Dear Parents, Carers, Players,

Please see the below pictures of the tournament. If you have any questions, special requests regarding pictures, etc, let me know, and I will do my best to make it happen for you in a reasonable time.

Apologies, some pictures could have been saved only from deletion, if we turned them into black and white. But some turned into black and white because it is emphasizing those moments better, than the coloured versions.

I already contacted a photographer to have better pictures next time, and maybe some video content will also be created for the next event. But anyway…

Enjoy!

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Dear all,

I am thrilled to announce that our Network will open 2 more junior sessions next year in January, under the Badminton England-funded project, called “Are You Ready?”

Read more about this initiative here.

These sessions are designed for Primary School students and aim to present and teach what real badminton is and how difficult and complex it is to become great in this sport.

We will have a session in the Warrington Youth Zone and one in Padgate Academy. These are open sessions, so get in touch and your child can start their own learning journey next week. Find info about the new sessions here.

If you have any questions, click here!

See you and them soon!

Frank

Dear all,

We had a fantastic Saturday where lots of children from Cheshire participated in the Crewe Junior League in the Brine Leas High School on the 4th of November in Nantwich.

We entered into 2 divisions with 2 teams (8 players) and we performed well on this occasion. Lots of first-timers and inexperienced players played in this round from our side and some have faced much larger and stronger opponents than they currently are. You should all be proud of them, as I do.

The Players are:

SUNRISE A Team in Division 1:

Oscar Lam
Karsten Lui
Azure Wu
Suhan Wanjari

SUNRISE B Team in Division 2:

Tansy Siu
Navneeth Vishwanath
Aleph Wu
Gabby Chan

Please see the summary of team results below:

Alternatively, you can follow the results, and scores on their website: https://www.crewebadminton.org.uk/default.aspx?pageID=1008

On other tabs on that site, all the tables, fixtures and player stats by Divisions.

Let them dive into the stats and encourage them to do more training/exercises away from the sessions as…

Dear Parents, Club officials, Enthusiasts, All,

***UPDATE***DOCUMENT AT BOTTOM***OR DOWNLOAD IT***CLICK HERE***

The entries are finally open for the biggest Junior Badminton event of 2024 in Warrington.

Below you can have a good read for this 2-page document. You can download it and send it back to the WCJBT@coachfrank.uk email address and get in touch for confirmation of receipt.

Please feel free to share it, we have 52 days left to prepare everything for the competition. We received a nice amount of volunteers but are always on the lookout for enthusiasts who can help, in any way, to make the competition a success!

Let us know as soon as you can if you have any questions or missing any essential info to enter or share this article. Hope to see you soon! Exciting times ahead!

Imagine, you are a child and you want to become something, and you want it so badly that you would do everything for it. These children, with the correct guidance, are worth gold.

With this step of their development, I want to help these children, who know already that they want to become a Badminton Athlete, but have no idea of what exactly needs to be done.

They can definitely achieve it without this contract, but in this way, it will be clear to all parties, what the child is preparing for and what is expected from them children in order to achieve what they want.

This tool gives them and their parents a perspective for players’ learning journey to keep going, even if they fail sometimes. Because they have a long-term goal, and they are committed to keeping their promise to themselves.

Our mutual interest (Parents & Coach) is to develop them safely, but the parents see more of the child and can recognise quicker if the child is physically not able to fulfil the Contract. (injuries, mental problems, studies, etc…)

The coach does not necessarily need to know if a child has signed a contract. However, it is a good practice if the coach is aware so that the pressure from the child could be mitigated by the coach if the child becomes too hard on themselves.

It would be great if parents would not corrupt this contract as a tool, to persuade and put extra pressure on children to do other tasks. Like cleaning their rooms or washing clothes. And if they do not, their contract will be void. And pressuring them with: How your coach will feel about this or that? There is a fine line in how it can work with extra pressure, but dear Parents, you are warned, you must be careful of what you say here.

I do agree that some parts of their life, outside of the sport, must be completed. Otherwise, they should not attend the sessions. A good sportsperson is often a good student. Knowledge is important, therefore their grades are equally important to me as their techniques or tactics on the court.

Please remind them that life sometimes overwrites priorities. But if the child really wants it, then they will find the time and space for it.

Lastly, here is the contract as PDF, in a downloadable format.

If you have any comments, concerns or suggestions, please get in touch.

This post was originally published at https://coachfrank.uk

Sunrise Badminton Network could launch 3 teams across 2 age groups. We have had 2 teams in the “Year 11 & under” and 1 team in the “Year 9 & under” group in the final round.

Based on the previous results, the Sunrise A team in the Y11 group could end up in the following places based on our performance in the final: 4th, 3rd, or 2nd place.

So it was really a decider for them in the final. And they had achieved 2nd place!

I want to say a massive well done to all the girls in all rounds!

That was the first time the Network appeared in any leagues and I was not aware of what kind of levels we will clash. All the girls were brave and tried to score a point against boys of the same age, which is incredibly hard. Boys at around 14-16 are much stronger and faster than girls competitors which made it even harder to achieve a point. I am so proud of them all that they came here and tried their best! Legends!

Furthermore, there was a prize in the League for the most sporting player, who has been always the best in the team selected by the opponents, after every match. And whoever Sunrise B team has played in the “Y11 and under” category, All teams across all rounds and all the matches, have selected the same player as the best in their team, her nem is Erika Pilditch! Congratulations Erika! (Spoiler alert: She received earpods)

The team members in this round are:

Year 9 and under Team:

Matthew Baird, Mia Shepherd, Oscar Jones, Kento Pilditch

Year 11 and under Teams:

Sunrise A: Oscar Lam, Karsten Lui, Oliver Maher, Alex Todorov

Sunrise B: Erika Pilditch, Penh Nicholls, Eliza Stan, Tímea Herdlicska

And last but not least, here is a massive thank you to all the parents, who supported them emotionally, financially, made or brought them food (once to me as well, thank you!) and sorted out the logistics for them to be there on time.

Special thanks again to the parents who came and helped us out with registering their scores, scoring for them, and answering their questions even when I was not there. Your help is really appreciated!!!

There is nothing else left, just to make commitments for next year when we will prepare to win this league at both age groups! That is the plan, let’s see how much we can prepare for it. There will be a selection competition in December 2023, where we will see the best players of the Network on the court and decide who will represent us in the Greater Manchester Junior Badminton League in 2024.

We have 3/4 of a year to get stronger and make our technics more precise to get ready for the League Challenge in 2024. The AGM of the league will be on the 21st of May where we are going to discuss the experiences and the format for next year.

Until then, see you on the court!

Sunrise Badminton Network could launch 4 teams across 2 age groups. We have had 3 teams in the “Year 11 & under” and 1 team in the “Year 9 & under” group this time.

The team members in this round are:

Year 9 and under Team:

Sunrise A: Natalie Chan, Hygea Fung, Pov Nicholls, Kento Pilditch

Year 11 and under Teams:

Sunrise A: Oscar Lam, Karsten Lui, Oliver Maher, Alex Todorov

Sunrise B: Sean Ssuuna, Penh Nicholls, Erika Pilditch, Cherill Khoo

Sunrise C: Matthew Baird, Mia Shepherd, Eliza Stan, Tímea Herdlicska

All our teams have seen great competition with loads of challenging situations and hard rallies. The rich environment of skills and fighting spirits have also made our team change match by match.

One of our teams in the Year 11&under group came 2nd place again despite that one of their teammates could also play in a lower age group!!! Congratulations Sunrise A team!!! Please see the results of the 2nd round of the Junior League:

The next opportunity to fight for a good place at the end is on the 23rd of April in the Final round, at the same time and place. Cups and prizes will be presented on the Day.
I’m sure everyone will have a good time. 😉🏸🏸

There was an individual tournament held at the end of the Crewe Junior League this Saturday where 2 of our players (Gabby Chan Yi Tak and Nora Szekely) have won the title at the Under 12 Girls category in doubles, despite the fact that they were the youngest in their groups.

Gabby also got runner up in Singles which makes the victory sweeter as she could take revenge of her singles defeat in the singles final.

Massive thank you and congratulations to all of them performed today and looking forward to next year and hoping for many more to come.

Coach Frank

Dear Parents and Carers,

Please see below Sunrise Badminton Network’s possible locations and times where your child can join us:

Sunrise Badminton Network could launch 3 teams across 2 age groups. We have had 2 teams in the “Year 11 & under” and 1 team in the “Year 9 & under” group.

The team members in this round are:

Year 9 and under Team:

Sunrise: Matthew Baird, Mia Shepherd, Cayden So, Kento Pilditch

Year 11 and under Teams:

Sunrise A: Oscar Lam, Karsten Lui, Oliver Maher, Alex Todorov

Sunrise B: Sean Ssuuna, Chantelle Chan, Erika Pilditch, Pov Nicholls

All our teams fought very well and got tired at the end. They have also seen the skills of other players which inspired them to change match by match.

One of our teams in the Year 11&under group came 2nd place!!! Congratulations Sunrise A Y11 team!!! Please see the results of the 1st round of the Junior League:

The next opportunity to provide a solid performance is on the 26th of March at the same place. Stay tuned, there are more to come.

Dear Badminton Parents and All,

I regret to inform you that we will close the session at Appleton and will merge it with the one at Great Sankey Neighborhood Hub.

The same age groups have the same options to train and have fun at another location.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused, we hope that your child will stay with us and we try our best to deliver the same or a higher level of care and knowledge support.

All the best for the future for All, See you soon,

Frank

We have recently started a performance team to create a challenging environment for our best students to prepare them for league matches, tournaments and eventually to fight for a place in the county team.

This is an invitational group and for future applications, we are setting up a selection process to make sure only the ones who really want to compete will get into the team.

In this group, independent work and good focus are musts.

Anyone who would like to join, they should join other regular training groups of the network first (5-10 occasions), so Coach Frank can observe their working attitude, independence, and current skills.

If you would like to know more about the selection process, click on the below link.

Got a question? Contact us here!

The tournament we organized on the 13th of August, 2022 was a success.

18 children in their primary ages among Frank`s students could try themselves against others, some could try it with their parents!

Most badminton sessions started to form in January 2022 and the first test of knowledge is done for now.

We have tried our best to make the competition as smooth as possible. Overall, it was a great event that children and parents could enjoy. For some of them, it was their first competitive experience and they took the challenges very well.

A huge well done to all who competed, whether in singles or doubles!

Massive thank you to the volunteers who helped the children count their matches and also Frank to register results and calculating the scores.

We have been blessed to have a photographer on site to capture the best moments possible within the given light conditions.

As promised, here are the pictures below from the tournament. All pictures are reduced in size and watermarked to protect our content online. Feel free to share these pictures. If you would like non-watermarked, better-quality pictures, get in touch.

Got a question? Contact us here!

I have made an exhaustive post about mentality to fully describe “What mindset is?” and tried to break down some myths about it.

I still believe that this is a midnight zone for most of us, so I create some posts to make it easier to digest.

Does mindset a separate thing?

Some of you would say it is a thinking technique, so it is a technique so it is a technical thing.

Some of you would say it is a strategy of how we think on the court, so it is a tactical thing.

Some of you would sense that it is none of them, it is about feelings and how we manage them.

But if I ask you how can you describe it on the level of emotions, most of you would have a blank face, some would also try to explain it but after some made-up hypotheses, they would realize that they are as foggy about it as the rest.

I made a diagram about it in my last badminton mindset post but I thought with my current mind that maybe I can clarify it even better why it could be ambiguous.

But mindset doesn`t stop when you leave the court so how would you describe the off-court mindset? Does that the same or something else? Do we also have another mindset we have never discussed?

Yes, we do my friends. Yes, we do.

Wot? What mindset means then?

This set of thinking methods is not limited to the court. It has a base, which is your basic thinking about everything and anything.

And why is it triangle-shaped? It has a reason, find it here.

Even now when you are sitting and reading this have your own thinking method, a unique sequence of evaluating the input you get.

It is the same or similar sequence of how you eat, think about your overall health, how to value sleeping times and quality, select your information sources, accept people and what they say, select places from awful to your favorites, how you act in the dressing rooms before the training, how you act on court, how you act after a loss or a winner rally.

But if you are serious about badminton or any sport, then, mindset is everywhere.

It must be there at every movement you do on the streets, at every place, every bite, every classroom or off-court activity, and in your bedroom at the most private moments.

No exceptions. Every little thought on-court or off-court can have an effect on every single shot.

Mindset is the way of the constant evaluation of how you think.

Different approach

Let me explain it in a different way.

What do you call a skill? What skill means to you? How would you define skill?

If we talk about a skillset, we talk about a bunch of specific skills a person has.

This is no different when we talk about mindset.

For me, this is what it means:

A technique is as strong as it can be performed under pressure with the same quality.

When you cannot perform your personal technique properly at a competition is what I call a weak skill.

Mindset works parallel, here comes the twist.

About the above skill, how much you trust in it will determine how strong your trust is in your own skill.

That is what makes the mind on that shot. Yes, every one of your shots has its own trusted methods.

If you break it, it is less likely, or no longer be trusted by you.

Usually, that is the first point on a match for a weak mindset owner to start physical, verbal, and mental self-punishment which can manifest into yells of anger, frustrated facial expressions (eye-rolling, disgust, contempt, etc…) unfair play, disagreements, disallowed breaks of the game and so on.

It is a self-generating process that leads to a total collapse of a performance.

Most coaches suppress that topic or handle it as this is something a player can never change.

But I am sure, no player wants to be like that.

Wrap up

You cannot isolate mindset as it is part of every shot, every meal, every step.

Mindset is exciting. Everybody owns one and how strong is it determines a strong or a weak player.

Skills are important, and so is the mindset.

Every skill has its linked mind method. There is no skill without its trusted way of thinking about it.

A strong mindset owner can be recognizable from a distance, and so is a weak mindset owner.

Anyway, observe yourself on the court and become your better self! 🙂

And one more thing: practice present, because…

Consciousness brings success.

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It is good news for sure to the Network that we will be sponsored by a large pharmacological company from Europe that is adamant to extend its coverage to the United Kingdom.

At present, they are going to sponsor us with our annual shuttle usage but based on our numbers and achievements they would sponsor our expenses and needs extensively in the future so we can focus on the thing we love the most.

It is badminton.

We would like to thank you goodwillpharma.co.uk for their contribution to our club and our sport and hope for a fruitful collaboration between us.

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I am thrilled to let you know that one of my findings in badminton has been backed up by science!

Peripheral Visual Deception, a.k.a PVD is a real thing and for me at least, it starts a whole series of other questions around other unconscious decisions based on our visual perceptions in the sport of badminton.

Exciting times are coming when my coaching techniques go through a revolution in the name of consciousness!

Because, in my opinion, consciousness brings success.

To see the original article of our blog about PVD, click here.

To see the article below about the study, click here.

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“How much are you conscious of right now? Are you conscious of just the words in the centre of your visual field or all the words surrounding it? We tend to assume that our visual consciousness gives us a rich and detailed picture of the entire scene in front of us. The truth is very different, as our discovery of a visual illusion, published in Psychological Science, shows.

To illustrate how limited the information in our visual field is, get a deck of playing cards. Pick a spot on the wall in front of you and stare at it. Then take a card at random. Without looking at its front, hold it far out to your left with a straight arm, until it’s on the very edge of your visual field. Keep staring at the point on the wall and flip the card round so it’s facing you.

Try to guess its colour. You will probably find it extremely difficult. Now slowly move the card closer to the centre of your vision, while keeping your arm straight. Pay close attention to the point at which you can identify its colour.

It’s amazing how central the card needs to be before you’re able to do this, let alone identify its suit or value. What this little experiment shows is how undetailed (and often inaccurate) our conscious vision is, especially outside the centre of our visual field.

Crowding: how the brain gets confused

Here is another example that brings us a little closer to how these phenomena are investigated scientifically. Please focus your eyes on the + sign on the left, and try to identify the letter on the right of it (of course you know already what it is, but pretend for the moment that you do not):

You might find this a bit tricky, but you can probably still identify the letter as an “A”. But now focus your eyes on the following +, and try to identify the letters on the right:

In this case, you’ll probably struggle to identify the letters. It probably looks like a mess of features to you. Or maybe you feel like you can see a jumble of curves and lines, without being able to say precisely what’s there. This is called “crowding”. Our visual system sometimes does OK at identifying objects in our peripheral vision, but when those objects are placed near other objects, it struggles. This is a shocking limitation on our conscious vision. The letters are clearly presented right in front of us. But still our conscious mind gets confused.

Crowding is a hotly debated topic in philosophy, psychology and neuroscience. We’re still not sure why crowding happens. One popular theory is that it’s a failure of what’s called “feature integration”. To understand feature integration, we will need to pick apart some of the jobs that your visual system does.

Imagine you are looking at a blue square and a red circle. Your visual system does not just have to detect the properties out there (blueness, redness, circularity, squareness). It also has to work out which property belongs to which object. This might not seem like a complicated task to us. However, in the visual brain, this is no trivial matter.

It takes a lot of complicated computation to work out that circularity and redness are properties of one object at the same location. The visual system needs to “glue” together the circularity and the redness as both belonging to the same object, and do the same with blueness and squareness. This gluing process is feature integration.

According to this theory, what happens in crowding is that the visual system detects the properties out there, but it can’t work out which properties belong to which object. As a result, what you see is a big mess of features, and your conscious mind cannot differentiate one letter from the others.

New illusion

Recently, we have discovered a new visual illusion that has raised a host of new questions for fans of crowding. We tested what happens when three of the objects are identical, for example in the following case:

What do you see when you look at the +? We found that more than half of people said that there were only two letters there, rather than three. Indeed, follow-up work seems to indicate that they’re pretty confident about this incorrect judgment.

This is a surprising result. Unlike normal crowding, it’s not that you see a jumble of features. Rather, one whole letter neatly drops away from consciousness. This result fits poorly with the feature integration theory. It’s not that the visual system is detecting all of the properties out there, but just getting confused about which properties belong to which objects. Rather, one whole object has just disappeared.

We don’t think that a failure of feature integration is what’s going on. Our theory is that this illusion is due to what we call “redundancy masking”. In our view, the visual system can detect that there are several of the same letter out there, but it doesn’t seem to calculate correctly how many there are. Maybe it’s just not worth the energy to work out the number of letters with high precision.

When we open our eyes, we effortlessly get a conscious picture of our environment. However, the underlying processes that go into creating this picture are anything but effortless. Illusions like redundancy masking help us unpick how these processes work, and ultimately will help us explain consciousness itself.”

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