Hello and welcome back to Badminton Insight! We are back vlogging and we're going to be taking you with us on our three-week tour
visiting two of the biggest badminton countries in the world! First up is Malaysia [Music]
Flight essentials
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So we've just got to the hotel and as much as we want to sleep unfortunately our room
is not ready so we're spending this time getting our YouTube video ready. I'm just doing the
captions as 30% of people watch with the captions on!
Gym time
We're feeling a lot more alive after a nap, light gym session and a shower and before
we head out for some food let's bring you up to speed. So we're in Kuala Lumpur for the
Malaysian Open but we're first reserve so we've actually come here not knowing if we're
going to play. We are actually now 29 in the world so we would have got in if the entry
was now but at the time of the entry were 40 in the world hence why we're first reserve.
Anyway we wouldn't want to be sat at home if a pair did withdraw because we wouldn't
be able to make it here in time which has happened to us before and we've always wanted
to play in Malaysia. So it's now 6 p.m on Sunday and we won't find out until tomorrow night
if we've actually got into the draw so stay tuned for that. In the meantime we need to
prepare like we are actually playing in the tournament and we've also got a player's pass
so we're going to take you behind the scenes and show you what life is like at the Malaysian
Open! Anyway it's time for food and we're going out with some of the English team and also
Diane who works in the media team at the BWF. [Music]
We've heard a rumor that a Danish
pair aren't here so there's a good chance we'll get into the tournament which is very
exciting but we'll find out officially tomorrow so we don't want to get our hopes up too soon
so we'll see you tomorrow
Good morning so it's 8 A.M I've been up since 4 AM with jet lag so I'm a bit hyper but yeah
first up today is training
So we've just finished training, we've come outside waiting for the bus we had a good
training session! So we trained with the Scots and also Thom and Delphine from France and
the reason we train with other countries is because we're the only pair from England and
a lot of other countries there's only one mixed pair so rather than mixed pairs training
against women's doubles pairs or men's doubles pairs it's better to train in the same discipline.
We did an Instagram post and you basically have to decide if it is fake or real. It's fake!
You've not even seen it yet!
But who is doing it? - Me. It's fake
That's so mean!
Do you think it's real or fake? Real
It's fake
So we've just finished up at the BWF headquarters, it was a lot of fun! - What do you think? Real
I think it's real
Real
You did something. You're saying it's fake? Yes
Whoa! I have confidence in you I think it's real yeah
Now we're heading back to the hotel for some food [Music]
I'd say fake. Greg's standing behind the tube I think
You're both saying fake? Yeah. Yeah
What's the answer? I can't reveal, I can't reveal...
That is real. Fake. Real! Oh split decision!
Jenny is able to do it but this is a fake
So we've not actually had a chance to hit in the main hall yet so we've taken a risk this morning, we got up at 6am, 6:30
bus and the risk has paid off - we are here on our own the only ones hitting! [Music]
one of the most important things to do when you have the mayhole is to practice your lift
length that's what we're going to do now [Music]
I think this is fake. Fake? Yeah, from edit. You think, because it goes out? Yes
We've just spent the last couple of hours editing this Vlog that you're watching right now
and we're now about to head out for dinner with Zheng Siwei!
What an evening! So we've just been out for food with Zheng Siwei, we've had a really good
time it was quite it's quite funny on the way there and back we got stopped over 10
times but the first one someone actually wanted a photo with both of us uh and not him and
I was like what's going on?! He got the most photos overall as you would expect but yeah
a very enjoyable evening we seemed to talk about so many different things, his English was brilliant!
So yeah we're now going to do some match analysis before our game against Yuta Watanabe and
Arisa Higashino tomorrow morning and we'll catch up with you later! Good morning
it's game day let's go! [Music]
It was all going well this morning - we slept well, we were feeling good we even had
a police escort on the way to the hall but it didn't go that well in the match. The hall
was so difficult to play in, the worst we've ever experienced in terms of drift we were
hitting it as hard as possible on one side and it wasn't even going in the back tramlines
lines and on the other side we were literally just tapping it and it was flying out the back!
Obviously credit to our opponents Watanabe and Higashino though - they aren't exactly bad
players and they didn't really give as much throughout the whole game
So we were going to go back to the arena this evening to watch some more of the matches
but we're both feeling pretty tired so we've decided to stay here and watch them live on
YouTube. Oh Greg I can't get it on YouTube. That means we're gonna need to use a VPN. For
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to end this Vlog now so that we can edit it before Sunday, Jenny is there anything else
you want to say? Yes make sure you smash the Subscribe button because we have so many more
videos we want to film while we're here in Malaysia so if you don't want to miss those
then yeah make sure you subscribe and that's it - we'll hopefully see you back here next
Sunday for some more badminton Insight bye!
It's real! Real? Very good Jenny!
It's real! Oh, it's real? Yeah yeah! Wow! Very good accuracy... that is unbelievable!