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Back On Track-- or should I say court!

Well we started badminton consistently now and looks like finally I'll be getting good at it. My last post about badminton told everyone as to how 'athletic' and super I was :P Well not anymore. Since we started mid last week I have been sluggish failing to serve right and hit the smashes to finish the rally. Looks like I need to go back to the basics again before our office champs return to smack me out :) We'll my 'Partner' and me are doing quite well in doubles and seem to be a formidable team but I feel I have lost my earlier stamina. Time to get back on Court and get my game right! Adios

The Badminton Diaries

Badminton : a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net Now comes the difficult part.... playing Badminton. All these months I was thinking I want to do something with my free time. I never liked going to the gym here. It was too much for me with very bad results. So the peril was how do I start losing some weight by not going to the gym. The answer was fairly simple I needed to 'Work out' by taking up a sport. Now now I know that I am a fairly good table tennis player (well atleast in my company for sure). But that wasn't enough. It was just too easy. And doubles really didn't give me the exercise let alone the excitement I needed. Then came the day when Milind and Sudhir decided to go for Badminton. We'll they had racquets but didn't want to play singles. So Vinod and me went with them. Now let me tell you playing badminton is one thing and playing badminton in formals is another. So like scapegoats Vinod a...