Anyone here play badminton?

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Just wondered if anyone played badminton?

I've been playing for a few years and I'm dying to get better at it. Fishing for tips!

Did anyone see it at the weekend. The mens singles final was immense!
 
I used to play a few years ago. The main thing i can remember from training is footwork, every training session we had to do footwork drill for like half of the session. having good footwork helps your game as a whole as you can get to the shuttle quicker and have more time to take your shot and takes a bit of the pressure off.

Also one good thing to improve your shot strength is a powerball(OCUK sell them). They work the muscles in your wrist. Also make sure to use the right string tension for you, many people use higher tensions than needed to look 'hard'.

I also used to browse the forums at badmintoncentral. There are plenty of very experienced guys on there that can be more help than i can.
 
Ye ive been playing since i was 17. I was lucky enough to meet Lin dan at mcdonalds when i went to watch the all england 2010 tournament :D
 
ticklemebougy said:
I used to play a few years ago. The main thing i can remember from training is footwork, every training session we had to do footwork drill for like half of the session. having good footwork helps your game as a whole as you can get to the shuttle quicker and have more time to take your shot and takes a bit of the pressure off.

Also one good thing to improve your shot strength is a powerball(OCUK sell them). They work the muscles in your wrist. Also make sure to use the right string tension for you, many people use higher tensions than needed to look 'hard'.

I also used to browse the forums at badmintoncentral. There are plenty of very experienced guys on there that can be more help than i can.
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I was on there the other day. It's a pretty poorly layed out forum, nothing like here!

Footwork is my major problem. All my shots are fine, it's just I get caught out a lot on my feet and struggle to reach the shuttle.

I have very large legs and it doesn't help either. Most top badminton players are about 3 stone. I'm more built for judo... however, badminton is a hell of a lot more fun!

I really need to find a decent coach.
 
Aye, I've been playing for a few years also, never had any proper coaching as such, however my game has definitely improved from when i first started, seemed to have reached a plateau now though.
Having said that I play singles and doubles and play more for fun and exercise and am happy with my standard as is.
Really is a great game and singles for an hour is tiring!
 
Used to play up to junior national level as a youngster. Started at 11 quit when I was 23. We've been to a few training camps in Denmark to train with the Danes. I've hit with Tine Baun (Tine Rasmussen she was back then) and got to play a set against Morton Frost. He was retired for years and I was pretty good. He never took off his tracksuit and never broke a sweat ... and I never got a point. Also got to hit a few rallies against Ardy Wiranata when he came to our club for a coaching session.

If you're really serious about this, put your racket away for 6 months and work on fitness and footwork only. At a training camp in Denmark we barely got to touch our rackets and they pretty much drove us into the ground with fitness and footwork, day in and out. We played a few matches against what must've been their Z-team and got pasted.

Coaches are good to have but you can do a lot yourself too.
 
regulus said:
Used to play up to junior national level as a youngster. Started at 11 quit when I was 23. We've been to a few training camps in Denmark to train with the Danes. I've hit with Tine Baun (Tine Rasmussen she was back then) and got to play a set against Morton Frost. He was retired for years and I was pretty good. He never took off his tracksuit and never broke a sweat ... and I never got a point. Also got to hit a few rallies against Ardy Wiranata when he came to our club for a coaching session.

If you're really serious about this, put your racket away for 6 months and work on fitness and footwork only. At a training camp in Denmark we barely got to touch our rackets and they pretty much drove us into the ground with fitness and footwork, day in and out. We played a few matches against what must've been their Z-team and got pasted.

Coaches are good to have but you can do a lot yourself too.
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I totally agree with you. Fitness and footwork are 75% of the game. If you don't have either of them, forget it!

I'm struggling with footwork big time, my fitness is alright. I train a lot doing other sports, gym etc. My footwork is terrible though. I have no idea where or what I'm supposed to be doing with it. I've tried some Youtube vidoes etc, however it doesn't help much.

All my shots, drops, smashes, clears, net, lifts, drives etc are all to a reasonable standard. I just always find I'm on the back foot all the time playing catchup with the shuttle. If only I could get to it a little quicker and more efficiently I'd be fine.

Cool story about Denmark!
 
From what I remember in Denmark, and this is going back about 14 years, they had us do shuttle runs until we nearly passed out. Also, try playing singles against a double team. The idea is not to run yourself into oblivion, but to exert enough pressure on your opponent to dictate the rally so that you can hide your weaknesses, in your case, footwork.

Iirc, Poul-Erik Hoyer Larsen (look him up) played the All England MS Final in '95 with a sprained ankle and won. He could barely move and played against the world nr 1 a the time. Dictate the match enough (yes, easier said than done) and your weaknesses don't matter so much.

Also, buy some ankle weights from Amazon and train with them. Makes your legs much stronger and increases your speed.

And keep at it. Watching training videos is one thing, but honing your skills is going to take years. Badminton is stupidly deceptive like that. It looks so easy, but it's incredibly hard to master.
 
Instead of creating a new thread, I thought I'd just necro this one. :)

There must be more badminton players around this forum?!

Atm, I play for my uni in the local league and because we have quite a few players in the squad we have to wait ages for a game! I've only played one game since start of October and we've had a game most weeks (although the first few games the captain/vice-captain played them).

Plus we don't get any coaching.. The 1st and 2nd team do, but not us :( We just play games for practise and we only get a 3 hour session a week :( But because the home games are during our session time, for a lot of the time we only have 1 court (instead of 3) for the first 1.5 hours or so. But apparently this term there are less games, so the captain said we'll do some drills :) But I do usually play 1/2 more times a week on top of that.
 
SpeedFreak is a badminton player as well I believe.

I play once a week normally with a club through work, it's not just limited to where I work though as there's a variety of people from all over and a good mix of abilities. It's always doubles though which is good in some ways but in other ways I prefer to play singles so it's more down to me whether I do well or badly. I do try and take up the coaching once a month too which is usually interesting but really hard to adapt my game to - the usual result is I might play part of a shot a bit better but also breaking the unconscious compensating action that allowed the rest of my game to work reasonably well. :D
 
Used to play an awful lot, had a year of coaching from a GB squad coach (admittedly through contacts rather than ability). Had a great level of fitness, good footwork, and good technique massively let down by my backhand which I've never been able to develop into anything useful.

I figure badminton is something I'll return too, and hopefully still remember how to play ;).
 
I played at county level when I was young. Found my raquets the other day having a clear out and fancy getting back into it :)
 
I play but don;t take it too serious. Usually just 3 of us so we play 2v1 and swap it about. Great fun being the one.

I'm rubbish with smashes though, I just close my eyes and turn my head instinctively and it's quite hard to fight it.
 
I used to play at county level when i was a lot younger and quite a high league standard until about a year and a half ago when i ruptured my ACL when i landed funny jumping backwards for a smash. Love the game but i cant unfortunately play due to the injury.

Footwork is definitely very important to be efficient as possible, even more so in singles. In doubles is all about communicating working well together as a team.

The most important thing is have fun. Have a look on badminton england to see if there are any clubs or social groups that are close to you
 
I have been playing every Thursday for the past year, used to do it when I was younger.

We play mixed doubles which is great fun :)
 
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