A: Hisham Al Gosaibi (suitable) and President of the Qatar Badminton Affiliation (QBA), and Abdulrahman Al Muftah (third correct), Govt Director at Qatar Faculty Athletics Federation’s (QSSA) pose for a photograph with other officers for the duration of the Shuttle Time Qatar, a grassroots badminton programme, performed by Badminton Environment Federation (BWF), Badminton Asia Confederation (BAC) and Qatar Badminton Association at Qatar Volleyball Affiliation Hall at Al Arabi Stadium in Doha, yesterday. Some others found (from still left) are Mohammed Sabri, General public Relations Officer at QSSA, Mohamed Nagaty, Administrative Secretary at QSSA, Girish Kurup, Specialized Pro at QBA, Salman Abu Jahl, Supervisor at QSSA, Gamal Rasmi, Board Member, QBA and Muhammad Andy Ardiansyah (next correct), Growth Officer at BAC. B: Ardiansyah, the Growth Officer at WBA, providing coaching tips to teachers attending the Shuttle Time Qatar coaching programme. .  Pictures by: Kammutty VP  

 Doha: Qatar Badminton Association’s (QBA) leading most precedence is to have a badminton club house of its very own to tide around the difficulty in finding venues to s tage key tournaments, explained President Hisham Al Gosaibi.

Talking on the facet traces of the Shuttle Time Qatar, a grassroots badminton programme, done by Badminton World Federation (BWF), Badminton Asia Confederation (BAC) and QBA at Qatar Volleyball Affiliation Corridor at Al Arabi Stadium, Al Gosaibi claimed: “We are obtaining a tricky time to get venues to phase badminton tournaments in Doha. We have educated the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) about our challenges and the require to have an badminton club house. We are self-assured that the QOC’s determination to allot a club house solely for badminton will come before long.”

“It (badminton club household) will serve our badminton local community. The quantity of players enjoying and undergoing coaching is rising. Aside from badminton is an Olympic sport,” he extra.

The QBA official disclosed that the  nine-working day programme, Shuttle Time Qatar, will go a long way in nurturing new talent in the country.

“The motto of the programme is ‘because we want each and every little one to have a chance to participate in badminton’. We have tied up with QOC and Qatar Faculty Sports Affiliation (QSSA) for the September 26 to Oct 4 programme,” educated Al Gosaibi.

Shuttle Time is a grassroot programme of BWF and BAC.

Under the programme BWF and BAC want to popularise badminton at the grassroot stage with aid from faculty and instructional institutes by means of out Asia.

In excess of 20 colleges from Qatar represented by 24 teachers are attending the programme.

Muhammad Andy Ardiansyah from Indonesia, a improvement officer with BAC is conducting the programme.

“Shuttle Time acts as the self-research boot camp for lecturers and coaches assisting them hone their capabilities and skills in generating badminton a entertaining and safe sport to participate in for small children and youth,” educated Ardiansyah, who has been a teacher with BAC from 2011. 

Ardiansyah reported simliar programmes have been held in Bahrain and Lebanon. Beneath the programme every university in Qatar has been supplied with racquets, badminton nets and shuttles to make the activity well-liked in Qatar.

The Peninsula