Dear all,

finally I have found 2 players in my club who would like to practice with me. Some brief background about us:

• I started badminton not long ago and consider myself an inexperienced player, however I like to keep learning and practicing to improve my game.
• we have a trainer, who however gives us too much freedom IMO. Whenever we have a training session, he comes and says: “hmm let me think what we do today… ok let's do this and that”. We do this for 1 hour per about 2 weeks, and the exercises change each time. We forget quickly most of what has been taught.
• I try to do some drills myself (serve, footwork, Paul's armchair exercise)
• the players who would like to practice with me are female players (my mixed double partners), who already play for quite a long time (longer than me). But they also started late (in their 30's) as hobby players and picked up the wrong techniques from the start.

My plan is to practice to get the basic skills right first:

• right grip
• right posture
• right footwork

However I got stuck here: I have no coaching experience and don't have an idea how to execute my plan. Can you please share your ideas/tips/recommendations how to get the ball rolling? I prefer something easy and simple to start with, so that we can see the progress which will motivate us.

thanks,

Tony