All About Badminton
The original game that badminton comes from was a children's game played in China called Ti Jian Zi. This was back in the 500's AD so it wasn't really considered a grown up's sport. Back in these days, men were too macho to play pass with a couple of paddles. They were too busy shooting bow and arrows and swinging swords to the death!
Badminton is officially the fastest of all racket sports. Players can hit the shuttlecock at speeds of up to 180mph (288kph) toward their opponent. But, it is not just all about speed; a player can expect to run up to four miles (6.4km) around the court during a match whilst having the agility to maintain energy-busting rallies.
Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia, but the modern game of badminton developed in the mid-19th century among the British as a variant of the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. ("Battledore" was an older term for "racquet".) Its exact origin remains obscure. The name derives from the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton House in Gloucestershire, but why or when remains unclear. As early as 1860, a London toy dealer named Isaac Spratt published a booklet entitled Badminton Battledore â A New Game, but no copy is known to have survived. An 1863 article in The Cornhill Magazine describes badminton as "battledore and shuttlecock played with sides, across a string suspended some five feet from the ground".
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 "singles" (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.
Originally, the International Badminton Federation was established in 1934 with the following countries laying its foundation: England, France, Scotland, Denmark, Canada, Wales, Ireland, New Zealand and the Netherlands. Later in 1936, India joined the list of its members and the organization is currently known as the Badminton World Federation. This is the governing body of all international badminton play to include the Summer Olympic Games.
Improve your body position: Two of the most common faults are a bad body position for an overhead shot and a poor lunge. For an overhead, you should be side-on to the net, not facing it. As for the lunge, the toes should be pointing towards the shuttle rather than directly forwards. This keeps your knees over your toes, which is an easier position to come back from, and also less stressful on the ankle joint.
In simplest terms, the object of badminton is to not allow the projectile, known as a shuttlecock, to drop on your side of the net and you do not want to hit it out of bounds. Like tennis, the game of badminton can be played in both the format of singles and doubles. The rules for each format vary slightly in regards to service and reception.
The game of badminton that can be played individually or in doubles, consists of 3 games, being a match to the best of three (who wins the first two games wins). The goal is to reach the 21 points first in the game, having to have a difference of 2 points between them to finish the game. If the game reaches 29 Ã 29, then whoever scores the 30 point wins first.
Badminton is much like tennis. Players play with a racquet on a court, but the big difference is that they use a "birdie" or "shuttlecock" (the more technical term). It was named this way because it was first built with the feathers of a "birdie" and the shuttle kinda looks like the tail of a peacock or a rooster. The birdie is served across court into a designated box and then the rally continues until someone scores a point. Games are played up to 15 (11 for women), and full matches are always played best out of 3 games.
This current Olympic event dates back to an earlier sport known as "jeu de volant" or battledore and shuttlecock played in British India. During its early play, the sport was predominately ruled by the country of Denmark. Nowadays, badminton has risen in popularity across the globe, especially on the continent of Asia. The popularity jump in Asia has resulted in the sport shifting from Denmark domination to Chinese control.
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