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Badminton Tactical Skills for Beginners

This document provides lessons on badminton tactics focused on creating space on the court. Lesson one teaches using the overhead clear shot to push opponents back, making it harder for them to attack. It involves drills where players score by hitting shots to the back of their opponent's court. Lesson two teaches using high serves that land in the back of the opponent's court to put them on the defensive at the start of each point. Drills involve practicing accurate high serves to the backhand side of opponents. The overall goal is to control space on the court through tactical shot placement that makes it difficult for opponents to attack.

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Badminton Tactical Skills for Beginners

This document provides lessons on badminton tactics focused on creating space on the court. Lesson one teaches using the overhead clear shot to push opponents back, making it harder for them to attack. It involves drills where players score by hitting shots to the back of their opponent's court. Lesson two teaches using high serves that land in the back of the opponent's court to put them on the defensive at the start of each point. Drills involve practicing accurate high serves to the backhand side of opponents. The overall goal is to control space on the court through tactical shot placement that makes it difficult for opponents to attack.

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Badminton Tactical Lessons

Lesson One Level One


Tactical Problem: Creating Space
Lesson Focus: Pushing the opponent back and performing the overhead clear
Objectives:
• Understand the value of forcing the opponent back.
• Push the opponent back using the overhead clear (forehand).

Game 1 Half-court singles

Goals
• Be aware of what spaces can be used on the other side of the net.
• Understand that it is harder to attack from the back of the court, and so it
is useful to push the opponent back.
Conditions
• Players alternate service.
• Players score 1 point if the shuttle hits the floor on the opponent’s side of
the court.
• Players score on every service (not only when serving).
Questions
Q: Where are the available spaces on the court?
A: In the front and back.

Q: Is it harder for your opponent to attack you from the front or the back?
A: Back

Q: Why?
A: Because the opponent is farther from the net.

Q: So, is it best to send your opponent to the back or ot the front?


A: Back.

Q: Is it easier to send your opponent back by using an overhead or underhand


shot?
A: Overhead.

Extension
Setup Half-court singles

Goals
• Understand that more power can be generated form overhead shots.
• Play only overhead shots.
• Push the opponent back.
Condition Players use only overhead shots after the serve.
Practice Task
Setup Half-court technique practice (cooperative)
Goal Push the opponent back.
Conditions
• Players attempt to maintain a forehand overhead rally.
• Players hand-feed if necessary.
Cues
• Get under the shuttle, using long strides.
• Line up the shuttle with the nonhitting arm.
• Break the elbow.
• Step into the shot.
• Use a throwing action to contact the shuttle with the racket head.
• Snap the wrist and follow through across the body.
Game 2

Setup Half-court singles


Goal Use a skillful overhead clear to push the opponent back in a game
situation.
Conditions
• Players alternate service.
• Players score 1 point if the shuttle hits the floor on the opponent’s side of
the court.
• Players can score on any service (not only when serving).

Lesson 2 Level Two

Tactical Problem: Creating Space


Lesson Focus: Starting the point on the attack
Objective: Use the high service to put the opponent on the defensive at the start
of a point.

Game 1

Setup: Half-court Singles


Goal: push the opponent back with service.
Condition: Players alternate service

Questions

Q: Where is the best place to serve to in the singles game?


A: To the back of the opponent’s court.

Q: Why?
A: Because serving there puts the opponent on the defensive

Practice Task:
Setup: Half-court technique practice
Goals
• Serve high and to the opponent’s backhand side.
• Land a specific number of shots in the back alley.

Condition: Players alternate serving (no rallying).

Cues
• Drop the shuttle.
• Flick your wrist.
• Follow through.
• Land the shuttle as close to the baseline as possible.
Game 2
• Repeat game 1.

Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach for Ages 7 to 18
Third Edition (Includes DVD-ROM with video and Reproducible Forms)
Stephen A. Mitchell, Judith L. Oslin, Linda L. Griffin

Badminton Tactical Lessons Lesson One Level One Tactical Problem: Creating Space Lesson Focus: Pushing the opponent back an
Setup Half-court technique practice (cooperative) Goal Push the opponent back. Conditions • Players attempt to maintain a fo
Lesson Focus: Starting the point on the attack Objective: Use the high service to put the opponent on the defensive at the st

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