About IntoBadminton
An equipment recommender written by a competitive player who got tired of guessing which racket would actually fit.
Who's behind this
I'm Rui Su. I started badminton as a kid in China, then continued through the Maynooth University team and across multiple Dublin clubs after I moved to Ireland. I've trained under a former Malaysian national-team player and a former Chinese provincial-team player, and currently compete in Division 4 of the Irish Badminton league.
Outside the courts I run Intonation Labs (Singapore), where my day job is building production machine-learning systems. IntoBadminton is the equipment-recommender I always wanted as a player: structured data, transparent reasons, and citations to the people who actually tested the gear.
How recommendations are made
Every score the finder produces breaks down into five named factors: style fit, discipline fit, level fit, budget fit, and body / comfort fit. You can read the exact weighting on the methodology page.
I treat source authority explicitly. A product-specific official page is the strongest source for specs. My interpretation translates those specs into possible on-court feel. Community evidence — BadmintonCentral threads, Reddit, BadmintonCN, YouTube reviews — appears as cited metadata summaries with links, never as copied text.
I don't republish forum reviews as content.
SKU court notes that started as Chinese-language community reports are noindexed and are not AdSense inventory. Indexed pages are original analysis or founder-firsthand tests. Community threads are cited as themes with links — never copied or translated as the article body.
Confidence is visible.
Every product card shows whether the source is an official product page, a third-party page, or a row that still needs review. Low-confidence items can still appear, but they are labelled.
Editorial separation from monetization.
Display ads and affiliate retailer links must be labelled and cannot silently override the fit score. The score is the score; sponsorship is sponsorship.
How this site is funded
Display ads stay off until the site is approved for Google AdSense and a compliant consent mode is live. Granting cookies alone does not load ads. Some product cards also show labelled affiliate retailer links; those never change the recommendation order.
Contact
Email info@intonationlabs.com for product data corrections, rights or copyright concerns, privacy questions, or recommendation issues. Include the product brand, model, region, and source link when you can — it speeds up the fix.
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