group Badminton

I got the chance to play badminton twice this week and it feels pretty good. It’s been many months since I’ve played regularly (and even longer before then), so it was nice to get out there and hit the shuttles.

Joseph introduced me to the first group I played with, at Centrepoint Badminton Centre downtown. There’re only six courts there, but as with any badminton group, they always book courts beforehand so playing space was never a problem. It was good playing with that group because I play at a level that’s probably slightly just below the others. In simple terms, I’m not too bad, haha!

I’ve been playing with this group for two weeks in a row now, and one of the guys has even given me some tips. I had no idea he’d be so observant, although it probably wouldn’t take much to see that I struggle like a bear to move on court. He asked me to watch footwork videos on YouTube and told me he’d even train me a little. I’m not sure why I’ve been given ‘special’ attention, but its good help nonetheless, so I’ll take it.



On Tuesday, I received an overdue call from Mr. David, whom I met about a month ago who said he’d call for badminton too. It didn’t take much for me to say yes then since I’m hardly occupied in the evening after work. I don’t have a wife and kids to come home to, hahaha.

This second group I joined for the first time this week’s pretty different from the first. Age-wise, most of them are probably older than my father! They’re all pretty decent players though and some are very committed. I know because something crazy happened that day. We’d barely begun when I played a simple net shot and my opponent who was too far out DIVED for it, slid across the floor, HIT THE UMPIRE CHAIR, which then slid across to the neighbouring court! He failed to receive the shuttle though. Needless to say, he was down for a bit, quite an introduction to the group, no?

I thank God that I’ve found these two groups, because it really works up an awesome sweat, a lot more than I would get jogging on the beach. Its a whole lot more fun too, and it all happened just when I was resigned to not being able to play sports regularly. I was talking to Mr. David, and he said that these days he lacks stamina and that others told him to play something else, but he loves badminton too much to give it up because of the good fun and sweat. Good fun, good people, there isn’t too much else to ask for.