New Season Looming

Hi Everyone!

Hopefully your enjoying the good weather, Wimbledon, the World Cup and looking forward to a summer break of some description.

The summer badminton at the grange has shown a couple of new faces, and the return of some old which is great news, and the standard is definately improving!! We appreciate that numbers will fluctuate week by week, but if your free and at a loose end, its still 8pm on Thursdays.

The new season kicks off in August, and with some more people it is likely we will be reverting to the peg rotation system, some are used to it others may not be, but to help keep a smooth flow of play and the 4's mixed up it is about the best way to do it.

In addition, with more people we will be introducing a brief 'club etiquette' guide taht we hope all players will respect. It will all add the the overall enjoyment and smooth running of the club.

Watch this space for more details to appear soon!

Jez

The Season Is Over!

Hello everone who reads this, the season is now officially over, unfortunatley through illness and work commitments I was unable to make the last couple of Thursdays.

Hopefully everyone enjoyed their Thursday nights at the Grange, and are already itching to move ahead to next season - we are still working on finalising the start dates for it.

If you still want to keep your eye in through the summer, Vanessa orchestrates a casual meeting of players at 8pm on a Thursday, and depending on numbers, depends how long we play for.

Want to win a Nanospeed 9900 badminton racket?

You can win a new Yonex Nanospeed 9900 badminton racket - just visit the badminton-coach blog and register!! easy

Its easy to see why they play badminton.....

and are not successful models!

Trying to raise the profile of the game in England, our badminton starts really are trying to pull out all the stops

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/badminton/8562767.stm

Anyone for Tennis?

I know I know, yes we are a badminton club, but it is nice to get outside when the weather is good!
I was thinking of trying to play tennis this summer and wondered if anyone else fancies it? Badminton will obviously continue at the Grange on Thursdays, but I have found a nice little club at Headley, and maybe if anyone is interested we could arrange a regular meet-up there - membership is £42 a year - there are only a couple of courts, but it seems quite friendly.
We do already have a resident LTA coach - the young Gordon!! for those who may want (or need) lessons

Interesting Fact of the week.......

Badminton is the world's fastest racket sport. According to the International Badminton Federation (IBF), the fastest badminton smash was by Chinese doubles player Fu Haifeng, at 332 kilometers per hour. That's about 206 miles per hour. For comparison, tennis player Andy Roddick's record fastest serve clocked in just over 150 miles per hour.

Of course we all know that that is only the fastest recorded time, if in fact they came to the hammer badminton club on a thursday night I'm sure they would be able to update their record for fastest smash! Pah 206 mph

Colin

Is it working?

Wow well i think i may have made it onto the Blog? please let me know if i have or I'm just chatting to myself!

Jez have you been able to purchase www.badminton-gear.co.uk yet? I'm keen to see all of the exciting kit i can get for my evenings at the grange!

How modern are we as a club these days, not like it was in the beginning we have blogs and e-mail etc now! Shame i have as much skill and talent on these things a i do on the court, still i managed to bumble my way onto this i guess!

Nick how is your back, after reaching behind you to get all those shots? god knows how you do it, or even see the shuttle for that matter! still an interesting technique all the same!

Well i will look forward to seeing if this works, and will see everyone on thursday!

Colin