anybody play for a badminton team? i do.

I suck at badminton. I can barely hit the little birdie over the net.
So obviously, I haven't played on a team.

I LOVE badminton. Lots of people think it's lame, but I think it's fun. Our school doesn't have a team, though.

OH SAME HERE. I can play pretty well too. Probably the only sport I'm good at. We don't have a team either. Most of the kids think the game sucks.

We don't have a team here. But that's our next unit in gym. I think it's easier than tennis once you get the birdie over the net... it's easier to keep it going. It's been around for ages. My opa used play it with me and my brother when we were kids. Hah.

i love it toooooo. we have a team for the middle and high. middle school's season is almost at an end, and so far they're undeatable!! i'm in the high, and season starts spring. very exciting. just like any sport, home games and away games. verrry fun. though people think its nerdy. eh, it kinda is. but i don't care, it's fun. and i'm good at it. last year i was second seat doubles. i'm good at drops, and my partner is great at slams, and we have a great way of moving around our side. i take front she does back, or sometimes we go side and side. its so much fun.

i saw people playing it in the filippines. looks hardcore , i remember watching girls in gowns in the old days playing it outside.

i love badminton, but i never tried for the team

nope. we don't really have a team, but we do play it in gym. i think my class is playing it one of these quarters this year. i'm okay. sometimes im good and get the birdie over, sometimes i suck. i have to play it more this year to see how good i am. it is hard though to hit over a little light birdie.

I made the team freshman year. But I quit cause

TENNIS > BADMINTON

And if I played badminton, it would mess up my tennis strokes.

very nice. that's why i quit tennis. and my friend is doing both, thinking it'll make her stronger.

Well from a tennis to badminton perspective, yes, it would probably make her shots faster, such as smashes, but they might be out of bounds. From a badminton to tennis perspective, she'll screw up her wrist.


I LOVE BADMINTON. I went to a camp summer before freshmen year, and I made the team freshmen year, playing doubles and singles. I like doubles better, but I'm apparently better at singles. It was a really fun experience by just meeting new people and improving my game throughout the season. I love the quickness of the game. It is the fastest racket sport. Fast reflexes, yo!

A lot of people I know, especially the non-asians, are like, "Omg. Badminton? That's like not even a sport, and it's so easy!" Yeah, I'm pretty sure I can hit the ball over a tennis net and I can shoot a basketball successfully, but I'm not about to say any of those sports are easy. There's more to a game than meets the eye, so I hate it when people judge badminton like that. Y'all just wait until you play some real badminton players, then we'll see how "easy" it is.

Oh, I have a question. What are some catchy slogans to put on a badminton shirt? It's so difficult to think of a good one. Maybe I'm just not very creative. The other year, we had a shirt that said, "Drop it like it's hot", which was probably the best badminton slogan ever.

i love badminton. it`s fun to play.

I did. I played competative...as in, kinda like the games between national players, but obviously, we weren't as hardcore.

But I sorta quit when came to college, and joined Crew instead.

My brother does.

I would've joined if I had time for it. ;[ Sigh.
I love badminton! It's the only sport I can play/am willing to play.

THANKK YOUU! as for the slogans, i don't really know at this moment, but if i think of some i'll let you know.

badminton's so fun! it's the alternative to tennis. i hate hitting too hard... too bad our school doesn't have a team.

my school starts season in spring

i played varsity my sophmore,junior and senior year of high school

badminton is love

I think Badminton is awesome! Though, I have hardly played it. My cousins introduced me to it. They played it a lot when they lived in Indonesia. So much fun!

not joining the team this year..

truee. but i always get pains because i refuse to correctly hold the racket.

Haha I don't suck that bad, but I do suck
So yeah no. I haven't played on a team :]

we have the best team in our section. too bad its only girls.

but guys tag onto it and play /w the girls.

badminton is one of the most awsome sports out there

i don't like badminton. i prefer big balls

^
lmfao.

are you the type that holds the racket so far down the wrist that it makes you bruise

OUCH.NO.
when i hold it, i keep my pointer finger up. it gives me a bit more power, but hurts in the long run.

QUOTE(ashopely @ Dec 31 2006, 11:58 PM)

when i hold it, i keep my pointer finger up. it gives me a bit more power, but hurts in the long run.

That's.... not good. I did it once when I was a beginner and I like stunned by index finger for a few seconds. I never did it again.

At the end of the season last year, I started to receive pain in the area between my index finger and my thumb. I don't know exactly what it was, but it was a muscle of some sort of another I think? Supposedly, it was because I gripped my racket too tightly. Anyways, I started to pad/wrap my hand, and that really helped. I'm not sure if there's an easy solution like that for you. You kind of just have to change it by yourself, as difficult as that is.

badminton is fun! we played in pe.

haha i remember playing badminton! i dont exactly play it anymore which sucks.

No but in gym class, we'd play against other students. :D.

same here

its a good game although i want to play it at school i'm stuck to volley ball which is a good sport too and i'm getting much better (after four years of playing the sport)...

This game gets me frustrated, I always hit the birdie over the roof.

where do u play? how hard do u hit it?
my timing is always bad to play outside... i play with my brother at the park and when we play its windy so we play with a birdie that has a large "nose" makes it weight more... but when we lose that we both are running all over the place

Same here. It's pretty fun but I always get fustrated.

in the gym at school. or some other school. depending if it's home or away.
and i usually drop it, and my partner slams it. so yeah...

I love to play badminton even if people say its lame :D
It's much less aggressive than tennis. I can't wait to play in PE starting next week.

^ it's actually more strenuous than tennis. If you ever train, you'd know. I have friends who play both tennis and badminton, and they say that badminton is so much tougher.

Badminton is tougher because you get a better cardio workout (running) since it is the fastest racket sport. Tennis is slower, but needs more power behind each swing. So it's a matter of endurance for each. Oh yeah, and badminton has more of a variety of shots, which take a while to master while you can only do basically one type of "shot" with the ball being able to hit the floor and all in tennis. In addition, badminton has a smaller racket, which demands a better hand-eye coordination.

i play tennis a ton & when i first tried badminton i was horrible! cuz like in tennis you NEVER use your wrist & in badminton it's all wrist i guess? soo i was pretty bad. but now; after doing it in PE i have improved. luckily i can pick up on sports pretty fast so i don't have to embarrass myself.

I can do both. We're doing a badminton unit for P.E. right now and I like it. I like tennis too though but I don't see any one of them much more difficult than the other.

they're not kidding when they call it badminton. in fact, bad is an understatement. it would be better called "damn, this shit is f**king retardedminton."

Badminton is hardcore.
I used to be one of those people who thought it was super lame, but I recently got the oppurtunity to watch a friend's badminton game against another school, and holy crap- it's INTENSE. Your reflexes have to be amazing, and I imagine it's gotta be tough to learn all the different swing techniques... from under the birdie, next to the birdie, over the birdie, etc...

I wish I was good at badminton.

I haven't been on a team but I quite like playing badminton. :)

I never understood when people claimed that "badminton's not a sport". Even from nobody telling me that it was one, I could tell when I was younger just from watching people that it required a hell of a lot more work than normal. And plus, our badminton team runs more than any other sport, even football.

You have a badminton team at your school? That sounds like so much fun. Haha.

I suck at badminton, though. I can never get to it in time to hit it.

Summer is finally here. Which means, more time to practice!