what am i doing wrong? how to correct ?

you can try stepping forward and hit, like start clearing. step forward and hit. or just keep practicing your smashes with something. dont think about it, just keep trying...but i dont know if what your doing is wrong cause i saw somebody do it on occasions and he's a very very very good player.

 

That almost sounds normal to me. If you really wanted, you could step forward with your right foot instead of doing a *ballerina step*

I'm presuming it looks something like a golfer after his swing. Correct?

 

Yes, it will be a problem when you get up against better players who will drive your smash crosscourt. You will have the same problem as baseball pitchers who aren't ready to field the ball hit back near them because they are still on one foot.

You might try practicing the scissors-switch step with the legs when you hit. Instead of transferring your weight forward from back right foot to front left foot (sounds like you are right-handed) as you would in a ball throw, simultaneously kick your right foot forward and your left leg backward as you hit. This is a standard badminton technique. When you get the hang of it, it will still give you power, you will be better balanced after the hit, and your right leg won't stick up.

Maybe someone else here can put up some pictures or give a link to online photos that will illustrate it for you.

 

This can be a difficult technique to learn, possibly because it's hard to relate to any other sports techinques. In all the sports I can think of offhand, for righthanders, weight is transferred from the right leg in back to the left leg in front. In badminton, it is the right leg that usually ends up in front.

You might try this to help you transition to the new technique: as you make your overhead shot, when you rotate your hips, pick up your RIGHT foot and step forward with it as you hit. Start out with keeping your left foot on the floor so that you are just stepping forward with your right foot. As that move becomes more comfortable with practice, try sliding the left foot back slightly as you step forward with the right. You won't have much power or control at first, so you should probably set some time in your playing aside to practice only this.

It all depends on how serious you want to get. If you are intent on improving and playing against better competition, you will have to accept some temporary regression in your game while you are developing new skills.

 

well from what you described, you're doing a body twist to add power to the smash, but then you're not moving your right foot from back to front --> assuming this because your right foot leaves off the ground but sticks up behind your butt instead of going forward. It's actually natural for your body to do so, reason being if it doesn't do that, you might over stretch the muscle above your right hip since you're doing a hip rotation.

Suggestion: Learn jump smash or for forehand smash (not around the head), don't twist your hip. Instead do a quick hop to change the position of your feets without moving forward, this is another way of gaining power without the hip twist.

The hip twist, for me at least, is only used when jumping with full power backwards to catch the shuttle early for a smash. That's because I can't do the "switch feet position hop" in the mid air when I want to jump for full height and distance backwards.

For when the shuttle goes backhand, and you want to perform an around the head smash, there is a footwork that allows you to do a jumping smash around the head without twisting your hip. That is the scissors kick, and this can be performed even when you're jumping for full height and length towards the back. This is my favourite form of smash its just beautiful heheheee and the power is there too.

 

Thanks Cheung. I'm glad someone posted a picture of this position.

Every photo I've seen of this follow-through in advanced players looks basically the same--both feet off the floor, racquet leg up and out in front, wrist fully pronated.

Wirey, you don't need to be so high off the floor as this player, as he is jumping too.

The intent of this technique is to add to the power of the shot by thrusting the right side of the body into it. It also keeps your body mass centered better.

If the shuttle is too low or too far out in front of you, this technique wouldn't work.

It is possible to scissor without hip rotation, but it seems that would minimize the benefits.

 

well, Cheung, I would call it a body rotation instead of a hip rotation. Maybe its just me, but what I mean by a hip rotation is rotating the hip without changing the position of the feet. I don't call it a hip rotation unless you're actually making the muscles around your hip work to turn.

 

I understand, Iwan. It's like what happens when a baseball player hits a ball. There is weight transfer from back foot to front foot, and hip rotation, but the feet don't change relative position.