We are currently in North Carolina to cover an exhibition tour with World Doubles Champions Howie Bach and Tony Gunawan from the USA and Canadian Doubles Champions Will Milroy and Mike Beres. The exhibition will take place over Friday and Saturday at numerous schools near Raleigh. For more information about the exhibition visit the RTP Badminton Club website.

We will be editing the footage we capture this weekend for a BVM special edition DVD. Currently we do not have a timeframe for when this DVD will be available for purchase, but it will be available from this site and likely Amazon.com as well once it is finished.

Taufik Hidayat was recently named the best male athlete in Indonesia. The badminton superstar accepted his award and asked that people support the Indonesia team in their efforts to bring the Thomas Cup back to Indonesia.

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The BVM interview with Danish superstar Peter Gade is now available here. This interview was conducted at the World Championships in Anaheim shortly before Peter played Lin Dan in the semi-finals.

The BVM interview with 2005 Mens Doubles World Champions, Tony Gunawan and Howie Bach is now available via the iTunes BVM podcast. You can also download the video HERE. We will soon be posting the last interview in this series from the 2005 Worlds featuring Danish superstar Peter Gade.

The BVM interview with Olympic Gold Medallist, World Champion, All England Champion, etc etc etc Rexy Mainaky is now available HERE. Rexy is one of the most accomplished badminton players of all time, winning all of the major doubles titles, as well as the Thomas Cup for Indonesia.

*This is a re-posting, for some reason the original posting did not work with the iTunes podcast* The BVM interview with badminton legend, Park Joo Bong is now available on the BVM video podcast and can be downloaded HERE. Park Joo Bong is one of the most accomplished badminton players of all time in the mens doubles, and mixed doubles events. Park is now the national coach for Japan’s badminton team. Remember to subscribe to the podcast to get all of these updates automatically.

The BVM interview with Gail Emms and Donna Kellogg is now available on the BVM video podcast, and can also be downloaded HERE. Gail Emms is a silver medallist in badminton playing mixed doubles with Nathan Robertson, and with Donna Kellogg is the number one doubles pair in England. They won the bronze medal in womens doubles at the Commonwealth Games last month.

The International Badminton Federation has launched a new website. This website is way better than their old one. It’s nice to see they are on the ball on something, cause the Badminton Manager is still not working properly for me.

The new badminton website Badminton Manager is now up, but after trying to register I ran into some problems. They sent me a registration email saying to click their link and my account would be activated, however after I pressed the link it brought me to a page that said there was an error. I tried logging into the account, but it said I needed to activate my account with a code from the email they sent me, or press the email link. Well the email had no such code, and the link doesn’t work. Good job once again IBF, partnering with a company that can’t even deliver the goods!

I found this really strange story about Taufik Hidayat getting a piece of land, 320 acres, as a gift from the Chairman of the Indonesian Badminton Association. You can read more about the story, and Taufik’s status for the upcoming Thomas Cup here.