I blog this because Badminton is quite simply one of the most awesome sports you can play.

I used to play at college and gave up once I started working. 13 years ago I took it up again casually and about 6 years ago I decided I wanted to take it more seriously.

I now play up to 4 times a week and I can’t think of a more fun way to spend my free time whilst getting fit .

Badminton is fun . 

Badminton is organised fun for cool people. In fact we may just have to check out how cool you are before we let you join the club. If you aint cool, we’ll put you through a coolness program first, and then you might get to play if you pass the stringent tests. 

Okay, calm down! I’m just kidding; but badminton is seriously epic. You can play singles to increase your fitness, or you can play doubles if you want to have a bit more fun. It’s definitely more enjoyable than Squash, and unlike Tennis you can play all year around!

If you join a club, you’ll find that you’ll be off court occasionally. During those times, you’ll get to mingle, socialise and make lots of new friends. Or, if you’re a crazy ass mofo like me, you can get a skipping rope and skip to keep the sweat going!

Badminton can give fitness.

If you like to sweat then badminton is for you. With badminton you burn off the equivalent of a chocolate bar every 30 minutes or so. I’m not suggesting you eat a chocolate bar every 30 minutes to make sure you don’t waste away though! To see how much exactly you burn check out this table of stats. For someone like me, a 270lb’er who plays for 3 hours at a time, I could eat a horse every hour and still not worry about it going to my thighs or buttocks.

Badminton is a two-player or four-player sport, which is hugely popular all over the world. It is a played using racquets and a feathered shuttlecock. It was included to become a part of the Olympic Games since the year 1992. It has 5 events, i.e. the singles of men and women, the doubles of men and women, and the mixed doubles. While it is essentially an indoor sport when it comes to competitions, because of the fact that wind affects the direction and speed of the feathered shuttlecock, it is often played as an outdoor sport as well, though only in case of recreational activity. Badminton players are extremely popular, owing to the rigor and skill they display. Let us take a look at the Top 10 Male Badminton Players of All Time.

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "sngles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side). Badminton is often played as a casual outdoor activity in a yard or on a beach; formal games are played on a rectangular indoor court. Points are scored by striking the shuttlecock with the racquet and landing it within the opposing side's half of the court.

Each side may only strike the shuttlecock once before it passes over the net. Play ends once the shuttlecock has struck the floor or if a fault has been called by the umpire, service judge, or (in their absence) the opposing side.

The shuttlecock is a feathered or (in informal matches) plastic projectile which flies differently from the balls used in many other sports. In particular, the feathers create much higher drag, causing the shuttlecock to decelerate more rapidly. Shuttlecocks also have a high top speed compared to the balls in other racquet sports.

The game developed in British India from the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. European play came to be dominated by Denmark but the game has become very popular in Asia, with recent competition dominated by China. Since 1992, badminton has been a Summer Olympic sport with five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles. At high levels of play, the sport demands excellent fitness: players require aerobic stamina, agility, strength, speed, and precision. It is also a technical sport, requiring good motor coordination and the development of sophisticated racquet movements.

BADMINTON SKILL'S , DRILL'S AND TECHNIQUE'S

Grip

You will want to learn how to hold your racket with the forehand to hit shuttles on that side of your body and backhand to hit on the opposite side. You will use a forehand grip to hit above your head as well. You can hit the shuttle using a backhand grip with your elbow up or down. It is good to practice hitting with these grips to improve your skills.

Footwork

Your footwork can bring more success to your game if you learn the basics of moving on the court and practice them. Your ready position should include standing in the center of the court if you are playing singles and bending your knees with your body relaxed and waiting for play. Move your feet by shuffling them or gliding from left to right and stepping or lunging forward. To move backward, go fast enough that you get behind the shuttle to hit it hard enough.

Serving

Four types of badminton serves include: 1) the high serve to move your opponent to the back of his or her side of the court; 2) the low serve to make your opponent have to get under the shuttle; 3) the flick serve that is used occasionally to confuse your opponent who thinks you are going to hit a low serve; 4) the drive serve where you hit the shuttle low, fast and to the rear of the receiver's court as a strategy move that will result in a missed hit.

Scoring

Simple badminton rules include a scoring system where you play until you score 21 points. Three games constitute a match. A point is scored each time there is a serve and the side that wins the rally scores the point. You have to win by at least 2 points unless the game reaches 29 and there is still not a winner. The first side to score 30 points wins. If you win a game you will serve first in the next game.

Singles

To begin a singles game of badminton you will serve from the right side of the court. After the initial serve, the position depends on the server's score. If your score is even, you serve from the right and if it is odd you serve from the left. In addition, if the server wins the rally he will continue to serve, and if the receiver wins, the next serve goes to the receiver.

Doubles

In doubles play, serving goes back and forth between partners. The serving side is the same as in singles play in terms of even score serves from right and odd score from left. The serving partner alternates court sides if she continues to score during a rally and will serve until a rally is lost. When the serve comes back to the team the partner will serve next.

Additional Rules

The Badminton World Federation rules state that there is a 60-second interval when the winning team scores the 11th point. In addition, two-minute intervals are taken between games. If a match reaches three games, there is a change of ends when the winning side scores 11 points.

BADMITON EQUIPMENT'S

A racket or racquet is a sports implement consisting of a handled frame with an open hoop across which a network of strings or catgut is stretched tightly. It is used for striking a ball or shuttlecock in games such as squash, tennis, racquetball, and badminton. Collectively, these games are known as racket sports. This predecessor to the modern game of squash, rackets, is played with 30 ¹⁄₂-inch-long (77 cm) wooden rackets. While squash equipment has evolved in the intervening century, rackets equipment has changed little.

The frame of rackets for all sports was traditionally made of laminated wood and the strings of animal intestine known as catgut. The traditional racket size was limited by the strength and weight of the wooden frame which had to be strong enough to hold the strings and stiff enough to hit the ball or shuttle. Manufacturers started adding non-wood laminates to wood rackets to improve stiffness. Non-wood rackets were made first of steel, then of aluminium, and then carbon fiber composites. Wood is still used for real tennis, rackets, and xare. Most rackets are now made of composite materials including carbon fibre or fiberglass, metals such as titanium alloys, or ceramics.

Catgut has partially been replaced by synthetic materials including nylon, polyamide, and other polymers. Rackets are restrung when necessary, which may be after every match for a professional or never for a social player.

A shuttlecock (also called a bird or birdie) is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton. It has an open conical shape: the cone is formed from 16 or so overlapping feathers, usually goose or duck, embedded into a rounded cork base. The cork is covered with thin leather. To ensure that shuttlecocks rotate consistently, only feathers from the birds' left wings are used. The shuttlecock's shape makes it extremely aerodynamically stable. Regardless of initial orientation, it will turn to fly cork first, and remain in the cork-first orientation. The name shuttlecock is frequently shortened to shuttle. The "shuttle" part of the name was probably derived from its back-and-forth motion during the game, resembling the shuttle of a loom; the "cock" part of the name was probably derived from the resemblance of the feathers to those on a cockerel.

Badminton is a two-player or four-player sport, which is hugely popular all over the world. It is a played using racquets and a feathered shuttlecock. It was included to become a part of the Olympic Games since the year 1992. It has 5 events, i.e. the singles of men and women, the doubles of men and women, and the mixed doubles. While it is essentially an indoor sport when it comes to competitions, because of the fact that wind affects the direction and speed of the feathered shuttlecock, it is often played as an outdoor sport as well, though only in case of recreational activity. Badminton players are extremely popular, owing to the rigor and skill they display. Let us take a look at the Top 10 Male Badminton Players of All Time.

BADMINTON RULES

BADMINTON EQUIPMENT'S