Which ones are you doing?
Which ones do you want to hear more about?
How many can you tick off when you watch or deliver
the next badminton coaching session?
21 things that you can consider in your badminton coaching
I’m sure that coaches, parents and players will find something of interest. Some are ideas away from the court, most are suggestions for the session itself.
- Be approachable and smile, talk to anyone who approaches you
- Always carry your contact details and business card
- Be insured, be responsible
- Offer a trial of 4 sessions before asking people to sign up
- Ask for 3 things they want to improve prior to the very first session
- Warm up together & use the warm up to prepare for later tasks
- Greet them with open questions and find out something new every time you have a session
- Ask the parents to sit by the court, involve them. They are paying so give them something to think about
- Vary the themes within the first 4 sessions: 1 technical, 1 physical, 1 doubles or singles, 1 showing improvement
- Include Tactical elements and concepts in everything you do
- Ensure learning takes place, especially decision making. Practices without decisions are just routines.
- Don’t ‘kill’ players with physical or multi-shuttle drills. Try not to default to multi, understand its limitations.
- You must move don’t just stand still and feed throughout the session. Be an opponent at times, try to gain an advantage over the player.
- Work very hard to prevent many classic errors. I recommend doing lots of below shoulder stroke work in the early months.
- Be aware of saturation in all forms: concentration, physical, technical changes. Try to anticipate saturation.
- Ensure its enjoyable, include lots of mini games that create learning or establishment of skill without the player knowing
- Ensure players have defined “takeaway” moments and recap throughout not just at the end
- Cool down and summarise together. Ask them what they enjoyed, you may be surprised!
- Instil a desire for improvement. Encourage an objective view concerning errors. In fact work towards ‘errors’
- Involve parental feedback. they may see things you have missed. Their opinion matters.
- Over deliver, no matter what you charge
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