An opportunity arose on 27^th & 28^th April to join a Strength & conditioning session with Mats Medjevi in Dublin. Strength & Conditioning is one of the essential elements of top badminton performance, and together with quality coaching, practice, diet and competition go to increase our players’ standard of play.

Recently with the help of Toni Rossiter and Ken Lynch of the Irish Institute of Sport, BI conducted fitness assessments and physiological tests in Baldoyle with Scott Evans, Chloe Magee, Sam Magee, Tony Stephenson and 6 of our top under age players.  It is great to be able to bring some of our younger players into the mix.

 A lot of time has been spent pulling together information and plans for submission to the Irish Sports Council for funding to run Badminton High Performance in 2011. This has happened from the beginning of December until now, and we should know the outcome by the end of January.