Hello and welcome back to Badminton Insight today's video is very exciting we're here
in Sheffield home of GB Para Badminton and we're going to be playing with the four guys that
are going for gold in Tokyo just a few weeks from now so let's go inside and get started
so we're here at Sheffield training with the para badminton guys we've got
Dan Bethell here in the SL3 category
Martin Rooke here in the WH2 category in the wheelchair
And then down the end we've got Jack and Krysten
in the sh6 category
So I'm here with Dan Bethell world ranked number two in the SL3 category so yeah we've just had a morning
session we'll show you some clips of what we've done in the defence session for you wasn't it
wow I gave everything and I could not get through! It's nice for me, a bit of defence, didn't have to move
too much! Basically this category is half court singles yes so how is it that different to full court singles?
I think the biggest thing about it is the endurance side of it like you
can have games that go on an hour and a half we have one match in the past an hour and 53
minutes so it's just that's there's just no space hitting as you found out this morning it's quite
hard to hit winners and attacks it's just a real real slog, endurance, cv, fitness are really really important
yeah and I know you you do a lot of that in your training don't you! And we're going to actually have
a match later yeah that's going to hurt me a lot more than you I'll tell you that yeah well
hopefully hopefully good stuff I'm excited for exciting this afternoon! Okay, so what are you
doing this afternoon or later this morning? so we're gonna play a game against Danny
it's you tag team when you're tired yeah so like it'll be one point on one point off!
We're getting a head start because we're gonna have to go all out so we just played on our own we
get fatigued but it's quite a high tempo thing for him! 8-0 head start in the first, 11-0 head start in the second set
14-0 in the third and what's your prediction? I think we'd lose without a head start! Jack what
are you predicting? Are me and Drabs gonna win? I'm predicting that there'll be some lungs gone!
Danny what are you predicting? A three-set win!
We're getting off to a good start I've just gone on and done four points and it's tiring! Half court
singles is a different game in itself we need it in in the Olympics in able bodied
he's so good! So many clears, it's a good cv!
anyone that asks us about endurance stuff just play half-court singles!
So we are here with Jack Shephard world number one, I feel very honest being world number one
what what does your training week entail? I know you're trying hard yeah a lot of hard work we have
multiple on-court sessions that are designed in different ways so single shuttle sessions
technical sessions, multi-sessions we also have two gym sessions a week
and then we also each have individual prehab programs just to make sure in areas where we
might be weaker they stay injury free which is set by our physio we also have regular sessions
with her just to make sure our bodies are tip top and in the best position we can to make sure we do
train to our maximum every day, every week, every year! Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses
among different disabilities which is where the staff have to really like focus on who's who and
the programs are quite individually set so yeah a lot of work to be done behind the scenes making
sure everyone's in the best position they can be regarding their disability as well!
That's tired me out that's for sure! Especially Dan and then Jack at the end!
Thanks a lot for having us in, we've really enjoyed it
and it's great to just see what you guys are doing every day it's such a fun environment to be in!
All great lads so you can go follow them on their instagrams we'll put links in the description below
and yeah I just want to wish you all the best for the games
for when you go, bring back some medals! Yeah, thank you! Just jumping in whilst editing to say we didn't manage
to get many clips of Martin Rooke as unfortunately he had to leave after the first session
but he's a great guy is Rookie, known as the Granddad of the group and I can assure you that
playing in a wheelchair is extremely difficult we have so much respect for the two coaches
James and Richard who've actually learned to play in a wheelchair
Yeah mega difficult and hopefully we'll get some clips of that someday
Now back to the lads in the hall who just wanted to say make sure you SMASH the subscribe button!
So we're on our way home on the motorway coming back from Sheffield after we've just had
lunch with the team! We've really enjoyed our day there today and hopefully you guys have got
some para badminton insight! Sorry we had to mute a few of the clips they were playing music and we
can't play music because we'll get copyrighted and we didn't really want to ask them to turn
it off because we didn't want to interrupt their training but yeah as the guys said make sure you
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