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Guide to Badminton in the Bay Area
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items If you're new to the Bay Area and are a badminton player or you are new to badminton and want to play more, here is my guide to find places to play, shops to get equipment, and forums to help find that doubles partner to lead you to your next tournam...
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Badminton Gyms
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How to find a badminton group
Badminton Gyms
The best and worst places to play badminton in the SF Bay Area (mostly south and east bay though)
Biggest badminton gym in the Bay located in Fremont. Featuring 54 courts and 6 pickleball courts. Because of it's size, there's not much around the area, but it is the newest and easily located for South and East Bay players
Bintang Badminton - Fremont
One of the few places to play in the south bay area! However, it's on the older side and parking can be terrible during peak hours. But it features 14 courts with professional matting, so if it's local to you it's a good option
Campbell Bintang Badminton
The newest addition to south bay badminton gyms, Can Am features newer facilities and courts and have a lot of online features through their app to reserve courts, free play, and classes. The downside is the lighting is a bit bright and there can be ...
CAN-AM Elite Badminton & Sports
While it's a little out of the way to get to, Synergy is a great gym and brings in more advanced players because of it's training programs. More of the well-known coaches are affiliated with Synergy, but this specific location takes more court reserv...
Synergy Badminton Academy
While most of the gyms are located in the east bay, if you're in SF and want something closer, Bay Badminton Center is a great option! One of the OG's in this area, it caters to most players in the area as the place to go!
Bay Badminton Center SF
The original Synergy where most of the intense training happens, it features fewer courts than many of the newer locations, but is still known as a popular one due to the training program and coaches that they have
Synergy Badminton Academy - Menlo Park
This gym in santa clara caters to the tech workers and is usually super crowded, but the courts and bathrooms are very clean and they also have a locker room available, which is unusual compared to the other gyms. Parking can be a bit troublesome in ...
Bintang Badminton - Santa Clara
If you're desperate for badminton, you can think about coming here LOL. This is a no frills badminton gym with less than 10 courts, but I found that it was pretty underwhelming compared to all the other places that I've been in the bay
Bintang Badminton San Carlos
Badminton Racket Stores
While you can get your badminton gear at the badminton gyms, there are also specialized shops that are able to help you out a bit more!
If you're in the east bay looking for badminton supplies, this is the best place to go! I'm also saying this because my friend owns the place, so make sure to shout me out if you've found this shop based on my list! Alex is super knowledgable and can...
AK Badminton & Tennis
Whether you need a new racket or just a restring, this is the place to go in the south bay. I will say that stringing can take some time since this is one of the few racket shops in the area, but they have a wider selection than any badminton gym in ...
Tennis Badminton Table Tennis / Racket Supply Cupertino ...
A great place to procure rackets, strings and shoes, however it may be a bit out of the way, especially if you're coming from any of the badminton gyms in the bay area. Caters more to younger players, since I remember getting my high school racket he...
Badminton Alley
Used to play here pretty frequently back in the day, but the conditions are pretty rough, especially in the winter…it seems to get colder there than anywhere else. Has been said to be cheaper than other badminton gyms though!
Elite Badminton Center
This is the first self-service court rental gym in the Bay, aka there is no staff and it is all available for booking online. Located in the Pacific Commons Shopping Center (so there's a bunch of great food available before or after), it features 8 c...
Happy Birdie Badminton
How to find a badminton group
Going to a badminton gym alone in the Bay Area isn't usually successful, may people already have their own groups that they go with. So if you're looking for a group or just that +1 to play with, check out some of these forums
If you're new to the area and are looking for a group and know absolutely nobody, then this Facebook group can help you out! Most are beginner/intermediate players, so if you're looking for more advanced players, word of mouth may be better!
Bay area badminton players | Facebook
I used to find groups on MeetUp to play badminton when I lived in Japan and I know that there is an active group in the bay area as well. Not really sure how active it is though since the attending list is usually just the host…
Badminton in San Francisco | Meetup