Hello and welcome back to Badminton Insight! Now this isn't one of our usual tutorials or
video sharing on court tips but we recently passed a huge milestone here on the YouTube channel 100,000
of you have SMASHED that subscribe button! So we asked you on our Instagram
and YouTube community tab for some questions and in this video we're going to be answering
some that we've picked out :D Yeah and make sure you stay tuned to the end of the video where
we'll be sharing our giveaway to celebrate reaching 100,000 subscribers with you guys!!
So let's start out by answering our most asked question...
So our most popular question by far was 'When will you get married?'
Well there's a bit of a story behind this! So for those that don't know, when we were on less than 10,000
subscribers someone asked are you guys married and I was just commenting, I'd replied to a lot
of comments and I was being a bit silly and I just said we will when we get 100 000 subscribers! Now I
did not expect it to happen this fast!! It's become a bit of a joke since then hasn't it? Yeah so
ever since people are constantly reminding us, we mentioned it in our 50k Q&A just a few
few months ago and yeah this has just happened so quick so obviously there's a backlog of marriages
and venues due to Covid and also I didn't realise how much weddings cost! So we have actually
booked a venue, yep summer 2023 so it is booked in we've kept our promise but its
not just as soon as we hit 100k, yeah, it is booked in don't worry Graham Morris has asked are you going
to vlog your wedding? What do you think? Maybe maybe, we'll see! We'll leave it at that I think! So last
wedding related question is from mr anand parekh who asked will we invite fans to our wedding? Um
probably not I mean hopefully people that are going to our wedding are fans um but I don't know...
We'll see! Maybe if we get to a million subscribers by summer 2023 will invite some fans? Yeah! All
right let's move on to some different questions okay so our next question is from badminton
andy who has asked what have been the biggest surprises for you both over the last 12 months?
Oh good question I like that one I'm gonna give one good surprise and one bad surprise
uh bad surprise I think is how much work this all is I think combining YouTube with full-time
training and then we also both have part-time jobs as well it's a lot of work isn't it?! And then
the good surprise I think are the opportunities and the people that we've met from starting this
YouTube channel so like our last few tournaments the Belgium challenge and the Hylo Open we had
people from the public coming to watch us play, we had line judges and umpires saying they
watch all our videos it was just amazing and amazing to hear how you guys have found our
YouTube channel what you enjoy seeing from us and yeah just the positive impact it's had on lots of
people so it definitely makes it all worth it! Okay so next question, we actually had a couple of these
asking what our favorite youtube videos are that we've made you go first oh difficult one so I'd
like to say I'm proud of all of them but that's a lie! The first ones we did in our channel are awful!
But it's sometimes fun to watch back and see how much we've kind of improved! A bit horrifying to
watch as well! Yeah we're trying to apply like how we apply ourselves in badminton so like we come
off a match we see what we've done wrong and how we could have done better we're trying to apply that
to our youtube stuff as well so we would like to say we've definitely improved and obviously we only
have a week to kind of make these videos what actual videos though? I'm going to say the shoe
shoe video not our biggest viewed video but I think we were creative
around what could potentially be quite a dull boring video! That's one, I quite like the mid
court video we did, master the mid-court and how to read the game a lot of time and effort
and thought went into that and it's a different side of badminton you know it's nothing like what what is
already out there on youtube because obviously we've still done the backhands and smash videos
and things like that, that's the second one sorry so yeah the shoes, the reaction and the mid-court
or how to read the game! That's four sorry so what are your top three? I think I'll agree with you on
the reaction training, I think again it was a video similar to the shoes where it could have been a bit
dull but we worked really hard to try and make it as interesting as possible for you guys. I think
I'm gonna have to say the parabadminton video we did when we went to Sheffield and trained with
the guys I think I personally found that video really inspiring watching them how they train
and I think from the feedback we got from you guys so many comments yeah it was really good and it
was also fun to film yeah it was so much fun! Greg was absolutely knackered after that day and the third one
when Greg pretended to be a beginner against Pat that was hilarious I don't know how
greg managed to keep a straight face throughout that filming when he was pretending to be 'James' I
was giggling behind the camera or trying to keep a straight face as possible not to give it away but
I think Greg did really well to not give it away okay so our next question is from olive abraham
who said congratulations greg and jenny a great achievement which you deserve
very nice thank you very much and the question is how much time does it take for you to make
a video and has it decreased from where you started? I definitely think we've improved our
efficiency in making videos but I'm not sure the total time has decreased because I think
where we're now maybe a bit quicker in some areas we're putting more time into our planning
and trying to do maybe something new for me for the editing every week but to break it down
I'd say roughly for an eight minute video it takes us around three to four hours for the planning and
research before we even get to the hall to film and then for an eight minute video it probably
takes us around three hours would you say? To film the clips and the speaking and everything? There or there abouts depending
on the video yeah yep and then editing is anywhere between 10 and 15 hours which does take up a huge
chunk of our time! And then those final parts so like the thumbnail and Greg goes in and manually
captions all of the videos because we had some disasters at the start of our videos with that
where people were messaging us saying something's like going wrong with some crazy things go on
I feel like you want to say that story yeah well we just had so many like miss spellings um so
YouTube automatically does it yeah for start when we said hello and welcome back to badminton insight
it was hello and welcome to bouncing inside iraq! I'm not surprised we got those messages
saying what is this channel, I don't understand! Yeah if you don't speak English I'm sorry for those first few months
but now we do it so it should all make sense! So if you're not great at english or you find us
difficult to understand then definitely put the subtitles on! Yeah but in total around 20 hours
from start to finish to upload a youtube video and we do that every single week... so that kind of leads
us on to a question I've got on here uh which says how do you manage both badminton and training
from high tech badminton now I would say we're quite organised like when we studied for six years
and like we were really organised then to be able to study and train uh we use notion, an app which
is really good for kind of just like planning our life and the business as such and all our video
scripts and things like that and lots of hard work as well like you have to make sacrifices! When we
were at university we always said there's kind of three s's the social, studies and sport
and you kind of can only do two really well and it's kind of like you know we do make some
sacrifices like our evenings we don't spend just chilling out watching Netflix like as Jen said
before it's so rewarding to see the impact we're having so we're just going to
keep on doing it! Yeah someone did actually ask us are you now going to upload two or three videos a
week because we've hit 100k but as Greg just said yeah we're pushing ourselves to the limit just to
get one video out a week I think if we uploaded any more then we'd be reducing the quality and
that's absolutely something we don't want to do so one video a week for now unfortunately :( Next
question is from earl grey and rice, earl grey and rice? Yeah! Strange combination! Yeah it is a bit
who said congrats I've learned a lot from your videos thank you very much
and they asked what is more fun going to competitions or making YouTube content?
Can I cheat there and say making youtube content at competitions? Is that aloud? Yeah I guess so
it's fun I would also just say it depends on what competitions we're at and also what youtube videos
we were making because naturally some youtube videos we enjoy making more than others and also
some competitions we kind of enjoy going to more than others so ones in may be sunny countries or
something like that! Yeah okay well that moves us on nicely into the second part of this Q&A where
we're going to discuss more of the badminton questions! The first one is from stormy nebula he's
asked a great question if you could only do one training exercise again what would it be?
I would say rear mid for me or mid rear some people call it, it just has a great
combination of kind of movement um covering the mid-court and the rear court because I'm more
of a mixed player agility, control, speed, power, accuracy just everything! You can do it to one
or two feeders it's yeah it's really really good um what about you? I'm gonna go similar but change
it to box which has the same a lot of different attributes; movement, speed, agility etc.
but this has a bit more of a net focus or you can move into the net and go forwards so as a mixed
female a bit more beneficial for me! But still hitting lots of shots in unpredictable kind of
situations rather than a controlled exercise and you can make them both of those fun as
well I was just about to say you can put them into like game situations rather than
just a kind of boring tiring exercise yeah someone did actually ask that - a similar question;
how do you motivate yourself for boring and tiring physical training? From Brian um well
that's the first thing, try and make it fun if you can! Yeah I think you can always make
those boring things fun add little challenges in like for example when greg does his rear mid
we play like a game to five and that puts a bit of a competitive edge on it and I'm very competitive
but yeah that's first thing I'd say, make it fun It's good to have a good group of people around
you where you can enjoy doing it even when it gets tough and it's just that knowing that
when you're doing these these more hard hard graft exercises that you kind of have to do it's knowing
why you're doing it and what like it's going to get you to so those long-term benefits yeah
so doing these are going to get you to a higher level which ultimately is going to be more fun
and more rewarding for you so yeah having that having that in your head the whole time yeah yeah
good answer thanks :) Okay so our next question is what is the strongest player or pair that we've
ever played against? So I think for me I'll go for a women's doubles one first and at the All England
a few years ago I played Pedersen and Juhl from denmark who've now since retired but I think we were
about four love down in the first set in the first round of the main draw of All England and it was a pretty
terrifying experience already but Pedersen served to me and I hit the perfect dead net cord it just
dribbled over the tape and I thought okay phew surely we've got our first point here and then she
just killed it straight on the floor! I remember thinking oh my goodness if we can't win that point
how on earth are we gonna win a point? We both just turn around to our coach to the back of the court
and laughed like okay wow they're good! Yeah I had a similar experience when I played Zhang Nan in men's
doubles and it was just one of those he's just hitting shots like hitting perfect drives and
it's just it's just coming back with interest and I haven't even seen it it's already
passed me and I watched the match back and he didn't make a single mistake for the whole match
lost like 13 or 12 I think it was um but yeah I came off and I'm usually really annoyed when I
come off because I hate losing but I came off and was just like he was just so good and obviously he's
achieved everything, pretty much everything in badminton like one of the best in in the game
And what about mixed for us playing together? We've played lots of strong opponents um
I would say it was Chan and Goh when we played them in America, we actually played really well
and lost closely in three sets but some of their shots it was just like again like how did
they do that?! I remember she played a really nice cross net honestly it was just like amazing so high level opponents and yeah
former Olympic silver medalists so yeah probably them but we've played lots of good
players! Yeah okay speaking of good players our next question is from Christopher who asked what
could you guys learn from Viktor Axelsen? I like that question, good question! Do you want to go? Yeah
so I actually think we can all learn a lot from Viktor! Firstly his off-court attitude and
his professionalism we've spoken a lot with the guys who train out in Denmark with him and also
from his new setup in Dubai and they say his intensity on the court is something that
definitely us and I'm sure everyone can emulate and copy and take into their own training yeah
on court, what would you say? On court as in like his attributes? We could learn a lot from his
attack! His attack is incredible his angles and overhead shots and things like that! Again we were speaking to our
good friend Toby Penty and also club mate Felix Burestedt from Sweden who have been out training
with him and they were just telling us stories of how the level is so insane yeah and how like that
like these are really good players but how they even struggle against him! He's top of the world
but as you say it comes down to you know his his intensity his professionalism and his dedication
so we can we can learn a lot everyone can learn a lot okay so our next question we've got on here
is from aj who says yes congrats guys knew 100k would come around pretty quick thank you very much
thank you we didn't! So he's asked how do you guys structure the technical aspects of your training?
oh good question I think for us we do technical or we try to incorporate technical training
into our sessions around three times a week as like dedicated parts of the training and I
think it's important within that that we focus on both of our strengths and our weaknesses
so we're not only trying to get our big weaknesses a bit better so they're not so glaringly obvious
on court but also trying to hone our strengths and make them even better on court to put to put
our opponents under so much pressure when we do play them yeah we've been training the technical
aspects of our game um throughout our whole lives haven't we and still definitely not perfect
so yeah three technical sessions kind of around the week maybe before or after like a long cv
so we've exhausted ourselves but mentally we may be a little bit fresh so we can do that
and then also it's really important to do the technical aspects of what makes you feel good so
as Jenny said the strengths so especially before you're going into a tournament doing a little
bit of serve and return because that's really important in doubles or in singles just working
on your slices just so you have that confidence before going into a tournament yeah I think it's
also really important that you understand your own weaknesses as a player so as Greg said we will do
more in our strengths just before a tournament but in your general training understanding your
own weaknesses so if technique and your technical ability is a big weakness of yours then you
put a lot more time into it whereas if you have good technique but maybe your weaknesses are your
physical then you'll put more time to that so it's just understanding your weaknesses
and then adapting your weekly training for that yeah and you might do that after every session
or before every session, you go to a session before and you just work on some serves if your
serve is a weakness yeah you don't always need a partner yeah or at the end of the session if
your core's a weakness you might do a core circuit! Okay this video is probably getting very long by
now so we'll go for one more question and that is from br niraj who said congrats Greg and Jenny
on 100 000 subscriber milestone again thank you very much and they asked do you have any specialty
shots that you try to play in every game no matter what? And I'm gonna ask greg for this one! Are you?
I wonder why?! So yeah I do I quite like um from the mid court or just below the height
of the net holding it looking like I'm going to play straight shot and then dropping the racket
taking it late and playing it cross court usually works if I do say so myself um but yeah it's not
yeah maybe the most common shot but it's a speciality of mine, especially in mixed! We'll
try to include some clips of it here if we can maybe put a little compilation together
okay that was our last question thank you to everybody who asked us one and now on to the
best bit, the giveaway! We actually did a giveaway for 500 subscribers, 1000, 10,000,
50,000 and now one hundred thousand! Okay so let's go through what you can win first and then
we'll tell you how to enter! For the first time ever we'll be having five winners of the giveaway
the top prize for one winner only is a huge two Victor Auraspeed 90s rackets, a brand new pair
of Victor shoes, three sets of vbs 68 string, this Victor rucksack, a Victor slash Badminton Insight hoodie
a Badminton Insight mug and all of the products on our website! We then have four runner-up prizes
where you'll win a victor slash badminton insight hoodie - honestly these are so comfortable and we do
also want to say a huge thank you to both Victor and TRME Sports for providing these amazing prizes
yeah both great companies and have sponsored us from the start of our channel so we'd just
like to say special thanks to them! Okay so we have these amazing prizes, now how do you enter?
Well it's so simple free and available worldwide all you need to do is like this video, subscribe
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We'll be randomly choosing the five winners one week from now so on Sunday the 5th of December
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directly to your comment! And good luck to everyone, we don't really know what to say now because
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