On April 15, Axelsen announced his retirement at the age of 32 due to a back injury. To learn about him and his career achievements starting from the age of 12, just read Wikipedia is enough. The point here is, why did Denmark create world-class players through many generations? The things that Danish badminton has done may be lessons that Vietnamese badminton can also refer to and learn from.
The environment is more important than scale. With the club system in Denmark, athletes interact and compete with many different opponents, including those with significantly superior skills. That is, no need to be crowded, just refined and placed in the right environment.
For Denmark, training properly, with intensity and quality are the most important parts of training. It is consistent with the concept of "intentional training", which incorporates feedback loops into the training process to overcome weaknesses, narrow gaps and improve over time.
When athletes reach a "flowing" mental state - a positive psychological term describing both absolute concentration and high level of excitement, performance will be optimized.
Not forgetting to play is also a way to maintain a good state, as Axelsen once shared, spending time in 2 training sessions a day to develop technical hits. This has become a creative laboratory to find creative solutions and create positive results.
The spirit of commitment and dedication of athletes is equally important, but at the same time there needs to be a personalized program, in which not only to promote qualities but also to turn weaknesses into advantages, such as Axelsen - with a height of 1m94, once considered unsuitable for badminton but has become an advantage in attacking and controlling space.
Vietnamese badminton has many difficulties, but we can also draw some points from these angles to find directions for change and further development.
