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JP has been pretty busy in the last few weeks and so he hasn’t written here in a while. I’ll do my best fill in and provide some content.
Anyways, last Wednesday I went with JP to play at the local community center again. We dominated our first game just like we had one week before. On the second game we were up against two wily veterans. Our opponents weren’t very powerful in terms of attacks, but they had great defense and a lot of experience. We manage to jump out to an early lead but that’s when I began to feel tired. Capitalizing on the opportunity, our opponents came back and won the game 15-9. Not content on losing, JP and I set up a rematch with the same opponents. This game was very tight, and both sides clawed and crawled to a 10-10 time. Unfortunately, my stamina failed me again and we let the game slip away 10-15. After that contest I was too tired to play against opponents of that level, so JP and I played some other opponents and won our last two games.
Last Sunday I was originally going to play badminton with a friend and some people from my university. Unfortunately I didn’t wake up early enough in the morning, and by the time I was ready to leave my friend called and told me that the badminton facility was full. Well, it’s not a big deal since I had my usual afternoon session with JP as backup. Yesterday’s session was worth mentioning because we had two special guests. JP brought over one of the students he was coaching. The student is a grade 9 girl who had some badminton training back in China, but she’s really still a beginner in terms of the sport. What’s more interesting is that my dad also contacted the parents of another girl who’s around the same age, so that family of three showed up as well. That girl, who just arrived in Canada, has had extensive badminton training since she was very young, and she’s competed in provincial badminton tournaments (for elementary students) back in China. Her fundamental skills are very good, and she has plenty of competition experience as well. All this means that despite being a 13-year-old girl, she had no problems playing with JP’s buddies, who are all grown men. Granted, those guys she played with aren’t all that good (average at best), but it was still fun to see a bunch of grown men getting beat by a short grade 8-9 girl. I didn’t play with her, although JP played and beat her team while partnered up with the his student (who’s still a beginner).