Church St Badminton Club with Victor ambassador Stuart Preston
Stuart discussing rackets our junior members. How many players at local club level really understand the difference in racket types, how many people honestly just say (depending on their budget) "Oh the new Yonex racket is out, I'll buy it". Understanding the differences in head weight, flexibility of shaft, grip size and string tension are not key considerations of the average player. Yet all these factors can have a huge impact on our play, no matter what your playing style, whether it be defensive or attacking, singles or doubles.
However even the best suppliers only allow you to hold a racket (and top end rackets don't have strings in them), trying a racket in real time only ever achieved if a friend of yours has a racket you might be interested in and can let you try it out, but how do you know which is the right one for you? Just because it feels nice in the hand and you seem to be able to clear it well, might be just because it already matches your existing playing style, if your weakness is net play then surely a racket that lends strength to this area so you can improve your overall game is a far better investment than just improving or remaining the same level with your existing game.
Well Victor have solved this problem by introducing the Victor Ambassador programme, it's aim is to raise awareness of the Victor brand with the key focus on grass root clubs. The unique feature in the Victor programme is the introduction of demo events and on Tuesday our club was fortunate enough to take part in one such demo event.
Stuart Preston a qualified coach and Victor Ambassador visited our club from 7.30 - 9.30pm, he brought with him the entire Victor racket range, including all the very latest rackets which had literally just become available, alongside this he brought a broad range of the Victor badminton shoes and some of the Victor racket bags. After introducing Stuart to the club and guests from other clubs, each player could ask questions about the rackets and then try them out, using Victors own feather shuttlecock ranges. Initially each player hit shuttles back and forth between partners getting a feel for what they preferred and from Stuart's recommendations, he added grips to rackets for players who are used to a slightly thicker grip than the standard one that comes on new rackets.
Players also looked at and tried on the various shoe ranges, whilst stuart explained the ups and downside of different string tensions and type of strings.
I should mention at this point that you can't buy the rackets from the ambassadors, there is no hard sell, just merely the opportunity to understand the Victor range and see first hand the benefit of their product range both on quality and price. We were fortunate however that Stuart had been given special permission from Victor UK for that evening to sell the Victor shoe range, should anyone find their size and colour in the selection displayed and at a reduced rate to online retailers.
Once our members had tried the full range, they could then narrow down their preferences and use their selected rackets in actual game play, the big surprise here was that most players ended up liking rackets they initially discarded.
If you want to then purchase a Victor racket there are plenty of online retailers available, being completely confident in your choice being the right one, having fully tested it.
The evening was a huge hit with everyone that took part and the buzz from it carried on till our next club night, I would highly recommend a Victor demo evening for every club, it helps revive the passion for the sport, shine light on areas of the sport that most club players have not experienced before or have any knowledge of and above all delivers a fun evening doing what we all love….playing badminton.
You can contact Victor Sport UK about demo evenings by visiting the Victor Sport website here.
However even the best suppliers only allow you to hold a racket (and top end rackets don't have strings in them), trying a racket in real time only ever achieved if a friend of yours has a racket you might be interested in and can let you try it out, but how do you know which is the right one for you? Just because it feels nice in the hand and you seem to be able to clear it well, might be just because it already matches your existing playing style, if your weakness is net play then surely a racket that lends strength to this area so you can improve your overall game is a far better investment than just improving or remaining the same level with your existing game.
Well Victor have solved this problem by introducing the Victor Ambassador programme, it's aim is to raise awareness of the Victor brand with the key focus on grass root clubs. The unique feature in the Victor programme is the introduction of demo events and on Tuesday our club was fortunate enough to take part in one such demo event.
Stuart Preston a qualified coach and Victor Ambassador visited our club from 7.30 - 9.30pm, he brought with him the entire Victor racket range, including all the very latest rackets which had literally just become available, alongside this he brought a broad range of the Victor badminton shoes and some of the Victor racket bags. After introducing Stuart to the club and guests from other clubs, each player could ask questions about the rackets and then try them out, using Victors own feather shuttlecock ranges. Initially each player hit shuttles back and forth between partners getting a feel for what they preferred and from Stuart's recommendations, he added grips to rackets for players who are used to a slightly thicker grip than the standard one that comes on new rackets.
Players also looked at and tried on the various shoe ranges, whilst stuart explained the ups and downside of different string tensions and type of strings.
I should mention at this point that you can't buy the rackets from the ambassadors, there is no hard sell, just merely the opportunity to understand the Victor range and see first hand the benefit of their product range both on quality and price. We were fortunate however that Stuart had been given special permission from Victor UK for that evening to sell the Victor shoe range, should anyone find their size and colour in the selection displayed and at a reduced rate to online retailers.
Once our members had tried the full range, they could then narrow down their preferences and use their selected rackets in actual game play, the big surprise here was that most players ended up liking rackets they initially discarded.
If you want to then purchase a Victor racket there are plenty of online retailers available, being completely confident in your choice being the right one, having fully tested it.
The evening was a huge hit with everyone that took part and the buzz from it carried on till our next club night, I would highly recommend a Victor demo evening for every club, it helps revive the passion for the sport, shine light on areas of the sport that most club players have not experienced before or have any knowledge of and above all delivers a fun evening doing what we all love….playing badminton.
You can contact Victor Sport UK about demo evenings by visiting the Victor Sport website here.
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