THE SPORT THAT TURNS ME OFF 😩

For this week's hive-naija prompt, I will be talking about sports, and this time, it will be more about the sport I hate. Although I enjoy watching sports live, not on TV (even when it's live). The only time I enjoy watching sports on TV is when my favorite football team is playing, and if for anything I decide to watch another team play it is because there are certain things I want to analyze about their game or style of play else, I just follow live scores and analytics. Apart from football (which I only like watching) I love playing and watching the basketball game, but like I said earlier if I'm watching a sport I prefer being physically present in the game.

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In my opinion, a game is more than just winning or losing. For every formation and strategy a team uses, I see a life lesson, I see games as a test of two strategies to test the strength of each. Sometimes the strategy that helps a team win today might be a reason for their loss tomorrow. And sometimes it isn't about strategy or formation, but about mind set, the right atmosphere and individual state of mind of players. And sometimes too everything might be at the perfect pace, but a team might still end up losing. These are the analyses and stats I like to take note of while watching a game, and that is why the sport I don't see any reason for is the game of badminton.

Although there are people who love the game, I don't see any reason or use for it. I see the game as a copycat of long tennis with the shuttlecock as the only difference in the game. Probably because I don't know how the game is played as I don't even wish to know, being content with the game of Long tennis. Maybe another reason I don't like the game is because I'm also a lover of long tennis, I prefer it to table tennis which I feel is quite small LOL. The first time I held a shuttlecock was when my mum bought it for me as a birthday present. She couldn't find a tennis ball so she thought they were both the same. I was in JSS 3 then during the holidays when my friends came over to our house and I wanted to test my new toy only for my friend and I to be frustrated with how the shuttlecock moved when hit with the ratchet.

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It was then we knew the difference between long tennis and badminton and that was when I developed hatred for the sport. I couldn't do anything with the shuttlecock so I allowed my baby brother to play with it until he spoiled it. When I came across the sport in PHE, I remember wanting to understand how it is played only to discover it was a sport my PHE teacher tagged "anyhow" and so it stuck in my head to date that the game of badminton is anyhow.