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The Badminton Handbook is a compact, groundbreaking trainingmanual that gives the reader an overall insight into the world ofbadminton.

The book is a compact training manual that is divided into two parts.

The first part deals with training theory while the second containsbackground information about the sport and its stars, thus givingthe reader an overall insight into the world of badminton.

The Badminton Handbook is groundbreaking in many ways. Itcombines training theory and information about badminton starsby reinforcing basic explanations on badminton technique withtips from the pros.

It not only relates the excitement of this sport with Asian origins,but tells you all you need to know about badminton from A to Z.It is a reliable reference book that readers will want to turn toagain and again.

THE BOOK

THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME BADMINTONBadminton House is the name of the estate of theDukes of Beaufort in the English county ofGloucestershire. The name of the sport is derivedfrom this estate. In some countries the sport has adifferent name though: Bulutangkis (Indonesia),Pluimbal (South Africa), Sulkapallo (Finland),Tollaslabda (Hungary), Federball (former GDR).Early forms of badminton were called Poona(India), Battledore, Shuttlecock, Coquantinand Jeu volant (in 17th and 18th century Europe).

Badminton was invented in the great hall of theBeaufort estate in 1850. Older games with ashuttlecock are also known in Asia and SouthAmerica. The first rules were published by anunknown author in England as the Rules for theNew Games of Tennis and Badminton.

Bernd-Volker Brahms was born in1969. He is a journalist and hasbeen writing about badminton forvarious national and regionalpublications and TV stations since1992. He is an expert on theinternational scene and regularlyattends all the major tournamentslike the Olympic Games, Worldand European Championshipsand the German Open.

THE AUTHOR

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For better readability, we have decided to use the masculine (neutral) form of address, but the

information also refers to women.

This book has been very carefully prepared, but no responsibility is taken for the correctness of the

information it contains. Neither the author nor the publisher can assume liability for any damages or

injuries resulting from information contained in this book.


Bernd-Volker Brahms

Badminton HandbookTraining Tactics Competition

Meyer & Meyer Sport


Badminton HandbookTraining Tactics Competition

Bernd-Volker BrahmsMaidenhead: Meyer & Meyer Sport (UK) Ltd., 2010

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Original title: Handbuch Badminton 2009 by Meyer & Meyer Verlag

Translation by Heather Ross


Contents

1 The Philosophy of the Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2 Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.1 The Racket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

2.2 Stringing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2.3 The Shuttlecock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

2.4 Shoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2.5 Clothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3 Types of Grip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4 The Ready Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

5 The Hitting Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

6 Types of Stroke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

7 The Serve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

8 The Clear (Baseline Shot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

9 The Dropshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

10 The Smash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

11 The Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

12 The Backhand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

13 Net Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

14 Running Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

14.1 The Lunge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

14.2 The Scissors Jump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

14.3 The China Jump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

14.4 The Jump Smash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

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15 Tactics (Singles, Doubles, Mixed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

15.1 Basic Tactical Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

15.2 Singles Tactics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

15.3 Doubles Tactics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

15.4 Mixed Doubles Tactics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

16 Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

16.1 Periodization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

16.2 How to Structure a Training Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

16.3 Performance Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

16.4 Conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

16.5 Mental Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

17 The Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

18 Injury Risk and Prevention (Warm-up) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

19 Technical Jargon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

20 The Rules in Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

21 From the Backyards of Jakarta Report on Badminton in Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

22 Badminton Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

23 Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Useful Addresses and Photo Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176


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