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We are committed to providing premium customer service, professional coaching, and contemporary teaching methods to promote and improve the sport of badminton in Calgary, Alberta, and Canada.

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Our team is passionate about developing young athletes with the competence, confidence, motivation, and knowledge to pursue a healthy lifestyle in badminton.

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Missions Statement

Meet the Coaches

We pride ourselves in having a diverse, experienced coaching team with varying teaching specializations. Hover over a coach's box for their description and specialization!

Grace Gao

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Olympian

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Junior High Performance Director

Dr. Jordan Gao

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SmashCity and Gao Badminton Tao Founder

Abigail Wei

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Senior Coach

  • Former Guangxi Provincial Team member

  • 12 years of training and competition experience

  • Chinese National Games quarter-finalist.

Imran​ Wadia

 

Senior Coach

  • Highest national MS ranking #2

  • Elite Series and Canada Winter Games champion

  • Canada Nationals bronze medalist

Kevin Barkman

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Senior Coach

  • Highest national MS ranking #4

  • Washington Open Champion

  • Canada Winter Games semi-finalist

Danny Pham

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Senior Coach

  • NCCP Competition Certified

  • 6 years of coaching experience

  • Bachelor's in Health & Physical Education

Junior Coaches

Michiko Straker

Beginner

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Sam Chen

Intermediate 

School competitive

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Adrian Clark

Beginner

Intermediate

High performance

Liang Yu

Beginner

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Dominic Guzman

Beginner

Intermediate

High performance

Amber To

Beginner

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Tenzin Wangden

Beginner

Intermediate

 
Player Profiles

Yulin Ding

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Alan Zhang

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Noah Xu

Solomon Tong

Brooks Liu

Josiah Tong

Leo Feng

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Jacob Gao

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Rebecca Wang

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Tia Clark

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Anton Angeles

Nevan Goonetilleke

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Jay Yip

 

SmashCity Facility

The courts and facilities at SmashCity have been thoughtfully designed and created with players' comfort, injury prevention, convenience, and well being in mind.

High performance badminton players training

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General Info

  • Sprung floor - multi-layered floating wooden subfloor that offers excellent shock absorption.

  • Tournament-grade floors - each court has dedicated lines for their respective sport and provides clear colour contrast and strong grip.

  • 3 HVAC units - maintains consistent flow of fresh air for your health during exercise.

  • 2 modern water fountains 

  • Oversized showed units

  • 33 ft. ceiling clearance

  • 28, 000 sq. ft. 

SmasCity badminton courts

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Badminton/Pickleball Courts

  • 12 professional badminton courts

  • Reconfigured lighting - Badminton England's standard with diffusers to limit blind spots.

  • Centre drape - divides the facility to decrease light interference.
  • Yonex nets - used for their durability and can be modified to pickleball height.
  • Pickleball netting - surrounds the pickleball playing area to stop stray balls.
training sized volleyball courts

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Volleyball Courts

  • 2 international standard volleyball courts

    • ​Convertible to 3 full-sized practice courts​

  • Netting - separates volleyball side and badminton side.
  • Home of Ace Volleyball Club
    http://www.acevolleyballclub.ca
badminton pro shop with equipment

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Pro Shop

  • Badminton equipment and clothing.

  • .Special order from Yonex available.

  • Stringing services - includes string and labour

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BG 65 - $25

BG 80 - $30

BG 95 - $36

Labour Only - $15
Rush Service (3 days) - additional $10

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*3-7 day turnaround

 

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