How tall is H CHEN?

[tropicalmouse]

just wondering...

[reaper]

i think he's between 178 and 181 cm

[tropicalmouse]

Ah damn!

this sucks

[reaper]

why?

[tropicalmouse]

Originally posted by reaper
why?

because he's tall... I was thinking he's more around 150cm... he's only 10 cm shorter than me. I have a very poor vertical, and I was hoping I wouldn't have to jump high in order to be effective (because of my height).

Please, refer to the image I made for you... and yes, copyright laws do apply here...

[reaper]

if Chen was 150 cm, that'd be pretty short for an elite male badminton player, I can't think of anyone out there that is that short in height that plays elite right now .... the shortest male elite player I can think of is Trikus Aryanto (I think he's 168 cm), well whether or not Trikus is still elite is widely open to debate, lol

[SmashingBird]

unless you are actually planning to play Chen Hong and win. I don't see how Chen's height will affect you.

[Pecheur]

Originally posted by reaper
well whether or not Trikus is still elite is widely open to debate, lol

Hey I'd be perfectly happy to be Trikus' level ;P

[reaper]

LOL, well of course for people like us, he's an Olympic silver medallist if I recall ..... I am only talking about an elite international/professional standard

[bluejeff]

I am pretty sure even if he is 150cm tall, he will still beat me in 10 minutes
Hmmm.....so I wonder who is the shortest pro. player nowadays?

[Neil Nicholls]

Mia Audina ? she looks quite short

[xofrevlis]

Originally posted by tropical mouse:
because he's tall... I was thinking he's more around 150cm... he's only 10 cm shorter than me. I have a very poor vertical, and I was hoping I wouldn't have to jump high in order to be effective (because of my height). Please, refer to the image I made for you... and yes, copyright laws do apply here...

150cms... do you have any idea how short that is? That isn't even 5'0. I did a quick search in google and got his height in a minute. That source said he was 181cms, which is 5'11".

Another quick search got me a source which says that Mia Audina is 161cms, which is a touch over 5'3".

[unregistered]

from the tv hes about 5 cm.... so about 1.5m

[LazyBuddy]

Originally posted by tropicalmouse
I have a very poor vertical, and I was hoping I wouldn't have to jump high in order to be effective (because of my height).

Well, being tall takes advantage in serve and net blocking. However, vertical jump (and leg strength) is not a super hard task to be train. Therefore, just get into enough practice, and you will see ppl will run for lives when smash in the front.

[tropicalmouse]

I got the impression he wans't even as tall as the net...

and the point is to be competeative I'll have to strangthen my legs I guess

[jkusmanto]

There were many short elite players.
Look at : Mia Audina, Susy Susanti, Gong Zhi Chao, Hendrawan, Trikus, Yap Kim Hook, ect.....

[AzNbOi2747]

tall people usually have it easier in badminton and the shorter people tend to work harder IMO