Bbn
Regular Member
Baddy Fan said:IMHO the analogy with cycling and running is spurious. Perhaps it may be analogous if the races where best of 3. Badminton is a game where a couple of unforced errors can make a big difference. Whilst I didn't watch the match, winning the second set by a small margin of 15-12 is really taking it to the edge in terms of risk. Yes, you can have a strategy of tiring out your opponent but that is far different from giving up a set to do that. I watched the AE2004 final as a friend in Malaysia sent me a video of it. Unfortunately, the latter part of the first set was not shown due to intermission for berita (news)! However, watching the first part of the first set, it simply wasn't obvious to me that Lin Dan wasn't giving his best. In fact, the commentator mentioned afterwards that Lin Dan lost the first set due to too many unforced errors (hitting the shuttle out). To me a more plausible explanation is that Lin Dan took a while to really get into his rhythm and stride. He hardly made any unforced errors in the 2nd and 3rd sets.
Spurious, whatever. This are coaching tips fro ex-World Champions
and national coaches.
Try asking a few really famous players and coaches and see if it is "spurious".