Are you THE BADMINTON FANATICS?

Salut
Vous reconnaissez vous dans ce qui suit? (un petit peu de vocabulaire recommandé)
YOU MIGHT BE THE BADMINTON FANATICS, if you agree to most of these bellow:
· You play more than three times a week.
· You give up your Friday nights to play badminton
· You drive 2 hours to play in a tournament even though you are sick, unfit, and haven't played in a month.
· You go to a local tournament and wonder why no one does that "OOooo.... ARR!" cheer when the player smashes
· You arrived at 6am in the morning after flying more than 5 hrs from your hometown and play tournament at noon time, and got leg cramps after first game
· You dream & think about your play tactics at the oddest time of the day.
· You get all emotional & depressed when you loose a game.
· You would get very upset when a club night was cancelled
· You play on your birthday, on Christmas, and new year
· You play in four badminton clubs so you can play afternoons and evenings in the weekend and every night of the week.
· You go to a competitive social players clubs, instead of the social badminton club.
· You know you are going to a good badminton club, if its name has something to do with mythical animals, like: dragon, phoenix, etc
· You know you have a good opponent if his name has something to do with endangered species, like Tiger

· You use your college text books as weights for wrist training
· You finally realized college textbooks are not heavy enough and go buy a real set of dumb-bells
· You nearly flunk out of school because you spent all your time playing badminton.
· You'd rather flunk out of school so that you have more time for badminton.
· You did not go to school cause you wanted to try your newest trick shot.
· The topic of your English essay will be: "Social and financial impact of badminton".
· You love watching people suffer from badminton training than from studying hard.
· You would rather play Badminton than go on a date.
· Your primary requirement for a boyfriend/girlfriend is their Badminton game.
· You are immediately attracted to any boy/girl who says he/she is good at badminton, no matter how ugly he/she is
· You stare at your racket more than you stare at your girlfriend.
· You hold your girlfriend's hand, she feels as if you are strengthening your grip.
· You insist your spouse and children to play better, and you are hoping to have son/daughter in law who can play better than you
· You lie to your girlfriend that you love her more than badminton.
· You meet a new Danish, Malaysian, Indonesian, Korean, Chinese man/woman in town and the first thing your ask him/her is "do you play badminton?"
· You perceive, BF does not stand for Boy Friend, but rather Badminton Friend.
· You perceive, IBF does not stand only for International Badminton Federation, but I Badminton Freak/Fanatic
· When someone mentions "single", you thought of badminton instead of a marital status.
· When you're male, instead of Pamela Anderson, a picture of Gong Zhi Chao or Camila Martin hangs above your bed.
· A picture of Gong Zhi Chao or Camila Martin hangs above your bed, even if you are female.
· At parties and get together you compare and try to outdo callouses with friends.
· Your favourite past time is whittling or pumicing away at your old callouse buildups.
· You named your dog "Minton", so whenever he is naughty you shout ....Bad Minton!!!

· You own more than two rackets and have a pair of scissor in your bag.
· You find yourself continually rummaging at shoe sales hopeful of finding that elusive ultimate pair of badminton shoes, for under $60
· You buy a tennis/squash racket not to play tennis/squash but to train your wrist strength.
· Your 6-racket bag is not big enough to hold all your equipments you have to buy another one.
· You know all the shuttle speed codes from all the different manufacturers
· You set the humidity level in your house not to your family comforts, but so that your shuttles won't dry out so quickly.
· Your bathroom is stuffed with tubes of shuttles and you purposely take very hot showers so that they will be kept moist
· You know exactly how many cross and main strings there are in a racket.
· You know exactly how many feathers there are in a shuttle.
· You always have a stockpile of more than half dozen tubes of shuttles at home.
· You have a shuttlecock as desk decoration.
· You have a miniature shuttlecock decorating your car interior.
· You'd rather eat in the living room so you can string your rackets on the dinning room table.
· You break a string every 4 weeks
· Your badminton shoes start to fall apart after three months of solid playing.
· When you find the right badminton racket (or shoes), you buy three (pairs) instead of one.
· If the racket edition is no longer in existence in the market, you search for it , through e-bay
· All your badminton t-shirts have Yonex Logo.
· You still keep your broken Yonex racquet.
· You buy a pair of jogging pants and discard the Nike logo by stitching 2 Y's (Yonex) over it.
· You buy Adidas products only because the logo looks like a shuttlecock.
· You go to Malaysia and look for Stadium Negara as one of your "must see tourist attractions".
· You go to Malaysia and immediately ask the Hotel's concierge "which shopping centre has all the badminton shops?"
· Your racket arm is noticeably bigger than the other.
· You dislocated your shoulder while playing badminton.
· You have tendonitis in your shoulder from badminton.
· You have tendonitis in your shoulder and still want to play in interclub tournament.
· You do endurance training so that you can last through a singles game.
· You start cycling,playing fotsal ,dancing class thinking it might improve your stamina or foot work
· Your curtains have to be 1 inch higher at the ends than in the middle.
· Just a split-second before you greet someone you think forehand or backhand grip for the handshake.
· You are relieved when the dandruff problem you thought you were having turns out to be just feather dust.
· While fishing, looking at the line always reminds you to restring your racquet.
· When eating pancakes or waffles, you can't help but wonder how the maple syrup might improve your grip.
· Whenever you hear the word "defend", you unconsciously jumps to the open defence stance.
· When someone mentions "bird" you have trouble finding the connection with badminton.
· You get the last bit of toothpaste out of the tube, you hold it by the tail and do a smashing motion with it.

· Your physiotherapist asked you to rest for 2 months, but you'd rather take anti inflammation drugs to keep on playing.
· Your knees/legs hurt before and after but not during the game.
· You know most of the pain relieving rub in the market: dencorub, deepheat, voltaren, etc
· You realise that by drinking beer prior to playing badminton does not make you able to jump higher.
· You stop having your daily beer consumption on your badminton night.
· You start realising that you have to loose weight to be able to do a jumping smash.
· You start realising that when you are above 40 yrs, your knee cannot stand the jumping smash for the full game, especially when you just start playing less than 5 years ago.
· You keep practising jumping smash but later find out that jump drop shot is not a bad idea.
· You practice footwork in front of the mirror.
· You start realising that footwork in badminton is not as easy as in jogging.
· You offer to paint your parents' in law house to improve your wrist action and grip.
· You wear thongs and carry your badminton shoes into the badminton hall.
· You dare to ask whether others bring extra pair of badminton shoes when you forget to bring yours.
· You even dare to borrow your coach's short when you forget to bring yours.
· You take your own videos during every training and watch them at night, you slow motion through your mistakes to think about how to fix them. But to no avail, making the same mistake again on the next training.
· Your highlight of any evening is watching home videos of your past matches, no matter how bad they were.
· After falling asleep in front of the TV, your remote control flies into the air while you do a backhand volley in your dreams.
· When you bought your VCR, you made sure that it has a good slow motion replay so you can watch all those great shots in slow motion.
· When you are watching badminton on video your legs start twitching because of an automatic reflex action.
· When watching a football match and the defence becomes weak you shout SMASH! SMASH
· When you are up 11 points and your opponent has 6 points, you do not let them score another point. Why? In a psychological sense the score 7-11 represents a convenient store which sells refreshments. SO when your opponent gets that score you are afraid they will recharge or reenergize just by thinking of that score.
· When your opponent is serving and you are trailing by 8 points, you psych your self up by shouting at him/her...DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH??
· When you are serving and you are leading by 8 points, you also psych your self up by shouting at him/her... GIVE UP???
· You distract (or simply annoy) an opponent, by keep looking at their eyes or chest. You think this will bewilder them thinking to themselves if there is something wrong with their physical appearances.
· You blame the ceiling lights on the hall, when you miss the smash.
· You curse when you miss a super-easy shot. Example: ta ma da, bloody.., sh....t, etc etc
· Your head bleeds from where your partner hit you with his racquet and you still want to continue the game
· When others applauded at your good shot, you take a deep bow.
· You taped part of your fingers to have firmer grip.
· You start complaining the shuttle is too slow when your smash does not go hard fast.
· You don't mind to pay higher prices for rare badminton matches DVDs from a stranger on the other side of the world.
· You start to panic when you discover that you don't have enough t-shirts for badminton on your club night.
· You keep buying new t-shirts because you think you don't have enough t-shirts in your drawer
· You fill an empty wine bottle with sand so you can train your wrist.
· You wrap both of your knees and elbows to prevent injuries.
· You will buy a DVD-recorder just to record badminton tournaments on TV.
· You watch the badminton tournament with your handheld mini TV while you are driving.
· .You download from internet on "how to hit backhand" manual
· You jump to a just finish game court, without considering that other people have waited longer than you, and you start saying that you have been waiting for so long.
· You jump to a just finish court, and start yelling: "I AM COMING... I AM COMING!!!"
· You admire other player's shot and start shouting at him/her: WHAT'S YOUR NAME?!!!
· You said: I have not jumped yet, you know!!!, after people commented on your perfect crossed drop or smash from base line
· You said to your opponent: Are youuuu ready??!!!! after you netted a bad serve.
· You do mind your old time friend to use the court to practise stroke with his daughter.
· You detest people who start arguing over whether others should be allowed to play single or not, although the rest of the members do not mind
· You target yourself to play 10 games on club night at AU$8.00 to make your money worth ......80 CENTS PER GAME.
· You always say :" one last game for the road", but actually does not mean that.
· At the end of club hours, when courts are free and not many people are there anymore, you beg people to play singles with you.
· You asked your badminton friend, whether it is OK to ask our favourite coach to give an autograph on your T-shirt?, racket?, shoes? diary?
· You finish the game and start having supper with your badminton friends and still talking about badminton.
· You asked your badminton friend, whether it is OK to go back to your home first to fetch your digital camera after knowing our favourite badminton coach and family will be joining us for supper, though you know they are all be starving waiting for us
· You are so shocked to find a long time badminton friend who you have not seen for more than a year has gained more than 10 kg, and try to make him running around the court to loose 5 kg in one night.

· You trust your badminton friends to order foods that you have never tried /ordered before
· You trust your badminton "uncle" to make you grow up by drinking more brandy or wine.
· You trust your baddie friends more than other friends to take care of you when you are intoxicated.
· You start telling your wife that it is your badminton friends who keep you until 4 AM for good supper and a few VB
· In the shower, you start reviewing what you should have done during yesterday's game and your wife has to remind you to get out and get moving before you're late to work.
· You tell people that you have "Badminton elbow" though it is commonly known as tennis elbow ( or it might just be caused by consuming too much viagra and your partner did not turn up most of the time)
· You don't like your opponent to do front crossed drop, you cannot return the shot and you start yelling: what sort of shot is that? Ca Kwe tiauw shot hoah?!!!
· You keep playing new set, even when the time is nearly up and there are pizzas and drinks waiting for you
· You know exactly "ace" is a perfect serve, instead of part of Royal Flush
· You help covering the deficit for the club when not enough players coming to your club.
· You help finding new ways to balance the competitiveness and friendly social environment in the club and at an affordable price for everyone to join to have good sweat, good laugh, and good fun.
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· You accidentally cut your index finger loose about half cup of blood and got 4 stiches at late evening in hospital emergency room, the next day you still fly off to watch the tournament, and by the third day you are playing badminton with your friends
· You found that with stiches on your index finger you still can do a sharp drop with your middle finger
· You make sure you come back from holiday by afternoon on the day of your night badminton session
· You make sure your partner do the shopping not on your badminton session night.
· You arrange your class scheduling does not have morning classes the day after your badminton night session
· After 1 semester you arrange your class scheduling does not exist on the next day after your night badminton session
· You go back for 2 weeks to Malaysia to have some training before the big tournament in Australia
· You come back to Australia to find out that you have gained more than 2 kg after just been 2 weeks in Malaysia
· You enrolled in a unit of your friend's university so you can play in a uni game with them, and not to mention to get t-shirt and jacket with your name on it.

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· You are so passionate about badminton, that your priority is badminton tournament before your birthday party, although they fall on the same day
· You cram practising and training as many times as you can 2 weeks before the tournament ,thinking that you can do the same like in school, procrastinate,wait till last minute, and studying as much as you can in 1 or 2 days before the exams.
· You run 20 km ,5 days before the tournament thinking this one time 20 Km, can improve your stamina for the tournament.
· You play everyday one week before the tournament thinking it might improve your game
· You planned to play in your friend's club and found out the courts are not available as it has just been polished, you try all you could to find other venue to play although it take 35 minutes more to drive
· You prioritise preparing for tournament more than your final exams that will take place a day after your tournament.
· You overheard rumours that the first price of the tournament will be Toyota Corolla, and you are thinking to quit school and dedicate yourself for badminton. (only later you find out the price will just be a small token, and still, you are not disappointed and still eager to play hard)

· Your baddie friend called you S.O.B and you are proud of it as you perceive ,it stands for Son of a Badminton
· You got aggravated when your friends told you that you only play 5- 10 percent, and you start playing a bit more serious ( 25 percent)
· You got aggravated when your partner told you that you made so many mistakes in the games, that you challenged him/her to count how many mistakes you make and how many mistake he/she makes
· You are over 40 years old, never been a member of "past (badminton) star" ,but you are very optimistic to win the badminton tournament called "Future Stars" ??
· You are so disappointed to find that over 50 players come to your club, and you start counting, and say: "I cannot have my money's worth"," I only played 4 games, I want my money back", "Can I just pay $ 2.00"
· Your club is always full, and you start coming up with the idea and discuss with your buddy baddie friends, whether it would be a good idea if we all get together and build a badminton hall with 4 standard size badminton courts, and 4 small courts (for: Cho Tai Tie, Chap Sah, Poker,etc) and a small Chinese food canteen for players who are waiting.
· You used all of your other sport experiences (esp. volley ball, yudo,etc) as a part of your badminton diving technique to return the shuttlecock.
· You wonder how your baddie friend who happens to be more than 60 years old and a doctor, can jump smash and dive like a 20 years old, and you starts speculating:...Doping!???
· Your baddie friend got injured and it took him 1 month to recover, when he did not show up after 2 months, you ask him: where d'f ...no d' hell have you been?
· You vividly remember who you lost to in the last tournament, and have a big wish ,you will meet the same opponent at this year tournament , with one purpose: kick ass!!
· You happened to meet the same opponent whom you lost in the last tournament , but again, you lost .You try to set your mind to go to badminton training at least 3 months before the next year tournament ,still with the same purpose : kick ass!!
· You do not mind losing from a player you do not like as far as you got a chance to smash his/her nose in the tournament.
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· You called all your badminton friends from out of the countries to participate in your home town tournament during winter time, just to find out that they freeze their b...ls off and are not used to play in winter season
· After a big badminton tournament you and your baddie friends ends up with best friend that has same family name, called "sore", though different member of the family, sore leg, sore ankle, sore groin, etc
· You are called for line judge duty in the tournament, and got so very upset as your friend is questioning your credibility to call whether you know whether the shuttle is in or out.
· You are looking forward to watch the final match in the tournament and suddenly you are called as a line judge, you are still doing it, but disgruntled: This is Bull shit!!
· You do anything for badminton, even being a line judge that has to sit in a "real" proper manner.
· You really feel like crying when you injured yourself few days before the tournament.
· You really cry uncontrollably when you got injured during the tournament.
· You got a bad sore muscle in your leg after your 3 sets singles games, you hide yourself in the restrooms and apply lots of painkiller sprays and anti inflammation ointment , and make sure no one ( especially your opponent) in your next double match game knew about it.
· You make sure you tighten up your shoe laces right before every match in the tournament and make everyone to wait for you.
· You bring your best camera and video camera gears in the badminton tournament.
· You are so exhausted after the first single set in the match, get your water bottle, drinking it and look up and say in your heart: God bless this water and give my strength and energy back
* You do 20 push-up before your match in the court or behind the court in front of you opponent trying to show him thay you are fit and warmed-up

j'ai tout lu ... pfffiouuu ... :entrainement: :bang:

par contre merci google traduction :mdr:

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qué pasa??

Excellent, j'aime beaucoup :)

Je me reconnais...mais que dans la partie que j'ai lue...

Quelqu'un qui remplit tous les critères, ça éxiste vraiment?