On Saturday, August 14th, ClearOne will open our third location at 1525 Broadway Street, POCO (Port Coquitlam).

The Centre is just seven minutes from the Coquitlam City Centre and will offer the entire range of services including drop-ins, group lessons, private lessons, court rentals, camps and events.

Darryl Yung, Bobby Milroy, Chien-Jung Huang and other ClearOne Coaches will be leading the POCO coacing staff in offering the highest quality learning available in the city.

We invite everyone to try the courts for free on Friday August 6th all day.

We will also be announcing a tournament to be held at the beginning of September at ClearOne POCO.

Thank you all for your support of our many projects and please support us as we try to move our sport forward in Canada.

Promotion for the 2010 Yonex Canada Open is in full swing with the launch of our website available at  www.canadaopen.ca

Olympic Gold Medalist Taufik Hidayat is conformed as well as USA World Champions Tony Gunawan and Howard Bach.

Tickets can be reserved on the website as well as information about players, schedule, sponsors and VIP packages.

Please support the largest Badminton tournament in Canada’s history and the local ClearOne athletes who will be in attendance.

ClearOne Browngate (”C2″) is pleased to offer Day-Time Memberships.

The Drop-In Morning Membership allows you to play anytime between 10am-4pm at Browngate (”C2″)

One month in every year of membership can be placed on hold.  By notifying our desk of your travel dates, your membership will be extended for an additional month making it perfect for indiviuals who spend long periods of time in other countries. [..]

ClearOne coaches Peter Huang and Jackie Ruan claimed Gold at the college nationals for Capilano University.

After a year and 6 matches against rivals Alvin Lau and Darren Fong, Peter and Jacky entered the final match with 3 wins and 3 losses against the Douglas College stars.

Douglas claimed the first set but the power and speed of the Capilano pair were too much as they claimed the next two games and the college championships. [..]

Pedro Yang, Badminton’s representative on the IOC Athlete Commission and torch bearer for the 2012 Vancouver Olympics, stopped by the ClearOne Badminton Centre with a special gift.

The Torch, pictures above, was the actual torch lit and carried by Mr. Yang for a 400m stretch in Pitt Meadows on Monday, February 8th, 2010.

“It was a great honor to be part of this ancient ceremony,” said the former Olympian, “I hope I represented our sport in the highest esteem.”

The Torch, which can only ever be lit once, will temporarily reside at the ClearOne Centre Browngate Location (”C2″).

Pedro Yang was a 2004 mens singles qualifier at the Athens Olympics. He is a Guatemalan citizen but lives and trains in Denmark since 2000.

We wish the future torch bearers of ClearOne Badminton luck in all their olympic pursuits.