(5 min) Warm up 

(5 - 10 min) Initial Information by a teacher

(30 min) Team Practice and Formal Competitions 

(5 min) Closure 

(5 min) Warm up 

(5 - 10 min) Initial Information by a teacher

(30 min) Team Practice and Formal Competitions 

(5 min) Closure 

(5 min) Warm up 

(5 - 10 min) Initial Information by a teacher

(30 min) Team Practice and Formal Competitions 

(5 min) Closure 

(5 min) Warm up 

(40 min) Skill Pre-Test

(5 min) Closure 

Clear Shot Cues

1. Move and get behind the shuttle.

2. Raise your Racquet Arm and Non-Racquet Arm.

3. Body face sideways with your feet pointing slightly sideways.

4. Stretch your Racquet Arm to as far back as possible. Stretch out your Non-racquet Arm. 

5. Take the shuttle at the Highest Point possible.

6. Full Arm Swing. Follow through with your swing after hitting the shuttle.

7. Shuffle your Racquet Foot forward as you swing your racquet forward.

8. After hitting your stroke, your body should face forward.

Poole Forehand Overhead Clear Test (French, Werner, Rink, Taylor, & Hussey, 1996). The performer stands on the X spot with his/her foot (right-handed - right foot, left-handed – left foot) and will receive a shuttle from a trained tester to hit it back over the net to the deepest corner of the court. When the performer hit shuttles, the tester will stand at point ‘X’ with holding a racquet overhead. The performer will hit a shuttle with an overhead forehand clear over the tester’s racquet. The tester will call out if the shuttle does not pass over the tester’s racquet. The performer will hit shuttles twenty times and the scores will be totaled for the clear test score. The maximum score will be 60 points.

https://youtu.be/O1xrZ8zSUN4

(5 min) Warm up 

(5 - 10 min) Initial Information by a teacher

(30 min) Team Practice and Formal Competitions 

(5 min) Closure 

Badminton Tips - Footwork Part 3 (Back)

https://youtu.be/Qq5c_gR6dAc

00:00 Now going to the back, I am going to start off with a shuffle going back to my forehand corner.

00:05

Racquet up, move sideways, hit, come back forward to the middle.

00:10

Once again, side shuffle, hit, come back to the front.

00:15

You notice when I finish hitting I did a scissors kick, my body weight is coming forward after I contact.

00:21

So that is the shuffle. The next one I have is, I can use the footwork which I can go across this way and hit.

00:30

Notice my right leg cross to the front, left leg step, hit. I am coming back forward again.

00:35

So that is the two step with a cross front.

00:38

I can use the cross back as well. If my right leg crosses to the back, step, hit.

00:45

The important thing is my racquet leg, which is my left leg ends up at the back.

00:51

And that will always be the case, whether I where I start from the back,

00:55

my left leg ends at the back, hit , come forward.

00:59

When I cross to the front, my left leg lands to the back, hit, come forward.

01:04

When I shuffle, my left leg ends in the back, hit and come forward.

01:10

So going to the forehand corner, you have three different ways of going to the shot.

01:15

Which one you wanna use is up to you. Which one you feel more comfortable. Which one you feel faster going to the shot.

01:23

Shuffle is always faster, but it gets you more tired.

01:27

Using your footwork you save some energy and you are in control of your body movement.

01:33

The backhand side, you have two ways of going to the backhand.

01:39

Either you use your overhead or you use your backhand.

01:43

For the overhead, there are so many different ways of going to the backhand, even for the forehand.

01:49

I am just going to show you every one of them and then you have to decide which one you want to use best.

01:53

I will start off with the shuffle. My right leg would takeoff.

01:58

When I get to where I wanted to be, my left leg would turn, that becomes my overhead and then I can hop back.

02:05

Once again, right leg take off, left leg turns back, overhead hit, come back here.

02:12

So that is for my overhead.

02:15

The other way of going to the overhead is I can turn right away, and shuffle back, and hit and come back.

02:22

Once again, turn, shuffle all the way, hit, come back.

02:28

So that is another way of going to my overhead.

02:48

When it comes to the backhand, I would still lead with my right leg.

02:52

Shuffle, turn my left leg, hit, come back and that is my backhand shot.

02:58

Let me show you again. My right leg leads, left leg crosses to the front, hit, come back forward.

03:05

Notice my body momentum is following with how the bird travels.

03:10

So that is one way of going to the backhand. There is so many ways that I can do that.

03:16

The other way I'm going to show you is, just turn right away and just run there.

03:21

I will just turn right away and start running there.

03:25

So that is another way of getting to the shot, to the backhand.

03:30

So the important thing to remember is always end up with your racquet leg.

03:34

In this instance I am a lefty, so I always end up with my left leg.

03:38

And once I position with my left leg, I will always be in a good position to hit the shot and come back into the position.