Hi I´m a girl from Iceland who´s just got back into badminton a year ago after a few years stop during university. I played for 11 years in my hometowns club but then I went to uni to study engineering and didn´t have much time to play. But now I´m back and playing four times a week with three different groups. I play mixed doubles, doubles and singles. I´ve been following this website for a few months and I think it´s great. SRune
Hi SRune, Glad you enjoy BadmintonForum as much as everybody else. What's the badminton scene like in Iceland? -dave
Hello Srune.. Hope you will enjoy this site as much as us.. feel free at home. Glad to hear that you are back into badminton.
Hi SRune, I nearly stopped playing too during my studies, and though it's hard to catch time up now it's even more pleasure for sure! Keep going and welcome to BF!
Hmm, female, engineer, plays badminton, probably mid twenties, excuse me whilst I build a wall to protect you for all the guys here that probably want to meet you ;P Just kidding, welcome to the forum, it's a great place if you love badminton.
Is'nt it great that the bird flew that far, even to the Land of Ice. Hope it is not just an annual migratory exercise and like SRune, the brid has sunk roots in the almost barren ice. A warm welcome SRune and we look forward to hearing from you more about the Iceland badminton scene.
From what I know, Iceland badminton is quite strong relatively to the size of the country and its isolation... there are probably interesting things to know about the icelandic badminton scene!
Why thank you for your kind remarks, you make a girl blush . Well badminton has been around for quite some time here in Iceland. The club where I play was founded in 1939 and I think it´s one of the oldest. I´m lucky cos I live next to it. It´s 17 courts in two buildings that are built for badminton and not used for anything else. I think seven is right about the strenght of badmintonplayers from Iceland. The girls are ranked 54 and 56 in women single which I think is great for a tiny 250.000 people island in the middle of the Atlantic. Badminton is pretty popular here and people of all ages and levels play. SRune
ahhhhh.............. nothing like that in cambridge... :crying: :crying: :crying: that sounds great...
That's interesting. I remember another BF member, bighook, who mentioned that in winter-ish country, badminton is quite popular, being an indoor sport. Of course, Malaysian, and Indonesian badminton doesn't have any such factor to consider -dave
Is this question serious??? ....... ....... no it can't be! SRune said she has played for 11 years and trains 4 times a week, obviously she plays with feather shuttles! (and if you dought about it, it is written in her profile) By what I heard in this forum, nylon shuttles seem to be very common in North America but I should think everywhere else (including Iceland) most people play with feather shuttles...
Nope I didn't check her profile, it's just the cooler hasn't realised yet that any real badminton player uses feathers
Dedicated 17 court facility with a population of 250k, that's pretty impressive. We only have a couple of facilities that size in the city with a population of 4 mill, sigh. Btw I just reread Red Storm Rising, if you've read it, how accurate do you think it is with the descriptions of the terrain and general descriptions of Iceland?
I wouldn't open up a can of worms (or whoop-ass) with Cooler, if I were you. Here's Cooler in the yonder. -dave
Yawn, been there done that, I'm Australian remember, sharks aren't that uncommon Actually one of the scariest experiences of my life occured just after a report of two people being mauled by a shark. I was examining something under water, very focused, I felt movement through the water behind me so I looked back thinking it was someone else dropping in, out of the corner of my eye I caught sight of a fin and then it bumped my leg .... It was a friggin dolphin! Tell you what though, my dry suit wasn't dry after that
