January 2010: recovering from a significant Christmas snowstorm dumping 20“ on the DC area
my lovely car again
thursday night practice before DC open
eerie and quiet looking revamped space around the gym. this is the night before
future food court. the night before.
I hope that's not our winners podium
and let's hope all the holes still work
surprise!
Channel 67 stopped by
Sam had to step up to the plate as well
Taping Jim
Barbados interview
I think we have a picture of Sam like this every year
Dean bored?
umpires at work?
social experiment
nice....
nice glass!
but it's soooo heavy
updating the draws
Ajit helping out “Let's Help Haiti”
mark your calendar: March 26-28: Mid Atlantic
desk
Saturday breakfast
confrontation
backpack
I'm not ignoring him..... really... he's my partner
backback in focus
repair
lens hood discovery
child labor
Po's picture is on her flickr page
the ever shrinking space
shadow umpiring
sticky birds, courtesy my basement?
bring a (good) book, we said
we're being photographed now!
modern taping
Sam and Nadeera on different courts
injury?
Quinn's neat trick rotating his racket on his thumb
Arnold's warmup exercise?
the raffle .... i didn't win
oops
happy cookies
sushi, with mint tea
last year we also had somebody doing secret warmups here,but then it was still the 2nd gym....
vertical badminton
birds eye view
counting the moneys
Alan cleaning?
verification
she had to play
who's who in badminton
one more match
and then the smell came....
testing 1 2 3 ... thank you Felix!
the smell...
Don Paup stopping by
bird thief
demonstration match
Alan's final
one of the womens doubles semi-finals from a nice high angle
see,there is no reason to sit behind the table... you can still win on the court as well
Women's Singles A winner (right) and runner up (left)
Mixed Doubles A winners (left) and runners up (right)
Men's Singles A winner (left) and runner up (right)
Men's Singles, now including the other two semi finalists
Women's Doubles A winners (left, with 4th time DC Open triple crown winner YePing Tang),and runners up (right)
Mens Doubles A winners (left) and runners up (right)
more of that Social Experiment, zapping the nose
the last match of the day
Senior Men singles finalists, the last match
they were so happy
Penn came with a good team
Vincent and YePing, at serve. Finals match
Pashupati requesting a new bird
reaching forward
Sam and Vincent
Po made this picture when the outbound shuttle got stuck in my hair.... needless to say, i lost the match
