Racket arrived, as posted earlier. Itching to try it out. Local community centre has drop-in badminton, so I went today. I first went to a small badminton store to grab some badminton shoes and plastic birdies. Got these shoes and 6-pack Mavis 350 birdies for 100,000W.
http://www.toplinesports.ca/Kumpoo-KH-160YB-Badminton-Shoes_p_230.html
Never heard of Kumpoo in my life. Dude tried to do 113,000 for the two things, but I went down to 100,000W by making a fuss. Still damn sure got overcharged. I guess he felt guilty for knowing what he did, because he gave me "service", IE: a free pair of socks. What a guy...
Anywho, so off I biked to the community centre. Paid my 1500W or whatever it was, and went it. 90% of the people there were over 30, so the older gen Koreans. TL;DR = I went around introducing myself, and everyone ignored me. My Korean was understandable. Broken, but understandable that I'm from Canada, and this is my first time playing here. A few people did play with me, however, but the majority just kinda ignored me and didn't look at me when I introed myself. And the people I did play with just rallied with me. Some people actually do look at me, and do interact with me and talk back, but then it's like korean korean korean 죄송해요 (sorry). And I know at that point they don't wanna play with me. Sigh.
I played a half court game with an ahjuma and lost 16-21. I felt so ashamed lololol. I'm prob not gonna go back there again, not until I can destroy them all and make everyone cry, which means Im' never gonna go there ever again.
They were all pretty damn good. Even the ahjumas were playing very respectably. They were judging me probz cuz I just had a graphic T-shirt on instead of a Yonex shirt. Also didn't have the Yonex shorts either.
Sigh. I need to find coaching. I'm gonna talk to my co-worker, who is also training. 100,000W a month for 20 minutes of training + 2 hours of game time a week. 25,000 a session.... expensive as fuck, considering training is only 20 minutes.
SIGGGGHHHH.
Thank god I didn't wear my wrist band though, or else the people would be like, who's that damn foreigner who thinks he's all that with his Victor wristband, and his Victor bravesword 9, but he can't play for shit!
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Oh, racket felt really nice. Maybe it's because I just haven't held one in so long. Clears, when I hit it properly, clears faaaarrrr. So far, it goes out lol. I can't smash tho, not that well. But it's my fault, not the rackets. Everyone uses feather birds too. Just feathers covering the gym floor lol.
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