Danny Nguyen's Role In Sustaining Sports

There are many sport of there that don’t get the recognition that they deserve and one of them is badminton. Dominate sports in the United States are football, basketball, baseball, and even soccer. In the process of learning the way the sport works I interview with an athlete that has participated in events pertaining to the sport. The interviewee’s name is Danny Nguyen and badminton has been part of his life very early on due to a connect that the sport has with tennis.
Danny Nguyen started to play the sport when he was a young child and his instructor was his neighbor. At the start the sport was more for fun and with the progression of time he began to be more competitive and looked to challenge his skills. He participated in competitions, but they ranked more in lower divisions since it was more of a club sport. The major reason that Danny got introduced to the sport as a kid was because growing up both his parent worked so he stayed with the neighbor who took care of him …show more content…
Badminton requires the player to have a high stamina level and to reach and sustain it Danny ran a mile a day at different rate to avoid getting accustom to the run and reaching a sort of plateau. To further continue his regime, he improved his upper body by doing some push up to gain strength. What Danny spends most of his time with was practicing his serve because it is crucial to have a solid serve in badminton. Danny’s objective with his regime was to consistently hit the shuttlecock at the center of the racquet. As told by friends, other player etc. it was very important for Danny to incorporate some footwork to be able to move around with ease and without hesitating on how to move and where. There was not much of a mental training for him, the goal for Danny was to have fun while playing, but also to give it his all without making it easy for the rest to beat him when