Badminton is a
popular sport in China.
It is a sport requiring dexterity and skill. Since badminton is light and
small. Every time I watch the Badminton competition, I would be amazed by the great
speed and skills of the player. Being a girl who grows up in China, I
started to play badminton when I was in elementary school. Although I am not
very good at it, I still enjoyed it when I was playing with my friends.
However, the real
start of my badminton career was after I came to the United States and joined the
badminton team in my high school. At first, joining the badminton team is not
my primary wishes. I tried out because one of my friends wanted to play double
with me. Once I decide to do something, I always strive to do my best. Therefore,
we practiced every day after school. A formal team member became our coach. After
days of hard work, we got in the team and became women double varsity number
three. It was a heartening news to become a varsity in the first year.
Napoleon said “Every French soldier carries a marshal’s baton in his knapsack.” In
out badminton team, every team member carries a gold medal from ACCAL in
his/her badminton bag. We all wanted to won a gold medal and brought back the
honor for school and ourselves. Soon
I realized my partner and I were not strong enough. We were the last in our school;
we could image how low our ranking in the whole region is. During the summer after
freshmen year, I went back to China
to visit my family and friends. At the same time, I practiced badminton at a
sports school with a professional coach. He used to play in our provincial team.
Many parents sent their children to play badminton when they were only about
five; I was trained with many kids. The coach corrected my wrong posture and
trained me from the most basic steps.
The training was very
hard. There was no wind in the gym since the wind would affect the directions
of badminton. Plus the summer in Guangzhou
is much hotter than in Alameda,
the gym was as hot as an oven. Once I entered the gym, I needed to do a
footwork drill for 100 times by myself as warm ups. There were more footwork practices
when the training started. Each drills need to repeat 100 times, non stop, and
no water break. There were several times I almost gave up and stopped, but I
did not. I believed perseverance will conquer all things; it was also my will which
supported me all the time. The result was remarkable. I played much better than
before.
Our rank was been
improving year by year. Finally, in my junior year, we were at the top. It is
our time to won the gold metal back for our school. No one in our school had
won the first place of women double before. That inspires my fighting will. Our
school had many disadvantage that year, it even shut down the gym we used to practice.
We forced to practice in a gym that is far away from school.
Badminton now becomes
an indispensable part of my life.
[It is not
complete, but I will make improvements later.]
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