Badminton

On Wednesday, I went to the badminton club at Nishimachi. Badminton club is a new thing this year. It is co-ed for middle school. The teacher in charge is Mr. G. This is the first time I have gone to this and it was okay. The badminton club was from 6:00 to 7:30. I was the only middle school boy! But there was a fifth grade boy so yay ( but he was there because his sister was there )! But still...

I kind of got forced to do this because all the girls were like "Are you coming to badminton?" "Why aren't you coming?" "You should come." Just great. I agreed because:
1, It puts off homework,
2, The fifth grade boy was really sad,
3, I kind of like badminton.

The club was mostly doing drills to practice technique. We had to practice serves a lot. We also did some mini games. It was kind of fun but when the coach said, "Find a partner" no one wanted to be with me. Except one girl that then backed out. And so I was stuck with a seventh grader.

I was really good. Because I was one of the only 5 that could hit a backhand. And, at the beginning, the mom coach was showing us this thing to pick up the birdie with your racquet. You put the birdie on the ground with the point facing you. Then, you put the racquet strait up next to it and scope under. It was to practice using the wrist. I was the first one to get it. On like the 46th time.

Even though badminton seems a lot like tennis, it is not. In tennis, you should almost never hit up. In badminton, you should usually not hit down, because in badminton the net is higher. The court was much smaller but it had the same kind of lines / rules. Like the serve must go cross court into a box, there is an extra ally if you have doubles. I think tennis is much harder. I think this because in tennis there are spins and the ball can bounce weird. Scoring is much different. Because tennis scoring is just weird. Badminton counts by ones, to either 11 or 25? Not 0, 15, 30, 40. The serves are also really different because in tennis you must serve overhand and in badminton you must serve underhand.

I might go back again. If I did, I would work on my aim. If I could aim at the other person's backhand, I would probably win. I can also work on my backhands. They can be a little wild.

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