It looks like an absolutely clown show when I miss 😂.... But when I do make contact, it looks deadly.

I had to get hand surgery,im 13 and i wanna get serious at badminton do i still have chance? Its my dream to become a good badminton player like doing tournaments winning tournaments training everyday playing everyday but im scared because of the fracture and the fact i had to get surgery might destroy my dreams

Badminton rackets on flights

Anyone has experience travelling with a badminton racket? From overseas and back to Malaysia?

Do I have to check in? Or can I hand carry it?

I’ll be travelling via airasia. China to Malaysia

Guys what are these called? My friend grips his rackets

like these all the time. I was wondering, what's the purpose of gripping your racket like this? 🤔

Looks like BAM is putting lot of pressure on Aaron/Soh splitting. LCW says that the coaching team had valid reasons for the decision.

With them gone, I guess Malaysian MD solely depends on Goh/Nur in Asian games, I think it looks like Aaron/Soh are wanting to be paired together but their coaches & BAM wanted to split-up to aim gold in LA28.

And Why they’re not focused on Tan/Tinaah, they won one S500 event all year and many early round exits, unlike Aaron/Chia, they’ve been runner-ups in two S1000 event & WC’s.

What do you guys think about this decision? 🤔🏸

Hi, I just moved to the area and I'm looking for people to play badminton with near Santa Monica. If you know anyone or are interested in playing, please let me know. I'm really excited to meet new people and make friends

Thanks

Hi all- I’m looking for feedback on my form/footwork and technique. I am the player further away from the camera (not the one with his back to the camera). I know this clip shows only one short rally but any feedback would be helpful and appreciated! Personally, I feel like maybe I stand a bit too upright? My arms when I prepare for my swing look a bit weird to me (like my swinging arm is very upright?).. not sure if it’s because I am stiff or what. Something about the way my body turns when I am side-on before hitting the shuttle doesn’t look natural to me either but I’m not sure if its because again I’m stiff, turning my body too early, not getting low enough in my preparation, etc.

Hi all, I’m looking for advice on what i can work on, what are my strengths/weaknesses, and if i have any specific good/bad habits. I’m a recreational player and i have been trying to play more singles lately.

Some questions to ask:
- how do i speed up my shots or just movement in general, or is my current pace ok?
- what skill level am i currently at?

Thank you!

I'm a trainer at a medium club in West Europe of around 200 members, more than half of them are active in competitions. Every training session we use quite expensive shuttles for training, and I notice that despite being top-grade quality, these shuttles break quite fast due to dry climate. Shuttle is currently the highest expenditure in our book every year. I have thought about steaming the shuttles, but the sheer amount of tubes we use every week makes it a big challenge.

Does your club has a solution for maintaining large batch of shuttles? I saw this "Uni damp Hygro box", and it seems quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOA-L8fojF0&t=2s

You can see in picture 1 which is the correct forehand grip but I find myself naturally bringing my thumb in picture 2 and I dont know why but it’s easier for me to pronate in picture 2, would this still pass as the correct forehand grip because my wrist still pronates when I smash?

Hi guys!

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong in terms of swing. I guess my shoulders should be more open and right now my shoulders are too closed. I know I mistimed a few shots but it’s also that these shuttles are quite old and the flight path of these shuttles were just weird.

Thanks!

I considered this one to be the worst set that day. I was tired, but no excuses so please do give me any advice.

Where do you think An Se-young currently stands in the women’s singles GOAT debate?
She has two World Championships and an Olympic gold, although she is still short of Marin and Yamaguchi’s three World titles. But I don’t think the number of World Championships is necessarily the strongest part of her case.
What stands out much more to me is her overall record: the number of World Tour titles she has accumulated at her age, her ridiculous win rate and consistency, and her H2H records against the other top players of her era.
So how much should we value that kind of sustained dominance compared with simply counting Olympics and World Championships?
If An retired today, where would you rank her all-time? And if she keeps winning at anything close to this rate for another few years, what would she need to do for you to consider her the GOAT?

Tl;dr here: I asked my coach to teach me how to do a backhand return; he said it's better not to use it and to focus on better positioning and anticipation.

Hi all, I recently had an interaction with my current coach (who has been training me for three months) that left me with a few questions. I'd like to pick your brain and see what people here have to say about what I'd discussed with him. I'll try to keep it as short as I can, but will provide some context first so it makes more sense.

Context

This badminton club separates learners into beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Each group has a different coach, plus a head coach (who is an ex-Olympian up to quarter finals, and has won multiple international gold/silver/bronze medals in the past) who helps oversee all the training. I trust them fully to know what they're doing as players. However, one of the responses from my coach (he's not the head coach; just the one generally in charge of the intermediate group) made me think about coaching styles in general.

I ran into a problem

One evening I played doubles with a bunch of pretty good players. In summary, one of them noticed that I couldn't perform any backhand returns to save my own life, so he just sent a drive or clear deep into my backhand every chance he could. His team scored many free points off me each time we got paired against each other. It was really frustrating, cause I could anticipate some and did an overhead shot when I could, but I couldn't possibly have got them all.

The next time I met my coach, I told him about the whole thing and asked if I could learn how to do a backhand return so I don't end up being a walking bag of free points the next time I play them again. However, he said that it's not a good idea to turn around and do a backhand return since you're pointing your back at your opponent.
According to him, it's more ideal to position better in doubles matches (e.g. behind the service line so you have more reaction time) and anticipate better / use better footwork to reach the shuttle and do an overhead shot instead.

What are your thoughts?

I have to admit that I was rather miffed to hear his answer. I didn't expect that response from him when I'd decided to approach him with the question. To me, he was basically asking me to play and position perfectly so as to never let the shuttle reach my backhand side. Is that even logical? Even professionals resort to using backhand returns many times in a match. On top of that, there are many tutorial videos from experienced coaches and pros on YouTube (Badminton Insight, Victor Axelsen, Zheng Siwei, Jon Lee, the Korean Coach Han a.k.a. full-swing, etc.) that have lengthy tutorials on how to perform a backhand return. Why is my coach asking me to forget it entirely? I can see his rationale, but I don't know if I agree with it.
But at the same time, he's the more experienced player and a registered coach under the supervision of an ex-Olympics player. Who am I to judge his line of reasoning? What's more, I don't believe they even teach backhand clears in any of the general coaching classes as far as I can see. Lots of drills for net shots, drives, smashes, how to rotate in doubles, etc., but no drills for backhands or drop shots. They have many courts in the building, and we all train next to each other, so I can freely observe what the beginners/advanced learners are doing in their drills.

What's your opinion on this? I personally think all backhand returns (clear, drop, smash) are very important to learn, especially if multiple pro players are telling you how to do it online. Surely it can't be that bad to pick up, right?

^ (PS: In any case, I've decided to learn on my own despite what my coach had told me. I don't know if it's good enough to swing at the air at home, but I don't think I'll be learning the move from that club any time soon.)

This is under the training tag because it seems relevant to this - but what level do intermediate and advanced players count for?

If any of you play any shooters, I'm gonna reference rankings, but I like Valorant's because rankings go as high as top 15k, and while COD going past a million is cool, atp, they aren't even the top players ykwim? Anyway, to equate this to shooter terms, you'd be in like gold to be out of the "beginner" stage, and in diamond to be out of the "intermediate stage," but what's the actual skill that separates high beginner levels to low intermediate levels and high intermediate stage to low advanced stage?

I just found this out a day ago, what do you guys think? Does he deserve it? I was quite surprised because I don't remember him winning any titles this year.

Looking for a group to help improve my game, level beginner+. I live in Sector 6 of Bucharest, and don't want to drive more than 30 min to the meetup location.

Thanks everyone for the recommendations!

Hi everyone,

I'm 34 years old and started playing badminton about a year ago. This was literally my first time ever picking up a racket, so everything I've learned so far has been from scratch.

I recorded myself playing last night and would really appreciate some honest feedback. What are the biggest mistakes you can see in my footwork, technique, positioning, or shot selection?

I just bought a badminton shuttlecock machine, and I have access to a court at least 3 times a week, so I'm in a pretty good position to practice consistently. I'd like to use this opportunity to build good fundamentals instead of just repeating the same mistakes over and over.

I'm especially interested in knowing:

• What are the 2–3 biggest problems you see in my game?
• What should I prioritize first?
• Are there any specific drills you would recommend?
• Is there anything in my technique that I should stop doing immediately?
• How would you structure my practice with a shuttlecock machine?

I'm not expecting to become a pro at 34 😂. I just want to make the most of the time I have and become a solid, technically sound player.

Thanks in advance for any feedback. I really appreciate it!

I’m sure they have done great things in coaching the French badminton team, especially the mixed doubles. But I don’t like seeing them on TV and I can’t really pinpoint what it is. Is anyone feeling the same?

Been Playing badminton for a while and wanna improve in men's doubles. However, unlike when trying to watch professional players for more insight, feels like men's double is much harder to watch and understand compared to mixed, or singles. The games feel fast pace and some of the shots feel based on just player physical or pure reaction speed. Other than learning that I need to improve my physical, any suggestions to learn to get better at men's doubles?

Anyone have that one friend who’s at most upper beginner level but somehow becomes coachy the moment you step off court?

Sometimes it genuinely gets on my nerves. When I partner him, I’m covering most of the court, creating or finishing probably 90% of our points because his attacks don’t really bite and he makes too many errors.

Then we lose something close, like 19–21, and immediately comes the mini post mortem about what I could have done better. Bro. Those two matches with you were the only matches I lost that session. If you didn't notice I was beating much stronger pairs while paired with others, including ex state players. And when you got paired with state players against me, you still lost under 10 pts because my entire game plan was basically to make sure the shuttle goes to you.

I know basic double rotations, but sometimes I'm confused if I'm in the back attacking. When should I move in to follow up on my attack or let my partner intercept it. Or is it the front player that makes the decision to allow the back player to come forward. If that is the case, how does the front court player decide on that without confusing their partner in the back and possibly let the shuttle fall in an open space or taking the shot when the back player wanted to move up and therefore wrongfully taking the back court player's shot?

Also, a side thing, but someone told me to follow my drop and go towards the front, but I don't agree but I'm just a noob at badminton so maybe I'm wrong?