I feel I have a lot to work on, but where should I start first?

ralphz said:
but i'm not relevant.
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Cheung said:
It’s relevant to your question and understanding because I can individualise the answer better to your understanding.

Statistics are meaningless in the context of local culture and are unnecessary. Badminton is very enjoyable when you visit other countries and play in the local context.
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I've no doubt that badminton is or would be very enjoyable when visiting other countries!!

And I would agree that statistics can have limitations and can become irrelevant. But in this case, the statistics don't claim that badminton is not enjoyable in other countries and neither have I. I agree with you that it is so i'm very confused as to what question you are referring to that you suggest I asked, or what you are trying to demonstrate or why!

All i'm saying is that there's a good badminton culture in the phillipines , and it'd be very possible for him as a D player to find some C players that will play with him sometimes, . I'm sure you'd agree with that!

If you are referring to this statement

ralphz said:
As for finding C players to play with when e is D, I think in a club where players mix, it can be possible to get at least one or two games in an evening, with a player a grade better. And those games can be analysed a lot. So I don't quite understand the not finding any..
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So you might interpret that as me asking a question of why can't he find any.. Well.. look, I know that in some clubs there might not be any. But there's lots of clubs! So yeah I understand the problem can exist of not finding better players.. Some people drive quite a bit for a badminton evening that pushes them. So all i'm saying is it seems like a solvable problem.. Now, one might say, maybe he has found a particular area of the phillipines that by chance happens to have no good badminton players. Or maybe there's only one club in that particular region of the Phillipines that he is in. Well, this would be getting very hypothetical now.
 
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precrime3 said:
Following badminton insight's programs at the moment. They're brain dead easy and effective enough for me. My physical suits badminton (explosive/hard hitter, just heavy) doubles so I've been getting away with just lifting heavy lol.

Wanting to be proactive for my joints and because asia fat shaming starting to get to me hence the cutting phase in Dec/Jan
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Have you looked at the atg program? In my opinion it is the best athletic program on the market. Full body program , amazing for longevity and injury prevention. I highly recommend it for all badminton players
 
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For some reason the korean team wants to spar with me and my coach tomorrow. So looks like we getting rekt tomorrow
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Do you want to get rekt? Are they THAT much better than you are currently?

Take a pen or two and some paper to write down on, put it in your badminton bag. Write down things you did well, and things you didn't do well when you have time between each game or when the day is finished.

Think of it as a flowchart, or problem solving.

"I didn't do this, so this event happened and this outcome happened"
"I played this shot / was late and had to play this shot, then this outcome happened"
"I won this point because this happened"

Make sure you have good sleep tonight. More than once I've gone to bed too late (tired) when I have a match I am nervous about and it shows in my gameplay and ability to read the game etc.
 
Been training in Singapore since Dec 26, Under loh Kean Hean, #1 doubles player in Singapore and yes, brother to LKY.

Just gonna say.... its amazing what 1-2 hours of 1:1 with coaches/players of this caliber can do. I miss training/playing at this level. Really gonna suck when I go back to PH on the 10th.
 
I have been watching some of the footage.

You strike the shuttle much better - however, you will probably find your forehand drive more inconsistent compared to the backhand drive, even though it's improved a lot with the training in Singapore.
 
Cheung said:
I have been watching some of the footage.

You strike the shuttle much better - however, you will probably find your forehand drive more inconsistent compared to the backhand drive, even though it's improved a lot with the training in Singapore.
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Yeah I think it has to do with me still bringing the racket up too slowly on the forehand side. It's easier to get away with that as the action is much smaller on the backhand side so it appears better on that side. I'm also not used to the small explosive action on the forehand side, I think up till now I've been getting away with just swinging really big and me naturally being bigger it having the desired results. But yeah, if I want to elevate to that next level, gotta rework the bad habits.
 
precrime3 said:
November Update
Hey guys. As foretold, I have been getting further away from BC and more into YouTube, IG, and Discord as that seems to be where the communities are growing (I think I have a side goal of being a badminton youtuber lol)

But this is still my home, I know a lot of people read this kind of things, so I always come back :)

October was an interesting month, just a lot of focus on front doubles work. I hosted a discord meetup and found a D/E level partner, and we trained a lot. We just finished the tournament a few days ago, which unfortunately had a lot of smurfs in D (for $$) so we withdrew but our first two matches were pretty level.

Disclaimer about the first match: we were sitting down for 2.5 hours and had no warmup.



Improvements for sure. Am playing flatter, getting more consistent, and have more of a doubles player mindset. But still a long way to go!

I'm writing this late as I am restless and have a lot of thoughts to myself. Am wondering if I'm improving effectively. Am wondering if I'll ever get out of D ranking lol. I wanna be B ranking by end of next year but am not sure if that's possible. For reference, I train 5 days a week, usually 2 hours of 1 on 1 with my coach. on the 5th day will be sparring. Gym I aim to do 2-3 times a week as well.

I think maybe I'm over training, and am forgetting to also enjoy myself. I may pull back from training a bit, and just do queing (sparring) more for these next 2 weeks (have another tournament end of month) which will help with game experience and hopefully let me enjoy the game (rekindle that joy) as I think I'm going through a lull again.
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I realise that it's been a while since this was posted but seeing as I watched it I'll post some feedback anyway.

The main thing that stood out is that your partner here is quite selfish, you continually put them in an attacking position with some good returns off the serve and counterattacking net shots but they don't do the same, they mostly go for attack, flat or lift. This will really unstick you at higher level. You are the stronger one at the back and your partner is weak. I don't think they know what a net shot is. See 17.32 for an example, this is going to kill your rythmn.

Would be having a chat with my partner and pointing this out if you are continuing to play. I think you are ahead of your partner all around and if they can't accept they should setting you up more then you'd do better with someone stronger.

However you also need to block more on smash defence and vary, you almost continually lift back.

Rotation is poor also, see e.g, 5.26 your partner needs to rotate out right probably on the first smash, definitely on the second, look how big a gap got left. You literally need to shout during the rally to switch here so you can move forwards. Conversely 5.45 you unecessarily rotate out.

Also, more minor the first game where your opponents are not attacking the serve, there is never any point varying the serve in this instance, .e.g, 12.12, look how far back they are. If you lose points from a serve error in this game you've not thought about it as there's really no pressure on you. It's a simple percentage shot to the T all game unless they start moving forwards. You really need to think about these things in competitions.
 
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Wow it's been 5 years since I made this training journal. Wonder if I should get back into making updates here? So busy with Tiktok and IG...
 
An occasional update will be nice, however brief, always interesting to follow people's journeys.
 
Hello my long overdue update as usual. For those that have been keeping up with me on my other socials, I am finally living my dream and am training full time in a badminton country (Malaysia!) I have been getting a lot of help from fellow players, coaches, and have started working with a private S&C coach who has really been taking my movement to the next level. If people are interested I'm happy to write up a longer review but essentially I see it as a few distinct stages:

- Acclimization to the volume in Malaysia, and just general improvement due to increased rep count
- Private coaching with the intention of breaking my bad habits and rebuilding (in progress now)
- S&C coach so I'm not just tiring myself out in the gym and actaully working on whatI I think I need (more explosivity, i have maximal strenght but how do I apply it on court)
 
You still have that inefficient habit on the forehand overhead - always dropping the racquet head forward as the first movement
 
Here are a few question:

1. Given that you were at Bangthongroyd for a number of months training most days of the week, what are the bad habits that you have that could have been trained better.

2. Why weren’t they trained better? After all, you invested a considerable amount of time and effort going there.

3. Also, seeing that you also coach in the Philippines, would you modify coaching approach at all in light of your Malaysian experience.
 
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Do you have any competitions or similar where we can see some proper opponents? Tried to look through some match videos but can't comment on games that aren't played at full effort.
 
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