Learn How to Play Badminton

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Working On Your Badminton Skills and Techniques

No matter how great or new your badminton equipment is, nothing can replace solid badminton skills and techniques. What are some badminton skills and techniques that you should consider in your game?

Your grip. How you grip your racket can have a large impact upon how in control you are when you are playing. By practicing both your forehand and backhand grip and switching them, you can make the action more comfortable, so that you can do it during the game quickly and easily.

Your serve. The serve is not just a way to start the game, it can set the whole tone for your game. This skill can be a weapon in your badminton arsenal. The four main types of serves - high serve, low serve, forehand, and backhand - are all skills that you need to make the most of your badminton game.

Your smash. Your badminton smash is one of the strongest badminton skills and techniques that you will want to master.

Your net play. In badminton skills and techniques, you are sure to want to get some help with your net play. Badminton skills and techniques are something that you want to continue working on.

Badminton Strategy

To win in badminton, players need to employ a wide variety of strokes in the right situations. These range from powerful jumping smashes to delicate tumbling net returns. Often rallies finish with a smash, but setting up the smash requires subtler strokes.

For example, a net shot can force the opponent to lift the shuttlecock, which gives an opportunity to smash. If the netshot is tight and tumbling, then the opponent's lift will not reach the back of the court, which makes the subsequent smash much harder to return.

Deception is also important. Expert players make the preparation for many different strokes look identical, and use slicing to deceive their opponents about the speed or direction of the stroke. If an opponent tries to anticipate the stroke, he may move in the wrong direction and may be unable to change his body momentum in time to reach the shuttlecock.