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Badminton
Badminton is known to be the fastest racket sport. Its very popular in Europe and Asia. Specially countries like China, Malaysia and Indonesia are known to excel in this sport. It is not clear to me how and where badminton originated, there are references of it having originated in China, India, Greece .... but at the end of the day it does not matter, as long as you are able to play it ;-)
I used to play badminton for my high school back in India. However, once I moved here to the USA I realized that not everyone has even heard of badminton. Those who knew about badminton were generally under the impression that its a relaxing game that is played in the backyard along with BBQ picnic. Consequently it was very difficult to find a place to play and buy the right equipment. All this started changing a couple of years ago (at least to my knowledge).
Maybe it is a result of increasing presence of Asians in the Bay area; nonetheless, now there are several places to play badminton or buy quality equipment for the same. Some time ago I searched the internet and was pleasantly surprised to find that there are now multiple places to play badminton within the bay area. So I bought a couple of Yonnex rackets, birds and started playing again. Following is a list of some places to play badminton near here. This is not a complete list, and I have not even been to some of the places, so the information may not be 100% accurate : -
- GEORGE M. SILLIMAN NEWARK COMMUNITY ACTIVITY CENTER
6800 Mowry Ave
Newark, CA 94560
CONTACT:
(510) 742-4700
SCHEDULE:
Mon: 6:00am - 9:00am & 07:00pm - 10:00pm
Wed: 6:00am - 9:00am
Thu: 11:00am - 01:00pm
Sun: 8:00am - 10:30am
- IRVINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER
41885 Blacow Road
Fremont, CA 94538
CONTACT:
(510) 791-4344
SCHEDULE:
Fri: 07:30pm - 10:30pm
Sat: 07:00am - 09:00am & 08:30pm - 11:00pm
Sun: 07:00am - 09:00am
- SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY CENTER
550 East Remington Dr
Sunnyvale, CA
CONTACT:
(408) 730-7350
leisure-services@ci.sunnyvale.ca.us
SCHEDULE:
Mon: 11:30pm - 01:30pm
Tue: 11:30pm - 01:30pm & 05:00pm - 07:00pm
Wed: 11:30pm - 01:30pm
Thu: 11:30pm - 01:30pm
Fri: 11:30pm - 01:30pm
Sat: 03:30pm - 05:30pm & 05:45pm - 07:45pm
Sun: 12:30pm - 02:30pm & 02:45pm - 04:45pm
- BADMINTON ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA (BANC)
San Jose State University
One Wasthington Square
San Jose, CA
CONTACT:
Norman Chan (nkchan@thebanc.org)
www.thebanc.org
SCHEDULE:
Sat: 2:30pm-4:30pm / 4:30pm-6:30pm
Sun: 2:30pm-4:30pm / 4:30pm-6:30pm
- HENRY M. GUNN HIGH SCHOOL
780 Arastradero Road
Palo Alto, CA 94306
CONTACT:
(650) 354-8288
info@gunn.palo-alto.ca.us
SCHEDULE:
Sun: 12:00pm - 04:00pm
- CAMDEN LIFETIME ACTIVITY CENTER
3369 Union Ave
San Jose, CA 95124
CONTACT:
(408) 559-8553
SCHEDULE:
FRI: 5:00pm - 8:30pm
- RED MORTON COMMUNITY CENTER
1120 Roosevelt Ave
Redwood City, CA
CONTACT:
650-780-7311
www.redwoodcity.org
SCHEDULE:
SAT (01/24): 8:00pm - 10:00pm
SAT (01/31): 3:30pm - 8:00pm
SAT (02/07): 8:00pm - 10:00pm **
Schedule is constantly changing due to small constant number of participants.
- SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO HIGH SCHOOL
400 B Street
South San Francisco, CA 94080
CONTACT:
Not Available
SCHEDULE:
Mon: 06:30pm - 09:30pm
Wed: 06:30pm - 09:30pm
Thu: 06:30pm - 09:30pm
- BRET HARTE MIDDLE SCHOOL
700 Coolidge Avenue
Bret Hart Jr. High School
Oakland , CA
CONTACT:
http://www.brethartepta.org
(925-550-7593)
SCHEDULE:
Time: Tuesday and Friday (6pm to 9pm)
Fee: $4 for adults and $3 for students (under 18)
- ALMADEN COMMUNITY CENTER
6445 Camden Ave.
San Jose, CA 95120
CONTACT:
Telephone:(408) 268-1133
SCHEDULE:
Tue: 05:00pm - 08:00pm
DUES:
$3.00 - Adults
$1.50 - Seniors
In addition some dedicated badminton clubs, with multiple badminton courts have also come up.
And dont forget to check out badminton central website for the latest with regards to badminton !
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