Type AB blood - badminton champion blood?

[daddxd]

I just read an article about interviewing Li, Yongbo - Chief Coach of China badminton national team. A point he mentioned is quite interesting.

He said, according to the statistics from China team (I guess it may not be very systematic) , many (or most) champions are with type AB blood. Right now there is no further evidence to prove this point, but seems blood type does affect on the natural personal character and psychological quality, which in turn works on person's activities like sports skills/levels, etc.

What is your blood type? Maybe you are potential to be the next champion, amateurish or professional. :) Who knows?　

[Fengwei]

Well, this is surprising! So all badminton players with bloodtype AB would be better? :D I'm O, and I like it. :p

[BorAlex]

I just read an article about interviewing Li, Yongbo - Chief Coach of China badminton national team. A point he mentioned is quite interesting.

He said, according to the statistics from China team (I guess it may not be very systematic) , many (or most) champions are with type AB blood. Right now there is no further evidence to prove this point, but seems blood type does affect on the natural personal character and psychological quality, which in turn works on person's activities like sports skills/levels, etc.

What is your blood type? Maybe you are potential to be the next champion, amateurish or professional. :) Who knows?　
Where it is possible to find this article?

[daddxd]

This article is written in Mandarin. I am not sure if it has other language versions.

BTW, there is a mistake in my post: Li, Yongbo is the General Coach instead of Chief Coach now.

[ionoo]

interesting, I'm AB I guess that might be a possible explanation on why I seem to improve very quickly compared to my teammates...

[Cheung]

I bet you can find champions of any blood type. Interesting hypothesis but..... nah:D

[skunklover]

wow...this seems so bogus....yet its an odd coincidence

[2NDround]

This sound similar:

A long time ago a scientist (cannot remember his name) believe that we can tell whether a person has criminal tendencies by the shape of his skull :eek::D. Judging a person by his blood group must be the top weird idea of this century.

[Gollum]

Without actual data to back it up, this is just a silly rumour. :p

[Loopy]

It reminds me of that guy advocating a specific food diet depending on your blood type...

[Gabriyel]

You might find this funny, but in japan culture, a person's blood type is actually a very important aspect. They seem to think (or maybe it's just for the fun of it, like astrology in North America) that a person's blood type affects his personality. You almost always find a character's blood type in a manga's character's list and description.
With how little we know about genetics, they may be right, and they may be wrong. Statistics are only what the look like: numbers.
Who knows?
Maybe we should start a little investigation. We could try to search for current top player's blood type of all nationalities and see if it is true that there is a strong correlation between results and blood type. Could be a fun fact to prove.

[xXazn_romeoXx]

This sound similar:

A long time ago a scientist (cannot remember his name) believe that we can tell whether a person has criminal tendencies by the shape of his skull :eek::D. Judging a person by his blood group must be the top weird idea of this century.

i'm thinking Franz Gall. you're thinking of Phrenology lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology

[Shiryu]

hum...
so following the same logic, most badminton champions are asian, therefore asian are better at badminton? :D

[Gabriyel]

hum...
so following the same logic, most badminton champions are asian, therefore asian are better at badminton? :D

You might think I'm crazy, but yeah, it may be a good assumption. There is a lot of physical differences between races (Black, white, asian, native american, etc.). For instance, in general, black people have densier bones while asians have the less densier of all (porous is the right term I think). White people are in between if I am not mistaken. Maybe if you add up all the little differences like this one, "asian bodies" actually are in better condition to play badminton, which would give them a little advantage over other races. But hey! Let's not tarnish their glory. If they are that good, I doubt we have to blame genetics. It's because they work extremely hard and because they are always one step ahead of north americans technically that they kick our asses :-)

[extremenanopowe]

interesting observation. My guess is the money. The prize money is not attractive enough. When it reach the amount near to tennis level, we'll see some 'michael jordan' wanna be will be playing badminton. Or 'King James'.

[crashandburn]

interesting observation. My guess is the money. The prize money is not attractive enough. When it reach the amount near to tennis level, we'll see some 'michael jordan' wanna be will be playing badminton. Or 'King James'.

I agree with you, but this can be both good and bad I think.....
Good...more money more people "join in"
Bad.....they might have to change the rules e.g make net as high as valley ball to make it more "equal" esp for those such tall individuals like 7ft people...?!!!:D:D:D:D

Ooooh BTW...yes...I am AB type blood !!! yahoooooo...!!!

[Cheung]

I can tell you that O +ve is by far the most common blood type in Chinese. There are far fewer AB here. In fact, there are so few AB donors in HK, the donors are put on a special registry to be able to contact them in times of need. Many of the AB donors are non chinese.

[2NDround]

i'm thinking Franz Gall. you're thinking of Phrenology lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology


Yes, that's correct :)

[Gabriyel]

I can tell you that O +ve is by far the most common blood type in Chinese. There are far fewer AB here. In fact, there are so few AB donors in HK, the donors are put on a special registry to be able to contact them in times of need. Many of the AB donors are non chinese.

That's strange...Why would they need AB donors? Type AB blood can only be given to people with AB blood. If most chinese have type O blood like you say, hospitals should have no problem at all finding compatible donors since type O blood can be given to anyone (as long as you respect positive-negative matching). AB+'s are universal takers and O-'s are universal givers; simple as that.

[azabaz_ipoh]

You might think I'm crazy, but yeah, it may be a good assumption. There is a lot of physical differences between races (Black, white, asian, native american, etc.). For instance, in general, black people have densier bones while asians have the less densier of all (porous is the right term I think). White people are in between if I am not mistaken. Maybe if you add up all the little differences like this one, "asian bodies" actually are in better condition to play badminton, which would give them a little advantage over other races. But hey! Let's not tarnish their glory. If they are that good, I doubt we have to blame genetics. It's because they work extremely hard and because they are always one step ahead of north americans technically that they kick our asses :-)

i think so too. some bodies are better at certain sports. why are african runners very good at marathon. skinny body but very resilient. and asians on the other hand are good at certain sports like badminton, field hockey and some other sport where height does not play too big a part. yes, there are always europeans who are good at sports that asians dominate and there are asians who could compete on the same level in sports dominated by europeans. but i think body type plays a part in whatever sports we play, whether height is important, or low gravity point is important, or agility is important, or strength is important, etc. etc....and body type is part of our genetic make up. :D

[ctjcad]

i think so too. some bodies are better at certain sports. why are african runners very good at marathon. skinny body but very resilient.
...
...but also cyclists, such as the ones that raced for miles in the Le Tour de France...:cool:

[Cheung]

That's strange...Why would they need AB donors? Type AB blood can only be given to people with AB blood. If most chinese have type O blood like you say, hospitals should have no problem at all finding compatible donors since type O blood can be given to anyone (as long as you respect positive-negative matching). AB+'s are universal takers and O-'s are universal givers; simple as that.

There are very few rhesus -ve pts in HK.

[azabaz_ipoh]

...but also cyclists. Such as the ones that raced for miles in the Tour De France...:cool:

yeah. and we seldom see african runner type of body in cycling. most of them have very strong lower body. so skinny torso, big thighs. :)

[2NDround]

I do not have any idea what sports African are good at but I know for a fact that they can't swim :eek::D. Take a look at past olympic records. Check how many medals African have won in swimming.

[Gollum]

I do not have any idea what sports African are good at but I know for a fact that they can't swim :eek::D. Take a look at past olympic records. Check how many medals African have won in swimming.

Correlation is not cause. :p

A more accurate conclusion would be that African don't swim, not that they can't.

Similarly: Africans don't win medals in ski-jumping. But you can't deduce from this that Africans can't ski. Perhaps it has something to do with a lack of training environment. ;)

[azabaz_ipoh]

yeah, i agree. except for a few exceptions like the jamaican bobsled team. :D

however i do agree that with the right body type for a sport, anybody can try to master it in training. :)

[2NDround]

Correlation is not cause. :p

A more accurate conclusion would be that African don't swim, not that they can't.

Similarly: Africans don't win medals in ski-jumping. But you can't deduce from this that Africans can't ski. Perhaps it has something to do with a lack of training environment. ;)

Maybe you are right. But then again maybe not :). You don't see any Black American swimmers either. They certainly are not lacking in any training environment. Perhaps we can conclude they just don't like swimming :D.

[Gollum]

Perhaps we can conclude they just don't like swimming :D.

Something like that.

There's often a cultural element. For example, black children in the UK -- especially boys -- perform very poorly at school (taken as a group).

They also have low expectations. Hardly any black men apply to Oxford, for example.

This isn't because they are stupid (despite the feckless assertions of a certain scientist, who seems to enjoy courting controversy). The Oxford Access Scheme, for example, operates partly in order to make bright black students aware that they should consider applying to Oxford. Without being prompted in this way, few -- even the very brightest -- realise that they have the potential.

The Asian population, by contrast, perform considerably better than the white population. This is probably because immigrant Asian cultures usually place a high value on academic success, whereas black cultures place a low value on it.

[Optiblue]

That's strange...Why would they need AB donors? Type AB blood can only be given to people with AB blood. If most chinese have type O blood like you say, hospitals should have no problem at all finding compatible donors since type O blood can be given to anyone (as long as you respect positive-negative matching). AB+'s are universal takers and O-'s are universal givers; simple as that.

Blood transfusion includes more than just red blood cells. There's also plasma, platelets, and other components. You can give an AB person O red cells, but you can't give them O plasma because people with O blood type will have antibodies against the other 3 blood types A, B, and AB. You also can't give an AB person A plasma or B plasma because those also contain antibodies. Only AB plasma can go to an AB patient.

As for any correlation to performance and personalities based on blood types, who knows... I guess I'm one of the outliers to the asian population by being type A+ :p And maybe because I lack the B part, maybe that's what's holding me back from going pro!

[azabaz_ipoh]

Maybe you are right. But then again maybe not :). You don't see any Black American swimmers either. They certainly are not lacking in any training environment. Perhaps we can conclude they just don't like swimming :D.

there are black american swimmers. check this out :

http://www.usaswimming.org/usasweb/DesktopModules/BioViewManaged.aspx?personid=51c2fb07-a280-4c57-8196-9e874d4f690d&TabId=388&Mid=597

i think it is merely that they are more interested in playing basketball during their childhood, much like brazilian kids and football, that only a few wants to take up swimming seriously. :)

[sifuyono]

i think B type as a Badminton...

[BorAlex]

I agree. I am B type.:D