Badminton specific training (2) - Lifts

Hello everyone, I'm Coach Lee. Today I will teach you how to hit deep lifts.

When an opponent hits a drop shot really close to the net we can play a lift to make time for the defensive formation to be adjusted.

However, if a lift lacks depth we will expose ourselves to danger, it is thus necessary for everyone to practice lifts.......Full Article

The forerunner of badminton- battledore and shuttlecock

2000 year old battledore and shuttlecock was the forerunner of badminton

There are many theories about the origin of badminton. Sport historians speculate that badminton originated from battledore and shuttlecock, a game that is about 2000 years old and originated in Ancient Greece. The game involved hitting a feathered projectile like a shuttlecock backwards and forwards with a wooden bat. The ancient Greeks turned the wooden bat into a wooden frame with sheep skin in the middle;the elasticity of the leather made the shuttlecock easier to hit. This game spread eastwards and reached Siam, China and Japan etc from India.The bats were solid wood, had lather inside a wooden frame or were stringed. People are depicted using a bat to hit a shuttlecock or featherball in many ancient paintings of East and West. These types of games were collectively referred to as battledore and shuttlecock. These multifarious images illustrate the ancient origins of badminton.......Full Article

How did badminton go from being an ancient feather ball sport to be an Olympic event?

An embryonic form of modern badminton appeared in India in the mid-19th Century

A photograph taken in Madras around 1870 illustrates the source of modern badminton. In the photo, several British men are playing “badminton.” They are hitting a shuttlecock across a net, the net differentiating the new sport from the traditional game battledore and shuttlecock. This new sport first appeared in Poona in the west of India and was thus named “Poona”, badminton’s first name. The British military took the sport back to the UK and held a public demonstration at Badminton House in 1873, attracting a lot of attention. From this time badminton gradually developed and became known as “badminton.”

Badminton gradually became internationalized in the early 20th Century

In the 30 years from 1873 badminton developed into a competitive indoor sport and clubs were set up across the UK. In the early days, the sport followed the unwritten rules of its Indian era, however, in 1887, Bath Badminton Club completed......Full Article

Badminton specific training (1) - Clears

Hello everyone, I'm Coach Lee. Today I will teach you how to hit high and long clears!

If a  clear isn't deep enough you may give your opponent an opportunity to attack, increasing the difficulty of defending. This means it's important to practice  clears so the shot is no longer, a weakness it becomes a "weapon."......Training Video

Fastest speed in ball/racket sports

Indonesia XD player - Tontowi Ahmad

Those who aren’t familiar with badminton often have a delicate “With silken fan I flick the fireflies sailing by” kind of feeling about the sport, unlike tennis in which players repeatedly hit two handed shots with a big racket from the baseline while giving out a loud grunt; badminton players rarely roar when they hit the shuttlecock even when they jump up for a smash however, badminton is actually the fastest recorded ball/racket sport in the world. According to the Guinness Book of Records, in terms of shuttlecock speed recorded in an actual match, Fu Hai Feng’s 332 kmh smash at the 2005 Surdiman Cup was the fastest speed ever recorded in any ball/racket sport.......Full Article

With 35% improvement in Cushioning Effect, the SH-P9100 makes an eye-catching debut

The top shoe in the VICTOR SUPPORT series, the SH-P9100

Following the SH9000ACE equipped with the TRINETIC system in 2012, Victor has now brought out a totally upgraded new shoe in the SUPPORT series. The SH-P9100 not only features TRINETIC 2.0, the sole has the newly developed high elasticity material ENERGY MAX3.0. It is certain that VICTOR fans will be waiting to try out these excellent new shoes for themselves. Now let’s find out about VICTOR’s new SH-P9100 that will be the focus of promotional efforts in spring and summer.......Full Article

The workplace is like a match, mental strength decides who wins!

On the sports field it is often the athletes who perform best who attract attention. As well as being ahead of others in terms of skill, their continuing success depends on stable performance, focus and self-confidence. If they don’t have these things, even if they have exceptional physical capability or ability, they will find it hard to achieve regular success in competition.

How self confident are you?

As well as an athlete’s own ability, mental strength has become one of the main indicators that people use to determine whether an athlete will win a match in recent years.Ho Fei-peng, founder of Business Weekly, said: “Mental strength often refers to a person’s healthy, positive outlook, a calm, experienced and steady way of doing things, and ability to control emotions when treated unfairly or in pressure situations.” How, then, can mental strength be trained in everyday training?......Full Article

BWF Rankings－released on March 20, 2014

According to the latest BWF world rankings, the top ranked players in the five disciplines are, respectively: Men’s singles: Lee Chong Wei (Malaysia); women’s singles: Li Xue Rui (China,) men’s doubles: Ahsan／Setiawan (Indonesia); women’s double: Wang Xiao Li／Yu Yang; mixed doubles: Zhang Nan／Zhao Yun Lei (China).

	Men's Single	Women's Single	Men's Doubles	Women's Doubles	Mixed Doubles
1	Lee Chong Wei	Li Xuerui	Hendra Setiawan Mohammed Ahsan	Wan Xiaoli Yu Yang (F)	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2	Chen Long	Wang Yihan	Hiroyuki Endo Kenichi Hayakawa	Kamilla Rytter Juhl Chdrinstinna Pedersen	Tontowi Ahmad Liliyana Natsir
3	Kenichi Tago	Wang Shixian	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	Bao Yixin TANG Jinhua	Xu Chen Ma Jin
4	Tommy Sugiarto	Ratchanok Intanon	Kim Ki Jung Kim Sa Rang	Misaki Matsutomo Ayaka Takahasi	Nielsen Pedersen
5	Jan O Jorgensen	Bae Yeon Ju	Ko Sung Hyun Lee Yong Dae	Jang Ye Na So Young Kim	Chris Adcock Gabrielle Adcock
6	Boonsak Ponsana	Sung Jy Hyun	Liu Xiaolong Qiu Zihan	Bernadeth Pradipta	Ko Sung Hyun Kim Ha Na
7	Wang Zhengming	Tai Tzu Ying	Angga Pratama Ryan Saptura	Reika Kakiiwa Miyuki Maeda	Peng Soon Chan Liu Ying Goh
8	Du Pengyu	Saina Nehwal	Thien How Hoon Wee Kiong Tan	Ma Jin Tang Jinhua	Sudket Saralee
9	SON Wan Ho	P. V. Sindhu	Lee Sheng Mu Tsai Chia Hsin	Maheswari Polii	Kido Benadteh
10	Tien Minh Nguyen	Porntip	Kien Keat Koo Boon Heong Tan	TIAN Qing CHNZHAO Yunlei	Praveen Jordan Vita Marissa
	#25 Chou Tien Chen	#29 Pai Hsiao Ma	#12 Lee Yong Dae Yoo Yeon Seong	#11 Jung Kyung Eun Kim Ha Na	#14 Shin Baek Choel Jang Ye Na
				#13 Ko A Ra Yoo Hae Won
				#17 Lee So Hee Shing Seung Chan

Check full ranking at : BWF World Ranking

“Badminton king” worthy of the name

Lee Chong Wei has reigned supreme atop the men’s singles world rankings for a long while and he consolidated his rule when he picked up the title at the All England Super Series Premier in the first week of March;this was the third time he has won the title and it did not come easy.......Full Article