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Badminton and its complications to emerge in the Red Land

Sunday, October 31, 2021 | 6:05 a.m.

Badminton was born in India at the end of the 19th century, but it arrived in Misiones almost a hundred years later and from that moment it has sought to gain followers in the Red Land. It generated good representatives, to the point of having a member of the Argentine national team for 18 years, but a little because of ignorance and a little because of the lack of implements to play, the sport was not among the “popular”.

With rackets, but without the ball, badminton draws the attention of the first-time viewer. Those who play say that it seems simple from the stands, but that once inside the playing field, everything is transformed and that is what attracts.

The feather, the element that replaces the ball and the rackets, which are not like tennis rackets, are difficult to obtain in Argentina in general and in Misiones in particular and that is why badminton did not have the necessary impulse to become popular. Anyway, there are schools in Montecarlo, Eldorado, Oberá and Posadas and several clubs lend their facilities for him to practice badminton and a provincial association is being formed.

Badminton is a sport that can be played individually or in pairs. It has been on the Olympic calendar since Barcelona 1992 and since Tokyo 2020 adapted badminton has been included in the Paralympic Games.

Alice Garay spent 18 years in the Argentine badminton team and today she is a teacher at Eldorado. He is clear that badminton will not be in Argentina like soccer or basketball in terms of mass, but he is excited about being able to generate a comfortable place for his students from sport.

“The boys look for a place of reference to be and if they feel good they stay. We look for that and if anyone is there to compete better. We want you to know that there are other options. In general, many boys go to team sports, but when they get to know badminton they are passionate about it ”, commented the teacher.

“The complications we have in general are that you have to have a closed place and get the rackets and feathers. Everything is brought from outside and getting competition materials is sometimes complicated, especially with everything related to the pandemic. That is why I think the sport is not so popular, but when the boys get to know it they like it ”, analyzed Garay.

Buying rackets to compete costs between $ 150 and $ 180 and a six-feather tube can cost up to 3,000 pesos. In addition, the space needs to be closed so that the wind is not a determining factor, since the pen does not have the same resistance as a tennis ball. All these details conspire against the massiveness of sport in Tierra Colorada.

Beyond these points against, the fans and lovers of the sport of the feather do not give up and for some time they have sought to build a provincial association, which will give them more impetus.

“We are in the process of setting up a provincial association. The pandemic slowed us down a bit, but we progressed little by little and perhaps for next year we can start with the association, which will give us another boost and help us spread the word about the sport ”, Garay commented.

The problem of following
When Buenos Aires won the headquarters of the Youth Olympic Games for 2018, the national government decided to give it, a couple of years before, an injection to various sports that would be part of the games calendar.

Badminton entered that momentum. Funds were allocated and players and coaches were also trained to generate a quarry and arrive with good teams at the Games. But once the competition was over, there were few who maintained that status as scholarship holders by the Nation.

Javier Widmann continues with his school in Monte Carlo, where the municipality adapted part of the Mundialista sports center to build a couple of fields. He got rackets and feathers from the Nation, but being a small school it only has students up to 13 or 14 years old. Then teens need to stay in a club and otherwise end up quitting the sport.

“Tournaments were stopped and that complicates things. It is a difficulty for boys who reach 14 or 15 years, because they no longer have a restraint ”, Widmann lamented.

“It is a sport to improve physicality and coordination. You learn respect for your rivals and your teammates. It helps improve vision, corrects myopia, because concentration is in a pen and that helps, “said Widmann, adding that” if they start from a young age, it doesn’t cost as much. From the outside it seems easier ”.

When analyzing why badminton is not a popular and massive sport in Misiones, Widmann agreed with Garay: “The difficulty is that the boys cannot buy things. You always have to bring it from outside ”.

Badminton has not been in Misiones for 50 years and in that time several players managed to stand out, with Alice Garay at the helm. It was shown that there is raw material, but there is a lack of an organizational impulse, that lovers of the sport of the feather hope will be found with the association that is developing.

From India came the sport of feathers

Badminton is a racket sport that can be played individually or in pairs on an indoor court and has the peculiarity that what is hit is not a ball, but a conical shaped object made of cork and feathers – natural or synthetic – known as a feather.

The sport consists of passing the pen over a net, until the rival is not able to return it to the opponent’s area. Points are added to win two games or sets of 21 points, and always with a minimum of two points difference.

Badminton was born in India and at the end of the 19th century it reached England, from where it spread to their respective colonies throughout the world.

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