Badminton Study Guide
Serving
- In badminton serves must be diagonal.
- In doubles badminton only the player being served to may return it.
- You must contact the birdie under your waist for a legal serve.
- You serve on the right if your score is even.
- You serve on the left if you score is odd.
- After the serve anyone can hit the birdie.
- The birdie must land past the “service line” to be legal.
- The server in badminton must be inside their “box”.
- In double badminton, the first team to serve may only have one player serve. After that team serves a second time, both players get to serve.
Hits
- Drop shots are short shots that just clear the net.
- Drop shots are used when the opponent is playing back.
- Clear shots are shots hit to the back court.
- Clear shots are used when the opponent is playing up.
- Drop shots and Clear shots can be overhead or underhand.
- When performing overhead clear shots the birdie is contacted directly overhead.
- When performing overhead drop shots the birdie is contacted directly overhead.
- The smash is a shot that is hit hard overhead.
- When performing the smash the birdie is contacted in front of your forward foot in order to insure the birdie lands in the boundaries of the court.
Other
- Hitting the birdie back and forth over the net is called a rally.
- In badminton each team may only hit the birdie once before returning it to the opposite team.
- In badminton, rally scoring is used. That means there is a point scored on every serve.
- In badminton, racquets may not break the plane of the net, nor can anyone touch the net. Both are violations that result in a point for the opposite team.
- When gripping the badminton racquet, you use a “hand shake grip”.