After my enrolment in the NYAA program, I decided that for healthy living as a goal, I wanted to work on the backhand shot for my badminton as it is one of the more important shots at a high level. For my first lesson I decided to inform my badminton coach about my goal and he offered me some preliminary advice on the basics of a good backhand. After the lesson I went home and watched some videos about how to perform a good backhand and I found a couple of good videos. The next lesson my coach and I did a couple of drills together in which we worked on the power of my backhand. I had to hit a net shot in the front and then I had to hit a backhand shot at the back. This helped me work on getting consistently good shots in a match like situation. I did the same drill almost twice a month as I couldn’t only do that for the entire month! Now that my SEASAC season has started and my coach wants me to play doubles, I have been neglecting my backhand as in doubles it is not very important but after the season ends I will be sure to get back to working on it.

On recieving my test I felt ok as I realised that I did a bit better than what I thought while doing the test as I got more questions right. However I saw that I also messed up some questions which I thought I hadn’t messed up. I showed a good understanding of the basics of the periodic table as I scored pretty well on this test. I was pleased to see that I answered most of the questions right. I did not have a good understand of reading the graphs well as I was off by 2 degress on my measurement. I will fail well by trying harder next time thank you and have a good day