Friday, October 13, 2023 16:55
Badminton is an Olympic racket discipline in which two players or pairs of players face each other over a net, and which, although it is similar to tennis, is played with a shuttlecock or pen and not with a ball. Uncommon in San Juan but common in other areas of the world, this sport is expanding and gaining more and more “field” in the province
Years before the pandemic, this sport began to become known among students at a school on 9 de Julio and in a process of growth it reached more departments. Now the teachers who instruct in the discipline overcome different challenges and seek improvement as in other provinces.
“Badminton started in San Juan 4 years before the pandemic, I worked at a shelter school in El Encón where the boys had the opportunity to compete at the provincial level and we opted for this new sport that was little practiced in the province. They qualified and therefore “For the first time, the boys traveled to Mar del Plata. Since then we competed, it was 3 consecutive years with the boys from that area, it was a sport that we started with great sacrifice because it was difficult for us to have top-level footwear and rackets,” the discipline’s professor, Edgar Baigorria, told Diario La Provincia SJ.
According to him, although badminton, like many other activities, stopped during the pandemic process, it has been resumed with vigor in other areas for almost two years.
“After the pandemic, Badminton became more widespread and kids from Caucete, Capital and Media Agua began to participate, with fellow teachers, and the sport was able to spread more. As in the beginning, it is still in schools,” he said. And she added about the achievements that have already positioned San Juan in the specialty: “The best achievement we had before the pandemic was when the girls in doubles were able to be among the eight best nationally.”
Currently, it is under 14 San Juan boys who practice it, that is, athletes aged 12, 13 and 14 years old. In this framework, he mentioned that the objective would be to be able to have children more prepared at a competitive level because the majority of those enrolled who practice it, do so within the physical education classes that last 40 minutes. “Badminton training takes more than two hours, sometimes even double shifts, which is what the kids who are federated at the national level do,” he stressed.
And he added: “Other objectives are to be able to acquire the fundamental elements, we have the basics that are difficult for us to practice with. When we go to the national level, the rackets and shuttlecocks they use are top-notch and the speed of play is totally different. “The game they play here has a lot of influence.”
“We teachers do it by vocation, last year there was a record of registration that was almost 60 children at the provincial level and it surpassed us, we look for kids who have natural conditions for badminton and who are trained and skilled. We know that they are going to have opportunities,” Baigorria concluded.
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