Question about general improvement path

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^{See also the related question: Wrote an answer while question got put on hold}

This question asks about how to improve in a sport, namely Badminton in India. While the question is broad, I believe a good answer can be written, mentioning for example:

• the rough organization of the sport; including typical structure of associations/club/private training. This is often country-specific.
• a basic pathway in becoming a top athlete, again somewhat country-and most definitely sport-specific.
• Resources to start self-training
• equipment or other considerations

An answer can focus on one or more, but in any case a short description of the typical pathway to becoming a professional athlete would be sufficient to answer this type of question.

For these reasons, I would very much see this question reopened.

Answer 1

To me, the fact you need four bullet points to describe the structure of your answer pretty much determines that the question is too broad: the best answers probably have four bullet points in them in total :-)

Rather than trying to fix a broken question, perhaps the solution here is to ask a series of better questions, for example:

• How are badminton clubs organised in India?
• What is the route to becoming a national badminton player in India?
• What skills are the most important for a intermediate level badminton player to improve?
• What difference does better equipment make to a badminton player?

You may need to ask some or all of those questions yourself. That's not a problem as Stack Exchange explicitly encourages self-answered questions.