10/30/08

As usual, we started with footwork. Today our training is more on stroking, my smashing was not good as i did not use much strength. Apart from that, i did not hit it at the highest point. My dropshot was not too bad today as i can raise my hand higher and hit the shot in front of me. As i was sick for the past few days, coach asked me not to push myself too hard for this training. I did netting with Yi Hao, i realised my netting wasn't good enough as i my position of the racket was wrong. And because of this, most of the shot did not go over.

6/8/2008

Coach did not come today so we had team event plan by us.I paired with dannell and play with joshua and choon seng. We won both sets. This is because we kept hitting to their backhands knowing that they are both left handers. My dropshot has improved today. I can drop to both sides without letting it go out, although my shots were quite high, they may be the cause of not hitting it high enough. Another thing that gave us many points was after we serve, we lob to the back and squared, when a smash came, we tapped it easily.

Today, my lobbing was quite weak. Although i can hit high, my hand was not high enough so i couldn't hit to full base, besides that, i did not hit forward, this caused my shots to go out. My dropshot remained the same. I played with Ju Kai today and won both sets , in the second set, i could not take some shots from hit, it was maybe because i was too confident.I won mostly with dropshots, which i am not so happy about.Although all my dropshots cross over the net, i did not smash when i hav the chance to, i will either lob or crossdrop when i see a high ball. I must take note of this the next time i play a game with someone else.

I had 2.4. My timing was 11.03 that was better than last year...when i was running i felt that i could not move on anymore but i continued on. I guess if u keep telling yourself you can do it..eventually it will happen in reality. On today's badminton training,coach invited 2 players from the international team to play with wei jian and wei jun. I was amazed by their shots and they can execute it extremely well and accurate. Their backhand smash can be stronger than my forehand smash. Besides that, their trick shots were beautiful and sharp. They defended almost every smash from wei jian and wei jun. After that we did stroking, today, my dropshot has improved more. I can also move faster to my shots, this is because i keep tellin myself to move. I hope i can keep this up.

Today, we did defending. I can now get the shots faster as coach told me to stretch out for the ball.My only mistake is that i tend to block most shots into the net, this may happen because i put too little strength into hitting the shots.I am afraid that if i use strength i may hit it too high and people may tap it. I remembered that i must have confidence in myself..i must believe that i can hit it over the net.

As usual we did footwork.. today my lobbing was bad. I did not hit it at a high point, and i did not move behind the shuttle cock but in front of it..this affected my lob as i cannot position myself to hit it. I was not fast enough today, i took a long time to reach the shot even though i know the shot is already reaching the ground.Apart from these mistakes..my tapping and droshot is better as i can better control my shot, and my strength.

25 July 08

Today, after footwork..we had drill. My dropshot was okay today as i can hit it softer so that it can go fast and sharp. My forehand lifting was bad as i took a longer time to arrive at the spot to lift...my hand was not up and thus i took an even longer time to reach the shuttle, resulting a miss shot. I realised my lifting was better in game than in stroking. My i can smash harder today...i must continue to do more pushups.