The 65th All Japan Badminton Championship

[suetyan]

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Thanks for the Finals Results suetyan.

I pleased that Misaki Matsutomo/Ayaka Takahashi have won the WD title.

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yes. And Nozomi Okuhara is the youngest WS champion (16 years old). She breaks the record of Aiko Miyamura who won the WS champion at the age of 18.

[suetyan]

i will post the final photos tomorrow. But before that, let us take a look at this photo of Nozomi Okuhara. The trophy is too big for a 16 years old girl! haha

[chris-ccc]

i will post the final photos tomorrow. But before that, let us take a look at this photo of Nozomi Okuhara. The trophy is too big for a 16 years old girl! haha

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Hahaha...... That's sure a BIG trophy for her to handle.

I bet the tournament organisers never expected a 16-year old to win that trophy.
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[suetyan]

Final - 11 Dec 2011

[Toastie]

nice phots,
just wondered: why do the players have numbers on their shirts/shorts (Tago is number 3, Sasaki 18)?

[extremenanopowe]

Their days are numbered man.... or... big brother watching... or.. them number makes them go ummm....

man... the trophy is like an anchor... thieves can't steal it. Talking about 'kiasuism...' lol.

[madbad]

i will post the final photos tomorrow. But before that, let us take a look at this photo of Nozomi Okuhara. The trophy is too big for a 16 years old girl! haha

Hehe, what a cute pic. Like a little girl with an oversized Christmas present.

[madbad]

What an interesting configuration. Like fighting in a Roman Coliseum against lions



The smile that lights up a thousand rooms. What's there not to love about little Noz? Congrats to her; on to bigger and better things.

[Fidget]

What an interesting configuration. Like fighting in a Roman Coliseum against lions...

Maybe a Sumo Wrestling hall?

[madbad]

Maybe a Sumo Wrestling hall?

You may be on to something

[demolidor]

It is the 2nd gymnasium of the Yoyogi National Stadium as used/built for the '64 Olympics for the basketball event and nowadays still used for basketball mostly (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/国立代々木競技....B2.E9.A4.A8_2)


(picture source http://www.obayashi.co.jp/company/re...n/yoyotai.html)

[suetyan]

Here is an article written by Miyuki:

http://www.badzine.net/news/all-japa...n-title/17807/

[phil-mm]

Thanks, suetyan, for all the photo uploads, and for translating the Japanese names.

[phil-mm]

Looks like all the organisers are trying to be the one with the largest trophy size to human size ratio. Nozomi should win, since she is so small, lol.

[phil-mm]

Hardworking BadlandMovie has been terribly busy videocaming these few days.
Since there are too many videos to post, I shall just insert the link to his youtube account:

http://www.youtube.com/user/BadlandMovie/videos

[phil-mm]

What an interesting configuration. Like fighting in a Roman Coliseum against lions

Looks to me like a huge cooking pot containing seaweed jelly topped with Azuki beans.

The smile that lights up a thousand rooms. What's there not to love about little Noz? Congrats to her; on to bigger and better things.

Her opponents certainly weren't smiling as much, lol.
Poor Yuki Fukushima lost to Baby Nozomi yet again this year.
Minatsu received a 9-21 drubbing in the rubber.
And I don't recall Sayaka Sato ever throwing her raquet into the air after a match. (3:22 in the video below)
As for Eriko, she must have run off to hide . Just joking, of course.

[phil-mm]

It is the 2nd gymnasium of the Yoyogi National Stadium as used/built for the '64 Olympics for the basketball event and nowadays still used for basketball mostly (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/国立代々木競技....B2.E9.A4.A8_2)


(picture source http://www.obayashi.co.jp/company/re...n/yoyotai.html)

The architect of this creation, Kenzo Tange, was recently featured in the NHK documentary Begin Japanology on the 26th of May this year:

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/engli...105200600.html

He has other interesting works all over the world.
Here are some of them:











And finally, the former badminton hotel Grand Prince Akasaka.