Just starting to play ?

Hi athletes,



If you are starting to learn how to play badminton, this is the right track for you. You must be very lucky to stumble onto this site.

It is so because :

1) You don't need to pay for a coach

2) You start on the clean right track without any marketing involve

3) You will have all the knowledge you can have to become a promising athlete

4) You will not be expose to quackie coaches which can lead you to frustrations and nowhere

5) You don't need to buy any e book from the net

6) You don't have to pay for the questions you ask, cos if you do then when the paying stops the answers will also.



All you need to do is to be patience, read, absorb and understand it. After which put to practice and feedback to me on how you perform, feel, understand and ask what ever you encounter doing the practices and drills in this site.



Let's get down to business :



Question is shall we start to learn the footwork first, racket grip or striking technique ?



As a trainer I will tell you this, the racket grip is the first thing to learn. Y ?



People want to learn badminton because they LIKE to strike the bird with the racket. That's simple and logical you see. So to do that, first you must know how to grip the racket to produce power, accuracy, multiple angles of deliveries and different angles of engagments..



Basic principles to remember:



1) Your grip must not be too hard as it will kill the power delivered.

2) Your grip must not be too hard also cos you will not be able to change your next selected grip smoothly.



Different types of grips :



If coaches tells you that you are not ready to learn all the different types of grips in the first encounter in this sports, this is BULLSHIT. Y ?



You see as for a beginner, it is good to learn all of it the first time as it is inter-related to each other. Without learning all at 1 go you will be lost during the engagements and you WILL COMPROMISE to engage it in another way.



This is serious because you have just pick up a new BAD movement pattern.



The grip :

1) Getting into the hand shake, put the racket handle with the racket face parallel to your palm.

2) Ensure that most of your palm area surface is getting the contact of the handle. (max. feeling and control)

3) Gently wrap your last 3 fingers onto the handle.

4) Slide your index finger round the upper handle

5) Put your thumb close to your middle finger so that there is no opening for the racket to fall out during the delivery.

6) Move/flex your wrist foreward and backward, ensure that the angle of movement is to it's maximum. By doing this you will not be able to apply heavy gripping onto the handle.



Self check :

1) Hold your racket with the face upwards, maintain your current grip applied.

2) Use the other hand to pull your racket up, away from your current grip without loosening your current grip.

3) If you are able to do so then your grip applied is just nice.

4) If you cannot then your grip is a little too hard.

5) Your lower arm muscle should not be tense.

6) By flexing your wrist forward, your racket handle tip must not hit onto your lower arm just after the wrist. If this is so it will restrict your forward angle.



Why is the application of the grip so important ?



In logically sense ; if the grip is too hard your suprinators and the pronators of the lower arm will be tense. This will result to stiff wrist. In badminton wrist action is like 99%.

So the more flexible your wrist is the greater the angle and also the higher the velocity is been delivered thus result in increases in shuttle speed.



We will get to the types of grip after my break.



Until then understand your grip and practice it out of the court.



Trainedtotrain