How Kim Won Ho Could Change the Future of Korean Badminton Men’s Doubles

South Korea’s national badminton team, the Badminton Korea Association aka BKA, have been experimenting with multiple men’s doubles pairs recently. In their experiments, we believe that pairing Kim Won Ho and Seo Seung Jae together could change the future of Korean men’s doubles. Seo Seung Jae and Kang Min Hyuk were already a phenomenal pair though they lacked a danger element to their game. By swapping Kang for Kim, however, they are able to lean even more into defense and consistency. If the BKA keeps Kim and Seo together, we can potentially see a new unconstested world number one pairing in men’s doubles.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:45 Leaning Into Defense
1:59 Kim Won Ho’s Magic
3:30 Conclusion
5:11 Outro

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a couple of months ago we made a video about South Korea’s former men’s doubles pair SE J and Kong minuk in that video we talked about how SEO and Kong were some of the best all-around players but lacked the extra danger element to consistant be the best men’s doubles pair on the circuit well we were wrong it turns out the Korean pair didn’t really need to get more fancy by swapping out Kang Min huk for a more stable and consistent player in Kim wanho coo and Kim looked like the best men’s doubles pair on the circuit recently watching their gam spun A New Perspective on playing badminton that we can Implement in our own games here’s why Korea’s Kim and coo are the true world number ones in men’s doubles and what we can learn from their game Kang and SE were already a good pair but when you replace Kang with Kim you get someone who does everything Kang does but more consistently what Kim wanho brought to the table was extreme stability and calmness he’s an extremely patient player who plays very simple and consistently that’s why we started the video talking about how we were wrong previously we had talked about how Cung J and Kim wi Ho’s biggest weakness was they lacked a dangerous element to their game they were consistent and great allaround players but lacked weapons like a Monster smash deceptions or super speed that some other pairs had but it turns out they didn’t really need those weapons and could become dangerous through defense by swapping Kang for Kim they lost a a little bit of the net play in exchange for stronger defense and midcourt play Kim Wan ho had spent the majority of his recent Years playing mixed doubles after all and Seung J has traditionally been a backcourt player too thus this pairing opted to play less at the net and opted to play the flatter game instead because they were often unwilling to contest the net Kim and coo often lifted and found themselves in defensive positions but this is where Kim Wan ho really shined oh well placed they should finish criticisms of Kang and Coo’s pairing were often on Kang whose weaker defense was often targeted by other pairs with Kim and SEO however this was no longer a problem as Kim’s defense is on par or potentially even better than cos’s in some ways what we want to highlight is how stable Kim is on court regardless of what’s happening there are almost zero unnecessary movements every movement is smooth and has minimal stuttering Kim doesn’t try to move fast and instead aims to move smoothly what this results in is a highquality shot being played almost every time even if he doesn’t take the shuttle as early as other players in addition to Kim’s smooth movements he also seemingly never rushes this is a difference we noticed between Kim and a lot of other players when there looks like there’s an opportunity to win the rally many players will get excited and jump at the opportunity nothing bad about it it’s totally normal in doing so however the excitement can often cause players to make silly mistakes like net killing into the net or smashing out well that’s Kim doesn’t seem to get phased by opportunities and looks like he’s always thinking about the next shot with this preparedness and ability to play long rallies Kim and Coo’s weapon is that their opponents will ultimately lose to themselves as they feel the need to do something special to win essentially Kim and seo’s weapon is their defense their ability to play consistently ultimately leads to opponents to make more mistakes of course as demonstrated in the recent India open Kim and coo are not unbeatable they were nearly taken out by Wong and leang and eventually did lose to go zudin in the finals what both matches demonstrated was that no defense was impenetrable and the Korean pairs weaknesses at the net nice change of pace oh that’s that said back-to-back finals appearances are very impressive for a pair that has only started recently playing together again and we do hope this is the pair Korea ultimately sticks with having a pair that plays as consistently and stably as Kim and coo is rare these days considering the mental pressure Pros have playing in front of such a large audience we cannot underestimate the power of winning through your opponent’s Mistakes by playing to pressure your opponents to play perfectly you can force your opponents into situations where they make mistakes in an attempt to play better as they make mistakes they’ll begin to question their own ability make even more errors and completely swing the game in your favor of course you’ll need Superior defense and lots of patience to play like this but that’s exactly what Kim and coo seem to have it’s still possible to beat Kim and coo but to do so every time we think that’s extremely unlikely what do you think though could Kim and coo become the uncontested world number ones let us know in the comments below thanks for watching and as always make sure to hit the like And subscribe button so you don’t miss out on future videos can they turn this around themselves the Koreans that would be something [Applause] [Music] [Music]