Make house for lots of latest stars within the badminton universe – 5, 4, three, two, one…Shuttle Stars is go!
Shuttle Stars is Badminton England’s groundbreaking new junior participation programme for 7-11 year-olds.
Shuttle Stars is right here to introduce a brand new era to our unbelievable sport inside a enjoyable, welcoming, inclusive surroundings – providing major school-aged youngsters the chance to study and develop their abilities, maintain match, make pals and take their first steps on a dynamic new pathway into the world of badminton.
Badminton England’s mission is to make badminton probably the most inclusive and accessible sport in England. A sport for everybody. And that begins on the very starting, sparking, fostering and nurturing a lifelong ardour for badminton amongst younger girls and boys.
Shuttle Stars is damaged down into six structured phases, designed to be delivered throughout a minimal of two years in complete for individuals who wish to participate from its begin to its end.
Levels 1-2 will introduce basic motion abilities, the footwork wanted to succeed on court docket, the hand-eye coordination methods and the fundamental racket grips that can assist get your youngster began.
Levels 3-4 will assist gamers develop the core badminton abilities with pace and agility. Then Levels 5-6 will introduce recreation play and techniques, making ready youngsters for newbie competitors.
Moreover the staged programmes, there can be Shuttle Stars Festivals to join – 90-minute celebrations of badminton, that includes video games, abilities periods and enjoyable for all. And Shuttle Stars will even purpose to introduce early competitors, bringing collectively the talents which individuals have developed within the programme and letting them flourish in a pleasant aggressive surroundings.
And who is aware of? Shuttle Stars might be the place the place the following massive badminton skills are noticed! This programme is basically an entry level into the game we all know younger folks will love, however this initiative will even present a structured expertise pathway for these younger gamers who – on the finish of their Shuttle Stars journey – might wish to take their expertise to the following degree, representing a membership, a county or their nation.
Upon signing up as a Shuttle Star, each participant will robotically obtain a participant pack consisting of a Shuttle Stars racket, a Shuttle Stars t-shirt and shuttlecocks! The whole lot it’s worthwhile to begin your badminton journey.
And on the finish of your first 4 weeks of the programme, each youngster can be effectively on their manner in direction of efficiently finishing Stage One among Shuttle Stars at which level they are going to obtain a certificates to recognise their achievement and to point out off to their classmates, family and friends!
The programme is launching in January with a collection of pilot periods run in additional than 20 completely different places. Within the Spring, roadshows will happen so extra folks begin to find out about Shuttle Stars and what it might supply to younger badminton gamers – and concurrently the shuttles will actually begin to fly when Stage One periods kick begin in golf equipment and training environments up and down the nation – for all those that signal as much as the programme. And later within the yr, Shuttle Stars will begin to be delivered in leisure centres after which faculties when badminton involves lecture rooms close to you!
There isn’t a have to delay – gamers can begin to enroll to periods now! New places, dates and instances are being added each day so maintain your eyes peeled for a programme close to you!
Or, if there may be not but a Shuttle Stars session rising close to you, ask your native leisure centre or your college to enroll to our community of Shuttle Stars supply companions. Golf equipment and coaches can signal as much as run Shuttle Stars periods now!
The Shuttle Stars programme is offering a full library of digital sources to make the supply of each single session a easy and easy course of, from stage one to stage six!
Whether or not the periods are being delivered by high quality coaches in leisure centres or badminton membership services throughout the nation or PE lecturers within the classroom, these delivering the programme could have entry to on-line and downloadable exercise playing cards and a complete collection of tutorial movies which can equip them to information every youngster by means of each step of their badminton journey.
Shuttle Stars can be designed to mirror the game’s inclusive nature – whereas the programme is tailor-made to major school-aged youngsters of all talents, there isn’t any age restriction to any of its phases – the identical session plan sources can be utilized to show newbie degree badminton to any participant new to our sport.
Come collectively and be a part of the constellation. Develop into a Shuttle Star as we speak and get a style of the nation’s favorite racket sport!
