Hi guys I have a badminton tournament in about 2 months. I am 14 years old and currently, my training schedule is leg and core training in the morning and drills and games in the evening. My smashes are excellent and I always hit many winners a game. But my footwork is rather shaky. Plz recommend any good footwork excersises. I do not know how to post a video of me playing, can anyone tell me how to upload a video? thx.
Upload a video to youtube. There will be plenty of information how to do this via google [video=youtube;WwuRHjmFkt0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwuRHjmFkt0[/video]
Thank you it was a good video and by the way I have a youtube channel type in suchir otturu on youtube to watch me play. Plz give me advice on improvements.
Ramussen's video here is one of the two footwork techniques; this one is for explosiveness; improving how quick you are to begin your footwork. It's ok, but it can be lacking for training proper footwork and stamina. Here's my method: -Find footwork patterns that work for you for 6 point footwork. -For example, your preferred pattern for the Forehand Forecourt, and your preferred pattern for the Backhand Defense -To further elaborate, your Forehand Forecourt footwork might be: Split (with dominant foot slightly forward), Cross with the rear leg, lunge on the dominant leg You need to find your preferred footwork for all 6 points. (Forehand Rear, Forehand Defense, Forehand Forecourt, Backhand Rear, Backhand Defense, Backhand Forecourt) It is useful if you can learn variations to these, for example Forehand Rearcourt has several variations. Jimmy Lin has good videos to get you started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3y37efMtxM Next, get yourself a Smartphone or Tablet. A tablet would be better because it has a bigger screen. I have a feeling you already have one. Look for Footwork Training applications. I have one on my iPhone called 'Footwork'. What this application does, is it tells you which corner to move towards. It does this on a timer. The objective here is to move to the corner successfully, shadow a stroke, and then move back to the centre in time for the next call. Get yourself a badminton court. Rent one for an hour or what have you. Put your jumper on the floor, near the net, in the middle of the court, and prop up your phone or tablet on it. It shouldn't be in any danger. Start the drill, and practice practice practice. Remember to keep in mind the length of a badminton rally; badminton rallies aren't very long I'd set your maximum for 5 minutes. If a rally has gone on for 5 minutes, it's an extraordinary rally. I stick to 3 minute practices, and increase the speed. Focus on good footwork, not fast footwork, and increase pace naturally. Do not compromise technique for speed in this practice. All this said, a coach is always a definite plus in this regard. It is better if you can get a coach to teach you footwork before you start doing this sort of practice. Doing this kind of exercise for even 1 hour a week will substantially solidify your footwork.
Whilst I kind of agree with you, this comment made me laugh a bit. The things I agree with: for those people who do not yet know the correct footwork pattern to get to the shuttle, work that out! Also make sure to count how many steps you take to the shuttle, and crucially how many to recover to the middle. Some tips (for a right hander): The front corners can be reached in the following pattern: Split step, left step, right lunge. The sides can be reached in the same way. Sometimes you don't need the left step if the shuttle is not far away, but its always worth practicing when you start out. The back corners can always be reached in 2 or 3 steps. For recovery, ALL corners can recover back to the middle using only a single step (with right leg for all corners except if you scissor kick at the back of the court, which uses a left step). Try not to exceed this number of steps! Now, specifically, I find it funny that you said the rasmussen drill is mainly for explosiveness, but not for "proper footwork and stamina". Tell me, what do you mean by "proper footwork"?! And if you do this continuously for 20 minutes (as he says he has done) then do you really think thats not stamina training?! I currently do this for around 10 minutes, 3 or 4 times a week - its the best thing I have ever done for my footwork, but is just a part of the story. For those interested, there are better drills for explosiveness at the start of the pattern. The best video I have seen is a Ron Daniels footwork training camp exercise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m2PZ535BO8 The drill starts at 6:30. The thing it does better than anything else though, is allows you to focus on the rhythm of your footwork. I can honestly say that I believe paying attention to the sound your feet make as you move - i.e. the rhythm of your movement - is probably the most important thing needed to be quick on court. If there are any unnecessary steps (stumbles, steps that don't take you anywhere etc) then they are easily heard because your footwork starts sounding "busy" - your feet are doing a lot! Working with various different students, I also find that learning the correct steps is often easiest by feel. When starting out with a new pattern, the more you practice the feel for the correct steps, the better it gets. I have found it doesn't seem to matter how big the steps are - small steps like rasmussen or bigger steps to the corners - the only important thing is repetition, and the rasmussen drill allows you to keep going for a very long time, because when tired you do not have to reach the corners - you just have to keep going! A final footwork tip from me - if you are slow to start a movement, assume a lower ready stance, with wider feet - it helps reduce unnecessary steps and keeps you balanced, but takes more effort for the legs (but you will have fewer steps to take as they are bigger steps...). Good luck!
[MENTION=47032]MSeeley[/MENTION] It's fine for Ramussen to use that technique, he already has the muscle memory for hitting all of the corners effectively. He's training his explosiveness, and like you said, his rhythm. But certainly to begin with, you need to build the muscle memory to hit those corners. Doing that training as a starting point is only training half of the steps. As for stamina, by doing that exercise, you don't know how long you last in an actual rally. If you're only taking one step out and back in for each corner - which is unlikely in a game - it does not indicate how long you last in actual game situations.
I think I understand what you mean! Thanks for explaining. I disagree with you about stamina though. The movement you practice is actually the full movement used in games. Watch Rasmussen's footwork to the front court or round the head - it is actually the full movement except the steps are not covering the full distance. You don't need more steps than he's demonstrating, but they need to be more powerful and cover more distance. From my experience most movements only require one or two steps as shoen in the drill, except that you need to make them quickly! For these reasons I find stamina translates extremely well from this drill to full court movements - far exceeds doing corner shadowing work in my estimation. But that's what works for me - its a great drill I can do at home 5 times a week. I don't need to book a court and practice which is a real blocker for me (time and money).