TWO of Barbados’ Badminton senior national players will be attending a training camp in England as they prepare for the upcoming Caribbean Badminton Championships.
Kevin Wood and Dave Forde will take part in the Liba Training Camp which begins on the 18th July and will run for two weeks. This is the second consecutive year both players will be attending the training camp. The camp, whose coach is Lee Jae Bok from Korea was the England national coach, will prepare players for various competitions in preparation for the Olympic Games in England 2012.
Wood and Forde will be preparing for the Caribbean Badminton Championships (CAREBACO), 2011 which is being hosted by Barbados between the August 28 to September 3, 2011. Wood leaves on the July 16 to meet Forde who is completing a six week training camp in Malaysia.
The Barbados Advocate caught up with Wood yesterday and he noted that both Forde and himself were looking forward to the camp, which he described as being of a very high quality. He also added that the Barbados Badminton Association has an ongoing relationship with one of the managers of Liba, Peter Biby.
“He [Biby] is a regular visitor to Bim and he is very involved with badminton. Most of the time we are going to England is through him. We are both covering the costs ourselves because the association can’t afford it with CAREBACO around the corner. We are speaking to the BOA to see about recovering some of the money for the venture,” said Wood.
Lee Jae Bok is a former Korean single, doubles and mixed champion, and has over 40 years of playing and
coaching experience in both Asia and Europe. Jae Bok has worked as the former Korean national coach, former English national coach, English National Team Coaching Advisor and former British Olympic Coach. (PH)
