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MODULE 3 Physical Education 3

Topic 1 Badminton

Target Outcomes History and origin of the game badminton

Know Terminologies and rules of the game

Identify the materials and equipment of the game.

References "The History of Badminton: Foundation of the BAE and Codification of

the Rules" World Badminton

Adams, Bernard (1980), The Badminton Story, BBC

Books, ISBN 0563164654

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), "Badminton (game)" , Encyclopædia

Britannica, 3 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 189

I.To Engage

1. What are these? Describe each and label its parts.

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2.To Explore
 No game is complete without the equipment required. Without that essential
equipment, a sport is deemed worthless. Imagine a game of badminton without a net,
racket, shuttlecock, and other such essentials that can’t be ignored. Badminton, however,
unlike other sports need lesser equipment or accessories. Moreover, the budget also
remains intact, unlike other costly sports that require denting of the pocket. If you are an
aspiring badminton player and want to have a match with your competitors in the most
conventional and professional way, these equipment need to be considered at any cost.

3.To Explain

To play badminton, players will need a net, a shuttlecock, and at least two rackets. The net
crosses the center of the badminton court. It needs to be 5 feet 1 inch high at both ends and 5 feet
high in the center. The posts must be at the farthest sidelines, 20 feet apart, for both singles and
doubles play. Rackets may be made of lots of materials, but modern badminton rackets are
usually made of a carbon fiber composite. A square head is traditional, but many use an oval
head shape now. The length must be no more than 680 millimeters and width must be no more
than 230 mm. The head must be no more than 280 mm in length and 220 mm in width.
Shuttlecock (also called a shuttle or a birdie) has a round base, usually made of cork, covered in
a thin layer of leather or other material. Stuck into the base are sixteen feathers in a traditional
shuttle. Most modern shuttles use plastic ''feathers'' instead because they are less expensive and
sturdier.The court is rectangular and divided into halves by a net. Courts are usually marked for
both singles and doubles play, although badminton rules permit a court to be marked for singles
only. The doubles court is wider than the singles court, but both are of the same length. The
exception, which often causes confusion to newer players, is that the doubles court has a shorter
serve-length dimension.

4. To Elaborate

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.

Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles"
(with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side). Badminton is often played
as a casual outdoor activity in a yard or on a beach; formal games are played on a rectangular
indoor court. Points are scored by striking the shuttlecock with the racquet and landing it within
the opposing side's half of the court. Each side may only strike the shuttlecock once before it
passes over the net. Play ends once the shuttlecock has struck the floor or if a fault has been
called by the umpire, service judge, or (in their absence) the opposing side.
The shuttlecock is a feathered or (in informal matches) plastic projectile which flies
differently from the balls used in many other sports. In particular, the feathers create much
higher drag, causing the shuttlecock to decelerate more rapidly. Shuttlecocks also have a high top
speed compared to the balls in other racquet sports. The flight of the shuttlecock gives the sport
its distinctive nature.
The game developed in British India from the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock.
European play came to be dominated by Denmark but the game has become very popular in
Asia, with recent competitions dominated by China. Since 1992, badminton has been
a Summer Olympic sport with four events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, and
women's doubles, with mixed doubles added four years later. At high levels of play, the sport
demands excellent fitness: players require aerobic stamina, agility, strength, speed, and precision.
It is also a technical sport, requiring good motor coordination and the development of
sophisticated racquet movements.
Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia, [a] but the
modern game of badminton developed in the mid-19th century among the British as a variant of
the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. ("Battledore" was an older term for "racquet".) Its
exact origin remains obscure. The name derives from the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton
House in Gloucestershire, but why or when remains unclear. As early as 1860, a London toy
dealer named Isaac Spratt published a booklet entitled Badminton Battledore – A New Game, but
no copy is known to have survived. An 1863 article in The Cornhill Magazine describes
badminton as "battledore and shuttlecock played with sides, across a string suspended some five
feet from the ground".
The game may have originally developed among expatriate officers in British
India, where it was very popular by the 1870s. Ball badminton, a form of the game played with a
wool ball instead of a shuttlecock, was being played in Thanjavur as early as the 1850s and was
at first played interchangeably with badminton by the British, the woollen ball being preferred in
windy or wet weather.
Early on, the game was also known as Poona or Poonah after the garrison town
of Poona, where it was particularly popular and where the first rules for the game were drawn up
in 1873. [b] By 1875, officers returning home had started a badminton club in Folkestone.
Initially, the sport was played with sides ranging from 1 to 4 players, but it was quickly
established that games between two or four competitors worked the best. The shuttlecocks were
coated with India rubber and, in outdoor play, sometimes weighted with lead. Although the depth
of the net was of no consequence, it was preferred that it should reach the ground.
The sport was played under the Pune rules until 1887, when J. H. E. Hart of
the Bath Badminton Club drew up revised regulations. In 1890, Hart and Bagnel Wild again
revised the rules. The Badminton Association of England (BAE) published these rules in 1893
and officially launched the sport at a house called "Dunbar" [c] in Portsmouth on 13
September. The BAE started the first badminton competition, the All England Open Badminton
Championships for gentlemen's doubles, ladies' doubles, and mixed doubles, in 1899. Singles
competitions were added in 1900 and an England–Ireland championship match appeared in
1904.
England, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Denmark, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, and New
Zealand were the founding members of the International Badminton Federation in 1934, now
known as the Badminton World Federation. India joined as an affiliate in 1936. The BWF now
governs international badminton. Although initiated in England, competitive men's badminton
has traditionally been dominated in Europe by Denmark. Worldwide, Asian nations have become
dominant in international competition. China, Denmark, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, South
Korea, Taiwan (as Chinese Taipei) and Japan are the nations which have consistently produced
world-class players in the past few decades, with China being the greatest force in men's and
women's competition recently.
The game has also become a popular backyard sport in the United States.
 Terminologies of the game

Alley - side-extension of the court by l½ feet on both sides that is used for doubles play.

Back Alley - Area between the back boundary line and the long service line for doubles.

Backcourt - the back third of the court, in the area of the back boundary lines.

Baseline - Back boundary line at each end of the court, that runs parallel to the net.

Bird or birdie - another name for the shuttlecock

Carry - An illegal tactic, also called a sling or throw, in which the shuttle is caught and held on the
racket and then slung during the execution of a stroke.

Center Line - Line perpendicular to the net that separates the left and right service courts.

Clear - A shot hit deep to the opponent’s back court.

Court - Area of play, as defined by the outer boundary lines.

Drive - A fast and low shot that makes a horizontal flight over the net.

Drop - A shot hit sohly and with finesse to fall rapidly and close to the net on the opponent’s side.

Fault - A violation of the playing rules, either in serving, receiving, or during play (see common
faults listed below).

Flick - A quick wrist and forearm rotation that surprises an opponent by changing an apparently soft
shot into a faster passing one; used primarily on the serve and at the net.

Forecourt - Front third of the court, between the net and the short service line.

Hairpin Net Shot - Shot made from below and very close to the net with the shuttle rising, just
clearing the net, and then dropping sharply down the other side. The shuttle’s flight approximates the
shape of a hairpin.

Halfcourt Shot - A shot hit low and to midcourt, used effectively in doubles against the up-and-
back formation.

Kill - Fast, downward shot that cannot be returned; a "putaway."

Let - A legitimate cessation of play to allow a rally to be replayed.

Long Service Line - In singles, the back boundary line. In doubles a line 2 l/2 feet inside the back
boundary line. The serve may not go past this line.
Match - A series of games (at U.S. Olympic Festival-’93 it is three out of five), to determine a
winner. Midcourt - The middle third of the court, halfway between the net and the back boundary
line.

Net Shot - Shot hit from the forecourt that just clears the net and drops sharply.

Push Shot - Gentle shot played by pushing the shuttle with little wrist motion, usually from net or
midcourt to the opponent’s midcourt.

Racket - Instrument used by playerto hit shuttlecock Weight:About3 ounces. Length: 27 inches.
Made of: Ceramic, graphite, or boron frame; beef-gut string. Cost: $60-$175 (unstrung).

Rally – this occurs when the players hit the bird back and forth several times before one side scores
a point

Serve or Service – players put the shuttlecock into play for points by “serving” it to opponents,
hitting it over the net into a special part of the court near their opponent

Service Court - Area into which the serve must be delivered. Different for singles and doubles play.

Short Service Line - The line 6 l/2 feet from the net which a serve must reach to be legal.

Shuttlecock - the name for the object that players hit, made of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown
of feathers in an open conical shape.

Smash – when a shuttle is floated high into the air, a player has time to unleash a powerful overhand
shot straight to the floor of the opposing court

Wood Shot - Shot that results when the base of the shuttle is hit by the frame of the racket. Once
illegal, this shot was ruled acceptable by the International Badminton Federation in 1963.

5.To Evaluate
Answer the following questions:

A. Why is it called badminton?

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B. Badminton is also called as ____________
C. Who is Isaac Spratt? __________________________________________________________ 
D. DRAW and LABEL the parts of the different equipment and facilities of badminton.

Note: Module will be submitted on November 17, 2020 upto 12nn ONLY. Late
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