I am a 38 year old PE teacher who is looking to liven up my pe lesson to 28 13 year olds. i have taught badminton for many years and find it hard to make it exciting.I am looking on the web for practices etc. help !!!
thanks Paul Steward

Be sure that you have a good mix of instruction, footwork practice, drills & free play. I've seen many beginners lose interest if they get too much free play & don't have enough opportunity to learn & hone skills to improve their game. On the other hand, too much work & not enuff play will also turn a lot of novices off to the game. It's a question of balance.

I'm afraid that I don't know of any web sites that show drills tho' they may exist. Perhaps someone else will enlighten us. You might do well to see if you can find a book or 2 that might include some drills or lesson plans.

Timed competition can keep things lively. You can do this with doubles or half-court singles (so that you can put 4 bodies on every court in either case). Designate a top court and have players move up a court toward this top court if they win their game; losers move down a court. Games should be timed (5 or so minutes) so that everyone starts & ends at the same time. In the case of a tie, the player or team that started the game as receiver(s) should advance (since the other side had the opportunity to score first).

If you have less than 7 courts, you may have to feed players in to the lowest court on each rotation. Losers on the last court go to the end of the queue.

If you do this timed competition with doubles, you may, as a variation, have players change partners with every new game. When you & your partner advance (or drop) to the next court, you partner up with one of the other players on this new court.

There is a booklet available published by the BC Badminton Association on providing drills/instructions to kids. It has a number of different drills and "games" to keep things interesting and lively.

It's called BADMINTON: Premier's Sport Awards Program Instructor's Resource Manual. I have no idea of how much it cost as I got a copy off the library here.

Check out http://www.worldbadminton.com.
There are many tips for training and coaching badminton there.

Erik

Apart from the regular coaching and drills, you might want to mix in some more leasurely activities...

"King-of-the-hill badminton" is one that can be quite engaging:

It's a regular singles game (without scoring), where, after each point, the winner stays on court and the loser is replaced by the next player in queue. (The loser goes to the back of the queue.)
If the "king" (=the server, who won the last rally) loses, the new "king" goes over to the other side of the net to serve against the next person in queue.

Usually you will see that the best player will remain as "king" for quite some rallies, but will eventually be tired out so and thus "overthrown"... This can be played ad infinitum. :)

PS. Sorry for the complicated explanation -- it's a very easy concept really... but English isn't my native language! DS

I think one thing that can help quite a bit is to show them a some clips of the Olympic Badminton Men's Doubles.

http://www.worldbadmitnon.com/

older clips of other stuff at
http://www.ticket2sports.com

I have the same question as the starter of this thread, but my subjects are those of the sernior team from my old highschool

Sadly however, this year, my old Highschool consists only of intermediate(beginner intermediate) level players. Only one or two would be Intermediate Advanced or Advanced

Besides the tips given, I was wondering if there are anything else that's good for a group of kids like this.

Maybe someone can provide a routine?

http://www.badzone.co.uk/start.html

There are some serious and funny tactics at this site.

I am currently helping with coaching two classes right now (a beginners and a intermediate) and the beginners (juniors as they are ages between 8 to 12 yrs) are pretty easy since most of them have no exposure to badminton. Each lesson last for 90 minutes and I break them down into about 45min of lessons/drills with the rest for them to play.

There are a number of things to do depending on the skill level. If they are not able to hit consistently (regardless of whether o/h or u/h), then you might be better off setting up games (e.g. shuttle relay where you divide into two groups and set up some pylons, benches and have each group run down the course holding a shuttle on the racquet) or if they are able to hit pretty good, then half court doubles or singles might be good.

Originally posted by Winex West Can
shuttle relay where you divide into two groups and set up some pylons, benches and have each group run down the course holding a shuttle on the racquet

how's this help? isn't it quite easy to keep the shuttles on the rackets?

And well... there's gonna be a A team and a B team

since most of the A team will be returning players (I hope) there will be a gap kinda between the A and B teams cuz B teams will mostly be newer players who cant consistanyly hit Birds. Should they be separated into two groups and trained differently? Or should they just train together and play exibition games with each other no matter the skill level (as long as it's not waaaaaaay far apart) get beat up pretty badly and hopefully they learn something from it? (cuz that's how I started learning badminton :D)

Not if you are only 8 yrs old and never played before. There are others like half court singles/doubles, base shuttle, #1, etc. The idea is to make it fun and that everyone get an opportunity to play regardless of the level that they are at.

As for your teams A & B, you might want to start out by splitting them and eventually organize cross team matches and eventually combining them.
Originally posted by JChen99
how's this help? isn't it quite easy to keep the shuttles on the rackets?

And well... there's gonna be a A team and a B team

since most of the A team will be returning players (I hope) there will be a gap kinda between the A and B teams cuz B teams will mostly be newer players who cant consistanyly hit Birds. Should they be separated into two groups and trained differently? Or should they just train together and play exibition games with each other no matter the skill level (as long as it's not waaaaaaay far apart) get beat up pretty badly and hopefully they learn something from it? (cuz that's how I started learning badminton :D)

Originally posted by seveneleven
http://www.badzone.co.uk/start.html

There are some serious and funny tactics at this site.

Here's a snipet:

To distract (or simply annoy) an opponent, keep looking at their
chest. This will bewilder them thinking to themselves if there is something
wrong with their looks (and badminton is 80% looks).

LOL... don't overuse that one in mixed doubles
:o

Originally posted by Winex West Can
Not if you are only 8 yrs old and never played before. There are others like half court singles/doubles, base shuttle, #1, etc. The idea is to make it fun and that everyone get an opportunity to play regardless of the level that they are at.

As for your teams A & B, you might want to start out by splitting them and eventually organize cross team matches and eventually combining them.

o... ic

well... Team A will have the better players whereas the quality of team B will not be so high... so it's kinda hard to organize cross team games since team B will litterally BE killed

Also, there is these two out of both groups that are actually marginally better than the rest, is it a good idea to keep them separated even more and train them with higher standards?(ie more running, expect more etc etc?)

BTW... thx for all the feedbacks. REALLY appreciate it!