Finally I've decided after quite some times. The badminton tournament I attend and the amount of training I've put is too much for me to handle. I said in the previous post that it's hard to balance my life and I've decided to just play badminton for fun. No Longer tournaments until I graduate and get my bachelors degree next may. It's quite though to make this decision especially since I just got a good MD partner (Merell). I know this news will make him disappointed but my decision is firm unless God said different things. I just want to concentrate doing school work and searching work, I don't want to waste time and money going to badminton tournament only for fun and no preparation, I like the challenge but some other priority comes up.
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Showing posts with label Badminton. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
stopped playing tournaments
I won't say I don't have good time going to tournament, it has been fun to meet new people and hanging out with friends on the tournament. Cheering for them and sometimes giving them little tips during interval break. But this is life, all about choosing our own path and no regret =).
Picture from Indiana states games
Symbol of fair play
even when we lose we still congratulate our opponent and admit they're better than us for this time
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Indy's tournament
well, I almost didn't attend this tournament. In the beginning I'm kinda hesitate since this tournament is too near with my exam time and plus now I need to go to Bloomington on Sunday. But out of nowhere I try this new experience since I don't have any MD partner. Start with handoko last week and now I just talk with Hery a week before the tournament that let's try playing MD for Indy's tournament. Well, I don't have any expectation, just want to play together with friend and the place is in Indy too so it won't be a problem since it won't required me to drive like 3 hours or so. So we play today and we lost the first match. It's like we're lacking of concentration to attack on the second game and end of third game. We can win comfortably in first game but they decide to play more aggressive and do a lot of shot variation. The net play haven't give me any problem but one of my opponent smash is devastating (Not as devastate as Edy though :P). it cost us the match when we can't concentrate on the last point. Then we play the consolidation match. We play the second match and we won then we cruise to final in MD consolidation. The funny thing is that we expect Budi and his partner to win the other consolidation semifinal match and they win it for like 1 minutes until they realize that they make a mistake since they're not familiar with the rally scoring. They think that they already win at 23-22 until someone told them to continue since it need a difference of 2. Then when they play again, of course they already lost their concentration and lost the match 23-25. When we play the final, the score is always very close. I never thought that we can win the final match since our opponent is much better than us (me & hery). But thanks God somehow we manage to win the first set like 21-16 or 21-19 I'm not sure but it's a very close one. During the second game, we lead the game first until they change their strategy and lead the game. It is very nervous when they lead and we make a lot of mistakes so the gap is getting bigger. Until, we somehow manage to make it even 18-18. Somehow again I'm not sure that we get 3 points consecutively and close the match 21-18. That's one of a close game, and for sure it's very fun to partnering with Brothers in Christ. One thing I learned from this badminton game is that to keep focus and never give up. I realize it during our final on second game, when me & Hery already make a lot of mistakes and make them lead the second game. In my heart I want to throw away this game since we already win the first game. But once again, He reminded me to keep fighting although it's hard and finally I decide to just give my best in the game and I don't want to think about possibilities or winning & losing and we won the game. Today the Lord taught me another lesson to never give up although the situations against you to climb up.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Badminton World Championship
It's a pleasure for me and also a precious moment for me to watch the final of badminton world championship 2007 especially when my countrymen delivers 2 gold out of 5 gold that was available. Yes, Indonesia won in Men doubles (represented by Markid Kido/Hendra Setiawan) and Mixed doubles (represented by Nova Widianto and Lyliana Natsir). It just too bad that INA Can;t win in Men singles discipline since China was just simply too strong in this field. I felt so happy especially since this winning become a present for our country's birthday that was celebrated on 17th August. One thing that I like from badminton is just that this was the only sport where Indonesia can talk in international level and this is the only sport that can delivers gold in Olympics games. This winning taste really good especially after Indonesia bad performance in any tournaments except Sudirman Cup since the beginning of this year and I really hope that INA players can do much better in Beijing Summer Olympic 2008 next year and can continue the Olympics' gold medal tradition. Well sometimes I was so sad because the fact that Indonesia was the 4th biggest country in the world and the only sports that was success was only badminton. The talent pool in Indonesia was to be honest a lot in any sports, I really hope in the future we can become something in front of the international community and one of the key I believe is by success in Olympics first since sports has always attract many people to watch especially when it comes to Olympics since it was only once every 4 years.
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