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Badminton (click on any photo or underlined header to go directly to the website information was taken from)
Information taken from London 2012 Olympics page
Another of those great sports invented by Britons, then taken on and mastered by the rest of the world.
The game was first played by British officers stationed in India back in the mid-18th century. A century later it developed into the version named after Badminton House in Gloucestershire, where it was played with gusto and is today such an extraordinarily popular business that more than 1.1 billion people were reckoned to have watched the inaugural Olympic tournament in Barcelona in 1992.
Asia’s appetite has proved insatiable, with Indonesia, Korea and China now the sport’s dominant forces. However, the British influence has never disappeared, thanks to the annual staging of its most historic tournament, the All England Championships, which was once considered the unofficial world championship.
Although now staged in Birmingham, the event was held at Wembley Arena for 37 years. So it seems fitting now that the biggest championships of all are coming back to the old venue.
It is in the mixed doubles that Britain has enjoyed its only previous Olympics success, with the pairing of Simon Archer and Joanne Goode nicking a bronze in Sydney and Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms surpassing that with a silver in Athens four years later.
Vocabulary
Kill: A kill is an unreturnable shot struck straight down into the opponent's court.
Drive: A hard, low horizontal strike across the net
Smash: An overhead shot hit downwards with maximum force.
Serve: An underhand hit over the net and past the service line.
Drop Shot: A shot that barely clears the net and lands on the opponent's side
Clear: A shot you hit deep to the back endline.
The Serve
It is my personal opinion that the serve is the most important aspect of the game.
I feel this way because if you are the server, you are completely in control of the game. You can send the ball deep, short, or drive it right at your opponent.
A good serve is better then a smash shot any day.
We only use the thumbs up, thumbs down method to serve. As in the picture above.
Teaching Cues:
Information taken from London 2012 Olympics page
Another of those great sports invented by Britons, then taken on and mastered by the rest of the world.
The game was first played by British officers stationed in India back in the mid-18th century. A century later it developed into the version named after Badminton House in Gloucestershire, where it was played with gusto and is today such an extraordinarily popular business that more than 1.1 billion people were reckoned to have watched the inaugural Olympic tournament in Barcelona in 1992.
Asia’s appetite has proved insatiable, with Indonesia, Korea and China now the sport’s dominant forces. However, the British influence has never disappeared, thanks to the annual staging of its most historic tournament, the All England Championships, which was once considered the unofficial world championship.
Although now staged in Birmingham, the event was held at Wembley Arena for 37 years. So it seems fitting now that the biggest championships of all are coming back to the old venue.
It is in the mixed doubles that Britain has enjoyed its only previous Olympics success, with the pairing of Simon Archer and Joanne Goode nicking a bronze in Sydney and Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms surpassing that with a silver in Athens four years later.
Vocabulary
Kill: A kill is an unreturnable shot struck straight down into the opponent's court.
Drive: A hard, low horizontal strike across the net
Smash: An overhead shot hit downwards with maximum force.
Serve: An underhand hit over the net and past the service line.
Drop Shot: A shot that barely clears the net and lands on the opponent's side
Clear: A shot you hit deep to the back endline.
The Serve
It is my personal opinion that the serve is the most important aspect of the game.
I feel this way because if you are the server, you are completely in control of the game. You can send the ball deep, short, or drive it right at your opponent.
A good serve is better then a smash shot any day.
We only use the thumbs up, thumbs down method to serve. As in the picture above.
Teaching Cues:
- Players must make contact with the shuttle below the waist
- The racket shaft must be pointing downwards at any degree, ie, the head of the racket must be below the racket hand before making contact with the shuttle.
- Both feet should be on the floor.
- Hold the shuttlecock or birdie by the "feathers".
- Make a backhand flick to contact the ball. The harder you flick the farther the ball travels.
Return the Serve
Serving is important, yet the return is where the real strategy comes into play. If your opponent's serve is high, smash it back, if it is low send a clear. Sometimes you can catch your opponent napping and you can drop the shuttlecock right over the net!
Prior to the serve you should have your racquet up.
Teaching Cues:
Serving is important, yet the return is where the real strategy comes into play. If your opponent's serve is high, smash it back, if it is low send a clear. Sometimes you can catch your opponent napping and you can drop the shuttlecock right over the net!
Prior to the serve you should have your racquet up.
Teaching Cues:
The 10 rules of badminton are as follows:
1. A game starts with a one time winner take all Rock, Paper, Scissor, match. Whoever wins the toss gets to decide
whether they would serve or receive first.
2. At no time during the game should the player touch the net, with his racquet or his body.
3. The shuttlecock should not be carried on or come to rest on the racquet.
4. A player should not reach over the net to hit the shuttlecock.
5. A serve must be hit cross court (diagonally) to be valid.
6. During the serve the shuttlecock should always be hit from below the waist.
7. A point is added to a player's score as and when he wins a rally.
8. A player wins a rally when he strikes the shuttlecock and it touches the floor of the opponent's side of the court or
when the opponent commits a fault. The most common type of fault is when a player fails to hit the shuttlecock over the net or it lands outside the boundary of the court.
9. Each side can strike the shuttlecock only once before it passes over the net.
10. The shuttlecock hitting the ceiling, is counted as a fault.
1. A game starts with a one time winner take all Rock, Paper, Scissor, match. Whoever wins the toss gets to decide
whether they would serve or receive first.
2. At no time during the game should the player touch the net, with his racquet or his body.
3. The shuttlecock should not be carried on or come to rest on the racquet.
4. A player should not reach over the net to hit the shuttlecock.
5. A serve must be hit cross court (diagonally) to be valid.
6. During the serve the shuttlecock should always be hit from below the waist.
7. A point is added to a player's score as and when he wins a rally.
8. A player wins a rally when he strikes the shuttlecock and it touches the floor of the opponent's side of the court or
when the opponent commits a fault. The most common type of fault is when a player fails to hit the shuttlecock over the net or it lands outside the boundary of the court.
9. Each side can strike the shuttlecock only once before it passes over the net.
10. The shuttlecock hitting the ceiling, is counted as a fault.