What is Badminton

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)

Badminton Racket Basics

Exclusive Summary About Badminton Racket By Antony Cassidy

Badminton rackets can be expensive so it would be wise to know the basics before you buy. A less expensive badminton racket will do just fine. The lightest badminton racket i have come across is the Karakal SL-70 and it weighs just 70 grams.

The balance of a badminton racket refers to just that. There are three kinds, head heavy, head light, and evenly balanced. Head heavy rackets offer more weight at the top of the swing, giving more power and stability on contact with the shuttle.

Head light rackets will enable you to swing the racket quicker, but less weight means less power and stability. Even balanced rackets give you a neutral feel.

If you can hit the shuttle in the middle of the racket head you will be hitting the sweet spot.

Badminton Racket Reviews

If your looking to buy a new badminton racket, chances are your going to look for some sort of review of it. The problem with online badminton racket reviews is that they are all personal. Every badminton player is different, with different style, technique and ability. Only by knowing yourself will you be able to tell if a racket is going to suit your game.

The most expensive badminton rackets are designed for control, they predominantly have very stiff flexibility, which means you have to generate the power with your technique. Now if you are a beginner or a novice player, reading an advanced players' review of these badminton rackets will not be much use to you.

Strings change the behaviour of rackets, period. If you don't know the importance of stringing tension, then just reading the review will be of little use to you.

Badminton Essentials - Choosing a Badminton Bag

Exclusive Summary About Badminton Bag By Ilse Hagen

A badminton bag is used in carrying badminton rackets as well as other equipment like nets and shuttlecocks.

Kinds

Over-the shoulder: Over-the-shoulder badminton bags are lightweight and slim, with a long strap slung behind a shoulder. They can normally carry about one or two rackets and have compartments on the straps or outside of the bag for shuttlecocks.

Duffel: Duffel badminton bags, on the other hand, are large tote-like bags that come with compartments to house several rackets. Some duffel badminton bags are cylindrical or rectangular, much like any regular sports bag.

Buying tips

When it comes to buying a badminton bag, look for one that can fit all your rackets for convenience, with extra room for new ones. Make sure your rackets all fit comfortably into the compartments, with at least an inch of clearance from the walls of the bag to the tips of your rackets.

Badminton Bags - The Right Bag For Your Sport

To help you lug around your racket and other equipment, you can count on the every-reliable badminton bags.

Characteristics

Badminton bags are commonly rounded on one end and then tapered on the other side, mimicking the shape of your racket.

The bag for you

In choosing your badminton bag, make sure that you can fit inside all your essentials for playing.

The Right One

This includes your racket, shuttlecocks, and others like a water bottle, shoes, towel, etc. Make sure that you can also pick up and carry the bag easily. Cushioned handles can make lugging your bag easier and more comfortable.