Make area 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 atmosphere – providing major school-aged youngsters the chance to study and develop their expertise, hold match, make associates 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 many who need to participate from its begin to its end.
Phases 1-2 will introduce elementary motion expertise, the footwork wanted to succeed on courtroom, the hand-eye coordination strategies and the essential racket grips that can assist get your youngster began.
Phases 3-4 will assist gamers develop the core badminton expertise with velocity and agility. Then Phases 5-6 will introduce sport play and techniques, getting ready youngsters for newbie competitors.
In addition to the staged programmes, there will probably be Shuttle Stars Festivals to enroll in – 90-minute celebrations of badminton, that includes video games, expertise classes and enjoyable for all. And Shuttle Stars may even goal to introduce early competitors, bringing collectively the talents which individuals have developed within the programme and letting them flourish in a pleasant aggressive atmosphere.
And who is aware of? Shuttle Stars could possibly be the place the place the subsequent massive badminton abilities are noticed! This programme is basically an entry level into the game we all know younger folks will love, however this initiative may even present a structured expertise pathway for these younger gamers who – on the finish of their Shuttle Stars journey – could need to take their expertise to the subsequent degree, representing a membership, a county or their nation.
Upon signing up as a Shuttle Star, each participant will routinely obtain a participant pack consisting of a Shuttle Stars racket, a Shuttle Stars t-shirt and shuttlecocks! Every little thing you should begin your badminton journey.
And on the finish of your first 4 weeks of the programme, each youngster will probably be nicely on their method in the direction of efficiently finishing Stage One in all Shuttle Stars at which level they’ll obtain a certificates to recognise their achievement and to indicate off to their classmates, family and friends!
The programme is launching in January with a collection of pilot classes run in additional than 20 completely different areas. Within the Spring, roadshows will happen so extra folks begin to find out about Shuttle Stars and what it may well supply to younger badminton gamers – and concurrently the shuttles will actually begin to fly when Stage One classes 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 colleges when badminton involves lecture rooms close to you!
There is no need to delay – players can start to sign up to sessions now! New areas, dates and instances are being added every single day so hold 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 faculty to enroll to our community of Shuttle Stars supply companions. Clubs and coaches can sign up to run Shuttle Stars sessions now!
The Shuttle Stars programme is offering a full library of digital sources to make the supply of each single session a clean and easy course of, from stage one to stage six!
Whether or not the classes are being delivered by high quality coaches in leisure centres or badminton membership services throughout the nation or PE academics within the classroom, these delivering the programme may have entry to on-line and downloadable exercise playing cards and a complete collection of educational movies which can equip them to information every youngster by each step of their badminton journey.
Shuttle Stars can also be designed to replicate 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. Turn out to be a Shuttle Star in the present day and get a style of the nation’s favorite racket sport!
