Black Knight Badminton
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The revolutionary Knight Trainer allows players to learn, improve and perfect badminton skills far faster than in the past, and frees coaches to concentrate on teaching and coaching.
Learn
Dramatically accelerate the beginner's learning curve for all ages with the Knight Trainer. Simulate any shot consistently and repeatedly, allowing beginners to concentrate on coordination and technique with the shuttle arriving in the same spot, shot after shot.
Coaches don't have to double as shot feeders, but can do what is most important - observe their students, coach and teach.
Improve
Players can improve accuracy, consistency and technique with a uniform feed of any shot. Coaches can objectively measure improvement, using the consistency of the Knight Trainer to measure players' success percentages for various shots.
Train against smashes, drives, fast drops, slow drops, net shots, clears, short serves, long serves, smash returns and more, all fed consistently, shot after shot.
Perfect
Elite players can perfect every shot in their repertoire, and expand that repertoire. Push players' reflexes with drives and smashes at a rate of more than 2 per second, or set a slower frequency to allow time for players to prepare and execute a wide range of shots. Set up two machines in series in order to feed opposite shots - for example, a clear to the forehand followed seconds later by a smash to the backhand, each shot consistently repeated while the player perfects the tightness and placement of the returns.
Features
The versatile Knight Trainer is transportable, easy to store, and can feed both feather and nylon shuttlecocks, whether new or used. It is sold with 3 feeding tubes that can hold 50 shuttles each. Feeding tubes are fast and easy to switch.
Coaches can manually vary shots vertically or horizontally while the player trains.
Players can train solo with the Knight Trainer. If a court is available, but a sparring partner is not, then the Knight Trainer is the solution. The motivated player working alone can practice all possible shots.
A remote control allows the player or coach to start and pause firing from anywhere on the court, and to adjust velocity and frequency.
Settings
Height and angle: The firing point can be set anywhere between 54" and 82". An optional stand will allow a firing point at 36"
At any height the shot angle can easily be varied to allow a range of shots from sharply angled smashes to soaring clears or serves.
Firing frequency can be set at any rate between 2.5 shuttlecocks per second and 1 shuttlecock per 16 seconds. At its maximum frequency, the Knight Trainer will challenge the fastest reflexes. Slowed down to the desired rate, the Knight Trainer allows time for players to set up and mentally prepare for the next shot, or even to mix in shadow play and court movement routines. Velocity can vary from the most delicate of net shots to hard smashes.
Calibrations: All settings can be noted and quickly set up again at other times.
Working together: Two machines can be connected so as to feed alternately, at the desired interval, each machine set up for a different shot.
Developed in Quebec, Canada by Black Knight, the Knight Trainer transforms the teaching of badminton and accelerates the pace of skill acquisition. The Knight Trainer is being manufactured in Canada, and is delivered within 6 weeks of order confirmation.
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