I haven’t had the chance to follow the badminton tournaments lately. Even the local tourneys I used to join, I skip them for one reason or another. But a lunchtime conversation with a friend, in which he was very animated describing the badminton game he watched on TV, sparked my curiosity.

I know the days of the Kennievic and Kennie are gone already. It’s the teenagers that ruled the badminton scene these days. And our country’s best young shuttlers entered the 2011 BWF World Junior Championship held in Taipei, Taiwan.

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I am going back to play badminton in 2011. I have already done so in December. So far, my knees didn’t complain. It might did but unlike before, it wasn’t as painful. I could still walk and climb the office stairs. No need for paracetamol or some aspirin. But I can’t resist applying the omega pain killer on my tired muscles the night after the game.

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I remember full well the days leading to the CPA board exam 14 years ago. My schedule was so tight at study that I did not have any more time for myself. Accounting subjects here, accounting subjects there.

But there was one activity that I could not resist: Badminton on Saturday mornings. Those days were supposed to be the schedule of our Law review but I exchanged that for sweat at the badminton court. “I can read the law books later” I said to myself. Sweat now, study later.

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To all the badminton enthusiasts out there, this is your chance again to get hold of an elusive trophy or championship medal. SOTX, a leading badminton brand worldwide, is once again bringing us the SOTX Cup, now on its 6th Year.

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Most badminton enthusiasts in the Philippines do not know anything about what is happening in the sport outside the country. Do you know that the Philippines sent a team to join the 2009 Sudirman Cup? They are showing good results in the Sudirman Cup. 3-1 in their group. To be honest, we do not even know what is happening within our nation’s badminton community.

What is the Sudirman Cup? Here’s the Wikipedia entry:

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