January 15, 2020 1 min read
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.
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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