We are in Malaysia a country crazy about Badminton and in this video we're going to be playing
against you, our subscribers! We're very excited to see what we might be up against so let's go...
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today we are with Criston thanks for inviting us down and we're also here with Jason at
his session so how many times do you usually play a week? So this group we play once
a week on Saturdays, so for us we play about twice a week some of us play more than that
but generally it's twice a week. You said in your email to us that you've been subscribed
for a long time and we used to have notifications every time we got a subscriber and we went
back and saw that you subscribed two months after we start the channel so we just want
to thank you for being a long-term subscriber! Without further ado let's play some badminton
Yes let's go! Okay so we'll do mainly games but we may also do some drills yeah we might add
some rules into the games as we go and also try and give you lots of tips to help you improve!
That's how you do it! Good serve :D
Ohh he's gone for it again!
How did that compare to your usual Saturday morning sessions?
I think the first thing that we noticed is just the difference in the intensity yeah
so it's just the levels, the speed of it is like way more intense!
I can't see the shuttle when you smash it's like where is it? Oh it's there!
The more you get used to playing at a high intensity the better you will get. There was a few times
that you played a shot and you were like oh you're so fast because Jenny was like killing it
whereas normally that would be like a really good shot!
Aiyaaa so fast!
Against people with good attack that you can't see try and not lift as much so try and find space at the net or
pushes you don't want to make it obvious that you're going to play at net shot but yeah
just try and push up the court and not lift as much! So we're just at 11-2 in our first
match against Jason and they were also lifting a lot causing them to lose a lot of points
Okay so because you guys are lifting quite a lot and losing
quite a lot of points because of your lifts we're going to play a no lift game so you're
literally not allowed to lift, it's going to be hard but hopefully it will help you improve...
If it doesn't challenge you it won't change you
I'll just caveat that because obviously they could work on their lift quality and consistency
and also their defense but yeah we'll try this for now
How did you find that? So suddenly we were forced to you know soften and play a different dynamic
yeah and I think that really shook us up a bit no, shook us up a lot! Yeah
And I think because we're used to lifting to buy ourselves time to get set yeah so having
not being able to lift put us a bit in a quandary
but as we said when you play against better players you probably can't lift as much hopefully
it was good experience! Fantastic, we've gotten a lot of badminton... insight!
Hahaha good!
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Oh yes!
What a shot!
When you're not in a really good position like that, you're quite off balance it might be worth dropping
Because the chances of you hitting a winner from that shot are quite slim
and you don't want to make a mistake!
Although that was 21-4 they were doing the right things and definitely got better throughout the match
Arghh
When we played last week Yuta and Arisa that's exactly how we felt that there is no empty space on the
court and that's when you start going for the perfect shots like at the end you were trying
to almost get like a net cord on your return or like you're trying to hit a crazy smash
cross court off balance and when you're playing people who have good defense then it's easy
for us to like whip you and get you into trouble but it's just practicing! Hopefully by the
end of the night we challenge again we can double the score again hopefully yeah that
was 21-7 and their aim was 21-10 so they've only got three more to get! So I'm now gonna
sit off and watch this men's doubles and hopefully help them out technically while they play :)
Every time! I missed that on this camera but that's happened way too many times today...
and we've got it again! Can they get past Greg in the third shot?
oh a lift, cop out!
I think I think it feels like you're in our heads like you're reading our minds!
What advice would you give when you're playing against someone who's really
good at the first three shots? You know he he takes it so early and it's so quick I can't
do anything! That's where like the simple net shots and simple net shots to the side are
really effective so don't try and play too too much to the center try and use a bit more
width on your return so instead of coming in like this you're just playing it soft down
the side that makes him move a lot more so it's instantly instead of him taking it within
his like Hitting Zone here he's taking it Out Of Reach here, when you were trying to hit
hard you were having a bit of a bigger backswing which meant that by the time you were
hitting the shuttle you were taking it a lot later and therefore I could read it because
you only had limited shots and they were they had to go upwards! So maybe in like in the
next matches you play only try and play either soft net shots to the side or soft push down
here even if you're playing people where you can play these returns and you get away with
it try and do these returns so that when you come up against people like us then you've
already practiced it and you you know like okay I can hit this return nine out of ten times
Time for the re-match!
Haha that's insane!
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people are just starting to play now and apparently they play until two o'clock in the morning, unbelievable!
After playing against over 20 subscribers in the last few days the three
most common areas for improvement that we noticed were lifting way too much, the first
three shots and hitting hard off balance and these areas might be relevant for you too so hopefully
after watching this video you can recognise these and go away and improve them!
Yeah the better you get the more fun badminton gets and if you want to learn more about your defensive
technique or some return of serves you can play then check out these videos here and
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