Badminton

• Active recreation


  An activity or leisure, leisure being discretionary time
• The need to do something for recreation is an essential element of human biology and psychology
• Active recreation


  • Often done for enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure and are considered to be fun
• Badminton


  A racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net
• Badminton was invented

  Ancient Greece and Egypt
• Battledore


  The original name for badminton
• The game was called poona in India in the 18th century

• British army officers stationed in India took badminton back to England

  1860s
• Badminton equipment

  • Racquets
  • Shuttlecock
  • Court
• Racquets


  • Lightweight, composed of 3 parts: the grip/handle, shaft/body and head. Made out of carbon fiber composite to solid steel
• Shuttlecock


  • A high-drag projectile with an open conical shape. The con is formed from sixteen overlapping feathers embedded into a round cork base
• Court


  • Rectangular in shape and divided into halves by a net
• Badminton basic skills

  1. Service - when serving, the shuttlecock must pass over the short service line on the opposite's court or it will count as fault

  2. Strokes - all badminton strokes can be played either forehand or backhand

  3. A player's forehand is the same side as their playing hand

  4. The backhand side is the left hand side for a right handed player or a right hand side for the left handed player