wong choong hann for the commentator!!![]()
Is that the dude who did the 2006WC commentary?? Gosh he was awful. Even worse was a lady who help comment on the PG videos, she's supremely biased and not downright more annoying than that dude.To me, 'That Guy' is the epitome of much of what most people would detest in a television commentator.
...in sports broadcast, there is always the play-by-play announcer and the color commentator?
In this case, i thought John Burgess aka our Oldhand's fave commentator, is the play-by-play announcer?? And his partner, Gillian Clark, is the color commentator??...
Or are they both trying to be the color commentators as well as being a play-by-play announcer, at the same time??..
Btw, i just thought it's somewhat interesting for some of us who are multi-lingual & can understand the many different language commentators (e.g. Mandarin, English, Malay)....Maybe if our Oldhand understands Malay, he could just listen to M'sia's Hasbullah Awang for the commentaries...![]()
Neither of them is anyone we have discussed here.Is that the dude who did the 2006WC commentary?? Gosh he was awful. Even worse was a lady who help comment on the PG videos, she's supremely biased and not downright more annoying than that dude.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6868097614382669881
She sounds like a fan...
The guy is Kevin Han I think, but did you hear the girl? You can hear on some other youtube clips. Here's a clip featuring "the guy" and "the girl"Neither of them is anyone we have discussed here.
By the way, the guy in the linked video sounds like a South Korean.
And, definitely, he is not 'That Guy'![]()
The woman in both the Chen vs. Gade and the Sato vs. Gade clips is Charmaine Reid of Canada. I've been hearing her periodically since she did the on-court interviews at the 2005 World Championships.The guy is Kevin Han I think, but did you hear the girl? You can hear on some other youtube clips. Here's a clip featuring "the guy" and "the girl"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0X-sdwgXz4
I suspect your claim to have failed is a rhetorical one, but I'll take the bait and humour you with a response anyway.Oldhand said:- 'inside out'
I've tried my best to figure out what exactly this is - and I've failed.
[...]I suspect your claim to have failed is a rhetorical one, but I'll take the bait and humour you with a response anyway.![]()
I believe he uses this to refer to a reach-around drop or smash executed with the forearm turned such that the racquet strikes the shuttle "inside" (i.e. from within the shoulder span) with the racquet face that contacts the shuttle facing "out" (i.e. when a righthander slices the left side of the shuttle to make it spin off to the right). I actually don't mind the expression and I think I might even have used it myself with both a grimace and a mental tip of the hat to its jovial coiner.
..actually i meant to say, for the latter, is a color/technical analyst. Afterall, both of them are commentators.For the first part, I would call them a Commentator & a summariser. Gill Clarke is the summariser in UK TV broadcasts with various summarisers.
I am not bi lingual but when I listen to Malaysian/Chinese commentaries they seem to talk non-stop in monotone and seem not to react or give any excitement to the actual game.
..i would somewhat concur, with above & also of jamesd20, when i'm watching sports on tv; may it be basketball, baseball, American football, futbol/soccer (i think i'm going to start spelling it like that...
Let's face it, commentary in every sport starts to grate after a while, even in sports like basketball or NFL "football" where they have oodles of money to train pro broadcasters to not be idiots about the game and pro athletes not to be idiots about broadcasting. Hasn't everyone wished they could watch every sport with the sounds of the game and without the commentary? If you want that opportunity, try to track down the MD final from the Atlanta Olympics. It has sound and replays but no commentary but as I remember, the mike seems to have been very close to one Malaysian fan with a distinctive cheer.
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The guy is Kevin Han I think, but did you hear the girl? You can hear on some other youtube clips. Here's a clip featuring "the guy" and "the girl"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0X-sdwgXz4
The bit about the commentators during the 2006 WC, yes they were Charmaine & Kevin; it was also well chronicled, with the many colorful "commentators", in the thread belowThe woman in both the Chen vs. Gade and the Sato vs. Gade clips is Charmaine Reid of Canada. I've been hearing her periodically since she did the on-court interviews at the 2005 World Championships.
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Oh yeah I forgot, there were some american commentators hired for the 2004 olympics in english...god they were absolutely awful...
hehe..i heard that too!!John Burgess made an interesting comment while doing commentary on the Women's Doubles match between MAS and KOR yesterday.
I've heard that most people actually turn the sound off when they're watching badminton when I'm commentating.
He said that because he doesn't wear a hat.Ehh is that guys who commenting in most of SS?
Including now in Malaysia KK SS Final?
LOL yesterday on match TH vs LCW, the commentator said that if LCW wont win this SS Final he will eat his own hat.. LOL
I wish the producers would take serious and immediate note of this truthJohn Burgess made an interesting comment while doing commentary on the Women's Doubles match between MAS and KOR yesterday.
I've heard that most people actually turn the sound off when they're watching badminton when I'm commentating.![]()