What is Badminton?

Exclusive Summary About What is Badminton By Fredy Siswanto

Badminton is best played indoors. Badminton is also played outdoors as a casual recreational activity, often as a garden or beach game. Playing badminton keeps you feeling well, strong and motivated.

Since 1992, badminton has been an: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, in which each pair is a man and a woman. At high levels of play, the sport demands excellent fitness: players require aerobic stamina, agility, strength, speed and precision.

Badminton features one player opposing another or competing pairs. The game is played on a surface called a court. The size of the court is 44 feet long X 17 feet wide for a single's match and 4 feet long X 20 feet wide for a double's match.

Badminton is the fastest-racquet sport and is also considered to be the world's #2 most played sport behind soccer. Badminton is in fact the world's fastest racket sport, even more so than the most popular racket sport, tennis.

Learn About Badminton

Exclusive Summary About Learn Badminton By Alvin-Tjy Tan

Body Posture

1) Always ensure your chest is almost parallel to the net.
2) Legs slightly wider than your waist to allow some stability
3) Your upper arm holding the racket is almost close to shoulder height
4) Racket face is almost or close to facing the opponent's court
5) Racket face is within your sight align with your opponents court

Engagement

1) Ensure wrist is slightly flex backwards upon approach to strike the shuttle
2) Dominant leg move together with dominant hand upon engagement towards shuttle
3) Try your best to strike the shuttle before it dips below the white tape of the net
4) 99 percent wrist work to strike the shuttle
5) Ensure at all times that your dominant hand is never full extend to strike the shuttle.
6) Maintain minimum angle between wrist and lower arm, between lower arm and upper arm and between upper arm and body.
7) Upon contact, ensure wrist action is towards opponent's court and application on force is to its maximum.

Serves

1) Always serve shuttle using thumb grip, (underarm serve)
2) Serve close to the opponent's T junction (after the front service line
3) Use elbow extension for low serve
4) Use elbow extension movement together with wrist action to flick shuttle to back court (not advisable as you are opening to an attack)