How to enrol, step by step

Before you book

What you're actually joining

Go Badminton is a coaching program for children, run in small groups, with a published progression your child moves along. It is not a drop-in session and it is not a holiday activity. In practice that means six things:

• Group sizeOne coach to six children, on one court. A hard limit, not a target — more children enrolled means another court and another coach
• A classTwo hours, run in the same order every week: stretch, warm-up, footwork, pairing, drills, games, cool-down, feedback
• A season10 classes, same venue, same day, same time, one a week — including school holidays
• BeginnersThat is who the program is built for. Most children who start here have never held a racquet
• The pathway10 skill ladders and four levels, published in full — your child has a level in each, not one overall grade
• What you get backA written season report at the end of the 10, showing what improved and what's next

If you want the longer version: what a class actually looks like, hour by hour, and how a skill gets graded from 0 to 100%.

Start to finish

The six steps

Two of them are yours: book the trial, and tell us afterwards whether you want to keep going. The rest is ours.

1. Pick a class

   You. Choose the venue and day that suit you from the five venues and their times. Pick on convenience, not on level — every class takes beginners, and children are paired within the session by ability anyway.

   If you're curious where your child would start, the two-minute level quiz will tell you before you book. It's optional and it asks for nothing.

2. Book the free trial

   You. One short form on the booking page — your child's name and age, your phone number, and the class you picked. No card details, nothing to pay, no commitment attached to it.

   Us. We text you back to confirm the class, the time and where to find us, and the coach is told to expect your child by name.

3. Come to the class

   You. Arrive a few minutes early in runners, with a water bottle and a racquet if you have one. That's the entire list — we provide the shuttles and the court, and if you don't own a racquet you can hire one at the centre's reception. There is nothing to buy beforehand.

   Us. Your child joins a group of at most six at a similar level and does the whole two hours: warm-up, footwork, drills, games. It's a real class, not a taster.

4. We tell you what we saw

   Us. Before you leave, the coach tells you where your child landed on the level system and what they'd be working on first. That's the point of the trial — you go home knowing something specific, whether or not you come back.

   You're welcome to watch the whole session, and you don't have to arrange it. Every week, not just the first one.

5. Decide, and enrol

   You. If it's a yes, either fill in the short form on the enrolment page, or just text 0468 090 171 with your child's name and the class you want — the second one is usually faster, and it's the same number we've been texting you from.

   If it's a no, that's genuinely fine. Nothing renews, nothing was signed, and we'd rather hear it than not.

6. They start their first season

   Us. We confirm the class by text with everything you need for week one, send you the payment details, and size your child for a Go Badminton uniform, which is theirs to keep and included in the price.

   You'll also get a link to the absence form — fifteen seconds, and it's how a missed class comes back to you as credit instead of being lost. Then it's 10 classes, a written report at the end, and the end-of-season tournament.

Honestly

The things parents worry about at this point

"They've never held a racquet."

That's who the program is for. We only take beginners, so our coaches have specialised in the first months specifically — introducing one thing at a time and feeding the shuttle precisely enough that a wobbly child actually connects with it. Complete beginners often improve fastest, because there's nothing to un-learn.

"They're shy. They'll hide at the back."

In a group of twenty they would. In a group of six there is no back — the coach knows every child by name and works with each of them directly.

"Is a season worth $40 a class when there are cheaper options?"

Cheaper options exist, and most of them are the supervised play described above — which is a perfectly reasonable thing to buy, at a perfectly reasonable price, as long as you know that's what you're buying. What $40 buys here is a coach who has six children instead of twenty, a pathway your child is measurably moving along, and a written report at the end saying what changed. Judge it on the trial, which costs nothing.

"What if we book and then something comes up?"

Tell us before the class starts and the $40 comes back as a credit, every time, with no limit on how often. Use it as a make-up in another session or take it off your next block. Credits are shared across siblings.

"What if they don't like it?"

Then you've spent one free afternoon finding out. There's no contract, nothing auto-renews, and we'd rather tell you it isn't a fit than take a season's money and watch a child drift off.