Play Better Badminton Training 4：Upper Limb Endurance Training

How can muscular endurance suitable for badminton be increased?

After introducing Muscular Training—Basic Concepts, we know that endurance can be divided into LIEE and HIEE. How to train to build up the HIEE needed to play badminton? Below are two important points that should be remembered ... <FULL ARTICLE>

Meeting the specific requirements of badminton

‧There should be 10 movements in a set or 20 for those who are relatively fit.

‧The mantra for the exercise is up quick, down slow, down quick, up slow.

‧Rest for a while after each set, and do the next one 1-2 minutes later.

Manta: up quick, down slow

KEY POINTS 

‧Stand straight with legs as wide as the shoulders and knees slightly bent, not

    leaning back or forward.

‧Tuck in the abdomen, keep the elbow slightly bent, and lift the dumbell to eye

    height.

Play Better Badminton Training 3：Basic Endurance Concepts

What is lack of endurance?



Fellow players, do you often find that you run out of steam so can’t perform as well as you might before reaching match point. This is often blamed on lack of lack of fitness but it’s more accurate to say it stems from a lack of endurance.
What do you think when you see the word endurance? Marathon runners and triathletes? You are right in both cases. As the picture shows both these sports require activity over a long period of time so need endurance more than most other sports! However, endurance is still needed for badminton and taekwondo etc.

 Marathon runners really needed muscular endurance training  

(Source: Official website of the 2011 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon)

(http://www.hkmarathon.com/marathon/chi/media/press/press_110222.jsp)

Today, we will introduce everyone to the muscle endurance needed for badminton and training methods so you will be able to compete right to the end of the match... <FULL ARTICLE>

Summary of 2012 China Open Super Series Premier

South Korea has to settle for second in the men’s doubles at the China Open Super Series Premier

South Korea pair Lee Yong Dae / Ko Sung Hyun fell to top seeds, Denmark’s Mogensen/Boe, in straights games in the men’s doubles final at the China Open Super Series Premier, having to make do with the runners-up spot.

Lee Yong Dae was keen to get revenge against the Danes after losing to them at the London Olympics but Lee / Ko went down 15：21 in the first game. After swapping ends, the South Koreans were unable to attack effectively and turn the match around, losing the second game 16：21 and the match 0：2 after having played for 50 minutes finishing in second place... <FULL ARTICLE>

 Lee / Ko  who took second place in the men’s doubles at the China Open Super Series Premier

2012 China Open semi finals - The unstoppable Korean men’s doubles

The unstoppable Korean men’s doubles Ko Sung Hyun / Lee Yong Dae have once again proven that they are a duo to watch out for.  Unseeded in the tournament, they are now making a second finals appearance in back-to-back Superseries tournaments after beating fourth seeded Japanese Hiroyuki Endo / Kenichi Hayakawa 21-16, 21-15 in the semi-finals.  Their last test will be against top seeds Mathias Boe / Carsten Morgensen, who defeated Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong in 21-16, 21-16. .. <FULL ARTICLE>

Ko Sung Hyun /  Lee Yong Dae

2012 China Open quarter finals - No Doubles Luck

Ousted at the start of the day were the recently crowned Olympic champions Cai Yun / Fu Haifeng . Just a few weeks back, the pair had to retire from the first round of Denmark Open due to shoulder injury by Cai Yun. This time, they failed to advance further after suffering defeat from Korea’s new and extremely promising pair Ko Sung Hyun / Lee Yong Dae, who came through in straight games 21-17, 21-16.

Lee Yong Dae 

2012 BWF World Ranking up to November 8

Looking at the BWF world rankings released on November 8, we can see that a quiet revolution is taking place in international badminton. At the Chinese Taipei Open, Denmark Open Premium Super Series and French Open Super Series tournaments a number of new-generation players or new pairings have excelled. The points they have amassed have brought big changes to the world rankings.

The top ranked players in the five disciplines are respectively： Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei in the men’s singles, China’s Wang Yi Han in the women’s singles, Denmark’s Mogensen / Boe in the men’s doubles, China’s Tian Qing / Zhao Yun Lei in the women’s doubles and China’s Xu Zhen / Ma Jin in the mixed doubles. ... <FULL ARTICLE>

Yoo Yeon Seong

Play Better Badminton Training 2：Lower Limb Strength

Increasing muscle strength not only improves physical ability, it also increases a player’s ability to move around the court quickly and deliver powerful smashes. We know that badminton is a “whole body” sport, requiring upper body strength to allow the shuttlecock to be hit powerfully and also requires good lower body muscle strength so we can move around the court quickly using the 6-point footwork.




We all know that the 6-point footwork is one of the basic steps when learning to play badminton and level of mastery of the footwork will affect how good you play. If you don’t have good lower body muscle strength you won’t be able to move freely around the court through the whole match. This article will show you how to do some simple lower body muscle strength training. The weight used can be adjusted to suit the physical level of the individual (dumbbell or water-filled plastic water bottle). We suggest you gradually increase the intensity of training in terms of weight used, number of movements and sets and frequency of sessions to avoid overload and thus make injury less likely.... <FULL ARTICLE>

．KEY POINTS 

．Stand with the feet at pelvis width, take a step forward with the right foot, keep chest out

    and look straight ahead.

．The right knee should not be further forward than the tips of toes and the left knee should

    not touch the floor.

．Slowly bend the right knee and move down into a bow and arrow step posture

WORLD UNIVERSITY CHAMPS Finals – Tai shares wealth, Kim takes two

Kim Ki Jung took two individual titles at the World University Badminton Championships while Tai Tzu Ying finished with silver in doubles to go with her singles gold.

2012 World University Badminton Championships MD winner ： Lee Yong Dae 

Kim Ki Jung lived up to his family name, taking a second and third gold in his final year as a university badminton player.  Kim, whose name just happens to mean gold in Chinese, had contributed one point in the mixed team final victory but found success with both Lee Yong Dae and Kim So Young on finals day of the individual competition.

Early in the men’s doubles final, Kim Ki Jung and Lee Yong Dae again had trouble maintaining any kind of lead over their opponents.  However, they refused to let it go the way of their semi-final and midway through the second game, they finally began to pull away and they maintained their cushion to win 21-18, 21-16.... <FULL ARTICLE>

BITBURGER OPEN Finals – Emerging talent

In the final match of the day, Chou Tien Chen prevented Germany from adding to their collection of titles from this tournament. The first game against Marc Zwiebler was extremely evenly matched and the Chinese Taipei youngster managed to prevail with the score of 21-19. In game 2, Marc seemed to have no answer for Chou’s smashes and thus the youngster won the match convincingly in straight games.... <FULL ARTICLE>

Wallpaper download：Chou Tien Chen 

2012 BWF Juniors：Three different countries claimed the doubles titles

Momota’s heroics followed those of female compatriot, Nozomi Okuhara , who blitzed her team-mate Akane Yamaguchi 21-12 21-9 to take the Women’s Singles crown. Meanwhile, favourite and top seed,Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei, was ousted 21-18 13-21 11-21 in the quarter-finals by China’s Sun Yu....
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2012 Japan Open WS winner：Tai Tzu Ying

Axelsen and Tai Tzu Ying Lead Assault on World Juniors

Meanwhile, competitors in Women’s Singles must have breathed a collective sigh of relief at the realisation that three-time defending champion, Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand, would not be gunning for a fourth straight junior trophy. Though still just 17 years old, she has graduated successfully to the senior ranks and clearly harbours more lofty ambitions now.

 2012 Japan Open WS Winner：Tai Tzu Ying 

In her absence, Tai Tzu Ying looms large as the one to beat – and it should take some doing to oust the top seed. Still riding high from her maiden BWF World Superseries triumph in the Japan Open in September, this 18-year-old must be supremely confident after outclassing senior rivals on various occasions such as China’s superstars, Wang Yihan and Wang Xin ; Saina Nehwal of India; South Korea’s Sung Ji Hyun ; Danish veteran Tine Baun and Eriko Hirose of Japan....<FULL ARTICLE>