Dear Colleague Currently i am doing some tests in badminton e.g. physical, technical but i have difficulty in assessing tests on badminton aptitute. anybody knows or has ideas how to assess one's included scoring? thanks for your sharing, i'll appreciate it you may reply to: basriyusuf@gmail.com yours faithfully Basri Yusuf
hmm... i really don't know if there are any sort of tests to measure badminton aptitude specifically. However I do know that they use certain regular motor tests that measure agility, speed, reaction time, as well as smashing speed to come up with a general badminton aptitude figure (or score) in the profesional world. Some of the tests are the side to side court sprint (where some shuttles are placed in a side of the badminton court while the subject is standing on the opposing side... When the test begins, subject is supposed to sprint and grab a shuttle and run back to where he is originally and repeat until all the shuttles are at his starting point... then he may be allowed to collapse in exhaustion, haha) Then there is that crazyyyyyyy test where 6 shuttles are placed on their sides the outer sidelines of a half court (2 at the furthest corners at the back, 2 on the outer line of the sides, and 2 on the furthest front of the half court underneath the net)... subject stands in the middle and when time starts, subject is supposed to run to a shuttle and put them on upright position and return to center by using CORRECT BADMINTON STEPS (not sprinting wildly). do so for all 6 of them... and if you're plain evil, put 12 instead of 6... 2 on each location i mention above... but trust me... regular dudes will be puking after 2 sets
I have do ne this numerous times. Regular don'ts don't puke if they have the will power to master the footwork. My coach makes me do numerous sets every so often.
Haha I was just kidding... It was a figure of speech... I meant to say it is a really tiring exercise... I should have been more careful using the "regular dudes" term... What I meant was average dudes, not people who are regularly playing badminton... But I think everybody would think side stepping and lunging 24 times to the different corners of the badminton court a preety tiring exercise
Dear Basri, It was a pleasure meeting you at Mr.Bakar's place last weekend. I chanced across this posting of yours - not sure if you have already sorted this one out. Nevertheless, it should be possible to design an aptitude measurement / assessment instrument for badminton along the lines of a personality / aptitude assessment used in job selection process. I think the key is: do we know what metrics are key. If you have a set of metrics identified, i can put you across some friends of mine in the industry who specialise in assessment instrument design/development. Best regards, Arun
Welcome to BC, Basri_Yusuf For those not in the know, he is a top-notch coach and a pro player. He was a very prominent member of Indonesia's Thomas Cup squad.