6-High school (3 years) - Year 1 My attitude had changed. This year is the most crucial year of my life. Not only for badminton but my life as a whole. Between middle school 3rd year and just before I start high school 1st year, I was beginning to wondering about life and death as well as the...

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My weight loss challenge to be 88kg from 109kg I would like to share my weight loss challenge progress with my coaching website members. When I was training seriously, my weight was 78kg (age 17-18), which was the hardest training I was having. My weight became 82kg when I was at university...

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5. Badminton, My Life & My Path - The time in Middle school (3 years age 12-14) - The 3rd Year The coach of the middle school club had to go the national military service at the end of my 3rd year. All the males in Korea had to go to the military service for three years. He really wanted us...

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In the 2nd year of middle school, the training got much harder. A lot of footwork training and multi-shuttlecock training. I did not have any reason or goal in badminton. I just followed the training. This was the year I behaved very lazily and I tried to find all the possible ways to not do...

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Accuracy Beats Power When I see 100 club level badminton players and rising competitive level badminton players, about 80-90 of the players are turning their bodies before they hit clear, drop and smash. It is also the same when they do forehand and backhand drive and net kills. I ask them a...

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There are two different types of badminton children can do. One is take it as recreation/leisure activity and the other one is do it as competitive sports activity. Sometimes children enjoy badminton as a pure leisure activity and later becomes a competitive serious player. I see very often that...

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The middle school I went to had two special sports clubs. One was badminton and the other one was gymnastics. I was too big to do gymnastics and one of my relatives was captain of the badminton club, also as I did a bit of badminton in primary school, I decided to enter the badminton club. In the...

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When I was in primary school, I did martial art's before I did badminton. The name of martial art I did was called “Hap Ki Do” I did it for about 1 year but I had to stop as I broke my shoulder during training. During the 5th and 6th years of primary school, I did enjoy badminton but it was...

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What is the best tactic in Badminton? In my opinion, the best tactic is to be able to select the best shot at each given situation! Every situation is unique and the best shot at each moment is different. For example, my opponent made straight clear to my backhand rear court 10 times. The...

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I am South Korean. I am currently 59 years of age in 2019. I was born in a middle-sized city, Suwon, near the Capital of South Korea. My father was tall, strong and good at sport. My mother really liked sports also. She did swimming, bowling, tennis and badminton (I introduced badminton to her...

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