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The 2009 Massachusetts Bay States Games Badminton Tournament will take place
on 11-Jul-09 and 12-Jul-09. You can register (the deadline is 29-Jun-09)
by following the link:
http://www.baystategames.org/html/bsgwww/summergames/sports/badminton.html
This year the entries are divided into different levels according to skills:
A - Advanced players, B - Intermediate players, and C - Recreational players.
Since I am an active player in some of the Boston area
badminton clubs, I want to provide this info for others who are
interested. For completeness, I note both private and closed
clubs in the area, but my main focus is on the public groups,
which tend to play from October through April in various school
and town gyms around the Boston metropolitan area.
Also, there is some group which plays in Worcester at Worcester Polytech,
but no one has provided enough details to me to provide a page.
- Eastern MA and Southern NH Clubs and Classes
- according to Mike Wolfberg, * = a year-round club:
Acton,
Arlington,
Bedford,
Boston College, Newton,
Carlisle, MA,
Concord, NH*,
UNH, Durham, NH*,
Duxbury,
Harvard Univ., Cambridge,
Hamilton,
Malden*,
Manchester, NH*,
Marblehead*,
Marlboro,
Nashua, NH*,
Needham,
New London, NH*,
Quincy*,
Scituate,
Waltham*,
Whitman/Hanson,
Winchester.
- http://geocities.com/mass_league/ - web site for Massachusetts Inter-Club League
- New
Rally Point Scoring and New Laws
and New
Scoring Example for Doubles
-
How to extend shuttle life during dry times
- Boston Open Tournament -
held MIT, this annual Springtime event is the best place to see
high-quality play in New England.
The most recent one was held May 2-4, 2008.
The 2009 Boston Open will held over the second weekend of May:
May 8-10, 2009.
- New
England Badminton Web Site
- Northeast U.S.
Badminton Association Web Site
- USA Badminton Web
Site - with lots of info, including rules and commercial
sites, and links to many other badminton sites
- Badminton around the World a
site with a lot of badminton info, including commercial
vendors
- Please use these links to shop for
books on badminton
and
badminton products at Amazon.com. This provides some benefit to me at no extra cost to you. Thanks! However, badminton products in general seem to be priced lower at the web stores I mention below.
One product I recommend from Amazon is the CSI #222 net.
- Yonex commercial manufacturer site
- NRC Sports in Paxton, MA near Worcester - both a store and web-based
- San Diego Badminton Supply commercial vendor site I recommend
- Stella Chan - represents
Victor America badminton products in the Boston area,
and she can also get racquets restrung.
She can be reached by phone at: 617-894-1811
- Winning Rackets
commercial vendor site in the Boston area; they also operate out of the
Maugus Club in Wellesley, MA.
- In the Boston area, player Nelson Han
(NHan@computer.org)
strings badminton and other kinds of racquets at a reasonable price.
He lives in Andover and works near Route 9 in Framingham.
- Shuttles.com a web-based commercial vendor in FL with good prices for feathered birds, such as Aeroplane SG1130