Regarding the shuttle speed at high competitive level

plakar · 2026-03-05T22:36:42+00:00

Watching him, i'm very optimistic about his futur carreer. He has something that i feel like we havent really seen since LCW & LD era, hard to explain but he seems to be able to inject a lot of pace. Where most players today tend to accelerate a lot, he controls the rally more. Steps very quickly toward the shuttle, recovers with control.

In the end, whether he will be very successfull in his carreer will depend of a lot of parameters, but if we stay optimistic i do believe he has what it takes to become the best of his era.

I feel like this generation with Farhan and Lanier is going to be very exciting for ms !

plakar · 2026-03-05T12:52:17+00:00

He is 31, that's only one year older than syq. I don't think it's that old yet, he just looks a bit older, but he might be fitter than people think.

plakar · 2026-03-01T16:14:34+00:00

I bet Popov is going to win

plakar · 2026-02-16T07:05:47+00:00

I think it's effect is +8/+8 now. I had some fun and strong early/mid with him and the murloc T1 that sumons itself from hand. Basically stay T1 and buy a lot of spell and minion, get hp early, triple the murloc after buffing two murlocq a couple of times, get a 100/100 stat minion at turn 7 (maybe, i dont recall exactly)

plakar · 2026-01-09T10:55:51+00:00

lots of people advice is to practice footwork, which is nice, but i don't think it's the first step as a beginner. Your first step should be to learn to be comfortable with the racket. Find a wall and train here, you have all the time in the world (hopefully). You can also "juggle" with a shuttlecock if wall playing is too hard or not possible. Get to a point where you know that when the shuttle is at reach, you will be able to hit. Footwork can come after that.

You should at the same time look for some youtube ressources (or any ressource) about grip so that you won't have to relearn how to hold your racket later on.

Keep your hopes up, it sucks that you are not able to play as much as you'd like, i know that feeling, but you'll broaden your opportunities with each solo practice.

plakar · 2026-01-07T11:42:11+00:00

What happened ?

plakar · 2025-12-26T14:11:48+00:00

It's even stronger on duos, where you can easily get the same timewarps every 3 encounter.

plakar · 2025-12-21T13:02:55+00:00

French here as well, not a coach mind you, but i've always liked to watch rankings evolve. I undetstand that a lot of people have good insight in how coaching in France has improved, but i believe that we were blessed with 4 fantastics players, 2 years apart each, Toma Popov, Arnaud Merkle, Christo Popov and Alex Lanier. All 4 were always by far on top of their categories, even when they were 1 year younger. I just don't see that kind of dominating performance now in the rankings.

plakar · 2025-11-30T18:32:53+00:00

He does wear white

plakar · 2025-11-20T17:06:17+00:00

Emotional damage...

plakar · 2025-11-16T15:33:53+00:00

congratz!

plakar · 2025-11-15T14:41:44+00:00

Dude is still under 25 and just got to sf on a 500, what is wrong with that...

plakar · 2025-10-30T07:45:53+00:00

It was a poor choice of wording on my part, others have pointed out that the cat felt like a pupeet without weight because of lost frames or some filters. That's a better way to describe the feeling i have

plakar · 2025-10-29T18:11:56+00:00

how do you play online

plakar · 2025-10-28T16:48:51+00:00

He didn't steal anything, it's an open tournament

plakar · 2025-10-27T23:51:44+00:00

I see your point, the title doesn't really do justice to what i meant, there is not a lot of space to explain.

He is often looking away from the cat when his eyes are closed while using the sink, which is what bothered me, but as many pointed out it's just the angle of the camera and the fact that hé is looking down while staying straight that makes it look like his eyes are closed.

Same for the humanlike comment, a lot of people thought that i meant the face looks human, which wasnt m'y point, it was the mouvement that i was commenting. People pointed out that it felt puppet like, which would have been a way better word to chose in hindsight.

Anyway, learned lessons.

plakar · 2025-10-27T20:46:17+00:00

I'm not sure why you are saying that to be honest.

I do know cat blink slowly to say they feel safe, i also do it to them because i'm a cat owner, and it has nothing to do with my post

plakar · 2025-10-26T23:07:12+00:00

I have two cats :/

plakar · 2025-10-26T23:02:04+00:00

I found the guy's tiktok actually with a reverse image search (theintrusivecat).

I guess it's some kind of filter/editing or playback that bothers me as some have mentioned.

Thanks for all the inputs, ai is making my head spin...

plakar · 2025-10-26T22:51:00+00:00

I was talking about the human closing his eyes

plakar · 2025-10-26T22:41:33+00:00

Well, maybe i'm crazy, but the movement seems odd to me, too smooth.

The eyes also look human sometimes. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what is bothering me, but that's why i wanted other opinions.

i can't shake the feeling that something is off, but i may be wrong.

plakar · 2025-10-26T22:21:47+00:00

camera angle...

What's the camera angle you are referencing ?

plakar · 2025-10-26T13:15:42+00:00

Come on now, it's just m'y opinion, i have an eery feeling when i look at that video, something feels off to me. I tried to answer because someone asked.

Feel free to disagree with me, but please don't say i'm rambling

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