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| A feather-touch in Padukone’s advice to young shuttler from J&K | | | RAJESH BHAT
Jammu | Oct 25
Bravo Prakash Padukone! You have proved with elegance that you are the master of the game even off the courts. When it comes to teaching any youngster, you hold the same feather touch with which you played the badminton in eighties!
Dejected with the poor standards of coaching in the State with very few to provide professional tips, a guardian of a young budding player from Jammu and Kashmir recently approached Prakash Padukone to know how his son should play and improve backhand shot. The guardian, Shailesh Raina sent an e-mail to this Arjuna Awardee to guide his son Ayush Raina who had to play in the nationals at Dehradoon.
The elder Raina, who has been constantly helping his son to improve the game for the last two years, never imagined that the personality like Prakash Padukone will respond.
But this stroke player par excellence, who loves the game of badminton, responded well and ensured that 12 year old Ayush should be benefited with his `love all service’.
Here goes Padukone: “Backhand is a difficult shot to learn. This will take some time for junior players to learn. Till such time players are advised to play round the head shots. More details on backhand are available on the website of Padkune Academy under the heading `Training Methodology’. Please go through the same and I am sure Ayush will find it useful. Good Luck and Best Wishes--- Prakash”.
The reply from Padukone had its own elegance. This is the secret of being great and loving and caring for the game. The recipient of Arjuna Award, the Padma Shri and the prestigious Fair Play Award, Prakash who, puts up in Bangalore found time to reply to a budding player from Jammu and Kashmir. But at home, those who pretend to call the shots and are at the helm of affairs, have no time in one way or the other to care for the declining standards of the sports in the State.
Approaching Prakash Padukone for the advice also carried the message between the lines: The guardians in J&K have started taking sports seriously for their kids over the years. Such a trend was missing in the past. |
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