badminton

I'm sitting on the school bus home after my physics exam. No, I don’t want to talk about it, I didn’t do nearly enough preparation than I should have so yes, it’s my fault but still. Well, I started this on the bus but now I'm at home, following the usual Wednesday night routine of changing into sports clothes as fast as possible then inhaling dinner and rushing out the door.

I'm actually rushing to get the train so I can go to badminton, which seems like a lot of unnecessary trouble to go through just to play sport but I wanted to play twice a week and I couldn't find another club. Plus at this one I can play against adults and the theory is, get to improve a lot more. I say theory because whilst everyone at my 2 clubs are steadily improving I just seem to maintaining my mediocre-ness. I don't understand because everyone I know only plays once a week and I'm trying really really hard to no avail.

Luckily, my mum has let me do private coaching and I've started improving, turns out I need someone, quite strictly watching me and telling me what I'm doing wrong then making sure I don't slack and do practice drills properly. 

This seems the same with my school work as well, I've noticed. I thrive under pressure and slack other times. The only times I seem to work productively are when I have late deadlines pushing me to finish work by a certain date. This could be seen as my lacking the discipline and self motivation to work which is a bad thing or my being resilient to and under pressure and stressful times, instead of cracking like some people, which is a good thing. I choose the latter.