The Good and The Badminton Podcast

We interview the creators of Badminton Insight, Greg and Jenny Mairs. We talk about the origins of the YouTube channel, their playing careers, plans for the future and finish with some not so quickfire questions! 

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Raj, Fontaine, Toby 

Welcome back to The Good and The Badminton Podcast with Raj, Fontaine and Toby.

If you listened to episode 7, you might be wondering why Toby made a return to competition for Team England in the men's European Championships. Toby explains why he was called up to represent England and how it felt to be out of retirement!

Alongside a talk through of Thomas & Uber Cup qualifying, we also find out from Raj & Toby what the atmosphere is like on the circuit during this final push of tournaments for the Olympic qualifying period. And not forgetting, the most prestigious tournament of the year, we review the All England coming up as well!

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Raj, Fontaine, Toby 

Welcome back to The Good and The Badminton Podcast with Raj, Fontaine and Toby.

It's been a bit of a crazy start to the year for us all and life has happened but we are back and after a few technical issues, episode 7 is finally here. In The Retirement, you've guessed it, we each share our journeys to drawing a close to our time as professional badminton players.

Find out why Raj retired, how Fontaine decided to finish and what triggered Toby to reassess his career.

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Raj, Fontaine, Toby 

Welcome back to The Good and The Badminton Podcast with just Raj and Fontaine this week. Don't worry Toby will be back!!

This exciting episode is an interview with Danish Badminton Legend Hans-Kristian Vittinghus. Listen to Hans talk about his recent retirement, where he gets his fighting spirit from and how he felt his managed to have such a long and successful career.

The passion, the knowledge and the stories from Hans are brilliant to listen to and we already can't wait to have him back on!

A huge thank you to HKV for taking the time out to talk to us. We hope you all enjoy this episode!

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Raj, Fontaine, Toby 

Welcome back to The Good and The Badminton Podcast with Raj, Fontaine and Toby.

Join us on this episode as we have a catch up from the last few weeks. Highlights from Raj and Toby, and a little insight into who Fontaine got some advice from at the London 2012 Olympics when she was injured. 

The three former professional badminton players share how they came through some tough times. And for the next couple of episodes, it's your chance to ask us anything as we dive into our careers. We want to hear from you so head to social media and send us a message of what you'd like to know!

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Raj, Fontaine, Toby 

Welcome back to The Good and The Badminton Podcast with Raj, Fontaine and Toby.

Join us on this episode as we discuss the relentlessness of the current tournament schedule, whether there are too many tournaments and if this is a good or bad thing ofr the badminton world. We also share some of your funny/embarrasing stories as well as a number of our own! 

Falls, fails and Fontaine's mic cutting out... We hope you enjoy this episode! 

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Head to social media and tell us what you think, did Adam style it out? Has Toby got a future in gymnastics and will Raj's Dad forgive him?!

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Raj, Fontaine, Toby 

Welcome back to The Good and The Badminton Podcast with Raj, Fontaine and Toby.

This is a 2023 World Championships Review episode where we look back at some of the matches in Denmark. We talk through the newly crowned Champions, the home advantage and how a new scoring system may just be the thing to stop a boo'ing crowd!

Head to social media and tell us what you think to a new scoring system and send in your quick fire questions for us to answer!

We hope you enjoy this episode and don't forget to subscribe, share and let us know what you think.

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Raj, Fontaine, Toby 

Welcome back to The Good and The Badminton Podcast with Raj, Fontaine and Toby.

Join us on this episode as we discuss the upcoming 2023 World Championships in Denmark, matches to look out for and players to watch. We dive into the topic of time wasting and get to hear some of Raj's Reflections.

We hope you enjoy this episode and don't forget to subscribe, share and let us know what you think!

Head to social media and tell us what you think to Raj's new scoring suggestion!
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Raj, Fontaine, Toby 

Welcome to The Good and The Badminton episode 1! This is your introduction episode, a little snippet into  why we are doing this podcast and who we are...

We hope you enjoy it!

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Raj, Fontaine and Toby