Introduction to badminton

At the beginning of the school year, I decided to try playing badminton. I had previously played table tennis for about two years and felt like trying something new. Badminton seemed like a sport I'd enjoy playing and my now former classmate spoke very highly of it. I also had my father's old racket which he doesn't use anymore, so I had that going for me.

I made some calls and found out that no training sessions with people my age had space for me,but I was forwarded to a training group with some casual player from all ages. The oldest player there is around 60 years old and I am now the youngest. Most of them are 25-35 years old. I am a somewhat anxious person and joining such new groups can be difficult to me, but hopefully this is a friendly environment in which to face my people-fear. 

So now I play badminton there. I go to the training once, sometimes twice a week. I think that I'm doing pretty well, considering that I had not played badminton ever before. We play quite a lot of doubles games with random pairs and I am not the worst opponent and teammate. My pair does not always lose. I believe here my previous skills from football and table tennis, especially in foot movement can be surprisingly useful. However, one challenge is to forget some hand action learned in the table tennis lessons and learn more specifically the badminton racquet technique.

I have no other goals or ambitions with badminton than just to have some physical activity and enjoy the process. I have never really liked participating in tournaments and all kinds of competitions. I did not enjoy the football tournaments I participated in when I was younger that much and playing table tennis I after some time decided not to go to any more competitions. Too much stress, sweat, people trying weirdly hard all around me. So, with competitions not really being for me, my goal with badminton is just to continue doing it and hopefully also continue getting better at it.