hi to everyone,

I came across this website via badmintoncentral.com. PaulSteward posted reply about technique in badminton, he refered to his website. I visit this site very often for the informative articles about technique and also the racket review articles.

Now something about myself.

my name is Joost Ridder. I am 22 years old and i come from Holland. (yes the land made out of cheese, wooden shoes, drugs and prostitutes😛 just kidding) I play badminton for about 5 years now with some time of due puberty. at the age of 20 i started picking badminton up. at this moment i am really busy with my internship at the fire department of Rotterdam. I am writing a whole new policy about Community Safety for them. i wanted to enrole myself for your badminton coaching weekend, but due a lack of time i can’t make it.

My current playing level is 1st class district in Holland. You don’t have anything about Dutch skill level ratings. If you rank all badminton players where A+is the catagorie where lin dan would fit in, A are the national players, B regional high level players, C regional, D low end regional, E recreational, F beginners. I would just fit in the B level.

Currently i am playing with a Victor Total inside wave 6000 and a Carlton vapour trail elite strung at 11kg. (that is about 24 punds) I am searching for a racket to replace my carlton vapour trail elite. I am leaning towards an arcsaber 8 dx, which i am hoping is slightly head heavy.

I am hoping that we could share experiences together, because i am realy interested in other ways of playing and coaching badminton then i know now.

greetings,

Joost