Badrad: Training camps in China

[Jason]

Dear Badrad,

I'm looking for badminton training camps in China and saw your post about Guangdong badmintoin training centre(http://www.badmintonforum.com/forums/read.php?f=2&i=21659&t=21659). I was wondering if you happen to have their contact#, email, or more information regarding their program.

[badrad]

my friend quan wei-zhing runs the GD training center, she is the badminton director for southern china. i have to look around for the brochures she gave me on the training camp. if i find it, i'll bring it to next week's practice - will you be attending? btw - our training sessions will continue on a drop-in basis. so just keep coming whenever you can.

[Jason]

I'm not the Jason that has been attending your pratices. I just happen to search for china training camps and read your post. If you find the brochure, I would greatly appreciate it if you can post me the info. Thanks!!

[badrad]

sure, i'll post the info when i find it. it's probably slipped into a book or binder somewhere, but just trying to remember is the task at hand.

[Jason]

Thank you!

[cooler]

badrad, would the chinese training camp charges extra for foreigners?

[badrad]

i can't remember how much the standard fee was, but i don't recall it being on the brochure. but the number $75usd per day comes to mind during a conversation.

[cooler]

would that include room and board?

[badrad]

yeah, i think the campus had residence rooms there as well, but are spartan. don't expect room service.

[cooler]

that's doesn't sound bad at all, very tempting, maybe an extend vacation stay one day.

[badrad]

now, i seem to remember getting joked around by Guan Wei-Zhing that she was going to feed my daughter congee only each day.... nah, she's not that mean, actually she is really cute, for an older lady (but then, i'm an older man).

[cooler]

hey, i don't mind having some weight loss at the same time too. I would definitely gain agility if i lose 10% of my current weight. I'm still trying to lose the 3 lb that i've gained over the last christmas break.

[vincent ting]

hello all

I am interested in going to the camp, as I live in HK and will be available in HK from June, I am happy to do some translattion for you guys if u want

as I can speak Chinese and English

:)

I am 22, currently in UK , University
back to HK for 10 weeks from 14th June

can u tell me more information about the camp please??

please e-mail me for details!
thanks
vincent ting

[cooler]

hmm, maybe a bunch of us here should get together and negotiate a group rate, plus another discount for having congee and tofu instead of fried rice and BBQ duck.

[Don]

Is this place in Beijing? If it is, I may be interested in dropping by a day or so. Oh I seriously do not know how I am going to last in China, I hate chinese food. I hope they have MacDonalds. :)

[badrad]

no, it's in guangzhou, quite a distance from beijing, but a relatively short train ride from HK.
man! i can't believe you don't like chinese food. oh-wait-a-minit...you not gonna get menues like one from column A, one from column B... come-on, you can get wine and dined to your stomache's content in china! and for the more exotic - cats and dogs! yummmy!!! when you do order cat, remember to keep the gut later.

[Winex West Can]

Also, for the cats, make sure that the paws are declawed otherwise they could get stuck in your throat! :D :D

[cooler]

don, there are northern and southern style of chinese foods, do you dislike both version in general? Also, if you have not accompanied by someone who know which chinese restaurant and what to order, i can see why your experience of chinese food may not so... pleasant. If you able to attend a chinese banquets, i think your opinion might be corrected. Could it be your view of chinese foods consist of dishes like chop suey, egg foo young, sweet and sour pork or ribs??

[badrad]

don, you certainly opened a can of worms with that one about not liking chinese food. oh, yeah did i mention some of the remote chinese provinces where a can of worms really is a meal in itself... sauteed with sesame of course.... hahahahahahah

[Pete]

Actually, you should ask whether the washroom is up to par with Western Standards. Believe me the toilets and bathrooms in China (except for the 4 and 5 stars hotels) are some what to be desired. I don't mind using sunk-in toilets (you will see a big difference if you compare the sunk-in toilets in Narita International Airport to the regular public WCs in Mainland China) as long as it is clean but . . . those in Mainland China are just . . . uhhmmmmm.

[Kelvin]

umm... actually the 5 star hotel I went to in Guang Zhou, was pretty horrible :lol:

Here's one tip for ALL to remember!!!

"ALWAYS BRING YOUR OWN TOILET PAPER!!!!!"

Toilet paper seems to be a luxury item everywhere in China. :p
and yes I know that from experience.

Keep telling us more about these camps badrad, because I had already been interested last year... like Cheung, I want to become a very very good amateur. :p

[Kelvin]

Usually the training camps, offer room and board, as part of a seasonal rate... all inclusive of the training packages.
but again as mentioned... you are there to train, and well I dont think luxuries such as duck etc, would be very approriate. :p
anyone hear of "lucky duck" well that expression was probably derived in China at one of their badminton training camps.

[Kelvin]

I think I speak for the majority of citizens on the planet when I say... "YUCK!!!!!!!!" :lol:

[Pete]

I thought you said meemeeeiiii. :-D :-D :-D

[kwun]

how about the phrase "golden duck"? :)

[clinton]

Hi, can you give me the contact info of the GD training center such as phone number or email address, thanks.

[wildstyler]

i would also like to know the information of the camp.

[ayasoft]

I am now in Nanjing,China.I know there are many camps here.
I am now in the HaoYou Camp,and the cost is 960 Chinese Yuan
per year,including the fee of courts and the shuttlecocks.
And we play badminton 3 times per week,and the address is
Zhong Shan East Road 311-2,HaoYou Badminton Camp(the 2nd floor).
The time is
Tuesday 19:00-23:00
Thursday 19:00-23:00
Sunday 14:00-17:00
Here is the mobile tel number:13705184946(Mr Xie).
Our coach was a athlete of the JiangSu badminton team before.

[cooler]

That's only 116 USD per year, cheaper than a yonex racket without string. I like those hours too. Now i need to invent an excuse to take a leave of absence to try out this camp. I like the name too, 'How o You' Camp


Originally posted by ayasoft
I am now in Nanjing,China.I know there are many camps here.
I am now in the HaoYou Camp,and the cost is 960 Chinese Yuan
per year,including the fee of courts and the shuttlecocks.
And we play badminton 3 times per week,and the address is
Zhong Shan East Road 311-2,HaoYou Badminton Camp(the 2nd floor).
The time is
Tuesday 19:00-23:00
Thursday 19:00-23:00
Sunday 14:00-17:00
Here is the mobile tel number:13705184946(Mr Xie).
Our coach was a athlete of the JiangSu badminton team before.

[ayasoft]

The fee of renting a court is always cheap in Nanjing,about 15 Chinese Yuan per hour.But there are rare professinal Badminton equipment shop here,and the racket is expensive here.'HaoYou' is a Chinese word,which means 'good friend'.The mobile Tel.No is our camp manage's.Our coach is Wangjian.He won the 1st prise of man's sigle in one Chinese Professinal National badminton Game when he was 19.And there are other professinal ones in out camp too.The Only proplem is almost no one can speak English here,and we have no traslator.

[cooler]

So the main language in nanjing is mandarian. Do they also speak other dialect, for example: cantonese? Your english is pretty good.

[ayasoft]

Local People in Nanjing speak Nanjing's dialect,Which is very similial to mandarian.If you can speak mandarian,there is no problem.My spoken English is poor,I can't talk in English freely.But Cantonese is much more difficult to understand.

[cooler]

i got some more questions if you don't mind. What levels are the student, are they classes multi level? Have this camp produced any provincial or natianal players?
Any age limitation for people to take the class?

[ayasoft]

We are all amateurs.So you need not worry about the level.But at least you love the game.Our coachs were once privincial plays.There are different level amateurs here.
The best one won the runner-up in Nanjing's amateurs' badminton game.Most of the time we play freely,sometimes our coach gives us some advises.I don't play well in sigle,for I only join the camp for no more than a year.But I feel I've gotten great improvement in the past half year.I now can get 3-4 points in the game with our best one.And often the children proffecinal players come here with their coachs on Sundays.They play games with us upper lever,of course not me.I can get 4-5 points in the game with them.

[Cheung]

ayasoft,

Thanks for your contribution. I also think your English isn't that bad.

That's really cheap for courts. From the sounds of it, your description sounds like a badminton club but with an expert coach who heads it and does coaching as well. (from a Western person's perspective). Am I correct?

If I am correct, then HK has this arrangement as well. I attended some lower level quality ones in the past. People go through training routines and the coach walks around occasionally talking to people. I found that for me ('personally') I didn't learn too much. My chinese isn't so good so this probably had an effect.

A westerner's perspective of 'training camp' might be different. I grew up in UK and to me the meaning of 'training camp' implies a place where I would go daytimes and just train for improvement. Social games are not usual except near the end of the training session.

A 'western' club is organised mainly for social play. Very rarely do they have an expert player acting as a coach or organising training. The adults very rarely want any coaching. For children it is different.

I have one friend in HK who went training in Guang Dong. He went for ten day periods and described the training as morning and afternoon two hours each session, with the cost of accomodation (and I think some food) included.

Does your organisation offer this latter arrangement as well? Do you know how to contact other places in Nanjing that might offer this type of service?


BTW(for you other guys), JiangSu is the province where Sun Jun, Ge Fei, Gu Jun come from. I'm guessing the standard is pretty high there!

[ayasoft]

I don't know if there is a trainning camp just for several days in Nanjing.And I don't know if there are badminton sessions for amatures here either.But I do know there are some badminton trainning club.Most of time the coach is training the amature players.The cost is more expensive than the club just like the one I am playing.They often train twice in a week ,for about 2 hours.I know 2 of them.The one is in WuTaiShan Gymnasium,the coach is ChenJian.The other is in the ZhongDong Gymnasium,the coach is Qianyiqiang(National man's double runner-up),whose mobile Tel.No is 13705184946(Mr.Qian).I just mistake the mobile Tel.No of our club's manage's .The correct is 13915947563 (Mr.Xie).

[mlorenzo]

greetings,

It has been a while since this thread, but was wondering of any training campls in China or in Indonesia?

Cheers,
Victor M.