancouver??

Can you Cindy?;)

Just go to ClearOne during their Super Elite group's training sessions on Tuesdays and (I believe) Sundays.

-Rick

Oh ~doh!!! I totally didn't realize it was you, Cindy!

To more seriously answer your question, I'm sure Shaolin could jumpsmash and nail Eric in the head. :D

-Rick

Knew one who was an ex Malaysian Doubles player - Chor Hooi Yee. Small girl who is about 160cm. Boy can she jump!

Originally posted by Traum
Just go to ClearOne during their Super Elite group's training sessions on Tuesdays and (I believe) Sundays.

-Rick

None of those girls can jumpsmash.

Originally posted by timeless
None of those girls can jumpsmash.

HAHAHAHA....way to give it to them Timeless:D

The only woman, pro or amateur, I've seen really jumpsmash is Charmaine Reid of team Canada. When playing women's doubles, she executes real, full-out, jumpsmashes every chance she gets, just like men. She can hit harder than most men (non-pro) that I know. And no, she isn't butch or anything like that. She's slim, fit, and fairly tall (5'8"?). Pretty darn cool :cool:.

Originally posted by SmashingBird
HAHAHAHA....way to give it to them Timeless:D

:D ... *ahem* well seriously, I'm just being honest.

It's not exactly necessary to jumpsmash anyway... most of those girls can hit fairly hard for their size and age as it is. Especially Badrad Jr... whamo!!! Always impresses me with the shuttle velocities she can generate. Probably harder than my smash :(. Chip off the ole block eh Badrad? :D

I second Timeless's post. None of the BC girls jump smash.. nor do they need to...there are other much more important things to perfect than that. we know a certain Japanese girl who can smash quite hard without jumping at all!

Oh geez yes... that gal's smash (and every other stroke) puts my game to shame!! :( :D ... Which reminds me... think I'll go practise tonight, as well as watch her, 15love, Mr.15Love, etc. play tonight... their games always rock! It's cool having awesome players around to motivate oneself to strive for their level. Plus I always learn something when watching them.

Originally posted by 15Love
I second Timeless's post. None of the BC girls jump smash.. nor do they need to...there are other much more important things to perfect than that. we know a certain Japanese girl who can smash quite hard without jumping at all!

Really? None of our BC girls can jump smash? I certainly don't expect the same kind of jump smashes that Darryl and Eric performs, but still...

I thought I've seen little badrad jump smashing before... :confused:

-Rick

hi, what is jumpsmash?

Originally posted by Traum
Really? None of our BC girls can jump smash? I certainly don't expect the same kind of jump smashes that Darryl and Eric performs, but still...

I thought I've seen little badrad jump smashing before... :confused:

-Rick

You probably saw one of the girls hopping up to quickly cut the shuttle down or something. Basically, none of the girls that I know of, besides Charmaine Reid, can jump high enough to sharpen the angle of their attack to make it worth all that effort. On top of that, any extra power they can generate from a jump smash, also isn't worth the extra effort because it's still not fast enough to hit through most of their opponents. Especially considering most of these girls can return the smashes of their male counterparts. It's just not practical. So like 15Love says, they get their points by honing their other skills. Personally, I think at an amateur level, most players, especially males, rely too much on power rather than other skills to get their points. It seems to me that such players have a rough time breaking into higher levels of play because they build their game around their smash so much.

Or maybe I'm just saying this because my own smash sucks so I'm trying to make up for it in other ways hahaha :D.

hi, thank u for detailed explaination.:)

Originally posted by timeless
I think at an amateur level, most players, especially males, rely too much on power rather than other skills to get their points. It seems to me that such players have a rough time breaking into higher levels of play because they build their game around their smash so much.
.

Well said there - and sadly I am one of these amateurs who can put holes through nets but can't win....:(

well , if you practise more,you will sourly be improved:)

I can Jumpsmash lol!!!!!
I do it all the time.

hi pplz
I'm Cindy!!!

Originally posted by sqwai
hi pplz
I'm Cindy!!! Cindy - as in Sam and Cindy?

Hell no!
Cindy Wong
lol
not Cindy Wu

Originally posted by sqwai
Hell no!
Cindy Wong
lol
not Cindy Wu

I met Sam and Cindy tonight..haha
and yeah sqwai can jump smash, she did a demo for me tonight now I can learn from her.

Monica mui from Clearone can jump smash~

I suppose even a couple inches of vertical is technically a jump smash... :rolleyes:

I still stand by my original perspective though until some girl other than Charmaine Reid can prove otherwise :p.

umm, Monica laughed pretty hard when she saw that post about her!!

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!~~ :D Now that's funny...

here's one gal who does it pretty well:)
camilla sorenson i think

here's one gal who does it pretty well:)
camilla sorenson i thinkI remember Gillian Clark making a comment about one of the Danish women's singles players in the 2004 Uber Cup semi-final and about how her jump smash looked like a men's doubles player's. I seem to think she was talking about Tine Rasmussen but maybe it was Camilla.

In any case, I'm not surprised that timeless has only seen one woman do it. It is very rare. In the Korea Open, the two women's doubles pairs from Indonesia, Novita/Polii and Nurlita/Poluakan, were really getting noticed because they were jumping for most of their smashes. All four of them are tiny, though, so they really had to to avoid just driving. I think one of the singles players from Hong Kong, Malaysia or Taiwan was jumping, too. I think Julia Wong or Pai Min Je or Yip Pui Yin.

Anyway, that is straying from the spirit, if not literally from the title, of the thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1H705GhCLc

I've seen Kathleen Lougheed here in Calgary unload a pretty good jump smash.

Kusumastuti made some jump smashes during the Dutch Open 2008 vs Shizuka.

Well.... I have yet to see any female players who do jump-smash... I barely do jump-smash anyway because I do not really require that extra height...

there are plenty of girls around that can jump smash that I know of~...dunno why lot of you seem to find it super suprising that a girl can jump smash..