My Passion , My Sports

Here are few of my adventures and my sports....badminton and wall climbing..

I've even prepared a speech about my sports badminton during our toastmaster meeting..hope you like it..or you could comment though.

My Passion My Sport - Badminton

Smash - that you hit the ball very hard while you are jumping. It’s not about jumping as high as you can though. It is better if you stand in front of the ball and only jump very quick when it is right before you.

Drop shot – this means when your either your near the net and softly land the ball just above the net or your at the back end of the court the slowly drop the shuttle cock on either side on just above the net

Those are the few techniques and moves in playing this sport. Badminton is the newest fad in the sports community nowadays, everywhere you go people are hook into this sport people go gaga for playing this sports, the sport is played with complete gears such as

1. Racket

2. Shuttle cock

3. Extra shirt

4. Water

But 4 years ago I would never looked into this sports, I thought it’s a lame sport; it thought it has no challenge.

I could always picture the sport as for women only, why because it’s just front and back, front and back and no net, no rules no challeng

Back in my previous work , a colleague always invite me to play badminton, but they always get a no from me because it thought it’s a waste of time.

But working here in this company and witnessing my first sport fest in 2005 with people really playing badminton I was amazed why are they playing this non challenging sport, even I have questioned why Yanyan and Tim ,unmarried then, got so interested on this sport, don’t they have more time spend in other things more important.

Then everything was changed when I have my first taste of playing badminton, then in Abellana sport complex or cebu city sport center.

I thought why not try Merven, Julian, Welda, Edgar, Alex, Zander and the rest of the guys were playing the sport so there must be something interesting in this sport.

Then I got my first game, I don’t even know a single techniques, my objective was to transfer the shuttle cock from one court to the other side of the court and that’s it, done and get this over with, but I was playing my first game, I was really sweating and sweating and sweating until I can already fold the tip of my shirt and sweat was dropping on my shirt and it still is my first game and in less than an hour, to make this even better I beat Joey and RJ in that game.

Then I realized I have been playing for almost 2 hours already and not just the tip of my shirt was already wet but the entire shirt, including on my hair, my wrist until up to my short the what behind the short, I was really soaking wet and to make things better for me I beat some of my colleagues ..I must be good in this sport, or I can be better, this has made me understand and encourage doing more.

Since then I have been playing this sports, I have played to different courts , I have played in Iligan where we have a hard time finding a court only to find out its on top of the public wet market, in general santos city where you will be amazed with the ostrich and the horses before you can get into the gym / court and in Singapore where we played in a non taraflex court and played with 60 years old men and not even won a single match.

I have met different kinds of people even different languages but the sport brought us together because we have shared the same passion for the sport.

I even volunteered to become the chairman of the Badminton games because of my passion for this sport.

Badminton is not just a physical activity but also a mental and social activity.

It is physical because you could burn 400-600 calories; this could lower your cholesterol level and reduced the risk of heart failure

It’s mental because its sharpens your mind and your agility your reflexes could react in a speed

And it’s social because you got to met different kinds of people and after the game there is chance to gather around and eat.

If you have interest in the sport , you could enjoy its benefits, aside from the health benefits its also rewarding specially if your picking up the fruits of your labor and in this instance I have converted my passion of this sport in to trophy.