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Kobras Performance Centre

Now that Keighley Kobras has achieved the prestigeous title of Premier Club we are on the move once again to improve badminton opportunities in the Bradford & surrounding areas. The Performance Centre will take the Kobras name with the Keighley Kobras, Craven Kobras, Skipton Kobras, Ashley Reed's sessions etc all acting as feeder cells.

Performance Centres provide a platform to increase competitive opportunities and raise standards for all players. The structure of a Performance Centre may take on many guises: consortium of clubs, Premier Club, badminton centre, CBA. These environments will operate at local community level for badminton in clubs and schools by establishing an infrastructure in order to nurture talent, including the identification of players, coaches, volunteers and officials. To assist in achieving this structure each Performance Centre is eligible to receive £10,000 a year for three years.

BADMINTON England Performance Centres are integral to achieving the aim of improving the standard of players so more pressure is exerted on the top elite band. They can do this by setting new standards in their operations, with particular emphasis on:

Identifying the right raw talent
Implementing the right player pathway to support player development
Involving the right coaches who:
Set the highest standards of professionalism
Are committed to all aspects of the coaching process (plan, do, review and evaluate)
Support players as they move along the player pathway
Commit to Continuous Professional Development
Contribute positively to a mentoring system
Availability and access to the right level of competition

The Kobras Performance Centre is currently being run eve though we have yet to achieve the title officially & approximately 25 players are already benefitting from advanced coaching from Ed Foster & Tom Millbank under the leadership of the head coach Amjad Ikram. We hope to make the performance official following our submission to Badminton England in May 2009. I'll keep you posted!