Club Membership and Other Activities
(Including our 65th Jubilee Tournament)
A number of playing options are available to our Members - at both the Club and Association levels. Details of these activities are shown below, together with an outline of costs you should be aware of, as you plan your playing activities. These start from as little as $10 per week, which makes your initial entry into our Club very easy indeed. We'd love to see you here.
Club Membership
Membership of the Club is granted to any player who attends at least one of our Monday or Thursday Club Nights, and pays the $10 subscription for that visit. Regular attendance is obviously encouraged, and a $10 subscription fee is paid for each session you attend throughout our season, which starts at the end of February, and runs through to the end of October. Rackets are available if required, and coaching is provided upon request.
Business House (Club)
When the regular playing season finishes in late October, the Club organises its annual Business House competition. This is open to all grades of Club members, folks from other clubs on the Coast, and even friends and acquaintances. It's purpose is to encourage new blood to try out competition Badminton, and to have some fun. Up to ten teams compete over a period of up to 7 weeks, and the team makeup is deliberately balanced, to ensure an even competition throughout. It costs $30 to take part.
Interclub & Horowhenua/Kapiti Champs (Regional Association)
The more Accomplished players take part in an Interclub competition between teams made up from the three Clubs in the Horowhenua/Kapiti region (Paraparaumu, Waikanae and Levin). Graded players take part ("A", "B", and "C"), and once again, team selection ensures that the games remain competitive. The cost's in the region of $40 for both Doubles and Mixed Doubles (and half of that if you only play in one). These events take place on Thursday nights, from June to August. The Horowhenua-Kapiti Championships run on after this, where pairings are made between the players themselves. In this event, the best are definitely keen to beat the rest, and take out the various titles on offer.
Representative Badminton (Regional and National Association)
The Representative Leagues are at the pinnacle of competition for Club players throughout the region and New Zealand. If you're good enough to compete at this level, then you already know a lot about what makes Badminton the fastest racket sport in the world. Speed, agility, skill, aggression and guile, all come together at this level. For several weekends throughout the season, Badminton trumps other social considerations, and these guys just accept the impact of playing at home and away for this extended tournament. The cost ? Well, the cost is what the cost is. End of story.
65th Jubilee Plate Tournament - Cancelled
Now nearly twenty years ago, the Paraparaumu Badminton Club celebrated it’s 50th Jubilee, and committed to running an invitational tournament every 5 years - with the Jubilee Plate being engraved with the premier results, and medals and certificates issued to winners and runners-up for all the events (see recipients from 2016 below).
In 2021, we issued invitations to over twenty clubs in the Wellington and Horowhenua regions.
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Covid-19 Update: Due to the initial and ongoing Covid impacts in 2021 and early 2022, the Club bowed to pressure and the 65th Jubilee tournament finally had to be cancelled. Rest assured, however, we'll be making our next Jubilee event (due to take place in 2026) , even better, and a thing of beauty !
