About Us - The Badminton Zone

Meet Your Personal Badminton Coaches!

Our Mission

With over 15 years of coaching experience across beginners through to full time Internationals, Dean and David are here to make sure you maximise your badminton potential.

We love our job as we get to coach in a sport that we have grown up with having played at England Junior level right through to ex-full time professional players.

We believe passionately in being able to share the tactics, techniques and skills to enable YOU to see real developments in your game.

Our aim is to share quick detailed videos and advice so you can take charge of your badminton game.
You are in control of your progress and pace of learning to find out what works for you so you can become the best player you can be.

Dean George

This sport has been a huge part of my life. I was aged 6 when I fell in love with badminton going on to represent Sussex county and then England aged 12.

Badminton travels on the junior circuit took me as far as Europe, Asia and Australia where I was lucky enough to experience different styles of play and coaching. This continued as I transitioned from a junior England player in to the National Senior England squad.

Having played full-time professional badminton, I reached a career high of Top 50 in the World in both Men’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles. Highlights include playing in 5 All-England championships which badminton fans will know as being like the tennis equivalent of Wimbledon and playing in front of a noisy home crowd! I have been lucky enough to have had chances to be coached or mentored by some of the best coaches and players in the world including Rexy Mainaky (Indonesia) and Jakob Hoi (Denmark).

Once I stopped playing badminton professionally, my goal was always to become a badminton coach to share my passion in the sport and help other players at all levels achieve their goals and maximise their potential.

My coaching highlights include

Badminton England Coach of the year 2016
Successfully completing the prestigious Badminton England Elite coach programme

David King

Coming from a badminton family, I was introduced to a badminton court from a very young age. I was aged 8 when I started receiving coaching, loved it and then saw badminton become my main sport. From there, I got the chance to play for Sussex County Juniors and then aged 11, I represented my country for the first time which was a super proud moment.

I was lucky enough to be part of the England Junior Badminton setup throughout my junior career. This took me to some amazing places around the world, playing against some incredible players and getting coached by a variety of coaches.

The highlights of my junior career were getting a bronze medal in the singles at the Under 17 European Junior Championships and playing for England at two World junior championships in Malaysia and Peru.

At a senior level I got to a world ranking high of 108 in Mens doubles. It was an incredible experience to travel the world whilst at University, playing Badminton and exploring different countries and cultures.

I chose to take a step back from playing during university to focus on finishing my degree though I did continue developing my coaching in parallel. I became Head Coach at Shuttlers Academy which allowed me to work with the next generation of keen Badminton players.

In addition to my degree in Sports and Exercise Science I also have a Level 3 Qualification in Personal Training and Sports Massage Therapy. These have all helped me understand how the body can be further developed to improve Badminton performance.

In 2023, Dean and David set up The Badminton Zone. Here we are able to create content that can
be shared with a global audience and we have loved having interactions with people from as far as UK, America, Philippines, India to name a few.
We look forward to sharing the next part of our badminton journey with you.

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