Whatever the talent of an individual, every top player has had a coach to learn the skills be they physical, mental, tactical. If you look at examples of other sports, it is only those relatively "newly developed" sports which innovation and natural talent have more potential to shine through.
I started playing badminton at 5, I went for training at 7, I stop training cuz of my exams at 10, and I'm gonna start my training again in September. I'm 11. I've enjoyed playing badminton since I first knew how to play. I'm learning to smash now on my own from the back of the court. I've always been too short before this, I hope I can do it. It's still going into the net though.
I started playing badminton when i was 5,and i stopped playing at 9 cos i was piled with homework.i'm 11 this year and i'm back playing like crazy.i'm able 2 smash and i'm slowly practicing in doing backhands and taking the shuttlecock from the ground.
Re: Re: Does anyone inspire to be a national team player? i feel the same way too.it makes u feel nice sometimes,doesn't it?
You can smash from the back od the court? Cool! I'm able to do backhands and picking up the shuttle with my racket. The picking up shuttles was taught by my mum, she was a player once.
One message I got out of all the threads I read on this Forum is that, if you want to be a top accomplished player, you pretty much need to start young, have good coaching and practise hard. At that young age, really the decision probably is made by the parents, because there'd be some long term consequences/trade-off one need to consider - e.g. earning a good living, deviating from the traditional route of going to good school and have good scores etc. Plus the young player would need emotional and perhaps more importantly financial supports. Are there any parents here in this forum that have thought about this topic? What're the views here? As for me, I've a 3+ years old daughter. I'm thinking of finding her good coach and things. But in my mind, her priority would still be schooling. Badminton could be her biggest hobby, but I can't see her picking it up as a life time career. Even if I'm willing to send her to China for long term training, the space at that level seems too crowded. Just too difficult to earn a good living. And then she has to endure lots of phyiscal injuries as part of the journey.
That's why I stopped training, I had exams and I'm still having them. After this exam, I'm going to continue training. Oh man, if I don't get straight A's for this exam I'm sooo dead.
I'm not a mum, a bit of an international player myself now. I started when I was 6 years old.. ButI didn't had a good coach then .. it was just for fun.. playing other games than badminton too. I started thinking about 'getting better' when I quit the other sport i was doing, at bout 10 or so. Then I got a better coach and it worked fine for me starting to train more.. I think you just have to let the child decide first if badminton is what he/she likes best, and than help him/her finding a good coach and all. I guess otherwise the child will feel pushed And my experience says that those players stop playing at an early stage..
Joanne, Eva is is on the dutch national team I believe... (doubles was it?) And she went to Uber Cup so she must be pretty good... hehe
Jep, I am in the national team..I am doubles and mixed player. I just didn't want you to think I am like a 'star' player, because I am not ( yet) I hope to be one in the future but then some work has to be done! It's just my second year in the national team now and I was very lucky to be selected for the Uber-cup, although I didn't play! But at the moment my goal for the future is to improve my play to that level, that they want me to play in the Uber-cup in 2004! The only problem is that If I want to beome a real star-player ( like Olympic level)I have to train fulltime and therefore quit my studies..And I wouldn't know if I would eventually make ik to that level... but I already talked about that matter I guess..
Hihi... well I am not THAT good. I just was a reserve player there. Normally I just play EBU tournaments and I haven't managed to get a really good result yet. But it was really cool to go to Guangzhou and train and be among the great players.. Once I was training there and on the court next to me was Camilla Martin. Another time we were training at the same time as the Malaysian and the Indonesian Thomascup teams..pretty cool hugh?! But when I was there I didn't really realised what was happening to me..
Im sure Eva's just being modest. They don't bring you along as a reserve if you can't fill the shoes of an injured or sick player.