Introduction

Chapter I Brief history and background of badminton

Introduction
Nowadays, badminton is an addiction that has gone beyond Philippine shores and holds in its grip of Filipino communities. Its amazing how badminton has grown in the past few years and its growth is most obviously seen in the large number of badminton courts not only in the National Capital Region, but also in other places in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. What really amazing is that only few years ago, not many Filipinos recognized badminton as real sports.

Badminton is lightly expensive sport. But, for the beginners, you just need a racket and a place to play. Families can troop together and play, regardless of age or gender. It is highly integrative sports together, family, friends, business, and community. But to play the game well or to play competitive badminton, one required a certain level of skills and sound basic knowhow to do so.

CHAPTER I BRIEF HISTORY Badminton evolved from a Chinese game of the 5th Century B.C. called ti jian zi that involved kicking the shuttle. A later version of the sport with rackets rather than with feet was played in ancient Greece and India. A similar game called Shuttlecock and Battledore, or jeu de Volant appeared in Europe during the 1600s.

Modern badminton began as Poona in India. It was a cooperative game in which players worked together the Bird in the air for as long they could by children in India. Siam in Japan. When a net was added it become a competitive called Poona.

British army officers stationed in India adopted Poona in the 1800s and took it back to England. The army men introduced the game to friends, but new sports was definitely launched there at a party given in 1873 by the Duke of Beuafort at his country place; Badminton Gloucestershire.

During that time, the name Badminton was attributed to Duke of Beaufort and there upon, Badminton became its official name, and four years later Badmintons popularity soon spread beyond Britain to the rest of the Europe and countries, and the Bath Badminton Club was founded and wrote the first written rules of the game. This version forms the basis for todays game.