badminton serve

hi. my name is john webb. i've been a badmintoncoach for over 15 years and i'm going to show you some tips on how to play badminton. hi. i'm going to talk to you about some badmintontechniques which really help improve your game. some techniques really, when you'rejust coming in as a beginner, really want to improve your game or you improve or justwant to get to the next level.

badminton techniques i'm going to talk toyou about are the overhead, forehand and backhand overhead shot. it's the shots all above youon the forehand side and the backhand side, they equate for about eighty percent of shotsyou're going to play in badminton. so it's probably the most important technical shots,the forehand and backhand overheads.

just split it into two. let me talk to youabout the forehand overhead shot. the forehand overhead shot is a really powerful shot andyou could play it clear, a smash, a drop or a drive. they're all forehand overhead shots. and theonly difference with each of these shots, it's the point of contact with the shuttle.let me talk to you through some basics of the overhead shot. start with all these shots you're going tobe playing in the rear court by the boundary line so preparation for these shots are goingto have forehand grip, hand grip, your racket is going to be up, your non-racket arm isup also to support. you want to be slightly

sideways on. by sideways on, you're like anarch with a bow and arrow so you're coiling the spring sideways arm. racket head nice and high and flat face andthe racket arm up. so that's the preparation. the ways you're in the balls of the feet fromfoot down there, you're nice and turned and the next is the execution of the shot, youwant to be playing as high as possible so get your full range in, so you're back there,turn around and then you're playing that and you can see once you're playing that, followthrough the racket leg, the dominant leg is coming right the way through and then you'rerecovering to the middle of the court and you're receiving stunts.

let me show you that again. so you're backhere, you turn round, you're coiled, take it up, the weight transferred to the frontfoot comes through and you're coming forward there. that's one of the overhead shots, forehandoverhead shot and you can play that, different shots of that. second one, players often find this most difficultis the backhand overhead shot. let me talk to you through this though. okay, so you startwith the backhand grip which is the thumb down and you'd start in this position thatyou want to be with the right foot back, your racket up and your sideways on to there, backhand'splayed on the left hand side of the court. once you're here, so you're sideways on tothe court. the racket is back with you're

backhand grip up there and you're on the dominantfoot is at the back with the knee bent. that's the starting position. so the actual execution of the shot, you'reactually going right up with the racket really high, right up but playing that, your armis turned, you're pivoting back in and what you're doing is you're transferring from yourracket foot back on and then you're coming back into the court. let me show you thisin the full. starting, turn, hit up, and then coming back there. so just like that, turn and then you're back.that's all about timing precision. that was the backhand overhead shot.

so very important techniques to master. it'sgoing to take a few lessons to get into it. you can get the overhead forehand and backhandshot if you've got really good basics to a game. .