Badminton Day 8 - Badminton Tips - Footwork Part 1 (Front)

(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 1 (Front)

https://youtu.be/IIYhSdzYb7M

00:00 Earlier in the video I did a warm-up exercise with my leg movement and that

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is the movement for the footwork. Right now I'm going to go deeper into

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the footwork, where I'm going to talk a little bit about how to go to the front,

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how would you go to the side of the court and how do you go to the back of the court.

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There's no one fixed footwork that you can use. There's so many different types

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and I like you to see every one of them that I know and try to incorporate all

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of them according to what shots you want to go for and what shots you want to hit.

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I start off with going to the front, to my front forehand corner. If I were to

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use two steps, I would start off with my right leg coming across forward, right

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leg forward, one, two. My racket is there to hit the shot. Going back, left, right.

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Once again, right left, left right. That is the two step footwork. Then you have to

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shuffle which is called a sashay, which you start off with, shuffling up,

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shuffling back. Shuffling up, shuffling back. That's the second footwork of

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going to the forehand. Now you have the third footwork, which you might see, where

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instead of crossing to the front, I'll be crossing to the back, and then my

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leg will step forward. Right to the back, left to the front, come back. So that's

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the third footwork that we have. Just to show you how it looks like:

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first one cross front, come back. Shuffle, shuffle back. Cross back, come back.

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What's the difference? The steps footwork will save some energy , will let you be in control.

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The shuffle would get you more speed so you have a more of an

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aggressive movement to the forehand. When it comes to the backhand, you have the

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same concept with the two steps. Just because I'm a lefty I always start off

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from my right leg going forward. Right leg, left leg,

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come back. Right leg, left leg, come back. So that's the two steps. If I want to do

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the shuffle, I would start off with my left leg. Shuffle in, shuffle back.

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Left leg step forward, shuffle and come back. So that is the backhand.

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On the footwork between using two steps and using the shuffle.