Badminton News: Few male singles players in their thirties join the HSBC BWF World Tour. Parupalli Kashyap is one of the few, Indonesian Tommy Sugiarto is another example, and they recently faced off in the first round of the PERODUA Malaysia Masters 2022. They last faced each other in the competition 10 years ago years, which was a very different time. .extraordinarily long. gap for contemporaries ranked in the top 10 in their best years.
Before playing two events in Malaysia, Parupalli Kashyap had to miss three months with a series of hamstring injuries and sprained ankles. He had reached a stage where injuries would become more common, and Kashyap believed the workload was enough for his body to keep him fit, but without causing damage.
“Just before the (selection) event, three days earlier, I had a hamstring injury and took a long time to heal. I came back, I pulled it again, I’m came back, I shot him again”, he says, recalling his list of injuries in recent years (dislocation of the back, knee, shoulder).
“So it’s like four weeks of bullshit.”
Ranked No. 6 in the world in career in 2013, Parupalli Kashyap paved the way for Indian men’s singles in the post-Gopichand period, paving the way for the revival of his juniors Kidambi Srikanth and HS Prannoy. He has a formidable physique, but the ravages of time and lingering injuries make it difficult to reclaim what he once had. He felt the decline of all the elements that made an elite player; the challenge is how he will overcome this limitation.
“Our bodies have changed. We became like amateurs with very less athletic skills. My agility, my jumps, my speed, my stamina, my basics, everything fell. Athletic skills, reaction speed have dropped…everything has to be trained now.
“So you have to adapt and train. Basically, whatever your age, you should practice as much as before. You could be smarter about this, but I don’t think the volume can be reduced. You have to practice a lot if you want to win matches at the Superseries (World Tour) level. I want to return. I want to compete for some sort of title.”
So how will he adapt to the demands of playing high-speed physical sports while training at the same volume, but without risking injury? Even for a player with his experience, it will take him some time to figure out which direction his training should go.
“I really had to stay in shape before entering the tournament. So even if it’s just a little bit, I’m going to take a step back, train three or four weeks, get strong and come back,” said he declared.
“You know, we have to forget a lot of things that we did in the last six, seven years and go back to when we were young, when we had basic training and all that. We had to train all these special skills , such as jumping, agility, endurance, block by block. To bear this burden, you need time. Before, we could take everything together, the body was fine. It recovered well. Now, I feel like every skill should get three weeks of speed training, three weeks of strength training, three weeks of resistance training Everything has to be a bigger block That’s where the trainer becomes Very important.”
Parupalli Kashyap has been participating in the competition for a few years; His fitness issues have been exacerbated by the pandemic. The confinements had several effects, including a loss of motivation and the temptation to get into professional poker.
“Missing Tokyo 2020 I was thinking where is the next destination? I haven’t seen anything. I’m thinking of moving to the United States and playing professional poker. A lot of things are messed up in my head…I need my space. A once the lockdown was done it took me a while but again my body is not in good shape in 2021 I am only playing because there are no other (smaller) tournaments I I’m in the standings and I’m also trying to push Saina. He’s also dealing with injuries, so it’s a matter of age, we’re trying to understand our bodies.”
“I have to evaluate every morning after practice; am I good enough for today? will i push? Otherwise, I withdraw… I have to follow my instinct. I am wrong to follow the example of others.
The same dilemma is faced by former top 5 stalwart Saina Nehwal, who has to train at the level of intensity and weight she can now handle. Part of the calculation is about self-image, accepting the difference between yesterday and today.
“Saina also tries to understand the intensity, the distraction, the load. It’s very hard to tell from the outside. Right now everything you learn is not true. It’s true when you have 23 or 27 years old… and the problem is that for seniors it is very difficult to forget everything, because if Saina closes her eyes, she will remember 2015, 2016 when she won the tournament; suddenly, when he was told that every skill had to be trained, he thought, what are you talking about?”
However, the hunger returned and Parupalli Kashyap was sure that he and Nehwal had enough provisions to last two or three years.
“I think we can get through another two or three years. I feel good. I can push myself in training, more and more. It’s going pretty well.”
With the quarter-finals of the YONEX Taipei Open and victories over Heo Kwang Hee and Tommy Sugiarto at the recent Asia Tour Championships, Parupalli Kashyap has some positives to take as he looks to make his way on a circuit with many opponents 10 or 15 years younger.
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