U19 badminton ranking

When I first started training at age 13 / 14 with my current coach, Holvy de Pauw, I was shocked at what we did the first 2 months of training with him. Prior to this, I had little to no success at any singles event (though I was fortunate enough to win some doubles and mixed doubles events). I had been training mostly with hitting drills and some conditioning after training. With Holvy, our first 2 months, we did not hit a single bird. Instead, all we did was work on footwork. Every day was the same thing – 2 hours of footwork training. We did single corner footworks, full court footwork, pattern footwork, front back footwork, and on and on. After these 2 months, I trained for 2 weeks with hitting drills and played my first tournament since training with him – I got first place without dropping a single game. I was shocked, and this is what I learned.

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