Hi John, it was great to meet you too!  Luckily you had a profile pic up on the forum so I recognised you, which I guess I should sort out too 🙂

Yeah I'm sure we could have talked badminton for ages had it not been for the alternative of watching some world class badminton!

I liked how close the seating was and that you can walk alongside the courts.  The only thing I wasn't so keen on was the hard plastic seats.  I debated on taking my 6 year old son but he would have been fidgeting after half an hour.

I have a very similar photo of the Adcocks – it was nice of them to pose for that.  Actually I went a bit snap happy and took too many photos which I haven't sorted out yet.  Here are 3 pics of the mens doubles match though:

Andy Ellis jump smashing:

Then a couple of funny ones, with Andy Ellis leaning on an invisible wall:

And being held back by an invisible harness lol:

Chen.

Thanks for the pictures and the reports, always interesting to hear it first hand from people attending these events.

I didn't manage to get organised enough to attend myself but I did catch some of it on the online stream, unfortunately it was like stepping back 10 years and something of a slide show even at using the lowest 240 image quality setting.

I hope BAE (or whoever are responsible for the streaming aspect) look to improve this as compared to the (mostly) good BWF coverage it looked very poor. Something like 480p or even 360p streaming smoothly would have made this very watchable, here's hoping they make it available somewhere for later viewing.

It was still an entertaining watch even if the eyes felt a little strained after an hour or so and the XD match at the end was entertaining for the previously mentioned flick on Langridge alone.