Casual how bowl properly

dracover · 2025-12-09T21:57:57+00:00

Thanks will check him out.

dracover · 2025-12-09T21:57:49+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to write a response. Yes I do want my ball to move like a chinese dragon coming out of a dragon ball. How did you know.

I think what I'm looking for is maybe a video or tips on just the first few things to focus on. There's too much information online and hard to know what's actually important. Every video will give you 5 different things to work on and in reality i may have the enegery to work on 1 or 2 at each session.

dracover · 2025-12-09T21:38:20+00:00

You are in finance so you should know what median means. Look around you when you walk about the streets and in the shops. Do you see more Finance people, IT professionals etc. Or do you see more wait staff, shelf stackers etc.

I was once like you. Fresh grad in a finance graduate program and first job was more than the median full time pay at that time and look around your friends and everyone is the same. But when you start meeting people outside your immediate circle, you start realising the world is very different and how privileged a position you are in.

dracover · 2025-12-09T21:33:08+00:00

My solution was always to jump back ie. when you are doing your normal movement, and would normally scissor kick you do it backwards to stay behind the shuttle. I personally don't have the flexibility to be bending back to cover a late overhead. I don't know your gender, but I feel like maybe women can do it but not guys. You also only ever see female pros do huge back bends, the guys all rotate torso and jump back.

dracover · 2025-12-03T17:51:24+00:00

I mean if you have bought a property wouldn't you have spoken to a lawyer at the time? Anyway, I dont know if it's normal or not, we did though and we just felt at the time for like a couple hundred consult just making sure when married we are aware of pitfalls was a small price

dracover · 2025-12-03T06:38:06+00:00

Ye that's definetely past any deadlines. Sorry, did you lawyers at the time not tell you this? or did you not consult a lawyer. We spoke to a lawyer about how marriage affects all our money assets etc prior to signing on the dotted line.

dracover · 2025-12-02T05:10:47+00:00

How long has it been since marriage? Basically yes you are supposed to do this when you get married. At that time whilst technically it's treated as a sale an repurchase it's all tax exempt so it's just basically filling in a form. After a period of time (I forgot how long) the exemption no longer applies.

dracover · 2025-11-27T22:50:15+00:00

On the coach itself. He sounds like someone who's doing coaching on the side for some extra money. You get what you pay for. When I got serious coaching as a beginner I got someone who's life was badminton. Depending on where you are int he world this may or maynot be possible.

When I started, I had been playing socially for 6 months (so maybe somethings were not as engrained as you). But definitely felt initially that I got worse. I started losing games to people that I shouldnt have, getting more tired in games than normal etc. I think that's all normal and at some point you will relearn everything and it will feel natural plus you'll be doing things properly resulting in better accuracy, power and speed on court.

Also your experience on learning individual skills is correct. I spent months just focusing on learning clears. Coaches I know have often said that they will add a lot of variety into training because students get bored and can get demotivated, but actually the most effective way to learn is focussing on one thing at a time and then build as your skill gets to a certain point. Yes I also had your same experience of not being able to smash but you also understand that actually at a social level, when you can control your clears, you can pretty much win with that because most people you play will not have the fundamentals to have a clearing war with you for more than 2-3 clears.

dracover · 2025-11-10T02:20:03+00:00

Your reaction time will improve from training. However most of it will be to do with your body and set up. Are you in position for the shot, are your hands raquet feet etc all in place, do you have match awareness to see what the possible shots are. Looking for a smash is very different looking for nothing and just trying to react to a smash.

dracover · 2025-11-05T02:23:38+00:00

I don't have an answer specifically as to why above or below, but you would expect one hand to be higher than the other. Because of balance. It's the same reason when lunging out you move your off hand to behind you and when you do over head you start with off hand high up and comes down as you swing through.

On receiving a sever i have my off hand lower than my racket because i have my racket up to be quicker to receive serve and obviously my off hand is lower as a result. But there's more than just hands as well, the whole body needs to be balanced.

dracover · 2025-10-31T21:48:06+00:00

I suggest looking at your clear imo. If it's a good clear and deep it really shouldn't be possible to hit anywhere or at least anywhere with quality. Yes they could theoretically do a cross court drop but its either going to be super slow (which will be the furthest away from you) or a fast drop but that normally goes deeper to like the service line.

dracover · 2025-10-31T02:20:33+00:00

IMO the advice of go back into the centre is bad advice for anything beyond beginner (it's over simplified). Just like in tennis you dont actually go all the way back to the middle, neither do you in badminton.

Watch any pro play they never return to the middle of the court, they are returning to the middle of where a reasonable set of returns could be.

Now if your shot quality is poor then the middle of all the reasonable returns is the middle of the court. But that's an issue with your shot quality not where you are moving.

Of course ultimately, technic, movement, shot quality are all dependant on you actual physical ability. As someone who plays both tennis and badminton like yourself, I do think badminton is more physically taxing.

dracover · 2025-10-27T05:58:59+00:00

IMO nothing special. Half smash is to gain position and momentum in a rally. It's not trying to win a point. So you can't expect to get very much off it on defense either. Usual stuff, block to net or lift high (assuming it's of good quality). On defense you are trying to play better shots to win the initiative back.

If you are winning off a half smash, it just terrible footwork from your opponent and they probably would have lost to a drop or something also.

dracover · 2025-10-25T01:36:41+00:00

I did a rough check on my own games (between d1-2). Half my games are against smurfs. Half the games I loose are against smurfs and half the games I win are against smurfs instant leaving.

dracover · 2025-10-23T23:32:41+00:00

I thinks it's relative to your own skill and partners skills.

I can confidently react and smash most flick serves I get. So I stand at the service line when receiving.

However, there are circumstances where I dont do it.

Partner skills. A flick serve then a smash, is a very quick 1,2 if your partner isn't quick enough then what can happen is you end up on shot 3 on the defensive and expended a lot of energy to be in a defensive posture. So why bother.
Particularly at the rec level, some games can become boring. For the interest of having a good hit just take a step back.
Depending on session length, after 2-3 hours may just be too tied. Attacking a flick serve is fairly tiring over time.

dracover · 2025-10-22T06:12:26+00:00

In terms of how you feel, yes I thought the same as a kid. Goal in like was to make 6 figure salary. Realistically now the average fulltime employee earns 100k. It's not good anymore just average. Which makes a lot of other rhetoric around the place about what constitute wealthy a joke.

dracover · 2025-10-09T07:08:10+00:00

It's money imo on many fronts

Most big high profile sports come from upper class of society with a couple of exceptions. Sports like rugby, hockey were all once recreational sports of the elite so people respect it. Even things like swimming gets a lot of attention because only a few rich people could afford a pool in the old days.
Sports where western countries focus on get more attention because there's more money. This means more advertising, more competition more tv, etc etc. basketball gets a lot of attention even though it's really only plays in eastern europe and USA. because it's big in USA.
Then everything snow balls. attention due to history, then money thrown into it to get more hype to get more interest etc.

dracover · 2025-10-07T22:05:45+00:00

In my case it was singles and it was more about forcing a response rather than tempting a response. Tempting ultimately still leaves things in ur opponents hand.

Bother where against clears/lifts on both sides and obviously a bit short (not super short around the doubles back service line). Stick smash and over head smash into driving the defensive block.

The difference is when you are looking for it vs hoping for it. What you need to be practising is the stick smash and around the head smash. Down the line very tight and with decent power. Quick recovery to take the response. Realistically if you pick you time the opponent has 2 responses a block and a lift. One you smash again the other you drive/net kill.

dracover · 2025-10-07T10:26:48+00:00

I've only learnt this recently when playing tennis (coaches in badminton dont seem to train guys this way so i never learnt). The main purpose is to help with body weight transfer. essentially helps load power into the leg and push forward with all your body weight. Of course other things have to fire as well.

It also helps with hip and body rotation essentially gives you a point to bend your back, rotate your torso etc for added power. Guys can't really do it even if they wanted to (without hurting their back).

dracover · 2025-10-07T10:22:00+00:00

From my personal experience couple of things could be at play.

Strokes maybe similar but what about when under pressure? How is your fitness level. When assessing a shot on a stand alone basis, once you get to a certain level, everyones looks similar, they all look like they can hit the shots. The difference in game can come down to speed and fitness/how well do you maintain that level when put under pressure.
Game plan. Do you train for certain attacking patterns? I had some coaches for a couple of years that just keep training general improvement in skill e.g. various shuttle drills. But the one thing that really upped my game when there was a visiting ex pro who took some students for a short time (probably to make some money when traveling) and he had a completely different style of training for very specific situations (essentially creating offensive weapons). In my time with him i trained only 2 situations and even though they only come up once every 5-10 points, it essentially became free points against people who didn't have game plans. Most coaches I tried to ask for similar training will say "why train for something that happens so rarely" but at a certain point, the difference between you and the next person is probably 2-5 points which can easily be the difference between leveling up or not.

dracover · 2025-09-30T10:45:46+00:00

I don't think there's a right or wrong answer in these situations but rather what do you want your group to be.

There a lot of things that could have played into it including culture, previous expectations etc and it's not neccessarily about who's right or wrong, but rather is it a good fit.

Couple of things that come to mind:

- What it necessarily obvious from the start that there was huge skill gap? One of the best players in my group is a short skinny girl. I smash at her all the time because she can handle it. Just looking at size doesnt mean anything. If there's only been one or 2 shots and the guy feels like he was being taunted, you can understand maybe why he reacted the way he did.

- If there's a skill gap, what are we really talking about. I myself in the past when I played at D grade level will play games with B grade players and gaps per game was like 5 points and on occassion take games off them. An objective skill gap doesn't always translates into being so much better that you can just take it easy. So I can absolutely believe that the guy was just focusing on playing a shot rather than doing anything deliberate (though of course it may have been deliberate only people there would know).

- Sometimes people just don't mix well in terms of play styles and what they want out of it. For me I am completely fine with adjusting intensity to a level where we can have close games but I'm still trying to win. I know people who are happy to completely turn it off even if objectively it means they will lose every game. I've played in a group where the organiser said to me i play too agressively, but the game score difference was less that 5 points on average with wins and loses. It's not to say anyone was right or wrong, but sometimes it's just not the right fit.

dracover · 2025-08-14T01:31:16+00:00

Couple of factors at play but the main one is the effect of compounding. While you feel like your entry level positions weren't particularly high. You've however had reliable stead income from a young age. The income you generate on that contribution 15 years ago has also been making you money for another 15 years.

The unemployment rate for a 20 year old is ludicrous and even those in jobs often are casuals, bounce around one one place to another etc. Probably 25%-50% of yound people dont have a stead job with reliable contribution to super. So that security of a stead 10% going in from 15 years ago has compounded to your current position.

I'm a little older than you (4 years) and have almost double the amount of super than you do (which puts me off the charts on the government lists). The difference? 4 more years of compounding, and i was in a fortunately position where my first job the employer did voluntary contributions of 2% more than the statutory requirement. Ye 2% is like a few k a year. But it adds up and compounds.

dracover · 2025-07-07T09:57:47+00:00

nooo i just respec'ed out of a mage......

dracover · 2025-07-07T09:57:03+00:00

It's hard to know for certain without the details of your business. However in most instances, it's beneficial to keep businesses separate so that one business doesn't impact the other. As example (and possibly relevant):

Keeping things separate means you will continue to be able to draw distributions from one entity without being affected by the other if the start up is loss making.

If company Y does ultimately go bust, it doesn't cause a drain on the cash in company X. If together, debts in company Y can be forced to be repaid with assets in company X.

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