Coaching Corner

Building a Bullet Proof, Highly Positive, Super-Charged Badminton Player Who Simply Refuses To Give Up or Believe They’re Beaten Until The Last Point Is Won – Part 1

The main theme in my last article revolved around getting rid of bad behaviour on the badminton court that was leading to poor results. I provided a number of techniques which essentially involves “re-framing” what was happening and changing it so that it would have a positive outcome compared to the negative, destructive results you [...]

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Is Your Mindset Destroying Your Chances of Winning Your Badminton Match?

I’ve been following a very interesting thread on my forum recently where members have posted a range of scenarios that have contributed to a change in fortunes on court with disappointing and frustrating results. It’s sometimes very difficult to stop situations like these occurring. However, there are a number of tools you can adopt to [...]

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Review – Residential Badminton Coaching Weekend 18-19 September 2010

I’ve just completed my first residential coaching weekend which was held at Lilleshall National Sports Centre in Shropshire, UK. We had 18 players of varying standards on the course, my assistant coach Ian, and my wife Angie who took care of all the admin and made my life so easy. A big thanks must go [...]

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Secret Badminton Skills You Must Possess In Order To Out Manoeuvre, Outplay And Outscore Your Opponent To Win The Game – Part 3

Summary In the first part of this series of badminton skills articles, you discovered the different style of player. In part 2 I shared my thoughts on identifying your opponents strengths and weaknesses via a skills audit, albeit most of the time, an on-court, in the game, test your opponent type of audit. In this [...]

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Secret Badminton Skills You Must Possess In Order To Out Manoeuvre, Outplay And Outscore Your Opponent To Win The Game – Part 2

In the first part of this series of articles, you discovered the different styles of badminton player. Some of you emailed me or commented on my blog which style you are and also, which style of player causes you a few problems. As you can imagine, understanding what style of player your opponent is, and [...]

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