Posts Tagged ‘tournament program’

Next week Slovakia

(27 augustus 2011)

The past week was devoted to the preparations for the EBU tournament next week in Prešov, Slovakia. I’ll take part together with my regular men’s doubles partner Dave Khodabux and this tournament I am going to play the mixed doubles with Iris Tabeling. In this event we are trying to find out which combinations match best and this is the second tournament in which we try this out. A nice challenge is waiting for us.

This past week went well. A number of physical training sessions were alternated with some more quiet sessions focussing on standard situations and technique. Of course we have also played a considerable number of matches to get into the right rhythm. In between the training sessions I had my shoes and inner soles checked and fixed again by David Evers from Footconnection (http://www.footconnection.nl/) one of my loyal sponsors.

Last night we had a first meeting in the Duinwijck hall with my teammates. We discussed the upcoming season. It was fun and it gave a familiar feeling again to be back as a Duinwijcker again in the hall where I started playing as a 7 year old little boy. I am confident that we will have a successful season with good performances.

I believe this weekend is my last free weekend till Christmas so I intend to relax and enjoy myself. I hope I will be able to keep you informed from Slovakia but there is a good chance that we won’t have internet in our hotel. Of course I will write a report on my site after I have returned from Prešov. For the real diehard followers; you can see the results on www.toernooi.nl and live matches via the live stream of www.badmintoneurope.tv

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Rehabilitation Week 3 and tournament schedule

(20 november 2010)

Well, week 3 of my custom rehabilitation schedule is already over. Time flies. I am very satisfied with my recovery. This week I started with quite a tough power program that I now follow 3 times a week. Next week, with the guidance of our power trainer Patrick van Balkom, I will try to make my upper legs as strong as possible. Together with physio Beate I will work on the stability of my body. All this should ultimately make me ready for a fresh start in the new year.

On court, the exercises have been expanded. Last week we have done two so-called multi shuttle sessions at a higher level than the weeks before. The fixed patterns are gradually replaced by ”random” exercises (you can expect the shuttle everywhere) and the intensity increases. I also practiced my defence intensively at the same time training my racquet skills. We do this mostly in a 2-1 player situation where there is one player attacking from the back court and the other is putting pressure from the net on me as a defensive player. At the end of the week I was already able to partly join the training of the other double players and that made me feel good!

Last Tuesday Dave and I discussed the tournament program for the first half year of 2011 with the technical director and our coach. They have made up a very good program (of course subject to injuries and finance) and I have immediately updated the agenda on the site so you can see where and when I am playing and in which country.

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