I am making this thread to stop the “nerves : how to deal with them thread” bering hijacked by people talking about a point raised in there.

To give some background, Paul originally said on the subject of nerves:

Guys, my goodness I could write so much on this subject!

A few years ago I was studying psychology a lot, especially certain traits in sport.

To be honest, I don't have the time to write so much at the moment because of other commitments. However, I've had a thought and maybe this will suit everyone…

How about we hook up on a webinar/teleconference purely based on badminton coaching? This could actually be the first in the world! I certainly don't know of any other that has taken place?

With my limited time can somebody raise a new topic (Matthew maybe?) and collate the best times where we can all get online or on a telephone/skype and have a few hours discussion?

From my perspective I really don't know whether it would work but it's worth a consideration. We could then collate the questions, ask them live and we answer. I'd ask the coaches amongst us to go online through me so that you are given a different line so that you could join in more.

Guys, the technology is out there as I've been using it as a participant with calls to USA.

Have a think and let me know.

Here are the various replies in order.

Simon:

I'm not that sure how they work but there's a few free multi-chat things out there.

I'm not keen on that sort of thing usually but it sounds like a really good idea.

I reckon the younger guys will have better recommendations of the chat systems, my kids explained it to me but I wasnt that interested at the time and didn't pay much attention.

Ed:

My experience with webinars is so and so. They are usually continent based (because of the different timezones), and well planned (for the same reason). But mine all have commercial goals, this one hasn't. Since this forum is crowed with people from all over the world (which is fantastic), this might be rather difficult to do (early in the morning in America, noon in Europe and evening for the Aussy's). But this shouldn't stop us from pushing boundaries. I think good moderation is the key to a succesful webinar/conference call.

Conference calls with people with different language backgrounds are rather risky, written text is always more clear because you can read the participants post several times if it shouldn't be clear from the first time. Not everybody on this globe masters the English language at a “Shakespearian” level .

All the best, ED

Paul:

OK, so why don't we consider doing two webinars – one for European participants and one for rest of world.

It may be that each event is smaller, however it then makes the availability that much easier.

Ray:

I am all for text-based seminars for the reasons Ed mentioned above. Besides, the broadband speed where I am at is generally low, so something like Skype (or anything with video) will probably be out of the question.

Let the discussion continue in this thread.