The humid heat, which characterises Maltese summers, may not provide the ideal environment for training or playing an indoor sport. Yet Badminton activity has continued unabated during the summer months.

Most of the clubs continued with their regular weekly sessions. The Association itself organised three separate badminton fun events at the Cottonera Sports Complex.

Prominent among these activities was a training course for prospective junior players. This is run by Joanne Cassar, a qualified and experienced coach who has always shown a marked talent for training youngsters.

Spaced over twelve weekly sessions, the training course focuses on a group of children aged between four and eleven years. Each ninety-minute session centres around specific exercises intended to improve each child’s physical development and coordination.

The children are also taught basic footwork skills and playing technique.

No session would be complete without a fun game of some sort. This indirectly serves to introduce the participants to the basic Badminton rules of the game.

Similar courses will be organised during the coming months. Interested parents who may want to enrol their children may contact the Badminton Association directly on telephone nos. 21697407 / 21312697.