Badminton Central

Problem: So lately I’ve been playing singles quite a bit and there were situations where I was late to the shuttle and was forced to play a backhand clear which wasn’t full length and my opponent had the opportunity to smash it and chose to smash cross court. Normally I can reach ...

From   https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/cpa/article/view/2233 BIOMECHANICAL PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO BADMINTON POWER STROKES David B. Waddell and Barbara A. Gowitzke1 Bryson Sport Consultants, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada 1McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada The purpose of the present paper ...

The smash is the most direct and lethal way to gain a point when playing badminton. The smash also is a stroke that places the greatest demand in terms of physical requirement and mental precision. It is surely frustrating that, while you’ve given all your effort to ensure that you can ...

There is an PhD study (in German) on the first 5 in int’l doubles finals from the 1990s , the candidate analysed over 40+ unique 5-shot-sequences and has published an interactive CD-ROM. Based on his findings and combined with “game theory”, the sequence is A-B-A-B-A (with A ...

Unless you are a professional player playing in a major tournament where there are volunteers armed with mops ready to wipe the floor for you, likely you will have encountered dusty badminton courts. Dust is not only slippery but dangerous as slipping can easily cause injury. Here we describe a ...

here is my advice if you want to improve your game. unless you are using an old steel racket with fishing lines, buying a new racket will do you little good. perhaps you will get a small margin of improvement, but it will not give you that edge that you are looking for, and by […]

  In my last two articles, I explained what I think are the right ways to train to become a world class player. I have not gone into detail of how hard you should train. Before we go on to what champions think and feel about training, I would like to share with you my […]

CONTINUING from where we left off last week, I would now like to show you how to apply the training guideline to the second category of training on shadow badminton, multiple shuttle drill and stroke refinement. Let us first take shadow badminton. Quite often I see players doing shadow ...

In singles, there are three main styles or patterns of play. They are: 1. The fast attacking style Here most of the shots played are smashes, fast drop shots and net shots, attacking lobs, more low services than high services, quick low pushes/flicks to the backcourt from the net, and fast ...

I will attempt to relate to those interested the importance of mental toughness through personal experience in the past season. I feel that over the past year, I have improved in many areas of my game. However, I believe that the best improvement in my game was my mental game. Whereas I used to ...