IM IN LEAGUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lol, I was expected to go anyways. Well me and my partner from last year have gotten back together to try and get to CCS. Anyways, our school has done very well during league in boys doubles, and everything else (2nd place overall). So we got spots for league and I decided to go with doubles.

Me and my partner (He played #2 this year) have only played twice this entire season (against our #1 doubles). The first time we lost 17-21 playing a JV match (came back from 2-15 lol). I noticed that we had issues in our rotation and my placement. I talked to my partner about this and we sorted out our issues as best we could in an hour. The next time we played them we played a varisty match (out of 3 sets). Lost 18-17, won 15-9, won 15-10. We had a little better rotation and my placements were much better.

Here comes my problem, we have 1 Day (2 hour practice) on Monday before we go to league finals. I would really like to improve our rotation and my partner's drives (his drives are slow :mad: ) mostly. He is about 6-1 ft which gives him good angle. Anyone know of any drills or things that we should do to prepare for our finals that would specifically help rotation and drives? Keep in mind that we have 2 hours tho.

Ill keep a log on our league final results. I hope we make it to CCS (Need #1 place to do so). :D

Here comes my problem, we have 1 Day (2 hour practice) on Monday before we go to league finals. I would really like to improve our rotation and my partner's drives (his drives are slow :mad: ) mostly. He is about 6-1 ft which gives him good angle. Anyone know of any drills or things that we should do to prepare for our finals that would specifically help rotation and drives? Keep in mind that we have 2 hours tho.


Just practice the rotation and jot down every basic situation so you know where to go, like if you're at the net on the right side of the court lobbing you should know who goes to what square and so forth...

Drives? Spend 20 mins driving the shuttle. It'll be good enough I reckon. The communication / rotation is more important though, so spend roughly 45 mins to an hour on it!

aiyah im doing league finals also!!! Im currently a freshman and doing number 1 mens doubles at my school. Im planning to do the CCS thing with number 1 mens singles on my team. Hope i get to see you sometime! (btw i go to Gilroy High School)

hehe same with us. Mondays our last practice before league finals. Good luck. Whats your schools name btw? Maybe ill be playing you! ;)

NOBODY POST ANY TIPS! LOL JK!

Hey i read from your other posts that you have an mp44. The number 1 singles guy from Leigh High School also uses an mp44 with a smile face on it.......Can this person possibly be you?

Hey i read from your other posts that you have an mp44. The number 1 singles guy from Leigh High School also uses an mp44 with a smile face on it.......Can this person possibly be you?

LOL, nice try tho. Lots of singles players in the league have mp44's if u look closely. Just found out who we are playing against........... and their the only ones who i thought could give us problems :crying: . And to make things worst, my partner is taking an Ap test on monday so he will miss a good part of practice. :mad:

Just practice the rotation and jot down every basic situation so you know where to go, like if you're at the net on the right side of the court lobbing you should know who goes to what square and so forth...

Drives? Spend 20 mins driving the shuttle. It'll be good enough I reckon. The communication / rotation is more important though, so spend roughly 45 mins to an hour on it!

What kind of rotation situtations should we practice? The only one i can think of right now is after the serve.

What kind of rotation situtations should we practice? The only one i can think of right now is after the serve.

Lets say you are infront diving to retrieve a drop that leaves your back unprotected assuming you guys are in a box formation. Now depending on what you do in this situation, you can either do a couple of things :
1)Do a lift a long deep lift and that gives you time to go back to your position in the box formation,
2) Do a straight netshot (not crosscourt) and if that is so, your teammate should be somewhere in the middle ready to smash any lifts and you should be moving towards the front middle to do a front back just so you can retrieve more his netshots and pounce any mishits
3) Do a crosscourt and go to the middle and wait your teammate should be around the middlish area if I'm not mistaken so he can catch lifts.

This is just one example of the situation. Others include like if the opponent does a flick serve to you, and you move back to retrieve it, where is your partner supposed to move / stand. That kinda thing. Oh yea, if your partner goes in front, you should be in the middle to back area of his side of the court not too much on his side but leaning towards it to catch any high lifts they might try to put on you. Your partner should get all the front stuff if he's infront and you all the back stuff.

Do the opposite for you also.
Remember to clear the shuttle if you guys want to get back into position of defending instead of attacking.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

good luck man!
I hope you win everything!


IM IN LEAGUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lol, I was expected to go anyways. Well me and my partner from last year have gotten back together to try and get to CCS. Anyways, our school has done very well during league in boys doubles, and everything else (2nd place overall). So we got spots for league and I decided to go with doubles.

Me and my partner (He played #2 this year) have only played twice this entire season (against our #1 doubles). The first time we lost 17-21 playing a JV match (came back from 2-15 lol). I noticed that we had issues in our rotation and my placement. I talked to my partner about this and we sorted out our issues as best we could in an hour. The next time we played them we played a varisty match (out of 3 sets). Lost 18-17, won 15-9, won 15-10. We had a little better rotation and my placements were much better.

Here comes my problem, we have 1 Day (2 hour practice) on Monday before we go to league finals. I would really like to improve our rotation and my partner's drives (his drives are slow :mad: ) mostly. He is about 6-1 ft which gives him good angle. Anyone know of any drills or things that we should do to prepare for our finals that would specifically help rotation and drives? Keep in mind that we have 2 hours tho.

Ill keep a log on our league final results. I hope we make it to CCS (Need #1 place to do so). :D

where is league C's league finals at?
League B's is at westmont. Not the greatest courts...:(

Gilroys in the C league so i would also like to know where the league finals are.

good luck man!
I hope you win everything!

Thx man :D


C divs finals is held at live oak this year.... the one school with the REALLY dusty gym. :crying: I wish they would have held it somewhere closer to the other schools....

awww live oak.....the dark and creepy gym.....thats ok cause thats extremely close to gilroy. you still havent told me what school you go to.........

no i dont think live oak can beat the ultimately dusty courts at westmont...
why are we having league finals there?!??! and yeh now i only have one more day to train for it :eek:

OK EVERYONE TELL WHAT SCHOOL YOURE FROM. Today was the first day of league finals. It went pretty well for me and my partner. We only lost once to james lick so we went to the losers bracket. From there, were climbing up so we might still be in the game! ^_^

ps. post what school youre from and what you playing (eg.mens double-gilroy high school)

OK EVERYONE TELL WHAT SCHOOL YOURE FROM. Today was the first day of league finals. It went pretty well for me and my partner. We only lost once to james lick so we went to the losers bracket. From there, were climbing up so we might still be in the game! ^_^

ps. post what school youre from and what you playing (eg.mens double-gilroy high school)

I think I know who you are.... Your playing with that cocky mofo.... We will be playing you tom in the quarter finals. Hes a quick log of my matches today!!!

Game 1: Wow, they sucked. lmao. We played in the mini gym with white walls so my partner was blind. 15-2, 15-10.

Game 2: We played in the gym again. Playing against 2nd seed. I believe they had illegal serves, lifting their backhand serve right before they serve. I will definitly call a serve judge if we play them again. We lost this one pretty bad. I kept on hitting into the net and they would smash EVERYTHING, and to make things worst, my partner was blind in that gym, so no smashes were stoped.

Game 3: Another easy win. They had some funky serve. The guy is like staring at some random place and serves. But we overcame that and kept them under 5 points each game.

Game 4: One of the worst teams ever. I was very lazy, so I cross droped everything. They never expected any of the drops lol. Kept them under 4 points each game.

Game 5: We played against our own team. They were seeded #1, but we managed to beat them in 3rd set. I wasn't trying so hard in this match, since their my friends. :crying:

Well, we are in the quarter finals now. I am pretty confident that we will make it past gilroy. I don't think we will make it past semis tho. Wish me luck, I think this is the first time a doubles team that our school has gone this far. :D

you still havent told me what your school youre from.............................................. ...................

are u from james lick? cause at the end mens doubles from the same school were going against each other.....it was an intense match

[edit] wait i think youre from pioneer. You beat down your own number 1 doubles from your own school. the last match the number 1 guy with glasses dove, hit it up, then someone on ur side smashed it and u guys won. Ill look for you tomorrow i guess.....

quick question before league finals.
when playing doubles should u ever clear if it can be avioded?
if so when?

quick question before league finals.
when playing doubles should u ever clear if it can be avioded?
if so when?

Uh, i only clear if the oponents play front and back to make them run around and set my partner up for a smash.

Uh, i only clear if the oponents play front and back to make them run around and set my partner up for a smash.

i see..
how'd u do at league finals?

Kevin lost. puahahah. Sucker. he got fourth place though and didn't win against Gilroy as he expected to. xD i'm so amused that you guys actually signed up for a badminton forum online. Hardcore Hardcore.

In any case, league finals at Live Oak was sooo much fun. Wooot. can't wait until next year.

GOOD GAME KEVIN!!!!! . I know who you are. You played with the number 2 mens double guy. my cocky mofo-en partner and i got to semi finals and played against james lick again and lost again (-_-) we got third place. Couldnt beat those damn jame lick guys.............................................. ................pisses me off how good they are...so james lick took up both number 1 AND number 2 places....

POST WHAT SCHOOL YOU GO TO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(vietdragon,and thevooster)

I go to Pioneer. (mixed doubles. woot)

It pisses you off how good they are? Hahaha. They were soooo good. I was watching their match and I was about to pee my pants. xD

Booo..hey arthur..u lost?!...how can u?..lol..jk...wow..u guys are seriously all hardcore badminton plears :D

i go to Leland
boys doubles for league finals
played singles for regular season
1st day at league finals was fun and went ok
1st game won against Overfelt#1
2nd game lost to mitty#1... theyre undefeated but those guys are really nice
3rd game won against YB#1
4th game won agaisnt Westmont#1

glad we made it this far but soo close to CCS!
3 more games to win and we're in

lol i was playing WITH them and i was about to pee my pants XD jk. they were insanely good tho. blahblahblah

btw vooster you and ur partner played very well

i go to Leland
boys doubles for league finals
played singles for regular season
1st day at league finals was fun and went ok
1st game won against Overfelt#1
2nd game lost to mitty#1... theyre undefeated but those guys are really nice
3rd game won against YB#1
4th game won agaisnt Westmont#1

glad we made it this far but soo close to CCS!
3 more games to win and we're in

are you sure youre in the C division? Ive never heard of any of those schools including urs (LeLand?!?!?!?!)

Leland is B division. haha. And no, I'm not a guy. But the guy you ARE thinking of (whose brother is a coach) is my mixed partner. You're pretty good for a freshman. :P

Leland is B division. haha. And no, I'm not a guy. But the guy you ARE thinking of (whose brother is a coach) is my mixed partner. You're pretty good for a freshman. :P

dang it i tried to fix my post before anyone(such as you) read it lol

Heee. Too fast for yooouuuu. (wow totally off topic) My partner and i didnt play as well as we couldve. that gym sucked.

Next up: CCS. Ohhhh baby.

Heee. Too fast for yooouuuu. (wow totally off topic) My partner and i didnt play as well as we couldve. that gym sucked.

Next up: CCS. Ohhhh baby.

hmm.........your coach will let you guys go watch CCS? so far away!!!!:crying:

Hahaha. Of course we're not going to CCS. SJ is. I'm just going to root on Misa (Girls Singles).

oh shoot. You edited your post that previously said "congratzzz." xD but yea, our coach is taking whoever wants to go watch. It starts around four, so we have plenty of time to get there. No need to leave school early. How far is gilroy from monta vista?

Hahaha. Of course we're not going to CCS. SJ is. I'm just going to root on Misa (Girls Singles).

oh shoot. You edited your post that previously said "congratzzz." xD but yea, our coach is taking whoever wants to go watch. It starts around four, so we have plenty of time to get there. No need to leave school early. How far is gilroy from monta vista?

dang it again! youre just too fast for me......
which monte vista are u talking about? there are muchos around
*makes sure i didnt make a mistake this time*:cool:

Monta Vista (ends with an A). Its in Cupertino. 21840 McClellan Road. Are you going? You should go. The matches are insane. Hee, I'm excited.

cupertino??!?!??! i heard from someone that its in sacramento.......heh cupertinos much much closer

What the heck? Sacramento?!? Haha. most ridiculous thing i've ever heard. Doood, BLOSSOM VALLEY = Bay area = CCS = Central COAST Section. i don't think Sac-town is anywhere near the coast. hehehe.

i guess people are lying to me......i should get revenge >=]
anyways when is CCS? tomorrow? friday?

ccs is after leagues...
i think its next fri+sat?

GOOD GAME KEVIN!!!!! . I know who you are. You played with the number 2 mens double guy. my cocky mofo-en partner and i got to semi finals and played against james lick again and lost again (-_-) we got third place. Couldnt beat those damn jame lick guys.............................................. ................pisses me off how good they are...so james lick took up both number 1 AND number 2 places....

POST WHAT SCHOOL YOU GO TO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(vietdragon,and thevooster)

Good game man, you guys kept on dropping to my partner and he wouldn't move lol. Lol your partner got my partner pissed. Well theres always next year, see ya next season.

ps. Is your partner a senior? I know that the both james lick teams were seniors.

ccs is after leagues...
i think its next fri+sat?

Its tues-thurs next week at monte vista.

i go to Leland
boys doubles for league finals
played singles for regular season
1st day at league finals was fun and went ok
1st game won against Overfelt#1
2nd game lost to mitty#1... theyre undefeated but those guys are really nice
3rd game won against YB#1
4th game won agaisnt Westmont#1

glad we made it this far but soo close to CCS!
3 more games to win and we're in

You know a guy named will son at leland? I went to bret harte so i know some people at leland. How did u guys do against evergreen this season?

o/t but There are hot girls at your school :D :p

Leland is B division. haha. And no, I'm not a guy. But the guy you ARE thinking of (whose brother is a coach) is my mixed partner. You're pretty good for a freshman. :P

According to hugh, you are a man. :eek:

Good game man, you guys kept on dropping to my partner and he wouldn't move lol. Lol your partner got my partner pissed. Well theres always next year, see ya next season.

ps. Is your partner a senior? I know that the both james lick teams were seniors.

yah my partners a senior. after he leaves, im gonna be number 1 singles....................

yah my partners a senior. after he leaves, im gonna be number 1 singles....................

Your #2 singles also a senior? =0. I might play singles again next year lol.

Your #2 singles also a senior? =0. I might play singles again next year lol.
yah all three of our varsity mens singles are seniors (-_-) That leaves me and my freshman friends to take over >_<

If you do singles next year I might be playing you again. =]

yah all three of our varsity mens singles are seniors (-_-) That leaves me and my freshman friends to take over >_<

LOL, and i thought our team was gonna blow next year. We loose all our girls singles and our top two girls doubles next year. :crying: I hope the other teams have the same problems.

CCS is may 18th
and yeh leland is in league B

dam i so wish i could go..........................................i wanna see the intense battles and see those james lick guys get beaten >=]

silver creek , andrew hill , independence are gonna own at CCS

silver creek , andrew hill , independence are gonna own at CCS

maybe, you never know what players the other leagues have at CCS

yah all three of our varsity mens singles are seniors (-_-) That leaves me and my freshman friends to take over >_<

lol, and you guys were able to win matches only in boys singles and girls doubles against us this year.

lol, and you guys were able to win matches only in boys singles and girls doubles against us this year.

oh you mean during the school games and not league?

oh you mean during the school games and not league?

ya ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


You planning to practice over the summer? According to my little chat with the lick players and the leigh singles guy, I am a bit behind on my power/skill for the time that I have been playing. Lol, so im probably going to end up doing something over the off season.

yah im planning to go out with my uncle to gyms and play with his PRO friends. Im also thinking about going to live oak during open gym days to practice.

You dorks. :P hokay
1) Hugh is an idiot and doesn't know what he's talking about. he can't even hit the birdie.
2) League Finals matches start 4pm on Wedsnesday at montA vista. Not monte vista. foo.
3) Those james lick doubles guys are all juniors, except for one.

You dorks. :P hokay
1) Hugh is an idiot and doesn't know what he's talking about. he can't even hit the birdie.
2) League Finals matches start 4pm on Wedsnesday at montA vista. Not monte vista. foo.
3) Those james lick doubles guys are all juniors, except for one.

lol way to clear up everything weirdo =P

ooo...three juniors?..u kidding me?..we're gonna die next year...everyone's leaving...bummer....oh yah...when does live oak have an open gym over the summer?

Wow, you guys are willing to practice over summer? xD Hardcore hardcore. I only play during the season. Maybe I should practice during the off season too...hmm. Where is there open gym? Hopefully there's cheap places around here. Too poor. :P

hell yes...i think this year's freshman players are pretty much all badminton fanatics...so i guess off season practice isnt bad...the league A people are probably all in clubs and all that stuff..so compared to them..we're not hardcore =D. But yeah..i heard sjsu is pretty cheap for an open gym...3 dollars i think?..but its toooooooo far from gilroy..X_X

You dorks. :P hokay
1) Hugh is an idiot and doesn't know what he's talking about. he can't even hit the birdie.
2) League Finals matches start 4pm on Wedsnesday at montA vista. Not monte vista. foo.
3) Those james lick doubles guys are all juniors, except for one.

1) Yes he is. But he knows the truth!
2) Calm down, I have crappy spelling.
3) You sure about that? Im pretty sure that 2 of them are at least seniors (The singles guy and the guy with shorter hair on the other pair. :confused:

And I think tuan said he was going to practice with you over the summer. I think Camden is open on fridays. Might be going to those after i return from vietnam with plenty of fake racquets ;) .

3) if we're talking about both boys doubles from james lick, then i'm sure that they're both juniors. I talked to one of their team mates.

4) and i thought tuan said he wasnt going to play badminton ever again. Hmm. 5) Don't you have to pay money to go to those open gyms? Gahhh. Who wants to pay for meee??
6) Sooo kevin. What are you going to buy for me from Vietnam? (Not fake rackets, foo)
7) Its going to rain on CCS. =\

1) Yes he is. But he knows the truth!
2) Calm down, I have crappy spelling.
3) You sure about that? Im pretty sure that 2 of them are at least seniors (The singles guy and the guy with shorter hair on the other pair. :confused:

And I think tuan said he was going to practice with you over the summer. I think Camden is open on fridays. Might be going to those after i return from vietnam with plenty of fake racquets ;) .

lol that singles guy better be a senior. I dont feel much like playing him next year =P

2) League Finals matches start 4pm on Wedsnesday at montA vista. Not monte vista. foo.


whoa...what league do you play in? i play in the ACCAL which goes to NCS and we had monta vista at our league championships...wierd. if they have championships at their school then why do they need to play at our championship? :confused:

whoa...what league do you play in? i play in the ACCAL which goes to NCS and we had monta vista at our league championships...wierd. if they have championships at their school then why do they need to play at our championship? :confused:

I dunno, guess its a nice school? Monta vista is in CCS, why would NCS have their games there?

I dunno, guess its a nice school? Monta vista is in CCS, why would NCS have their games there?

errr. sorry. let me rephrase.

we had our league championships at Kennedy High. Monta Vista played in our championships but not in our season. its kinda wierd tho. i have heard from other people that the only way that monta vista can make it to NCS is to join our league championships.

if they are in CCS then, wow, someone screwed up. i have heard that they were at our championships for a couple years in a row now. :confused:

if someone from my school actually made it to ccs i would probably go but no one did.. anyway when is ccs ? this week?

BHS
winless for the second straight year :cool:

Yeah, CCS is Tuesday through Thursday, I think. Or is it friday? Hmm.

I'm going! (to watch, not to play of course. xD)

did anyone from ur school make ccs?

did anyone from ur school make ccs?

You from branham? lol. Ya, our girls singles made it to CCS.

You from branham? lol. Ya, our girls singles made it to CCS.

yah that was a crazily close game.....:eek:

yeah im from branham... and was it the game between pioneer and live oak girles singles? that was reallyt close and good

Yeah, CCS is Tuesday through Thursday, I think. Or is it friday? Hmm.

I'm going! (to watch, not to play of course. xD)

damn! CCS last hella long if its tuesday thru thursday...NCS is only one day (this saturday) :rolleyes:

yeah im from branham... and was it the game between pioneer and live oak girles singles? that was reallyt close and good

Your school didn't do too bad in finals. Didn't you guys have a mixed that was better than ours?

yeah our mix team of tim and amanda won number 3 behind leigh and san jose..
no one else even got close.. haha
by the way im tim :)
amanda is that tall white girl

eh im from leland too league finals went pretty screw for me, mainly because i played terribly on my consolation game. i also had to deal with the fact that i had only practiced with my new doubles partner for one day (before league finals) but we butchered yerba buena #1 on our first game, and then we went through our inevitable loss against #2 seeded evergreen, and then we went on to lose to overfelt. it was incredibly sad and depressing. anyway. all the #1 and #2's on our varisty went to league finals which is like 10ppl/teams. only our girls doubles 1 and mix 1 made it to ccs. ccs day 1 is over now and i was told that our girls doubles 1 lost their first game but won their second, and our mix lost their first and that's all they played, so they'll both be going bak to monta vista for ccs day 2.

yeah our mix team of tim and amanda won number 3 behind leigh and san jose..
no one else even got close.. haha
by the way im tim :)
amanda is that tall white girl

Remember me? The guy you played against in singles during the season @ pioneer. I said good luck in the bathroom on the second day before I went and lost to gilroy :mad:

Remember me? The guy you played against in singles during the season @ pioneer. I said good luck in the bathroom on the second day before I went and lost to gilroy :mad:


oh yeah hahah i remember you
howd u do in finals
and do u go to any open gyms?

oh yeah hahah i remember you
howd u do in finals
and do u go to any open gyms?

Ah we got 4th place in boys doubles :crying:
I plan on going some where to play over the summer once i return from vietnam.

Ah we got 4th place in boys doubles :crying:
I plan on going some where to play over the summer once i return from vietnam.

u should go to camden.. its not that far

yah the camden center place. A lot of people go play there...its fun

yah the camden center place. A lot of people go play there...its fun

You come up from gilroy to place at camden? :eek:

Im hardcore like that XD

I go to Pioneer. (mixed doubles. woot)

It pisses you off how good they are? Hahaha. They were soooo good. I was watching their match and I was about to pee my pants. xD

I went to CCS to watch and saw the james lick doubles play. You guys are making it sound like they're ultimately good but they were okay... (at least in my view) If they played league finals at league A or B doesnt seem like they wouldve made CCS

I went to CCS to watch and saw the james lick doubles play. You guys are making it sound like they're ultimately good but they were okay... (at least in my view) If they played league finals at league A or B doesnt seem like they wouldve made CCS

yeah.. u guys made it seem liek they were like the best in the world or sometihing..haha they are ok but not great.. i played against during the regluar season and they beat us but it was kidna close i think

I went to CCS to watch and saw the james lick doubles play. You guys are making it sound like they're ultimately good but they were okay... (at least in my view) If they played league finals at league A or B doesnt seem like they wouldve made CCS

I predicted that they would get raped in CCS and i think they did. They aren't very good, just the one of the best in our division.

haha yeh me and my partner medaled bronze in ccs (4rth) it was a good experience because it was my first time at ccs and i actually medaled lol...i REALLY didn't expect anything. But yeh me and my parnter play for carlmont. Anyone remember us? lol

haha yeh me and my partner medaled bronze in ccs (4rth) it was a good experience because it was my first time at ccs and i actually medaled lol...i REALLY didn't expect anything. But yeh me and my parnter play for carlmont. Anyone remember us? lol

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