Malagasy badminton has just scored a decisive point in the Bongolava region. On February 16 and 17, a training course organized by the Malagasy badminton federation in close partnership with the Regional Directorate of Youth and Sports, took place in Tsiroanomandidy. Clear objective: to give real impetus to the practice of badminton in an area where the sport still too often remains relegated to the background.
The official opening, chaired by Irintsoa Tina Andrianalimanana, Regional Director of Youth and Sports of Bongolava, set the tone. Around him, the Head of the Tsiroanomandidy School District, physical education teachers and several local sports players responded.
During two intensive days, the participants, mainly teachers and school supervisors, went back to the fundamentals and sharpened their weapons: high serve, defensive clear, cushioned drop shot, winning smash. The discussions were technical with precise demonstrations and rich feedback. The idea was not only to perfect the gesture, but above all to form relays capable of transmitting the passion and the technique to future generations.
So that the good intentions do not go unheeded, the Federation played the game to the end by providing the participants with complete and adapted equipment: twenty new rackets, a box of feather shuttlecocks for serious matches, a box of plastic shuttlecocks for daily training, and a net ready to be deployed on any court. Enough to immediately transform schoolyards into real badminton courts.
In the middle and high schools of Bongolava, we should soon see young people taking the racket in hand, learning to read the game, to anticipate trajectories and to construct their points intelligently.
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