Practice Makes Perfect

Loi Nguyen Nguyen 1

English 100

Professor Iris Chao

February 20, 2013

Practice Makes Perfect

People have their own hobbies which they really like to do in their free time. One of my favorite ones is playing badminton. As a quote “Practice Makes Perfect”, I practice playing that sport and play well now. The truth is that being good at a sport is not easy in a short time; on the contrary, it takes a long period to get through all the steps which leads to the top of an achievement. Specifically, badminton requires both the interest and the skills of a good player.

First of all, I have played around and got familiar with badminton since I was very young. At the age of three, I used to go to the badminton court with my father every weekend and the interest of playing this sport arose to me. A year later, my father bought for me my own racket and I played with some other boys while my father took a break. Although I was too young then and first played badminton, my performance made others be surprised. From then, in order to have enough energy for badminton games later, I also got up early and walked with my father every morning.

Next, when I was in elementary school, I joined in a badminton club to practice my skill. At that club, we studied the basic skills and played some small games each week. Even though that was a basic class, I learned a lot of fundamental understanding in this complicated sport. I learned about the size of a badminton court which was 6.1 meters in width and 13.4 meters in length. For the racket, the size was also limited to 23 centimeters in width and 68 centimeters for the other side. Moreover, I also knew that each match consisted of three games which were

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ended with the points 21. If you got a score, you could choose the half court for the next toss which I didn’t know when my father explained to me in the first time. Then, I learned how a toss was accepted or not accepted. This rule confused me between...