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    January 15, 2020 1 min read

    Jeffrey Tho Coaching at World Championships in Basel Switzerland

    Last year in August, I was lucky enough to travel to Basel, Switzerland to coach the Australian Team at the 2019 World Championships.

    Being a former player that has competed at such tournaments such as the World Championships, I found that the experience was vastly different as a coach compared to an athlete. 

    I've written about this in a previous blog post in our Volant Community. To read this, click HERE. 

    If you'd prefer to listen rather than read, I go into more detail episode 4 of The Badminton Podcast, which includes a discussion about what I feel our players are lacking when comparing them to the world's best.

    Here's the episode:

     

    Let us know what you think and be sure to tune into our other episodes on your favourite podcast platform: Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Breaker, Anchor, Overcast, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, Player FM. Just search for "The Badminton Podcast".

    Or you can visit:www.anchor.fm/thebadmintonpodcast and get direct links for your preferred platform.

    We'd love to hear your opinions, comments, tips and tricks so please feel free to comment below. If you would like us to write about something in particular, please let us know!
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    Jeffrey Tho
    Jeffrey Tho

    Jeff is an ex-international badminton player who represented Australia at the Commonwealth Games (twice as a player & once as a coach), World Championships, All England Championships and multiple Thomas and Sudirman Cups. He was the Australian National Coach, Senior State Head Coach and is the co-founder of Volant badminton & The Badminton Podcast. Jeff is extremely passionate about building the worldwide badminton community & showing the world how incredible our sport really is.


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