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Hi Paul, I would like to know more about Tactics, things to look out for in your opponents, What would you suggest I do if getting pinned down with low drives & smashes to your backhand.

Jonathan, nice thought! Have to agree that falling over and getting back up and then winning the point is a pretty handy thing and looks good too. And as Clarke showed in the All Englands a few years ago, falling over and then staying down and hit the winning shot from the floor looks even more impressive!

 

But to be fair, I don't think this is something Paul could cover as it's not a skill as such. Well, I don't think it is. I think it's more to do with strength, using muscles that we perhaps don't use in every day life, to spring ourselves back up again. You need to be pretty fit and strong to be quick and agile as that and whilst we may think we are like that in our heads, the reality is, once we're down, we stay down!  But I think that is partly due to shuttle watching and partly due to not spending hours in a gym and hours on court preparing for every possibility.

 

Would love to be wrong though, and I definitely like your thinking!

Peter Warman said:

How about an article on fault solving. So like a chart you get in the back of manuals if your product isn't working properly.
 

Problem                                                 Remedy

Smashes going into the net                    Relax and use non racket hand to follow shuttle

Can't backhand clear                              Face back of the court and image hitting a brick wall at point of contact with shuttle

 

And so on, like a quick look up guide.

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I think this troubleshoot guide would be a great addition to Pauls articles :)

 

Good call Peter

I would like to see the "army training" part two :)

 

And I second Pauls opinion: writing that fix list is HUGE. literally means Paul has to try and condense decades of experience into a bullet point list. Impossible. However, perhaps if there was part of the forum dedicated to "problems" and "solutions" rather than discussion/someway of combining the two, then we could all chip in with problems we think could occur with certain shots, along with our own diagnosis or solution of some sort. Then we can tackle the problems one by one, rather than asking Paul for a huge list.

 

But then again, I would hope people would post that sort of thing anyway… if you struggle with a shot, and don't know whats wrong, then let the forum know! Someone will have an answer!