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Mike Wolfberg's Badminton Page

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 - 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*, Marblehead*, Marlboro, Nashua, NH*, Needham, New London, NH*, Quincy*, Scituate, Sudbury, Waltham*, Whitman/Hanson, Winchester.
  
• Eastern MA Classes and Coaching
  
  
• http://sites.google.com/site/massbadminton/ - 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 at MIT, this annual Springtime event is the best place to see high-quality play in New England.
  The 2010 Boston Open was held over the second weekend of May: May 7-9, 2010. The next one will likely be in early May, 2011, but the date will not be set until the Fall of 2010.
  
• Badminton Tournament at the Summer Bay State Games - You can follow the event here
  
• 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 highly recommend from Amazon is the CSI #222 net.
  
  
• Winning Sports (commercial vendor in the Boston area) - for all Badminton Needs + Full Stringing Service
  Authorized dealers for: Yonex, Li-Ning, Wilson, Head, Black Knight, Ashaway, Karakal
  Cliff Wenn & Szilvia Szombati, info@winningrackets.com, 508-901-WENN
• Winning Sports News - this commercial vendor is hosting a demo event for Li-Ning Badminton Equipment at the Maugus Club in Wellesley, MA. on 18-Sep-10
  
• 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
• 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.
  
• NRC Sports in Paxton, MA near Worcester - a small store with a larger web-based business
• San Diego Badminton Supply commercial vendor site I recommend
  
• Yonex commercial manufacturer site
• Shuttles.com a web-based commercial vendor in FL with good prices for feathered birds, such as Aeroplane SG1130