Minoru Shibuya's Profile
- 5 times won Japan Inter-High School Championship
- 5 times won Japan High School Badminton Tournament
- 5 times won National Sports Festival of Japan4 times won Japan National
- Badminton Championship (Men's Singles)7 times! won
- Ranking Circuit Convention Japan
- 1 time participation in Summer Olympics at individual event (2004)
- At the beginning, I was aiming at producing a national champion.
- From some competitions, I noticed the huge gap in between overseas and local players, and determined to challenge at the world stage.
- After that, I followed the high school badminton team to several traditional powers such as Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Korea and Denmark to gain some experience.
- Through discussions with coaches, I learnt their ways of coaching.
- Returning to Japan, I modified the method of teaching and applied it on local players, and established my own way of coaching by trial and error.
- Challenge is the utmost important thing while the outcome is less important.
If the desire to win is too strong, your play will become too rigid.
- It is important to challenge for many times rather than focusing on the outcome of a match.
This is because there are things that can be learnt only from one particular match.
- (1) and (2) seem to be contradicting but they become meaningful once you can compromise both of them.
By believing so and go on for challenge, you will arrive at technique on how to get over hard fight.
- But the one who can change it from “unwillingly” to “willingly” is what so called professional.
That is the greatest pleasure for me who had concentrated on badminton.
And I will continue to strive hard for it.
- If you and your coach are satisfied with the current state, then you will stop advancing.
So you must always seek advice from the other professionals and improve your play and coaching method.
At the same time, the self-evaluation is important as to always encourage yourself.
