Bowmanville
Badminton Club
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The Provincial Association is Revamped It was once known as The Ontario Badminton Association (COBA) but that has now changed. The provincial badminton association is now known as Badminton Ontario. This is in keeping with the national and international name structure. Both associations start with the word "badminton" (Badminton Canada and Badminton World Federation). With the new name comes a new logo and new new faces on the executive board including new president Eduardo Gregorio. Val Butler, longtime e.d. of COBA has semi-retired from the provincial office. She now takes on the roll of consultant. Newcomer Jolyon Thompson oversees the day to day operations and is also responsible for the production of Badminton Ontario's new magazine "The Shuttler". It is hoped a committee will be struck to assist in the magazine's future operation. Badminton Ontario's president is keen on making it clear that all six Ontario districts, along with their members, should not only be members of the association they should feel as if they are. So far, the board has implemented a number of new initiatives including the magazine as well as creating a Linesperson Training clinic that came about as a result of unearthing an available Ministry grant. We wish them much success. For more information about Badminton Ontario simply have a chat with Bowmanville Badminton Club member Russ Le Blanc.
GTA to Host Major International Sporting Event The 17th Pan - AM Games are to take place July 10 to July 26, 2015 in Toronto (and surrounding areas). Over 40 countries from the Americas are expected to participate. The host city bidding process began in October, 2008, with three interested cities submitting formal bids in Acapulco, Mexico prior to October 12, 2008, at the Pan American Sports Organization annual meeting. Badminton is included in the list competitions for the games
21 Point Rally If you watch tournament badminton play you might ask yourself: "How are they scoring these games?" Welcome to the "Rally Point". It was introduced, a few years back, and is now the official scoring system as sanctioned by the IBF (International Badminton Federation). It's a quicker game (even though the game goes to 21 points) where every serve counts. Your team can score a point even when the other team is serving. If you lose a serve - you lose a point AND the serve goes to your opponents. The only way you keep serving is to keep scoring points. (Under this system there's no more second serve per team. If you fail on the first serve you lose a point and the serve switches to your opponents.) Also, if you gain back the serve, your team doesn't automatically start serving from the right. If you have an odd amount of points, the serve starts by going to the left (and to the person standing in that box.) Much like playing singles under the old scoring system. Confused??? Well it isn't that hard once you get the hang of it. The biggest challenging is remembering the score, since the scoring happens so fast. The best advice (I know, I know, keep playing the old way which you can certainly do) is to have someone say the score out loud after every point. Other recreational clubs, in the area, are sticking with the old 15 point system and your BBC executive decided to do the same . However, if you'd like to play the new system be our guest, as long as all 4 players agree. Please see Doreen, Chuck, Dave or Russ for more details. (We'll be placing a more detailed description concerning "Rally Point Scoring" on this website in the near future. So now you know!
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