Hey there everyone! I'm Amante Reale from Malta. I'm 20 years old (21 next week ). I played badminton for two years when I was 12 or so... and I was pretty good. Then I stopped for some reason which I can't remember and I missed it. But I never knew how much I missed it until my gf told me we should pick up a sport. I immediately told her "hey! how bout badminton? It rockz". When I went to practice, the coach put us with a group of kids not older than 14 -- which kinda sucks -- but you know, I need some running in and my gf is still a beginner. Soon as I picked up a racquet and started working with the shuttle-cock I realized what I loved about the sport. I know I won't put it down easily now that I've rediscovered the joy of it all. The problem is I have training once a week and there's nothing like a casual place to train badminton when you don't have practice in this god forsaken island... so I have to train with a wall between sessions. :/ *sigh* Glad to have found this community. See ya'll on the forums! m4nti
Welcome to BadmintonForum, m4nti ... Malta? Some member here (Marky) posted a picture of Malta when he went there for holidays. Glad to have an actual Maltese on board. -dave
and i'm glad to see i'm welcome. here are some pics i took of our previous capital city (the one we had during the reign of the knights of st.john ~ 500 years ago): Mdina. Now it is just a silent city (unless it's buzzing with tourists that is hehe). http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v667/master_amante/007.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v667/master_amante/006.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v667/master_amante/005.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v667/master_amante/004.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v667/master_amante/003.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v667/master_amante/002.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v667/master_amante/001.jpg
Nice pics, m4nti ... Marky posted one picture on this thread: http://www.badmintoncentral.com/vb/showthread.php?t=15167 -dave