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coach’s corner new coaching policies strength training 101 tournament info michelle li on the rise With Val Loker. Question for the coach? Send an email to theshuttler@badmintonontario.ca
Why Coaching Card and NCCP requirements will only make us stronger
You shouldn’t be afraid to lift weights. In fact, you should be afraid if you’re not.
Photos from events, OJRS leaders and triple crowns.
Olympian Michelle Li lands on the podium at the Macau Grand Prix.
the toronto open Ontario athletes shine at the 2014 Toronto Open
District Presidents TDBA: Linda Lee 2lclee@rogers.com
WOBA: Jeff Goldsworthy goldy@golden.net
ODBA: Fei Tam fei@odba.ca
COBA: Russ Le Blanc russleblanc@rogers.com
NOBA: Kerri MacDonald kerri.macdonald@dsb1.edu.on.ca
Right: Andy Lam (cover) of Lee’s Badminton Training Centre celebrates after a hard earned point in a tight three set battle against Philippe Gaumond of Quebec. More coverage of the Toronto Open on page 24.
GBDBA: Suzanne Vallis howarthsuzanne@hotmail.com
Co-President: Dave Kumar
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Director of Coaching: Kevin Willington
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S ’ H C A CO N E R R O C The Road to Success Before learning how to achieve success, you must first define what success means to “YOU”. Many athletes have misinterpreted success as just winning a tournament or receiving a medal. While this may be part of the journey, there is far more to it. Success can be defined as an accomplishment of an aim or purpose. In other words, it is an achievement of a meaningful goal or goals set and controlled by YOU. Success does not always mean receiving a medal, trophy or tangible reward. For many athletes, it takes a long time of dedicated effort and many defeats before seeing any tangible rewards.
victories and intangible rewards that you can’t hold in your hands such as improved skills, self-esteem, health and fitness, social and emotional well-being, and leadership.
Valeria Loker was a 2008 Canadian Olympic Team Member and is currently the Head Coach of the Loker Badminton Academy and the Technical Director for the Federation of Badminton Clubs
cess goal could be something as simple as “Getting my doubles serves consistently low, over the net, with 100% accuracy to the T”. The focus is on a skill that is valuable for creating greater success in a match, without focusing only on “winning.” The achievement of these goals are of tremendous value, giving you the skills, confidence and motivation you need to tackle bigger and more challenging feats.
To be a great athlete takes passion, courage, dedication, and perseverance. The path to athletic excellence is a long journey with many ups and downs. Successful athletes are those who are able to stay motivated and driven despite whatever challenges or Success is achievable for everyroad blocks they face. one willing to strive for it. Setting One of the most valuable lessons short term process goals is exI learned as an athlete was having tremely helpful for keeping you on both short term ‘process’ goals as track to longer term success, ofstepping stones to long term ‘per- fering many benefits and rewards both on and off the court! formance’ goals.
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Badminton players are not generally found hanging out in the weight room, pounding out reps, grunting under mounds of steel, or lifting weights till the veins pop out of their foreheads. Indeed this is rare. Most badminton players, and badminton parents, tend to believe that the sport does not require the movement of weights. The racquet and shuttle are very light, and with matches lasting upwards of an hour, cardio seems to be the key. Why lift weights then? Won’t you get too big? Won’t that muscle slow you down? I have been a badminton player for approximately 30 years. I have also been weight training for a good part of that time. Within the last 5 or so years I have been introduced to strength and conditioning as a powerful tool, learning the high performance and programming side of various sports. I have been the young inexperienced guy who wants to get strong, and have applied these principles on my way to becoming a high performance elite athlete. I now design programs for those who want to get strong and 10 the Shuttler Magazine
perform at their best. For those who know me, yes, I am rather large for your typical badminton player. However, even with my size and age I can still hold my own while playing against younger, smaller players and often get comments on my speed. My size isn’t solely from being in the gym; genetics plays a big part in that. Besides the extra power and strength weight training has added to my game, I have noticed one thing that I think is very important especially for the younger players. I’ve had very few of those typical overuse injuries. Patellar tendonitis, jumper’s knee, quadriceps tendonitis, shin splints, rotator cuff and elbow injuries. All of those are too common in young badminton players. Why is that? Consistent weight training in the gym over the years has kept me strong enough to train. Traditionally the thought is that players need court time and lots of it. Though that maybe true, what
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are athletes and coaches doin bodies for the countless hours
To prepare athletes properly w then “train to compete� secon solid base of strength before h
To get started, a focus on sp aims to strengthen and impro cles used most in badminton n is especially important in the d to prepare the badminton ath umes experienced on the cou
Badminton players aren’t bod strength train like them. Vari intensity will allow for the righ minton athletes desire. Start w your routine form there. Follo stretching practices will aid in injury prevention.
Concerns regarding injury risk slowing down are urban legen by proper coaching and imple strength and conditioning prac power output athlete uses stre ment, and you should too.
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we need to “train to train� first nd. This means having a good heading to the courts.
port specific movements that ove the efficiency of the musneeds to be emphasized. This developmental years in order hlete for the high training volurt.
dy builders and don’t need to iances in weight volume and ht muscular development badwith just the bar and develop owing proper foam rolling and recovery as well as help with
k, becoming muscle bound and nds that have been dispelled ementation of evidence-based ctices. Every high speed, high ength training in their develop-
h physiological detail, I have mples in the table provided of adminton athletes should be son and more importantly, for dy changes and grows, its imh the demand you place on it rformance sports by strength-
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The Toron Canada Eli the Nation est attend across Can the most e
Highlight this year, w Hometow crown! Familiar f on the Seri
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nto Open caps off the Badminton ite Series, being the final event until nal Championships. With the highdance in four years, 150 players from nada gathered to compete at one of exciting Toronto Open’s to date.
ts; Ontario dominated the standings winning gold in all events. wn favourite; Michelle Li won a triple
faces; Kyle Hunter made a come back ies with Olympian Toby Ng.
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The FBC League On Sunday Dec 1st 2013, 18 Teams took to the courts to start play in the official second year of the FBC League. Although the League has been in existence for a number of years, it wasn’t until last year when we opened it to all of the clubs under the FBC banner that the league really took off. This year we have over 200 players playing on 18 teams in 2 divisions in the League which started on Dec.18th and will culminate in the League Finals tentatively scheduled for April 27th ,2014. The FBC League is truly a League for all
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levels of players ranging from players that have just started playing to the seasoned veteran and every skill level in between. To make the competition fair and fun, we have split the teams into 2 Divisions, in the first round of the League, all teams will play against teams in their own division. After the first round, we separate the teams further for another round of games to ensure that by playoff time (all teams make the playoffs) teams will be playing only against teams of similar caliber leading up to some very exciting playoff match ups. What has blown me away this year has been the elevation in the skill level in many of the teams this year. We are seeing more and more better players joining the league and many of the teams have elevated their game. While all of this seems very competitive, during the first few weeks of the season, I have seen some really great matches but I have also seen many instances of great sportsmanship and a lot of smiles from the people just enjoying competitive and friendly play. I have had many people
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DISTRICT NEWS
Remembering
HERB KIRKCONNELL The Whitby Junior Badminton Club rebranded its fall junior tournament in honour of local badminton player/administrator Herb Kirkconnell. The tournament will now be known as The Herb Kirkconnell Invitational Badminton Tournament. Herb, a member of both the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association and Durham College Athletics halls of fame, was a world-class badminton player and administrative pioneer at Durham College. As a badminton player, he was a seven-time national champion and was a member of Canada’s 36 the Shuttler Magazine
Thomas Cup team in 1962. He would later manage the Canadian badminton team at four Commonwealth Games, and previously served as president of COBA as well as the OBA. Herb began his career as an administrator at Durham College in 1967, was one of the original staff members, and was instrumental in introducing intercollegiate athletics combined with the creation of the athletic complex at the Oshawa campus. He retired in Whitby and passed away in February 2012.
Above: Herb accepting his induction into the OCAA Hall of Fame as a builder in 2003 with the Shield Award.
Submitted by the Central Ontario Badmitnon Assoctiation
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