Here's a video of me playing. Sorry for the low quality. I'm the guy wearing a gray sleeveless shirt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFjI-smXqj0 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14941WBz9PE This is a dual meet between 2 companies. The players are not of great caliber compared to the players in our club. We beat them with a score of 35/7 or something. Not much of a rally, I guess.
Nice...where is this Manila? Quezon City? I swear I couldn't find a gym over there, only one I played in was an outdoor basketball court turned into a badminton court :O
This court is located in Laguna. Are you sure you couldn't find any courts in Quezon City? There are actually a number of courts in QC.
I got a better video here. This is our Wednesday group. I divided the 1st set into 4 clips. This is the first one. [video]http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/video/video.php?v=407655606601[/video]
Hehe, now if I only wished I learned to speak/understand tagalog :/ Waaa, I miss the Philippines already, and it's only been 6 months since I last went back there
Oh! I thought you're a Filipino. Anyway, she was just joking around. She was talking about the 4 guys in a contest of skinning off tilapia.
Venkatesh, do the courts have sprung wooden floors? The floor looks more like a 1" to 2" thick slap of wooden plank over a concrete floor. Sprung wooden floors with a high height of at least one foot of space under the playing surface is more desirable. If I were to play on concrete surfaces, I think I would be faced with early retirement from worn cartilage.
Which video are you watching? The court in the 1st video is matted. The court in the 2nd video is rubberized painted.
The one on youtube. If it is a rubber mat how thick is it? is the floor concrete or sprung wooden floor?
..from the videos (youtube), it sounds more like it's on top of concrete. Can't really hear much "wooden" sound...I would guess a sprung wooden floor (with an air gap in between) would be quite costly to install..also, it's in Philippines (SE Asia) where humidity plays a factor on wood..
In case some of you guys missed them..the 2010 T&UC BC baddy get-together.. ..(been wanting to share these videos)...these are from our recent Thomas & Uber Cup baddy get-together in KL (last month); attended by over 50 members (i believe that's a BC record, btw, which hopefully can be broken in the next big BC baddy get-together)..enjoy (and please hold back the chuckles while watching).. [video=youtube;l4pJNCgaPIY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4pJNCgaPIY[/video] [video=youtube;1Q-H8LbeVxA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q-H8LbeVxA[/video] [video=youtube;qmyOdfKyUlI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmyOdfKyUlI [/video]
my gosh , that's a lot of members . I know a few of the members on this forum so we might post a video soon !
this is what we called fun badminton a lot of power shots plus also a lot of 1/4 courts shots best of all everybody seems to be enjoying should have more of this kind of gathering