THE Badminton Association of Malaysia has disbanded its 'national coaching and training committee' with immediate effect and will form a new one aimed at making Malaysian shuttlers world champions.

Datuk Mohd Nadzmi Mohd Salleh, has taken on the challenge to ensure BAM's coaches and players achieve greater success and make the parent body the home of world champions.

"The national coaching and training committee has been disbanded officially," said Nadzmi yesterday. "We will be appointing new members.

"The reason for this is to reinvent ourselves and achieve three aspects that we are looking at.

"The new members will include officials who also have knowledge of sports science and specific knowledge of the game so that they can contribute in this important area in making Malaysian shuttlers world champions."

Nadzmi, a known corporate figure, will adapt the proven Japanese menthodology of 'Kaizen', (on the job training and learning organisation) as the fundamental basis to push BAM forward.

On whether he has met Yap Kim Hock regarding the problems the chief coach was facing with National Sports Council (NSC) director general Datuk Zolkples Embong, Nadzmi said: "I am not looking at the problems, I am looking at the solutions.

"The new committee we are forming will look at the improvement of the coaches. We will also include sports science, sports specifics and apply the various strategy to upgrade coaches.

"This is one way to measure the coaches continuously and ensure that they are producing results.

"I want world champions, we want to be numero uno, and not second. There is a lot of difference between being number one and two."

Nadzmi also confirmed that Kim Hock will continue being the chief coach.

"There is no change in that. Changes will only take place after the Olympics."

Nadzmi's latest idea of reinvention is purely for the coaches to be more accountable as the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) will also be used to keep track.

"Our policies are not static," Nadzmi added.

"We want our policies to be more dynamic but at the same time we will help to develop better strategy for the players' welfare."

"This is our core business. If we don't get it right here, then everything else will fail," Nadzmi said.

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