Badminton Final Assessment
By: Kaitlyn Eldridge 2A
Origin of Badminton
Badminton has its origins in ancient Europe and Asia, the game was originally known as "Battledore" (bat or paddle). The birdie or the ball is normally called the Shuttlecock, it was originated about 2,000 years ago. By the 1600s battledore and shuttlecock was a upper class pastime in England and many other European countries, the game normally was just two people hitting a shuttlecock back and forth to each other (backwards and forwards) with a simple bat as many times as they could without hitting or dropping it to the ground.
History of Badminton
There is a contemporary form of badminton that is called "Poona", it was played in India in the late 1800s where the net was introduced and then the players would hit the shuttlecock across the net to each other. The British officers in the late 1800s would take the game back to England, while it was a game that was introduced as the game for the guests of Duke of Beaufort at his home in "Badminton" (Gloucestershire, England) to that day it would become a popular game to play. March 1898, the very first Open Tournament was played, the very first U.S. badminton club was opened in New York in 1978. In about 1992, the game would become a Olympic medal sport in the Summer Olympic Games.
Type of Equipment Needed
In the game of Badminton there is only few items/equipment that you need in order to play the game Badminton, the equipment that you need to play is:
- Court: The area to play, also defined as the outer boundary lines
- Net: The net is made out of fine cord, dark in color and even line of thickness with mesh
- Posts: To hold the net in a upright position
- Racket: The instrument used in the game to hit the shuttlecock with to create a game
- Shuttlecock: Piece of cork covered in goat skin with at least 16 goose feathers attached to the one end, it could also be made out of natural or synthetic materials
Type of Shots Used In The Game
There are some shots that you should use in the game of Badminton in order to play the sport right, and they are:
- Clear: Stroke where the birdie is hit overhead or underhand, it also travels in a high arc falling deep in the opponent's court
- Smash: Overhead shot is when the birdie is hit forcefully down to the opponent's court, full arm follow through is used usually when the opponent is positioned near the net
- Drop Shot: Overhead shot that causes the birdie to fall to the ground immediately after crossing the net, then the motion of the arm is reduced with no follow through
- Hair Pin: Underhand shots travel directly over the net from one side to another, the birdie should travel low over the net then drop close to the opponent's side of the court
- Drive: Forehand or backhand shots that are hard and fast toward the opponent's back court and the flight is parallel to the floor
- Serve: Always has to be underhand with contact to the birdie below the waist, always should be crosscourt
General Rules
Faults:
- During the service if the birdie is hit above the server's waist or any part of the racket is above the server's hand
- If the birdie lands in the wrong court or the wrong person receives the serve
- If the server or receiver's feet are not in the proper service court during the serve
- The birdie falls outside the boundaries or passes under or through the net
- Player's body or racket touches the net
- Birdie is hit twice in a row
- Fault on opponent if the birdie hits a player whether inside or outside the boundaries
- Ladies - Singles play to 11 points and doubles play to 15 points
- Men - Singles and doubles both play to 15 points
- PE - Play to 11 points
- Ladies have to play to 11 points if they are by themselves and playing, if they have a team then they have to play to 15 points
- Both men singles and doubles have to play to 15 points
- The ladies have 4 more points they need to win if they are with a team of one person
- Some of the proper serves are:
- Forehand
- Backhand
- Drive Serve
- Flick Serve
- High Serve
- Low Serve
Scoring
In the game of badminton you need to be able to score right, the scoring system is called rally but how you do it is the left side is all odd numbers and the right side is all even numbers.
Proper Serve
This is the way that you should serve when you play a game of badminton because it is the correct way to play badminton. If you are serving on the left side you have to serve to the right side on your opponent's court, if you are serving right then you have to serve on the left side of your opponent's court.
Correct Layout Of The Court
This is a layout of the court, it shows you will you should stand when the score is even or odd. It also shows where the sidelines and all that is, and where the serving line is too. The serving line is where you have to stand when you serve or else you will end up smashing the ball and you don't want that.
Strategies to Play
Single Badminton Strategies:
- Throw in some low level disguised serve
- The number key is to be flexible
- Serve long and high to the opponent's court
- Try and hit the shuttlecock to make your opponent move around the court
- Always observe your opponent's moves, strength, weakness, etc.
- Sometimes try and hit the shuttlecock high towards the back of the court
Double Badminton Strategies:
- Attacking Formation (Front-Back)
- Defensive Formation (Side-Side)
- Use the flick serve to help not make your opponent rush to the net
- When defending try and hit the shuttlecock deep into your opponent's court
Mixed Doubles Badminton Strategies:
- Attacking Formation (Front-Back)
- Defensive Formation (Side-Side) -You could apply a flick serve-
- The boy or man should try and hit the shuttlecock downwards or horizontal ways
- The girl or woman should try and play the net kills and tight net shots
Vocabulary
Some terms and definitions that would be helpful when you are playing are:
- Ace: Serve that a opponent fails to hit
- Back Court: The third in the back
- Backhand: Stroke that is made on the opposite side of your racket
- Baseline: Back line of the court
- Bird/Birdie: Also known as a shuttlecock
- Carry: Illegal stroke in which the shuttlecock is caught and held on too
- Center Line: The line that separates the right and left service courts
- Clear: Shot hit deep onto the opponent's court
- Doubles: Game between two teams of two people
- Drop Shot: Shot that clears the net and is dropped sharply
- Drive: Hard fast shot
- Fault: Foul shot
- Forecourt: Front third of court
- Home Position: Central position between two sidelines and halfway between the baseline
- Kill/Kill Shot: Fast downward shot that can't be returned
- Let: Minor violation of a rule, so the rally has to be replayed
- Lob: Shot that is hit high over the opponent's head
- Net: Meshed material that is used to have a game between singles, doubles, and etc.
- Net Shot: Shot hit from the forecourt that has cleared the net, but drops sharply
- Passing Shot: Shot that passes the opponent
- Push Shot: Soft shot that is played by pushing the shuttlecock with a little wrist involved
- Racket: Instrument used to hit the shuttlecocks back and forth
- Rally: Series of shots hit back and forth across the net
- Serve: The game begins with this play
- Smash: Powerful overhead shot
- Side-Out: When the serving side has a loss of service
- Inning: The series where one team has the serve until they lose a rally
- Inside: The team serving
- Outside: The team receiving the birdie
Rally Scoring
In the game of badminton the scoring system that we use in PE is rally scoring just because it helps make the games go faster and easier. If you are the attacking team then you have to hit the shuttlecock directly crossover from you, which means that you have to hit the shuttlecock on the opposite side but to the defending team.
Proper Way To Hit The Shuttlecock
In the game you have to be able to hit the shuttlecock to the other team and not hit it back to your team, the only way to avoid that is to hit the shuttlecock with a flat hand and a good grip on the handle/butt. If you do this then you will be able to hit the shuttlecock to the other team and not hit to your team again.
Net Shot
When there is a shuttlecock coming your way and it is coming close to the net and barely makes it but lands sharply that is called a net shot. When you have a net shot it is not allowed in PE class because you are standing in the kitchen and that is not good because then your opponent won't be able to come and hit the shuttlecock like they want too.
Different Items On A Badminton
The different items on a badminton are:
- Racket Head
- String Bed
- Throat
- Shaft
- Handle/Butt