Badminton Techniques

Badminton Techniques

 For Beginners
Do not rush through to learn all the different types of badminton shots. Learn and practice each type of shot until you're really good at it. Then move on to learn new types of shots.

I will provide you with a step by step schedule below to assist your journey to become a pro.

For Advanced Players

Since you're reading this page, I'm guessing that you already know most or all of the techniques but want to improve your skills, right? Feel free to browse the links below this page.

Remember, whether you're a beginner or an advanced player, mastering one technique at a time is better than knowing a little bit of all the techniques.

Knowing and practising the correct badminton techniques makes you a true PRO.

Badminton Shots (Forehand)

There are ONLY 3 types of shots:

1. Clearing (or Lobbing)
2. Drop Shots
3. Smash

Use lobs and drops to weaken your opponent's footwork and then dominate the game! When you're putting constant pressure your opponent, you can easily win a point.

1. Badminton Clear/Lob and Underarm Forehand Clear
   Learn how to lob properly and your opponent won't be able to return a powerful shot.
2. Badminton Drop
   If you connect a proper drop shot, your opponent is less likely to execute a powerful shot too.
3. Badminton Smash and Badminton Jump Smash
   Do not train the smash or jump smash until you have mastered the above shots. However a powerful smash WINS A POINT!!

Badminton Shots (Backhand Variations)

A weak badminton backhand gives your opponent the chance to dominate a match. Know the correct technique and sources of power for a badminton backhand.

1. Badminton Backhand Clear/ Lob and Undearm Backhand Clear
   Learn this together with other badminton shots. Use a backhand clear/lob to send the shuttle to the back of the court!
2. Backhand Drop Shot
   Learn how to counter your opponents' attack to your backhand area with a backhand drop. Execute this properly and it can be a quality offensive shot.
3. Badminton Backhand SmashSurprise your opponent with a powerful backhand smash! Learn the correct technique to execute this difficult shot.

Your Badminton Techniques and Skills Roadmap

Apart from improving your shots, here are other important techniques you need to master during a game.

Defending

Defending a Badminton Smash
Do you want to know how to return a shot if your opponent smashes? Here are tips to defend against a powerful smash.

Badminton Defense: Defending Smashe

Badminton Footwork
Move around the badminton court in an organised manner. If you have good footwork, you'll have extraordinary agility and you'll be able to return every shot from your opponent!

Badminton Serve
Before learning any other shots, know the correct technique for serving first. If you can serve well, your opponent won't be able to give a deadly return shot.

Gripping Technique

Learn how to grip your racket correctly - the most important basic technique!s and Powerful Shots
A more detailed tutorial with pictures to help you improve your defence against powerful shots and smashes!

Basic Badminton Techniques

Badminton Footwork
Move around the badminton court in an organised manner. If you have good footwork, you'll have extraordinary agility and you'll be able to return every shot from your opponent!

Badminton Serve
Before learning any other shots, know the correct technique for serving first. If you can serve well, your opponent won't be able to give a deadly return shot.

Gripping Technique

Badminton Court

Badminton Court

The Badminton Court shall be a rectangle laid out with lines of 40 mm wide, preferably in white or yellow color. The Badminton Court Dimensions are of 13.4 m in length and 6.1m in width.

The post shall be 1.55m in height from the surface of the court and shall remain vertical when the net is strained. The net shall be made of fine cord of dark color and even thickness with a mesh of not less than 15mm and not more than 20mm. The net shall be 760mm in depth and at least 6.1m wide.

The top of the net shall be edged with a 75mm white cloth. The top of the net from the surface of the court shall be 1.524m (5ft) at the centre of the court and 1.55m (5ft 1in) over the side lines for doubles. There shall be no gaps between the ends of the net and the posts. If necessary, the full depth of the net should be tied at the ends.

The recommended surface for a badminton court is wood and bituminous material. Avoid concrete or carpet as playing on it will easily injure you.

Rules of Badminton

Rules of Badminton

Toss

The rules of badminton states that a toss shall be conducted before a game starts. If you win, you can choose between serving first or to start play at either end of the court. Your opponent can then exercise the remaining choice.


Scoring system

The rules of badminton states that a badminton match shall consist of the best of 3 games. In doubles and men's singles, the first side to score 15 points wins the game. In women's singles, the first side to score 11 points wins the game.

If the score becomes 14-all (10-all in women's singles), the side which first scored 14 (10) shall exercise the choice to continue the game to 15 (11) points or to 'set' the game to 17 (13) points.

The side winning a game serves first in the next game. Only the serving side can add a point to its score.

Recently BWF have been testing a new scoring format of 21 points per game on all major Badminton competition and decided to replace the old format permanently.


Change of ends

The rules of badminton states that you have to change ends with your opponent after finishing the first game. If a third game was to be played, you shall change ends when the leading score reaches 6 in a game of 11 points or 8 in a game of 15 points.

Rules of Badminton - Singles

Serving and receiving courts

You shall serve from, and receive in, the right service court when you or your opponent has scored an even number of points in that game.

You shall serve from, and receive in, the left service court when you or your opponent has scored an odd number of points in that game.

You and your opponent will hit the shuttle alternately until a 'fault' is made or the shuttle ceases to be in play.


Scoring and serving

You score a point and serve again from the alternate service court when your opponent makes a 'fault' or the shuttle ceases to be in play because it touches the surface of your opponent's side of court.

No points will be scored when you make a 'fault' or the shuttles ceases to be in play because it touches the surface of your side of court. The serving right will then be transferred to your opponent.


Rules of Badminton - Doubles


At the start of the game, and each time a side gains the right to serve, the service shall be delivered from the right service court. Only your opponent standing diagonally opposite of you shall return the service.

Should your opponent's partner touched or hit the shuttle, it shall be a 'fault' and your side scores a point.


Order of play and position on court

After the service is returned, either you or your partner may hit the shuttle from any position on your side of the net. Then either player from the opposing side may do the same, and so on, until the shuttle ceases to be in play.


Scoring and serving

If you are serving or receiving first at the start of any game, you shall serve or receive in the right service court when your side or your opponent's side scored an even number of points.

You shall serve from or receive in the left service court when your side or your opponent's side has scored an odd number of points.

The reverse pattern shall apply to your partner.

In any game, the right to serve passes consecutively from the initial server to the initial receiver, then to that initial's receiver's partner, then to the opponent who is due to serve from the right service court, then to that player's partner, and so on.

You shall not serve out of turn, receive out of turn, or receive two consecutive services in the same game, except as provided in service court errors and 'lets'.


Service court errors

A service court error has been made when a player has served out of turn, has served from the wrong service or standing on the wrong service court while being prepared to receive the service and it has been delivered.

If a service court error is discovered after the next service had been delivered, the error shall not be corrected. If a service court error is discovered before the next service is delivered, the following rules apply.

If both sides committed an error, it shall be a 'let'. If one side committed the error and won the rally, it shall be a 'let'. If one side committed the error and lost the rally, the error shall not be corrected.

If there is a 'let' because of a service court error, the rally is replayed with the error corrected. If a service court error is not to be corrected, play in that game shall proceed without changing the player's new service courts.

Positions in Badminton

Positions in Badminton Doubles

Tactics depend on skills

Your range of tactical options will be heavily influenced by your hitting skill, your movement skill, and your physical fitness.

For example: if your smash is weak, then it will be a much less effective choice of shot. Or if you are unfit, then you will miss out on many attacking opportunities.

This guide is written with the assumption that you do not have any obvious weaknesses. I understand that’s an unrealistic assumption for most players!

You will need to adapt your tactics to cover your weaknesses — and also to exploit your opponents’ weaknesses!

And of course, you can train to eliminate your weaknesses.

Strategy before tactics!

At high levels of play, one basic strategy is completely dominant: aggressive attacking play! Attacking play usually beats defensive play — in the end.

Applying the principle

How you apply this principle will depend on the situation in the rally. In general, you should play the most aggressive shot possible, providing it does not expose you immediately to an even more violent counter-attack.

Here’s a summary of what you should do, in order of preference (best options first, worst options last):

1. Play a winning shot
2. Improve your current attack (create an opportunity for a winning shot)
3. Maintain your current attack
4. Gain a new attack
5. Prevent your opponents from gaining an attack
6. When your opponents are attacking, regain the attack yourself
7. When your opponents are attacking too fiercely, defend (lift) and wait for a better counter-attacking opportunity
8. When your opponents have a winning attack, do anything to stay in the rally

The Three Main Situations

At any given moment during a doubles rally, you are in one of three situations:

1. Attacking
2. Defending
3. Fighting for who gets the next attack

Each of these situations is associated with standard positional ideas.

THE BASIC POSITION

Attacking

When attacking, you should adopt a formation with one player in the rearcourt, and the other player towards the front of the court.

The rear player will cover most shots to the rearcourt, continuing to play smashes or drop shots; the forwards player will cover replies to the net or midcourt, either playing kills or shots that provoke another lift.

Defending

When defending, you must adopt a side-by-side formation so that you can cover the full width of the doubles court. If you can’t cover the full width of the court, then you will lose the rally immediately to any well-placed smash (or even a drop shot).

You should stand about one step back from the middle of the court, to give yourselves time to react to the smash. If either of you stands near the net, then he will be vulnerable to a smash.

Fighting for the next attack

When both sides are fighting for the attack, they both tend to start in a defensiveside-by-side position. As one side gains the advantage, one of their players will move forwards to claim the front of the court, and their attack will begin.

History of Badminton

History of Badminton

Origins of the Game

The sport of badminton has its origins in ancient civilisations in Europe and Asia.  The ancient game known as battledore (bat or paddle) and shuttlecock probably originated more than 2000 years ago.

In the 1600s Battledore and Shuttlecock was an upper class pastime in England and many European countries. Battledore and Shuttlecock was simply two people hitting a shuttlecock backwards and forwards with a simple bat as many times as they could without allowing it to hit the ground.

Contemporary Badminton

A contemporary form of badminton  - a game called ‘Poon’, was played in India in the 1800s where a net was introduced and players hit the shuttlecock across the net. British officers in the mid 1800’s took this game back to England and it was introduced as a game for the guests of the Duke of Beaufort at his stately home ‘Badminton’ in Gloucestershire, England where it became popular.

In March 1898, the first Open Tournament was held at Guildford the first 'All England' Championships were held the following year. Denmark, the USA and Canada became ardent followers of the game during the 1930s.

IBF Established in 1934

Then in 1934, the International Badminton Federation was formed, with the initial members including England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Holland, Canada, New Zealand and France, with India joining as an affiliate in 1936.

The first major IBF tournament was the Thomas Cup (world men's team championships) in 1948. Since then, the number of world events has increased with the addition of the Uber Cup (women’s team), World Championships (individual events), Sudirman Cup (mixed team), World Junior Championships and the World Grand Prix Finals.

Commonwealth Games Sport - 1966

Badminton was introduced as a Commonwealth Games program sport in Kingston Jamaica in 1966 and has been part of every Commonwealth Games program since then. Initially all five disciplines were included – singles (men, women), doubles (men, women) and mixed doubles with the Teams Event included in the program in later Commonwealth Games. 

Olympic Games Sport - 1992

Badminton is a relatively new Olympic Games sport. After being a demonstration sport in Munich in 1972, badminton became an Olympic sport in Barcelona in 1992 with the singles and doubles disciplines introduced for the first time in the Olympic Games. In Atlanta in 1996, a mixed doubles event was included and this is the only mixed doubles event in all of the Olympic sports.

The following countries have won medals in badminton at an Olympic Games since its introduction in 1992 -  China, Denmark, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Russia.

Susi Susanti from Indonesia won the women’s singles in Barcelona, becoming Indonesia’s first medallist in the 40 years Indonesia had competed at the Games. In the same Olympic Games, Alan Budi Kusama won Indonesia’s second gold medal in the men’s badminton singles.

Reference

http://www.athleticscholarships.net/history-of-badminton.htm

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Introduction of Badminton

What is Badminton?

Playing badminton whether for fun as a hobby or on a more competitive level will improve your overall health significantly when done for at least 30 minutes a day. Many national and official health institutions recommend that you attempt to raise your heart rate for a minimum of 30 minutes a day to keep your metabolism at a healthy rate as well as to lower your resting heart BPM (beats per minute).

Other than simply being healthy for the benefit of raising your heart rate and all the positive effects of raising your heart rate, badminton is often a total body work out. When you practice or even play a full match of badminton (three games) you will have been moving for at least 30 minutes and you will be using muscles that you are not always aware of. By moving your body quickly around the court and swinging your racket for the shots you are exercising almost every muscle in your body without even thinking about it.

When you exercise to build muscles and tone your body the main goal is to exercise the muscle to the point of exhaustion. This is done by repeatedly stretching and working any muscle you want to tone. By stretching and working the muscle you activate the muscle fibers which release hormones into your body that help your body to increase the tone and mass of your muscles. Badminton can help you to do this and that can be part of what is badminton.

Moving from front to back and side to side of the badminton court will not only exercise all the muscles in your legs it will help you to build muscle. The repetition in the actions you are taking as you play the game tends to work much like the repetitions you will find in many weight lifting programs, minus the weights.

Instead of using weights to build the muscle you are repeatedly carrying the weight of your body and the momentum that adds to that weight. Often if you were to work out in a fitness gym or club you would be sitting to lift the weights, in badminton you are not only activating the fibers in your muscles that help to strengthen them you are combining that with aerobic activity creating a total work out for your legs.

When you combine this leg work out with swinging your racket in all sorts of directions to return all types of badminton shots you are incorporating all of your upper body muscles into this workout as well. The swinging of the racket will be close to weight lifting as well.

Even though most badminton rackets are light weight and easy to swing you are adding that little bit of weight along with the momentum of the swing, this activates far more muscle fibers than if you were to sit and simply do repetitive lifting of a heavier weight. And again you are combining this type of weight lifting with aerobic all body activity to produce a raised heart rate and increase your metabolism.

As you think about this you may wonder why there are not huge overly muscular badminton players. This is not because they are not reaping the full benefit of the badminton work out it is simply because badminton is going to be a toning sport.

The activity that is involved will help you to tone your muscles all while burning excess calories and fat deposits. Beside if you were to create a huge muscular physical state for yourself you would no longer have the quick agile ability to move around the court as a successful badminton player needs.

Reference

http://www.badminton-information.com/what_is_badminton.

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Netball's skill

Skills

Passing
Shoulder Pass
A long, flat, hard pass used to cover long distances of the court.

•  Face your target 

• Hold the ball in one hand, hand outstretched behind the ball with elbow low 

• Transfer weight and step forward with opposite leg to throwing arm 

•  Follow through where you want the ball to go

• Flick the wrist at the end of the flow to add more power 
• If players do not have the strength/size to hold the ball with one hand, the second hand can be used to balance the ball in front

Chest Pass
An accurate pass used to cover short and middle distances of the court

• Face your target

• Both hands in the shape of a ‘W’ behind the ball, elbows tucked in (no chicken wings!) and relaxed 

•  Step in to the pass, transfer weight forward and release the ball 

• Follow through with the arms and a slight flick of the wrist at the end of the flow 

 Shooting

• Begin with both feet facing the goalpost, feet shoulder width apart and knees relaxed 
• Raise the ball above your head with your preferred shooting hand, resting the ball
  on the pads of the fingers
• Use your opposite hand to lightly steady the ball (do not hold the ball with both hands)
• Bend both elbows and lower the ball behind your head
• At the same time, bend your knees to generate power
• Simultaneously, bring both the knees and arms up, and push the ball of the hand towards the goal
• Follow through with a flick of the wrist

Deffending

‘Hands Over The Ball’ 

• As soon as your opponent takes possession of the ball, quickly step or jump back 0.9m distance

• Keep your head up with eyes on ball and opponent

• Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, knees, hips and ankles slightly bent
• Stretch both arms out and in position over the ball 

• ‘Follow’ the ball with your arms, blocking the path of the ball as much as possible 

One On One Shadowing

• Stand in front of opponent with back to attacker, and body halfway across opponent’s body
• Arms close to sides of body

• Feet shoulder-width apart, knees bent, weight slightly forward over toes and back upright

• Vision to see attacker and the ball

•  Shadow your opponent’s moves using fast small steps

• Aim to move feet, keep head up and maintain vision of the attacker and not swing head