hey guys it's jenny from badminton insight here today it's Friday the 12th of February
and we're heading out to Finland for the European Mixed Team Championships
and we thought that we'd bring you guys along with us so let's go!
So to start out the trip we spent all of day one traveling to Finland.
My personal highlight was sitting in a coffee shop for over an hour
something we've not been able to do for weeks.W e spent the time editing
and doing a virtual coaching which we carried on doing during the flight.
After jen woke me up by sticking the camera in my face we got up
and spent the morning continuing our editing and virtual coaching.
In the afternoon we went to the hall for the first time and did a good
hour-long mobility session with our physio who spent the majority of the
time laughing at our absolute lack of flexibility! A good stretch is something
we always do after a long day of travel to get any stiffness out of our bodies.
Sunday was Valentine's Day! We released our video in the morning as we do every Sunday
and then replied to all of your comments. We'll link it in the description below if you missed it,
and after doing this for around an hour we hit the gym for those gym gains.
We then had an interview with Badminton Europe where we talked about our trip so far,
our thoughts on the english chances in the tournament and how we're spending
Valentine's Day in quarantine. After chatting with Badminton Europe we jumped
on the bus to the hall and continued replying to some more of your comments.
We had 30 minutes in the practice hall followed by one hour in the main hall.
Here's a short clip of one of my sets in the practice hall. In this i was doing some 2v1 in
the mid court which is a real feel-good exercise i like to do before going into a tournament.
We were going to film more of our practice in the main hall but then the battery died so
apologies for that that's us being amateur vloggers.
Day four. So after our third covid test at 7:04 am we did an early morning gym session. In this
i did a tough bike as i knew i wasn't playing in the match the next day we then went on a
walk in -14 degrees yes minus 14 degrees! Then we had another on-court training session in the
afternoon and spent the evening shaving the boys heads for their first caps. There were six of
them so they were numbered one to six for this trip along with a few other silly initiations.
Finally game day! Whilst Greg was training I started the day with a light gym session.
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Before we could start the match the first time team members had to sing the national anthem...
Even though Johnny, Estelle and the boys put in some good performances
I went into my match three nil down. I was playing with Annie, a younger player
as this is more of a development trip as we don't have our full strength squad with us.
Unfortunately we lost in three sets in an hour-long match.
So we just got back from our team meal, debrief and some physio treatment
and now Jenny's editing this video over there now Jenny's editing this video over there
and i'm doing some video analysis in preparation for my men's doubles match tomorrow. So we're going
to continue vlogging throughout this trip sharing more of our thoughts however we're going to put
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bye