New Rules and Curfew for Malaysian Shuttlers

After the failure in recent concluded Thomas and Uber Cups, BAM has finally put a stamp on the relaxation of rules by shuttlers. BAM president Datuk Nadzim said from now on our shuttlers will not enjoy the freedom they used to have, and they would have to follow an army style of training, rules and regulations.

I wonder why only now they set out such rules? Why don't they do this much earlier, and there is no secret of team discipline must follow what is set out. For example Koo Kean Kiat and co can easily go for a night out without nitifying their coaches, and although they do not causing any trouble outside, but it's still not a god example to lead the younger teamates.

At one stage, fairuzizuan, Zakry, Koo Kean Kiat and another player (Sorry forgotten his name) performance level dropped heavily because of the sudden fame enjoy by them, and they are out in town almost every now and then. This already affecting their concentration towards the games, and for some they never recover from it.

So for BAM to impose an army style rules onto the training regime, I think it's a bit too late now, and too little will they benefit from this, but for younger generation of players, I think they sure will benefits from this as they will get use to the strict regime.

Can you imagine to say: "Datuk Lee, go to bed now!" What will that makes you look like? You will be looking like an idiot because what make you think you can give order to a Datuk? Secondly they have been enjoying their training life all the while and suddenly all these are gone, I'm sure they will take some time to get use to this situation, and I wonder how many of them will ever changed from this.

So it's still the same old tone from me, BAM is talking cock, and all people are wasting their time and effort in enforcing this now!