Newsletter May: First Things First: Endurance Training, AllRackets Official Sponsor, Past Events: Paintball, Internal Tournament, Upcoming Events: IFoT, Victor TU Delft Open Tournament, Pass the Pen, Birthdays United Shuttles Smashing Right Newsletter May First Things First Endurance Training Because there are a lot special Thursdays the coming weeks, there will only be 3 endurance trainings left. The 5 th of May there won't be training because of Liberation Day. The 12 th and the 19 th of May there will be training. The last endurance training will be at the 1 st of June. These outdoor trainings are starting at 19:30 in front of the sport centre. Of course there are always people from USSR who wants to do some running even if there is no endurance
training, so just ask around and there will always be someone who wants to improve his/her endurance with you! AllRackets Official Sponsor From the new season on, we are proud to say that AllRackets.com is an official sponsor from our club DSBA-USSR. Previously, there was contact between Michel, owner of Allrackets.com, and the boards of USSR, but to celebrate the ten-year anniversary and make a stronger bond between both parties, we can now officially present Michel as our sponsor on paper. The address of AllRackets.com is Taj Mahalplaats 23, 2624NM Delft. You can also find his shop online, via www.allrackets.com. Feel free to go by once! Past Events Paintball Saturday the 29 th of April, after filming the promotion video of the open tournament, we went with 10 people from USSR to Rotterdam to play paintball. After we got lost 10 times with our travel guide CY, we reached the paintball centre. The first round we were only being shot, but after a few round we got better and better. Afterwards we went to a restaurant and had a nice diner. All together it was a really nice day full of shootings and bruises, but we are still not sure where the HSL is... Internal Tournament At Sunday the 30 th of April, USSR held their internal tournament. It was great to see that a lot of the members joined this tournament and even some former members. There were some really nice matches that day and if you want to check your scores to see how well you played, you can go to http://www.tournamentsoftware.com. We want to congratulate Yanbo Wang (winner men single A) and Pauline Timmers (winner women single A) and of course all the other winners. We also want to thank Patrick Looij for helping us during the day and we see you again at the open tournament!
Upcoming Events IFoT As a sports-technology company, KOOSPUR (http://global.coollang.com) is invited to participate the International Festival of Technology (IFoT) (http://ifotdelft.com/en) on June 7th and 8th, where fun demonstration will be held, and badminton sensors products will be sold. Luckily, USSR will be representatives of KOOSPUR this time for the event. All USSR members are more than welcome to stop by the stand from 12:00-18:00 on both days and help with the demonstration. KOOSPUR, also known as Coollang, is an innovative computing company dedicated on providing intelligent sports equipment and solutions to enhance sports competitiveness. It transforms traditional sports manufacturers into digital manufacturer, where smart sensors are developed to assist players to reach their potential. Additional to tracking the speed and motion of the swing of a racket, this Coollang Smart Badminton Sensor is also able to analyse a player s frequent stroke throughout a practice or a game. If you are interested in getting to know more about this sensor, you can find more information here. Victor TU Delft Open Tournament Join the 5th edition of the Victor TU Delft Open Badminton Tournament a day
full with badminton, games, badminton technology and "gezelligheid". Special thanks to Coollang for their support. Coollang is a leading technology company specialized in sports motion capturing devices. They are providing product sponsoring for our open tournament this year! Go check out their website and Youtube channel to get to know about the company and the sensors. Date: June 17 th Time: 9:00-20:00h Location: TU Delft Sports centre Subscribe here. Pass the Pen This week the Pass the Pen is filled in by Toor, let's get to know him a bit better! My name, age and education: My name is Toor Kamerling. I am 21 years old and study Mechatronics at The Hague university. Number of years I ve played badminton: I have played for 8 years, after that I had a two year break and now I play at USSR. What influence has badminton given you? It has given me the drive to win, and I learned how to push myself to the limit The person I have always wanted to have as a badmintonpartner is: Ginny :D Favo picture of you with USSR? Post it! I'm only in a few pictures but it is the one from the ice skating. Share a cool badminton trick/skill you would like to master! With my length I LOVE to smash so I want to learn the backhand smash Where do you see yourself in 5 years in the badminton world? I have recently been promoted to the advanced training group my goal is to reach expert within the 5 years. With your height, why didn't you go for Basketball? :P When I was young I played football. When the enemy made a goal it was always my fault as a defender so I switched to a solo/duo sport. That is why I have never tried basketball.
The new question is: which training exercise do you hate the most? I pass the pen to: Caroline Gynther Birthdays May 1: Parisa Fatourachi May 8: Xiangming Liu May 9: Pauline Timmers May 14: Chi Hang Wong May 27: Xiangfie Chan May 31: Wei Han Wu Happy birthday in advance!