i will end up playing more in summer because i dont have to focus on school, well this year i have some IB work to do over the summer but thats not going to stop me. It will be better cause i can go play more often but so will lots of other people so thats the disadvantage, oh well ill just go to a camp and try for elite or something to get playing at a higher level.
Badminton for me, in Montreal, is great for pretty much any time except summer. Mostly because it's cold around here and so indoor sports are just a godsave against couch potatoe syndrome when it's freezing outside. The YMCA I usually go to is usually packed solid during the summer, though, so I almost never even bother during the summer. It's more that I don't play as much because I can't than it is I don't play as much because I have better things to do. I do find however that the summer is a long time to go without playing, and I see no reason why schools and clubs should shut down--- if anything, they stand to get more people, since kids are out of school and have more time to play. Although, if you can't find places to play during, start your own club like we did! Problem solved.
Hmmm....I generally play less, because of the heat in some places ie. BCIT and other summer sports that come up. I try to play once a week in the summer, but I also have a love for tennis so I have to make the best of my summer in the tennis courts; whereas badminton is offered all season long.
ugh.... we only have 2 seasons here in the philippines... hot and hotter (with a bit of rain during the hot season) and it feels like summer the whole year 'round. I only know of 3 clubs here with air conditioning... dunno why i'm punishing myself with the heat. hehehe...
summer. Badminton is an addiction. Can't live without it. Good to play in summer to loose more weights.
still play on summer despite the HEAT 35 + deg Centigrade during daytime. Heat during the night time doesnt fair well either. Average is 32 degrees.
i try to play as much as i possibly can through the summer, i remember a year or two ago i gave it a break for the summer months and when the season started again in september i could hardly hit the birdie. Im quite lucky really as i can play twice a week in church halls that my club has organised, and i normally manage to play another 2 or 3 times a week at college
I'm gonna keep my training all year round, but I agree... In the summer it's quite hot on a badminton-court with no air-conditioning or anything to cool you down but water... Actually I'm gonna keep a litte break in july, gotta have some time of during the year, but my experiense is that a to long summerbreak, 2-3 months, and you spent the first month of the season to get the touch back..
I found that in Canada, although there were pockets of interest in more rural areas, summer wasn't the only time gyms weren't available. Forget year-round. My hometown (pop. 3200) gave us Sept-May and the nearest city had an almost dedicated gym with the even shorter Sept-April season. In fact, one of those might have started in October. In Korea, a major difference is that most people with sports as a hobby concentrate on only one. Therefore, virtually no sports facility is seasonal. For example, we have only a few dozen ice rinks in this whole country but every last one operates year-round and all but a few are accessible to the public 7 days a week. People who do badminton rarely play tennis with any kind of fervour and vice-versa. At the local tennis/badminton shop I go to, when I took my tennis racquet in to be re-strung, they seriously asked me whether I was giving up badminton. In terms of the gyms, there isn't the competition from sports like basketball and volleyball so there are plenty of school gyms that are used for badminton 5-7 days a week and there are more and more public facilities which are cheaper and better. I pay one dollar at my gym, which has ten courts. We have two places that are free year-round, too. We even have air conditioning but this is the first time I've seen that kind of luxury in a gym in Korea and it is definitely NOT the norm. The air-conditioning was installed badly, too. They hardly ever turn it on because it makes lots of noise yet nothing seems to come out of the vents even as the shuttles do amazing aerobatics whenever it's on. The majority of gyms aren't even heated in the frosty winters we get here. So most places experience a drop in numbers on the coldest winter days and the hottest summer days. I, on the other hand, suspect that one day I will return to the land of warm-in-the-winter, closed-in-the-summer Canadian gyms and so I never change the frequency of my gym visits all through the summer.
I play much more than usual, in fact during the summer i play 7 days a week. It's important for me to play more over the summer, since that is when i have most time to train (no school etc). It gives me a chance to step up my game in time for the new season. If you are a relatively serious player who likes to enter tournaments like me its important to take advantage of the extra time available. My aim for next season is to get into the county squad for my age group as soon as possible, and having been invited to attend pre-season training(incidentally this happens next week) with the county, i hope that the extra training has paid off since this is the ideal opportunity to catch the eye of the coaches.
You know, me being in Canada, heat isn't so much of an issue in summer gyms (though it still is). I hear that in a lot of asian countries, say, philipines for example, that badminton is really on the rise-- how do you people handle the heat?!
You just suck it up and take it. Either that or you don't play. Oh, and you bring 10 shirts instead of 5.
drinkalot () at a summer trainingcamp we sometimes drank 5-6 liters a day or something, just mad... I keep playing, maybe a little less. our badmintonsystem here is more clubwise: you have a badminton-club (wich is in my case 700 members) who rent a sportshall from the goverment for certain hours of badminton-only (in my case they own their own baddy-specific-hall) and that's our 'club'. sadly enough the season stops for me at teh end of june...and starts in august. so I'm guessing i'll be doign a lot of running in that month...
