NMBA official Cristy Villaflor, along with other members, including CNMI national team players Janelle Pangilinan and Daniel Macario, showed SIS students the basics of badminton and AirBadminton and demonstrated warm-up drills.

A student tries the basics of a badminton’s racket and shuttlecock. Photo by James F. Sablan Jr.

Students reach out to grab a shuttlecock during a game called shuttle-run at Saipan International School. Photo by James F. Sablan Jr.
They started with stretches and then moved into games like shuttle-run. They also showed students how to properly hold a racket.
The students then got to witness a sample game with SIS’s Mr. Guinto joining the CNMI national players. Later, the students got their hands on the racket and shuttlecock/airshuttle.
Fifty-three students participated in the event.


