BADMINTON

ABOUT BADMINTON
Made for television radar guns instantly flash the speed of serves, volleys and pitches to the
sporting public around the world these days, but few viewers could name the fatser racket sport.
The little belongs to BADMINTON.
The flight of the shuttlecock, a missile of cork and goose feather that players volley across the
net, has been recorded at speeds of 260 kilometers per hour. Speed, agility and lightening fats
reflexes are essential to the game. Add stamina, too players have been known to cover more than
six kilometers in a single match.
While contemporary badminton first appeared in the mid-19th century, it evolved from the game
battledore and shuttlecock, which can be traced back to ancient Greece, China, Japan and India.
Especially popular in Asia and Europe today, badminton became a full competition sport at the
Olympic Games in 1992.
Badminton History
Before badminton house, there was poona. Before poona, there was jeu e Volant.
Before that battledore and shuttlecock, and before that, Ti Jian Zi, its not easy tracking the
ancestry of the sport now known as badminton.
As far back at the 5th century B.C, the Chinese were playing Ti Jian Zi or shuttle kicking,
a game played with the feet. The shuttlecock that arose about five centuries later in China, Japan,
India and Greece. The battledores were the early visions of todays racquets. By the 1600s,
battledore and shuttlecock had developed into popular childrens game. It soon became a favorite
pastime of nobles and the leisured classes of many European countries, becoming known as jeu
de Volnt on the continent.
In India, game closer to badminton, poona had developed by the mid-19th century. While British
army officers stationed there were learning the game, the Duke of Beaufort was introduced it ot
royal society at his century estate. Badminton House in Gloucestershire England. Within four
years, the Bath Badminton Club had formed, and new version of the game played there laid the
basis of todays rules.
Olympic History
Badminton was contested as demonstration sport during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. It
debuted as a full medal sport in 1992 at Barcelona. Men and women compete at the Olympics in
both singles and doubles, and the events have been by Indonesia, China and Korea.
Badminton Rules Summary
A badminton match comprises the best of three games. A coin is tossed before the first game and
the winner of the toss may serve first or pick an end of the court. In classic scoring format, only
the serving side can score and the winning team needs 15 points in doubles and mens singles or
11 womens singles, in the new Rally Point scoring format that just recently adopted abd used for
major tournaments, whoever won the rally scores a point and the winning team needs 21 points
to win the match.
Badminton Court and Equipment
1. The court shall be a rectangle marked out with lines 40mm wide.
2. The lines marking out the court shall be easily distinguishable and preferably be colored
white or yellow.
3. All the lines shall from part of the are which they define,

4. The post shall be 1.55 meters in height from the surfaces of the and shall remain vertical
when the net is strained. The posts or its support shall not extend into the court.
5. The posts shall be placed on the doubles side lines as in Diagram an irrespective of
whether singles or doubles is being played.
6. The net shall be made of fine cord of dark color and even thickness with a mesh of not
less than 15mm and not more than 20mm.
7. The net shall be 760mm in depth and at least 6.11 meters wide.
8. The top of the net shall be edged with a 75mm white tape doubled over a cord r cable
running through the tape. This tape shall rest upon the cord or cable.
9. The cord or cable shall be stretched firmly, flushed with the top of the posts.
10. The top of the net form the surface of the court shall be 1.524 meters at the center of the
court and 1.55 meters over the side lines for doubles.
11. There shall be no gaps between the ends of the net and the posts. If necessary, the full
depth of the net at the ends shall tied to the posts.
Terminology
1. Ace- a fair than an opponent in unable to hit.
2. All-a tie score for example: a score of all 9 means that each side has nine points.
3. Alley (side) the oblong area on both sides of the court bounded by the singles and
doubles side boundary lines.
4. Back boundary lines these lines 2 feet apart and are found at the ends of the court.
The outer line designates the playing area for both singles and doubles line doubles plays
only.
5. Backcourt the half of the playing area that is farther away from the net.
6. Bird- shuttle or shuttlecock. The object that is struck by the players.
7. Dead Bird any bird that is out of play because it hits the floor or an obstacle.
8. Down a side fails to score a point when it has the serve,
9. Drop to hit the bird in such fashion that it just reaches your opponents side of the net
and then quickly loses momentum and falls rapidly.
10. Face to Racket the striking surface of the racket usually made of gut or nylon. The face
is open if the racket handle is held so that the face is upward, closed if the face is toward
the ground, normal if the face is perpendicular to the ground.
11. Fault an infraction of the rule resulting in loss of point if committed by the receiver.
12. Hairpin (net) stroke a bird barely crossing over the net and falling on the other side,
resembling hairpin.
13. Hand out the losses serve, to either your partner or the other side.
14. In play as soon as the bird is hit legally during the service.
15. In side the side that has the service.
16. Inning a sides complete turn of serving.
17. Kill a placement shot at the opponent is unable to return
18. Let an unforeseen hindrance that interferes with play. No penalty. A point is replayed.
19. Lob to pop the shuttle back behind your opponent.
20. Love no points. A score of love-7 means that I (the server) have no point may
opponents have 7.
21. Love all the score of the game has been set.
22. Short Serve (soft serve) a service that just clears the net and just reaches the short
service line.
23. Sling also called throw the shuttle is not hit distinctly but carried on the racket. It is
fault.
24. Smash to strike the bird very sharply in downward trajectory.
25. Toss to commence play, side spins racket or flip coin.
26. Toss serve a method of serving in which the bird is thrown out in front and slightly to
the side of the body.
FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

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Court
Post
Net
Shuttlecock
Racquet

GRIP
1. Forehand
2. Backhand
SERVICE
1. Forehand serve
2. Backhand serve