Some relevant debate here so as not to replicate too many times. Feel free to participate. https://www.badmintoncentral.com/fo...r-mm2h-to-import-foreign-talent.188533/page-3
judging from the recently concluded Asia Junior Championships.. we are definitely heading in to the wrong direction
I have not watched badminton for a long time after LCW retired. When i started to follow badminton again, i was shocked to see the 2023 SEA games badminton team failed miserably with the lowest point being the Women team lost to the Philippines in the team event. Then the U-19 Junior team crashed out at QF in the recently concluded Asian junior championship team event and only 1 MD managed to progress as far as the QF in the individual event. Then today the Malaysian senior team all crashed out as the last MD pair Aaron/ Soh lost in the QF of the Japan Open. What's going on with our Malaysian badminton? https://www.thestar.com.my/sport/badminton/2023/07/28/misbun-parts-ways-with-bam
It is going downhill on both junior and senior department. Except for a few players, most of them have been underperforming forever. Juniors, for example, have many players in Top 10 world junior ranking, but all of them did not performed well. I am not sure what Misbun's problem was but his strategy was not working for 2 years straight. The road to improvement must start from the juniors career, I feel.
Exactly the junior is our future. The selection of the junior is most important. Look at the senior MD Soh Wooi Yik who plays a very defensive role in today's modern day badminton. Today's games are packed with power, speed and attack. They should teach the junior Double players to attack and smash very early and often in their career. May be it's time to make a change to the Double's performance director. It's getting ridiculous, someone from this once powerful badminton nation should come forward and address these outstanding issues. Somebody be it a former BAM players or coaches? Someone please step up! God bless Malaysia.
To summarize based on Misbun & Jalani's press conference, BAM management should just keep their hand away from every development & training aspect of Malaysia badminton and only focus on the management side of things. Just leave the badminton development to professional coaches.
Based on what Misbun explained in his press conference, he find it difficult to execute his strategy because the management keep changing their plans from time to time instead of giving full power to the coaches to execute their strategies.
It seems like juniors have only a few hours after 5am to train before seniors overtake the court. The lack of proper programme management also sounds bad. So this is why juniors never seem that consistent when compared to other countries.
Instead of ensuring that the junior players has sufficient infrastructure support for their development, BAM mgmt fellas decide to poke around with the coaches training programmes which they shouldn't do so. Which also explains why like Jalani said, Japan's badminton grew at a tremendous rate under PJB but PJB unable to perform his magic while in M'sia. What a sad sad sad situation for Malaysia's badminton scene
A change in government did not do anything. I don't even know if boycott or protest could do anything to change the upper 'brains'. Political friend/cable really helps a lot.
Misbun: If wake up 5am also lost, what happen if train even shorter? A fair point. The problem is BAM refuses to acknowledge any issue. Want publicity when win, when lose drink teh-o at cafe.
See how kunlavut and leong jun hao perform at senior level? there is no continuity when junior transition to senior...in fact we see so many malaysian junior player gone into oblivion once they move to senior level.
