de' Lenjen : Si Kurus dari Banting Juara Melayu Pertama

Living In The Eighties

Assalamualaikum w.b.t,

This blog I made as a personal use to keep my memories back in the old good time especially in the 80's when I live in Ipoh. Friends, families and others who are interest and grown in the 80's are welcome to surf on in this site.

The era of the 80's was the most memorable moments of my life. There's happy and sad moment that I could'n forget. It's not because I'm not happy with my life currently. It's different cause that time when we are still kids, didn't have any heavy obligations, just plays, studies, getting fun and live with my loveble families. Besides, I still have my parents which I miss so much.

Here, most of the stories or article are around the 80's that I include a stories and history of that era along with the photo's or video clips. I also include several songs from the 60's and 70's with world wide history.There are also a photo's of my hometown, school's, places, family and friends that are related with me in the 80's.

Besides loving listening to music and watching films, I'm also an active sports person specially in football and badminton. I'm a biggest fan of old time articles or stories whether on event, persons, a legends or whatever related with history.

It's been since 1990 that I left Green Town, Ipoh and working in Kuala Lumpur. I can't imagine that i will live, stay and grown a family here in Kuala Lumpur, the biggest and a capital city in Malaysia. Still, the old fond memories of past days is still in my heart.
Hopefully it's will call our memories in the 80's which so wonderful and awesome.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Si Kurus dari Banting Juara Melayu Pertama

Zaman gelap badminton Malaysia mula nampak sinar apabila muncul anak muda kurus tinggi dari Banting yang bernama Misbun Sidek. Misbun lahir pada 1960 dan adalah salah seorang pemain terbaik dalan era 80'an yang mempunyai ramai jaguh yang hebat seperti Morten Frost, Liem Swee King, Han Jian, Zhao Jianhua, Yang Yang, Icuk Sugiarto, Prakash Padukone dan lain-lain.Mula menunjukkan bakat pada usia 18 tahun dan muncul sebagai juara kebangsaan pada 1979. Misbun yang mulanya dianggap sepi mula menggegar dunia badminton apabila memenangi Terbuka Jerman 1981. Tahun berikutnya dia mengalahkan jaguh Indonesia Icuk Sugiarto untuk bergelar juara di Terbuka Sweden.Corak permainan Misbun menekankan kepada kekuatan permainan stroke dan rally yang panjang diselang seli dengan pukulan chop silang dari kiri ke kanan yang jarang dimiliki oleh pemain ketika itu. Dia akan bermain stroke sehingga lawan kepenatan dan permainan beliau kerap berlanjutan sehingga ke rubbber set.
Walaupun gagal untuk meraih kejuaraan utama dunia, Misbun dianggap sebagai "The Giant Killer" kerana pernah mengalahkan hampir semua jaguh dunia pada zamannya. Dengan personaliti dan ragam serta kontroversi yang pelbagai, Misbun telah menambahkan warna suka duka dan kegembiraan dalam badminton negara yang suram sebelum itu. Ditambah pula dengan kehadiran adik-adiknya yang bersaing sebagai pasangan bergu utama dunia pada ketika itu, era 80'an merupakan detik yang membanggakan buat badminton negara.

1981	German Open bt Syed Modi 18-17, 15-10
1982	Swedish Open bt Icuk Sugiarto 9-15, 18-14, 15-13
1983	Swedish Open bt Morten Frost 9-15, 15-10, 15-13

1983	Canadian Open bt Jens Peter Nierhoff 15-6, 11-15, 15-12
1985	Malaysia Open bt Michael Kjeldsen 18-16, 15-3
1987	Chinese Taipei Open bt Park Joo Bong 5-15, 15-9, 15-3

1987	Singapore Open bt Eddy Kurniawan 15-13, 15-8

[Runners-up (4)


1982	World Cup Lost Liem Swie King	12-15, 15-3, 12-15
1986	All England Lost Morten Frost	2-15, 8-15
1986	Malaysian Open Lost Zhao Jianhua	10-15, 13-15
1986	China Open Lost Icuk Sugiarto 11-15, 13-15