Hello and welcome back to Badminton Insight. Now this is our second vlog from the All England and it's
gonna be our best vlog yet. So the schedule's just been released for the day and there's
lots of late matches. We're 13th on so we're going to show you how we prepare in the day
and then also how we're going to approach our match from a tactical
point of view and the video analysis we do but now we're going to go to training.
So in our training we did a mixture of feel-good routines to get us ready for the match later.
We did some defence as you can see us doing now
as well as some push downs, rear-court work and serve return that we're not showing.
And then we did some T's to really get our reactions firing.
Then we finished with a net game but I swapped Jenny for more of a challenging opponent...
So we've just finished training and as you just saw, Greg had an epic three-nil loss unfortunately
to Kento in a singles game, singles net game. Now we're gonna have a little gym session
So it's half six now and we've just finished having a nice pasta dinner
fueling ourselves up ready for our match and we are currently sixth available so could be
a very late night game maybe around half 11 or midnight we should be going on court. Our plan
from now is to have a nap to be fresh and ready for our game and then we're going to do some
match analysis which we will of course take you with us and we'll show you what we do and how we analyse our opponents.
Just gone eight o'clock and we're now going to do some video analysis.
This isn't what we'd normally do but we're actually going to do some video on ourselves.
It's been quite a few years since me and Greg played together so we just want to watch some
old videos back of ourselves to get a good feel of how we play well together and then
after that we're going to watch a match of our opponents from Malaysia play against Chris and
Gabby from a couple of years ago. Unfortunately that's all we've got. We would normally like
to watch a match from a bit more recent but coronavirus times means that's all we have
So when looking at our opponents we usually look at a few different areas.
Firstly the first four shots of the rally, what they like to do and also what happens in the
rally. So do they attack to certain areas, what shots do they usually play, especially
when it gets tight because that's when a lot of people just revert to what they know. So we're
looking for that and then how we can counter their strengths and expose their weaknesses.
Starting his warm up.
Good luck to Wittinghus in his game. Gonna get a fine. He's about to get a fine.
No good news to report from us unfortunately. We lost 18 in the third to the Malaysians. I think
we put up a decent fight but unfortunately at the end we couldn't just quite get the win but i think
we'll give you some more of our thoughts on the match tomorrow. But for me well it's now almost
one o'clock in the morning and I still need to shower and get to sleep because I have another game
tomorrow in the women's doubles so time to get focused and prepare for that game. See you tomorrow.
So last night, lost in three sets in over an hour long match. Came off about midnight, I didn't
get to sleep til half three at least just going over it in my head what we could have done better.
And going over pretty much every point. Reflecting on it this morning you know got to
put it into some perspective. My training has not been great for the last three months because
of concussion and still suffering a little bit yesterday so need to get fit and healthy now
and me and jen haven't done loads in preparation together you know
this tournament as we've explained in our previous vlog we didn't know we were playing until
last minute and we haven't trained loads so lots of stuff to work on moving forward so really
excited for that and now I'm excited to go to the hall and watch Jenny and her women's doubles.
Nhat! Alright, are you recording? Yeah it's for the vlog. Do you want to be in the vlog?
Put me in the vlog would you
Oh that's great defense my goodness me. Reactions there from Jenny Moore. Look at that -
Plays the perfect shot.
I've just got back to the hotel and had a shower after our tough tough women's doubles game this
afternoon. Greg's actually still at the hall as he was asked to do some commentary by betv
so let us know in the comments below if you heard him doing any commentary and how he was.
But yeah i just wanted to give some quick thoughts on our women's doubles game. I think it was a very
very tough game, the Malaysian girls played so well - they were very aggressive and they dealt
with the difference in ends unbelievably well whereas me and jess just weren't used to those
different conditions where one end was so slow we had to hit it as hard as we could just to
get it past the service line. On the other end we were just literally tapping it and our lifts were
flying out the back. So yeah definitely a steep learning curve for us and I'm sure we'll take
that learning with us into the future and we'll try and adapt to that better in future tournaments.
Alright guys, we're now officially out of the bubble. We've left the arena which is just
behind us over there. We hope you've enjoyed following us in our first vlog and this vlog
through our journey at the All England, it's been a crazy week.
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we'll be back next Sunday with one of our usual videos see you then
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