Badminton Training 7 & 8

Badminton Training 7

- Whip Smash drill : side - side
- Whip Smash Drill : Side - side moving forward
- played two on one: billy and I against Vincent. In which we only used low-serves and a flick low flick serve to the center corner. the match was too close, despite being on the two side.
- Played one-on-one with Fruit, at which point my clears and shots had become weak. Fruit explained that it was the way the racquet face was interfacing with the birdie. When I was hitting it, it had become more of a slice, making the shots slower, and easier to defend, while if I could tilt the face, and use more body torque, the shots became harder, faster, and harder to reach.


Badminton Training 8

- Last class!

1) cross court net drops, using a slicing method (concave/convex racquet movement) that requires a locked wrist and mostly tricep movement.
2) fourth grip tap and defense
3) service flick smash (returning flick serves)

The three effects of the racquet head on a bird:
- when the racquet head is tilted forward -> the bird is given a slight top spin and would travel further
- when the racquet head is flat -> the bird is reflected at the same speed, in a way, the racquet absorbs all the force and turns around
- when the racquet head is tilted backwards -> the bird is given more under spin and travels less/slower.