With at least 20 pairs of eyes staring at you, can you not be nervous? Thats the situation while playing a badminton match. I had sort of a phobia at times. I am always nervous and under a lot of pressure playing in badminton competitions, especially if the match i am playing is the decider, if i win the game, our team wins, if not, the whole team loses. Seeing disappointed faces from my coach, teammates and teacher-in-charge after a lost was unbearable. However, during a match, you win and you lose. Soon, I was gradually getting rid of the phobia.
During competitions, we have to leave our classes earlier(around 12) to eat and warm up for our match. This would result in missing of lessons, which does us no good at all. Sometimes I wished competitions starts a little earlier, to avoid missing of lessons. But then again, I would reach home later and have less time to do my homework.
Besides that, I would have loads of training before competition begins. I would have little time to do my homework as I would reach home quite late(probably around 7). However, these hard work do pay off.
Our badminton team got 3rd in the west-zone and had got into top 8 in nationals, which never happened in our school's badminton history before(that is, in 90 years). Our teacher-in-charge even agreed to threat the badminton team to japanese food for this achievement.
There are goods and bads in badminton, in all kinds of sports. If I had the ability to turn back time and not learn badminton, I would still prefer to learn badminton. Its the passion for badminton which pushes me forward. If you had the abilty to turn back time to change things, would you?
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ABOUT MY SELF
Name : Zan Lim
School : HCI
Age : 14
Idol : TORRES!!!
