Badminton in the region has continued to grow thanks also to the efforts of the coaches, who, like Anderson Andres from Brazil, know the benefits of our sport and share it in their city for the benefit of many children and young people.
Anderson met badminton about 7 years ago, responding to the need for a badminton teacher in his city. Even without knowing much about our sport, he took charge of a course and little by little he learned and shared more about our sport.
“When I started in badminton, I didn’t know much about it. In my city there was a foundation that worked with sports in the city and they had the materials for badminton, but there was no teacher to teach. I didn’t have badminton knowledge but I started to investigate and I liked it, so I started to teach badminton in some schools, with little knowledge. I saw that the children really enjoyed the classes, I was learning more and the children liked it more and more. After a year we had 100 children practicing badminton in my city.”
With the passage of time, Anderson learned much more about our sport and honed his knowledge, he also began to achieve goals that had not been set and have results that at first he did not know he could achieve.
“When I started in badminton I did not have many prospects because I started working directly. I did not have many dreams but I achieved things that I did not expect, athletes in the national team and in international tournaments, we formed a good team. Now my dream would be to form a team really high performance and highly competitive athletes. ”
Among the trainings that allowed Anderson to continue growing as a coach is the level 3 coaching course held in our region last year. There he was able to exchange experiences with many coaches from the continent and acquire new knowledge for the benefit of his country.
“For me it was a unique opportunity, to be able to live a course with the best coaches in America. I did not see myself in a course with so much learning and with the opportunity to exchange experiences with other coaches. It was a great opportunity. The course changed my vision a lot. As a coach, I have seen many things that I did not use before with my athletes. Various teaching methods and various possibilities that were opened to reach athletes. All this changes my vision as a coach and I feel much more capable of implementing new methods of work and training for my athletes. ”
There are still many people in Brazil and in our region who do not know badminton, for all of them, Anderson leaves a clear message, detailing how valuable badminton is to him and how much benefit it can bring to our continent.
“I would say to the coaches that practicing and teaching badminton is worth it. Personal fulfillment with this sport is very great. Badminton is a very easy sport to implement and children and young people have facilities to learn it, and they really like it. So badminton is really a sport worth knowing, practicing and spreading. ”
