About Me - Penang Badminton

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Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia
We only a group of people like to play badminton, and enjoy playing, you're most welcome if wanna join us.

Team Activitis Update

- Weekly Team Session

Day : Every Tuesday
Time : 7pm - 9pm
Venue : Bkt Dumbar PBC Badminton Hall (Eddy Chong Badminton Hall)
Court : 2 & 3

- Weekend Play Session

Day: Every Saturday
Time: 8pm-10pm
Venue: N-Park B'ton Court
Contact Person: HT Ong

- Friendly Match Arrangement

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

2010/03 Mr. David Lee Birthday Celebration

Happy Birthday to Mr. David Lee



Eddie's baby "Angpao" presentation by Mr. President












Saturday, March 20, 2010

2010 Swiss Open Super Series Semi Finals Schedule

Astro Channel 811 Live
3/20 8pm Semi Finals I
3/21 2am Semi Finals II
3/21 7pm Finals

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Latest Update of 2010 All England Finals Schedule & Matches Sequence

Live on Astro Supersport (811)
14/03 21:00 Finals

TV1
14.3.2010 (Sun) 20:30 Finals

2010 All England Finals Schedule

Live on Astro Supersport (811)
14/03 21:00 Finals

TV1
14.3.2010 (Sun) 20:30 Finals

Saturday, March 13, 2010

2010 All England Semi Finals Schedule

Live on Astro Supersport (811)
13/03 20:30 Semi-finals
14/03 21:00 Finals

TV1
13.3.2010 (Sat) 23:05 SFs (Delayed Live)
14.3.2010 (Sun) 20:30 Finals

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Congrats to Eddie be DADDY liao

congrats brother...

Happy Birthday to President, Mr. David Lee

10-Mar : Mr. David Lee

is Special Day to our President,
May GOD richly bless you on this special day!
Happy Birthday to you...Happy Birthday to you...Happy Birthday Happy Birthday...Happy birthday to youuuuuuuuu...!!!

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Saturday, March 6, 2010

湯尤杯羽球賽種子排名出爐

湯尤杯種子排名出爐,馬來西亞在湯杯隊以第3種子身分出擊,女隊則是第6種子。
大馬在湯杯的種子排名,是在中國和印尼之下,並不如之前所料的第2種子。丹麥則是第4種子,4強排位和上屆如出一轍。

種子排名將作為下週一的分組依據,這意味著馬來西亞隊要晉級報到決賽,可能無可避免的必需要解決中國或印尼隊。

附加賽廢除

隊伍積分排名根據各隊在排名榜男單前3及男雙前2名組合的總積分作準,中國隊積分為30萬9268.24分;印尼28萬7812.57分;馬來西亞為28萬5470.32分。

無論如何,汲取了上屆耶加達賽會韓國隊在小組賽求敗,並得以在淘汰賽階段避開中國,最終闖入決賽的教訓,國際羽聯修改比賽制度堵漏,廢除了小組第2、第3名間的複賽權爭奪附加賽,小組前二名將直接進入8強淘汰賽。

世界羽聯賽項經理威魯哥巴接受《中國報》訪問時指出:“初賽繼續分為4組,每組3隊,小組前二名將進入8強淘汰賽,附加賽已被廢除。前2種子將分據上下半部,馬來西亞雖然是主辦國,但是沒有選組的權利,一切以抽簽各安天命。”

尤泊杯的種子排名,韓國獲得次號種子排名,日本和印尼則是第3和第4種子。作為第6種子,馬來西亞無可避免的和其中一隊同組。

本屆賽會將于5月9日至16日在吉隆坡布特拉體育館上演

Yonex German Open 2010 Semi Finals Schedule

Note: Time shown is Germany local time.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Best way to improve your game?

Here is advice if you want to improve your game.

Unless you are using an old steel racket with fishing lines, buying a new racket will do you little good. Perhaps you will get a small margin of improvement, but it will not give you that edge that you are looking for.

Trying to improve the strength of your smash isn't going to make that much of a difference, it will be marginal, once again. The one and only thing that recommend, is free, the only thing you sacrifice in getting this imho, pretty sizable improvement, is you need to spend the time to practice it.

And what is it? The old saying, "If you can't get there, it doesn't matter how good you can hit the birdie." Recommend you practice your footwork.

Here is the rational why recommend footwork.
Many people that have seen, usually play in a open gym or with friend, playing games. Or may be you will even try to spend time doing some drills, clears, drop, smash, etc. But hardly have much time to do footwork drills. And the reason for that is simple, footwork drills are not natural, you need to occupy your own side of the court, and your friends won't be able to play "with" you. Besides, if there are ppl waiting for the court, i'd feel strange to have to take up the court.
Footwork is then the least practiced of all skills, and as a result, unless if you are natural for it, it will be the weakest part of many ppl's skillset. But footwork imho is the most important skill to have. Say it again, "If you cannot get there, it doesn't matter how good you can hit the birdie." The collorary of that is that if you get there early, you have many more choices of shots to hit, you will have all the time to do your stroke, trick shots, you will be less pressuerd so you can have the choice to smash anywhere on the court, you can even peek at your opponent and see where the holes in their formation are, and the list goes on and on... Furthermore, if you have good footwork, you spend less energy moving around the court, you don't need to lunge and bent down so much, you ended up having more reserved energy at the end, perhaps that will help you outlast your opponent...
Always known that footwork is important. But as the situation with gym mentioned above, never had the chance to practice it. Now have forced to spend more time practicing it. And the improvement is very apparent, many shots that used to feel pressured and have trouble with, will getting them with ease these days. No longer feel like on the wrong foot all the time, and movement around the court is smoother than before.

So, if you think a new racket or trying to increase the power of your smash is the next improvement you are looking for, think twice and go practice some footwork. If you really want to spend some money, go buy yourself a better fitting pair of badminton shoes..

What do you think?

Yes, footwork is the key to success in the game of badminton. Of course the proper strokes do matter and obviously play a part in the game but as you play more often, those strokes and secondary characteristics of the mechanics will improve.

Like many of you have said, footwork is not a one day pick up thing. Sometimes it takes years to perfect it. Practice makes perfect... good footwork makes a good player.