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Kaz
25 Jan : 02:06

After your celebrating with the bubbly last night I'm surprised you're up already Harv! Hey, we should work out what percentage of our members are coaches! I'd go with 1/4 becuause I think that means we have 4 level 2 (whooop!), 3 level 1s and 2 who were level 1 on the old system!

harvey
25 Jan : 01:20

Dom, Kaz & Harvey successfully passed the Level 2 coaching award assessment on Saturday.

Dom
16 Jan : 16:50

It's nice to see someone make use of the site. If you have any comments then please feel free to post them. enjoy :)

Trevor
16 Jan : 16:41

Hi Dom.
First time on here. Lots to see and explore.
Trevor

Dom
16 Jan : 16:34

Hello Trevor :)

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RydeKings is a social and competitive badminton club based at Ryde Sports Centre. We welcome all ages and abilities and even offer coaching to anyone interested.

Our open club nights run from 8 until 10 on a monday and thursday evening. Any visitors are invited to try before they buy and won't be asked for any money on their first visit.

Our Junior club runs from 7 until 8 every monday with coaching from UKCC coaches. We invite any juniors, that feel confident enough, to play on until 8:30.

Please click -here- to register and gain access to the full website

RydeKings Summer Fete

RydeKings Badminton Club Summer Fete!!!!

To be held on the field at Ryde Sports centre in the glorious sun or dependng on weather in the sports hall. So far we have a bouncy castle and gladiator joust confirmed, so the kids will love it!! There will also be lots of fete classics such as hoopla and a raffle. Will release updates as and when more is confirmed. If you would like to help in any way let Kaz know asap. We have plenty of jobs for you and plenty of vacancies for good ideas too.

For more information on the gladiator joust see the Wight Inflatables website here

Posted by Dom on Tuesday 05 May 2009 - 12:48:31 |

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John Asher and Peggy Doherty 10/05/2009

This years John Asher men’s doubles and Peggy Doherty ladies’ doubles handicapped tournaments were hosted by RydeKings at Ryde Sports Centre. The tournaments were well supported with 10 men’s and 7 ladies pairs. The men’s games were played in two groups resulting in the first semi-final being an all RydeKings event with Group A winners Chris Massey and Iain Lawrie coming up against Group B runners up Steve Stevens and Clint Gardener. The second semi-final saw Group A runners-up Lewis Insley and George Utteridge face Melvyn Price and Anthony Boon. The Group A pairs struggled to overcome their large handicaps sending both Group B pairings through to the final. Clint and Steve took the final in two sets 21-15, 21-20.
The Peggy Doherty was played as a single round robin event, taking just over 5 ½ hours. Luck of the draw resulted in the last of the 21 games being the decider with Sandra Dye and Helen Foss, who had not lost a single set, playing Denise Insley and Karin Murrant who had only dropped 2 points. The latter won the first set 21-19, this put the two pairs equal on points for the day to make the final set ‘winner takes all’. Denise and Karin came out victorious winning 21-13.
Well done and thank you to all who entered, making the tournament so successful.

RydeKings were pleased to see an impressive home team turnout making up 11 of the 34 entrants.

Posted by Dom on Tuesday 14 April 2009 - 15:07:49 |

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End of Season round up 15/03/09

League
With only the first division still to play games, RydeKings can celebrate their performances in the second and third divisions. The teams placed 1st and 3rd respectively, giving one of the strongest club performances of the 2008/2009 season. Kudos goes to Newport badminton club for a putting up some real stiff competition for both our teams and also having a strong first division side. This is definately something we can aspire to in the coming years.

The IOWBA awards evening will be on May 16th, we hope to see a big RydeKings turnout so make space in your diary.

Posted by Dom on Sunday 08 March 2009 - 06:21:31 |

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Senior County Team

Senior County vs Devon – 8/2/09

Congratulations to Linda Radcliffe and Chris Massey on their recent appearance for the county team. The team beat the 'top of table' Devon side 9-6. Read a full match report on www.wightbadminton.com

Posted by Dom on Sunday 15 February 2009 - 16:10:32 |

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RydeKings Junior Success

Congratulations to Mitch, Charlie and Jack of RydeKings Junior badminton club for their contribution to a great victory with the Islands Junior Badminton Team against Hastings. For a full write up see www.wightbadminton.co.uk

Posted by Dom on Sunday 15 February 2009 - 16:06:22 |

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Coaching Developments 26/01/09

RydeKings coaches, Dominic Afonso, Kathryn Arnold and Harvey Goddard were joined by Laurie Scott of Newport badminton Club in achieving their UKCC Level 2 Badminton Coaching Award on the 24th of January. The coaches are all part of the Islands Junior Badminton Academy Coaching Team. The award, a culmination of three months hard work, was part funded by the IOW Sports Unit with an Awards For All grant covering the remaining cost for the three RydeKings coaches.

A big thank you goes to the Isle of Wight Sports Unit and Jan Hurt for their assistance in the funding and organisation of this award.

We now have four level 2 coaches and three level 1 coaches on hand to coach all of our club members aged 13 to 70 and counting.

Posted by Dom on Sunday 15 February 2009 - 15:52:41 |

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Senior County Team

Senior County vs Guernsey – 11/1/2009

Congratulations to Linda Radcliffe, Dominic Afonso and Chris Massey on their appearance for the county team. The team managed a comendable 9-6 against a strong Guernsey side. Read a full match report on www.wightbadminton.com

Posted by Dom on Wednesday 21 January 2009 - 06:24:43 |

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Veterans’ County Teams

Inter County Championships (ICC) Tournament – Swindon/Bournemouth

Congratulations to Gillian Osbourne, Steve Stevens and Beryl Ashford on representing the Island at the Inter County Championships Tournament. See a full write up of the event at www.wightbadminton.co.uk

Posted by Dom on Wednesday 21 January 2009 - 06:23:47 |

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Website Update

So www.rydekings.com has been live for more than a month now and the addition of new features has slowed up finally.

Here's a run down of the most useful bits so far....

League Tables - All 3 divisions of the IWCBA 2008/9 season
   With interactive options of;
      viewing all league fixtures for all IWCBA teams
      viewing head to head information for any two clubs
      4 different league table views
      home and away match statistics
      comparing the recent form of all league sides against each other

Badminton Video Gallery - A collection of Badminton only videos from Youtube to save you all seaching :)
   With a mixture of:
      Badminton coaching from around the world
      Some badminton trickshots you could blend into your own game
      Highlights from top level tournaments

Links to important badminton governing bodies and useful badminton sites.

Not forgetting we have some handy features that'll hopefully improve your general experience of this site, there is;
   A Google search bar on all pages for when you are finished with this site and want to move on to the rest of the web.
   Our own Amazon store with a massive collection of products from Amazon
   Content specific Google ads on every page
   A Firefox download button, this site works much better when using Firefox so why not give it a try?

Not all of these features are available until you register with the site.

There is a chatbox and forums to leave messages and start discussions as well as Upload and Download pages for sharing documents with other users.

The site has an open membership policy so please sign up, and remember that if you tick the remember me box when you log in then your internet browser will automatically log you in every time you visit the site.

Finally, if there is anything you would like to see added or you think might be useful then please leave us a message in the chatbox or forums and we will see what can be done.

Enjoy the site :)

Posted by Dom on Saturday 25 October 2008 - 18:11:35 |

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Chairman of the Isle of Wight County Badminton Association Congratulates RydeKings

It seems that I was wrong and people occasionally do make it past our homepage, sometime last week we were actually contacted via the contact form on the Contact Us page. Exciting as this was to me, I realise the message itself may be more interesting to the rest of you.......

Message Subject:Progress

To.. All Ryde Kings Members....Just brilliant !!! An example to the rest of us. Well done.Tony.

For those of you who don't know him by name, Tony Isaacs has a lot to do with badminton on the Island and has been the chairman of the Isle of Wight County Badminton Association since 2006, which is why I think we should all be particularly happy with his message (despite his rather cryptic choice of "Progress" as the Message Subject) and continue to develop our badminton club.

If you would like to know more about how RydeKings Badminton Club and RydeKings Junior Badminton Club are working towards the Premier Club standard or if you would like to know how you can help us achieve this standard then please follow Tony's example and use our Contact Us page

Posted by Dom on Monday 20 October 2008 - 07:04:31 |

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