post your wtf moments in badminton

[bigb824]

il start it off

i was going to block a smash and was too slow and it hit me square on my middle finger fist knuckle and went over the net

[Shifty]

i was following a shuttle that was going out on a flick serve, tried to get away from it but landed square on my head. :O

[bigb824]

thats happened to me so many times with reciving long serves :] hehe

[llpjlau]

okay i was having a match against this other guy. and his teammates were encouraging him and cheering him a bit. this lady coach came over and watch the game. i served high and he tried to do a big smash.
he swung really fast and hard i think and he completely missed the shuttle. my serve landed in.
i was in my mind "wtf, nice try but no you dont try to smash me so hard just because people are watching"
btw, he's on the other team. i'm on my team. different colleges.

[Shifty]

one tournament i played in, i was playing this guy. he made four air shots i.e. he missed completely in a row, twice off a serve. he put so much effort into it, but just always missed. the guy umpiring couldn't stop laughing.

when i had to umpire another game, it was mixed. and one guy from my team had this nice forehand serve, a flick, which was really low. won 8 points in a row off it. so, on the 9th serve, he flicks it really low again to the girl. the guy is standing in the other square and cries really loudly "OUT!" it hits him square on the groin. i couldn't breath for the next 10 minutes.

[Mark A]

I went down low to lift a good drop shot by my opponents, but in making the shot I let go of my racket. The rearcourt player, as I knew he would, smashed straight at me... so I kicked the shuttle back for a perfect tight net shot. The coach burst out laughing and commiserated that he couldn't give me the point.:o

There's one guy with whom I play singles who has a killer backhand... except for the time he let go of his racket on a baseline clear. It sailed about 20 feet into the air and hit a basketball backboard overlooking the court. I collapsed and couldn't finish the match.:D

[the_oro]

i was playing mixed and my partner had her racket up infront of me, i served and surely enough, hit her racket...

[Shifty]

i was playing mixed and my partner had her racket up infront of me, i served and surely enough, hit her racket...

isn't that annoying? it really puts me off.

[walkinghome]

Last monday, My father who is 61 moved to execute a power clear and the shuttle got caught between his strings!!, like the way it gets caught in the squares of the net. I've never seen that before and neither the opponents.

This is only probable with his Prince racquet because it is one of those diamond shaped head ones with the strings quite far apart (there are fewer lattitude strings than conventional racquets) and his tension is about 17lbs.

It's a strange day to witness someone trying to dislodge a shuttle from their racquet and then play on.

[Shifty]

Last monday, My father who is 61 moved to execute a power clear and the shuttle got caught between his strings!!, like the way it gets caught in the squares of the net. I've never seen that before and neither the opponents.

This is only probable with his Prince racquet because it is one of those diamond shaped head ones with the strings quite far apart (there are fewer lattitude strings than conventional racquets) and his tension is about 17lbs.

It's a strange day to witness someone trying to dislodge a shuttle from their racquet and then play on.

did the strings snap? i've seen a few people snap there strings by making the shuttle go through the strings

[chessymonkey]

keeping my low profile , action ready position behind my parnter while he is serving,
then i heard it
then i smell it

[xXazn_romeoXx]

keeping my low profile , action ready position behind my parnter while he is serving,
then i heard it
then i smell it


roftl...b'n' d'r' dun'@'..:D:mad::confused:

[Weirds]

when an opponent is going to smash but instead of hitting at the sweet spot, he hits it with the frame and the bird becomes a drop....

[Slicedbanana07]

Witness a drive shot, in which it hit the tape and thinking it was about to roll over, dangles on top of the tape hanging by the edge of the cork.

[wilfredlgf]

What is 'wtf' ?

[Slicedbanana07]

is an acronym for "what the f......" I wont post what the f-word is, but i assume u can deduce what it is...

[winstonchan]

i smashed and the racket head hit my two "jingle bells"... wtf that hurt i couldn't stand up for 5 mins...

[wilfredlgf]

is an acronym for "what the f......" I wont post what the f-word is, but i assume u can deduce what it is...
;)
Don't hurt yourself getting the hook off (refer picture).

[Ramster]

I was rallying with a friend when I hit a powerful drive that went through a hole in the net... But the hole wasnt noticable so everyone was like W>T>F!

[treilanin]

I was playing doubles in my rec club and lifted the birdie over one of my opponents who was out of position. As the birdie went over his head to my utter amazement and disbelief... he called it out. He didn't turn his head or even attempt to look where it was going to land. Of course it plunks down at the back of the doubles service area... and he insisted it was out until his partner said it was in and pointed to where the birdie landed.

I was completely dumbfounded to say the least... there is cheating when a shot is close... then there is cheating when you are watching the birdie... but to cheat when it is so obvious you have no clue where the birdie is.

[TonyWdq]

1. I did a spinning net shot and the bird got caught on the white tape but the other guy thought it went over and dove at the net like a fish

2. In a doubles match I was playing back at the moment and the opponent pushed the shuttle to the back corner. I rushed the process by taking off like a jump smash before I got to the shot. Everything was going well until my swing was almost finished when my partner's head popped up where I was going to strike the bird...

3. After a big rim job, the cork fell off the bird and hit one of the lights hanging off the ceiling. Simultaneously, the power went out throughout the building. I was like WTF?!? Did i do that?

[treilanin]

Oh I remembered a funny shot I had. My opponent dropped the bird and lift hard out of desperation and it hit top of net and bounced slightly upward. At this point I was so sure that it was a point lost and was starting to get disappointed in my play. The net snapped back clipped the head of the bird causing it to tumble over the net.... and then it got stuck in the bottom of the net on my opponent's side.

[biomik]

After losing a rally, I was going to send the shuttle over to my happy smiling opponents, instead my racket slipped from my hands and landed over at their service line while I was still holding shuttle in my left hand :o.

[Mark A]

OK, this has got to be unique:

I was in a MD match recently and one of my opponents went for a smash. His racket disintegrated: he was left holding the handle, and everything from there upwards flew 50 feet across the hall and smashed into a concrete wall near the entrance, narrowly missing his girlfriend.

I've seen some racket destructions in my time, but nothing like this:D.

[MSHSBadmPlayer]

i was following a shuttle that was going out on a flick serve, tried to get away from it but landed square on my head. :O

same for me, but the score was 14-12 with him serving... so, it was like wtf, i gave him a free point to close the game -_-"

[MSHSBadmPlayer]

i was watching my junior's match against a tough opponent in Singapore Badminton Assiociation.
it was a really tough fight and in one rally, my junior was forced to lift the shuttle but alas, the shuttle hit the lights and fell onto the opposite service line!

the umpire was a newbie and didnt see that, and so he asked the linesman whether its in or out. out of confusion, the linesman (a singapore sports school player) said in and the point was awarded to my junior :D

[llpjlau]

i was watching my junior's match against a tough opponent in Singapore Badminton Assiociation.
it was a really tough fight and in one rally, my junior was forced to lift the shuttle but alas, the shuttle hit the lights and fell onto the opposite service line!

the umpire was a newbie and didnt see that, and so he asked the linesman whether its in or out. out of confusion, the linesman (a singapore sports school player) said in and the point was awarded to my junior :D

couldn't his opponent complain?

[PlayaFromMalaya]

i was playing doubles with my friend and with my coach and her assistant today during training..we were having this long rally and my coach made a mistake at the net,the shuttle hit the net and flew up high..i went infront and jumped for an easy kill but completely missed the shuttle..when i landed i swung my racquet in frustration and the shuttle went over the net..i was like..what did i do that? (the ball didnt touch the floor and we were awarded the point)

[george@chongwei]

i was playing a sigles match wif my friends 1day.... we played a very long rally....got net play, got great defending by both of us and attacking very fast..but after almost 2 minutes the rally, my friend drop a drop shot and drop at the upper net and the shuttle drop at my court.... i was very frus trated and wtf....!!....

[george@chongwei]

i was playing a sigles match wif my friends 1day.... we played a very long rally....got net play, got great defending by both of us and attacking very fast..but after almost 2 minutes the rally, my friend drop a drop shot and drop at the upper net and the shuttle drop at my court.... i was very frus trated and wtf....!!....
and its not juz once but i fink more than 10 times.....the very frustrating part was when i leading 22-21 that time but he drop the shuttle at the net and the shuttle landing on my court.....so that was very very frustrating and wtf.....!!.......

[llpjlau]

and its not juz once but i fink more than 10 times.....the very frustrating part was that i leading 22-21 that time but he drop the shuttle at the net and the shuttle landing on my court.....so that was very very frustrating and wtf.....!!.......

he must have really good drops.

[DivingBirdie]

i was watching my junior's match against a tough opponent in Singapore Badminton Assiociation.
it was a really tough fight and in one rally, my junior was forced to lift the shuttle but alas, the shuttle hit the lights and fell onto the opposite service line!

the umpire was a newbie and didnt see that, and so he asked the linesman whether its in or out. out of confusion, the linesman (a singapore sports school player) said in and the point was awarded to my junior :D


L-O-L:crying:and it's a SSS player too...but well actually a line judge doesn't need to care if the shuttle hit the lights does he? if there's anyone to blame it'd be the umpire:p

[molohov]

i hope this one rattles you guys!

playing doubles. i think the other side was fooling around and they were in the mood of hitting the shuttle with the handle. (okay, w/e)

so i serve. i did somewhat of a drive serve (probably illegal) and it didn't go into the right court....so in my mind i was like "damn". but THEN the guy on the other side proceeded to hit the shuttle with his HANDLE and it hit the net. his partner, needless to say, couldn't look at him after that.

[molohov]

OK, this has got to be unique:

I was in a MD match recently and one of my opponents went for a smash. His racket disintegrated: he was left holding the handle, and everything from there upwards flew 50 feet across the hall and smashed into a concrete wall near the entrance, narrowly missing his girlfriend.

I've seen some racket destructions in my time, but nothing like this:D.

that's HILAIRIOUS

[skunklover]

someone hit a plasitic, and the cork and skirt seperated, the skirt flew, but the person hit it back, only to have the cork land smack on his head a second later:D

or, i was at the net, and someone hit a drop.it was not very good, and it bounced off my glasses over the net........:D

[jerby]

I decapitated a feather shuttle...I jumped up for a midcourt smash (well, 'hopped up' is what my coach would say ;)) and I really hit it down (and fast)...
but it felt so weird, I look down: All 16 feather where still joint together and hit the floor (they had some speed as well) but the cork had dissapeared :o

I've seen it happen with plastics, but feathers....

[Shifty]

my friend was warming up for a game. played a netshot, and his partner lifted it to the back. he runs back to get it, back facing towards the net, and hits the shuttle between his legs, with decent pace. and the shuttle flew and hit smack bang on the umpire's head, who had been sitting there waiting for the warmups to finish.

[MSHSBadmPlayer]

couldn't his opponent complain?

he was stupid enough not to :D:D:D

[MSHSBadmPlayer]

i was playing a sigles match wif my friends 1day.... we played a very long rally....got net play, got great defending by both of us and attacking very fast..but after almost 2 minutes the rally, my friend drop a drop shot and drop at the upper net and the shuttle drop at my court.... i was very frus trated and wtf....!!....
and its not juz once but i fink more than 10 times.....the very frustrating part was when i leading 22-21 that time but he drop the shuttle at the net and the shuttle landing on my court.....so that was very very frustrating and wtf.....!!.......

more than 10 rallys over 2 minutes? you must be better than lin dan, taufik, peter gade... :D:D:D

[elerosse]

i said to my partner don't hit me in the head when you smash! And when he got a smash ...I got smashed in the ear.

[llpjlau]

once i was going for a mid court shot down the middle of the court. the shuttle was just slightly above and behind my partner's head. i took a huge swing and i missed the shutte and got my partner right on the head. hope it didnt hurt that much.
this was like 5+ years ago

[giant_q_tip]

opponent cleared the ball, it was out and i didnt realize it. i was like two huge steps outside the court lol, i was like wtf?! what am i doing out here, and i hit the ball too with a dropshot >.>

[george@chongwei]

more than 10 rallys over 2 minutes? you must be better than lin dan, taufik, peter gade... :D:D:D
not 10 rallys over 2 minutes lah....i was saying that more than 10 times my friend drop a drop shot and drop at the upper net and the shuttle drop at my court.... in that match....

[jhirata]

I was playing doubles without keeping the score, and I accidentally smashed too high and hit the opponent's head. Then that person got a little bit mad, and did a high serve, and my partner smashed him in the nuts.. so he then decided to serve to me, and I smashed him in the nuts again. That person's defence was very poor lol.

[george@chongwei]

I was playing doubles without keeping the score, and I accidentally smashed too high and hit the opponent's head. Then that person got a little bit mad, and did a high serve, and my partner smashed him in the nuts.. so he then decided to serve to me, and I smashed him in the nuts again. That person's defence was very poor lol.
the person must be badly injured after the match??:confused::rolleyes::p:D
he must be regret for playing badminton...:D:p:)

[llpjlau]

I was playing doubles without keeping the score, and I accidentally smashed too high and hit the opponent's head. Then that person got a little bit mad, and did a high serve, and my partner smashed him in the nuts.. so he then decided to serve to me, and I smashed him in the nuts again. That person's defence was very poor lol.

i'm suspecting that it did not literally happen. i may be wrong though.

[jhirata]

i'm suspecting that it did not literally happen. i may be wrong though.
It did actually happen, and everyone was laughing at him, even his father. I feel sorry for him though.

[llpjlau]

awfully accurate.

[Oldhand]

I was playing doubles without keeping the score, and I accidentally smashed too high and hit the opponent's head. Then that person got a little bit mad, and did a high serve, and my partner smashed him in the nuts.. so he then decided to serve to me, and I smashed him in the nuts again. That person's defence was very poor lol.

Your partner and you are, um, very dangerous people :eek:

[Oldhand]

the person must be badly injured after the match??:confused::rolleyes::p:D
he must be regret for playing badminton...:D:p:)

he must be nuts! :D

[jhirata]

Your partner and you are, um, very dangerous people :eek:An incident like that only happened once, so it might have just been his bad day.
Ohh and we're even more dangerous with a slippery grip.:o

[Capnx]

i forget what shot we were defending, but I saw the opponent come to net and thought he was going to do a net shot.

So i moved forward, but the guy did a lift, so i moved back as fast as i could to the back court, stop my backward momentum, and do a clear. but for wutever reason, i couldn't stop backward momentum enough and tripped myself and lost a shoe. lol

[chrishin]

losing 15-1 and 15 -5 today...
excuse: none even though i wanna say some... but what' the use... i don't lose this bad even when i play in regional...

[jhirata]

Here's another 'wtf' moment, which happened just last night.
I was practising with my friend, and he did a disceptive shot ( Peter Gade's so called "Trade Mark-shot" ) at me.

Here's Peter Gade doing it to Shoji Sato from Japan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0X-sdwgXz4
I lunged forward anticipating a netdrop, then I suddenly realised that the shuttle was far behind me, making me do a back-hand clear which I'm not really good at.
He did that to me about 5 times, and everybody was laughing, including myself. Then as I was anticipating the same shot again, I went back and then he did a netdrop and I tripped over. Very embarassing!! :S

[Hierkommtnils]

My WTF moment:

I was running to the back to get a clear, when I recognized that the ball will go out. So I don´t wanted to hit the ball a stand there waiting and then the shuttle lands excatly at the top of my right shoe... :mad:

[BadJY]

Lol, this is mine:
I was on the last court in the gym and on the side facing the basketball net. I smashed and half-way through the movement my racquet flies out of my hand and lands/gets stuck in the basketball net. WTF?

[wun.sun]

Not sure if this is really a WTF moment...

I was playing in a tournament, in a white gym, with white ceilings, white walls, white floors, and pale yellow lines. And we played with feather birds, which are obviously white. As we were playing mixed, I was at the back, and my partner played a net shot that forced them to lift. Unfortunately I lost sight of the bird. As I am spinning around the court, and eventually facing backward, I yelled out "WHERE IS IT...", really loudly - it was semis or quarters...

My partner then yelled "its out"

Quite embarrassing from my point of view.

[Oldhand]

I was playing in a tournament, in a white gym, with white ceilings, white walls, white floors, and pale yellow lines. And we played with feather birds, which are obviously white.

sure sounds like a tournament in heaven :rolleyes:

i wonder if the players too were white?
and perhaps, they were all wearing white shorts, white socks, white tops and white shoes and using white racquets (Wilson) with white strings? :D

that would be quite a white sight :p

[Oldhand]

My WTF moment:

I was running to the back to get a clear, when I recognized that the ball will go out. So I don´t wanted to hit the ball a stand there waiting and then the shuttle lands excatly at the top of my right shoe... :mad:

surely a WTF moment :D

[kinoko]

played against this lady once... it was only a friendly game within clubs... she lost the game and her head followed... completely.. she is known for her temper but heck.. in my case she was so.. uhmm well.. out of it... took off her shirt and scream the **** out.. not the prettiest view seeing dried prune T_T

[the_oro]

My WTF moment:

I was running to the back to get a clear, when I recognized that the ball will go out. So I don´t wanted to hit the ball a stand there waiting and then the shuttle lands excatly at the top of my right shoe... :mad:

haha just about the same thing happened to me, except the shuttle skimmed down my racket (which i was holding vertically)

[gingerphil79]

Was going for a shuttle which was close to the back line & realised that it was going out so i decided nt to hit it, it then landed on my back, a bit embarrassing lol :confused:

[llpjlau]

its always embarrassing when you're trying to leave a shuttle but it hits you instead. i think pros will almost kill themselves if it happens to them.

[AndyL]

My WTF moment:

my opponent hit a high drop, which I was ready for smash at his face. Which it misses his face, landed on his chest which bounced back over net as a net drop shot. The whole thing happen like in a second. I didnt think even had the chance to react. The guy was shocked too. I am not sure he was dumb or not didnt even bother to go down for cover.... I was thinking should I said sorry or good shot. Anyways I give him the point and move on with the game.

[Ayame]

1.) Me and my partner were playing a mixed match. The weather outside that night was very stormy, and the lights were ocassionally going out at home, but for some reason I thought that it wouldn't happen at the gym. Lots of tension was being built up during this one rally. My partner was getting all the shots and smashing like crazy and I felt pretty bad because he was doing most of the work. So I decided that I would try ending the rally in one back hand smash. When I get the perfect oppurtunity, I turned around and the second before I smashed, the lights went out (how convinient). We heard a huge wack, and I had the feeling that I had hit something other than the shuttle. The lights went back on and my partner had a red mark right under his left eye. Needless to say, I ended the rally.

2.) This was during a friendly single's game. We were near the end of the match and I hit the shuttle, when I realised that the skirt had flew off (pesky plastic >_<) the cork went flying at a window near the back of the gym and the person standing behind it was pretty shaken. (perhaps he'd forgotten that there was a window, because he covered his head.)

[maron]

i was playing mixed and my partner had her racket up infront of me, i served and surely enough, hit her racket...

It's better than hitting her back head~!
I'm the female player and I used to stand in front of my partner.
There were some occasions when my partner tries to smash and the bird hits my back head directly! :D My partner is notorious for his powerful smash and when I get attacked it really hurts!!

[Shifty]

My WTF moment:

my opponent hit a high drop, which I was ready for smash at his face. Which it misses his face, landed on his chest which bounced back over net as a net drop shot. The whole thing happen like in a second. I didnt think even had the chance to react. The guy was shocked too. I am not sure he was dumb or not didnt even bother to go down for cover.... I was thinking should I said sorry or good shot. Anyways I give him the point and move on with the game.

why'd you give him the point? the shuttle hitting anything other than the racquet it a fault...

[Smichz]

i was following a shuttle that was going out on a flick serve, tried to get away from it but landed square on my head. :O

Darn...that must be hurts alot..:eek:

[Smichz]

played against this lady once... it was only a friendly game within clubs... she lost the game and her head followed... completely.. she is known for her temper but heck.. in my case she was so.. uhmm well.. out of it... took off her shirt and scream the **** out.. not the prettiest view seeing dried prune T_T

WT??Then that moment might be ur WTF moment:eek::eek::D:D??