Module 3

- Badminton
Officials, Duties
and
Responsibilities.
- Fundamentals
Intended Learning Outcomes

and Basic Skills

By the end of learning experience, students should be able to:

1. Identify officials and their duties in a Badminton game; and

2. Recognize the importance of employing decision making in the game;
3. Discuss the basic rules of the Badminton
4. Analyze/ interpret rules implied by the officials on the different situations in Badminton

OFFICIALS and their Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Umpires - enforce all game laws and court rules.

Umpire calls decisions on service faults, lets,
and any other player faults. Throughout the game,
the umpire must announce the match score
to the players and to any watching audience.
 2. Service Judge - is responsible in making a 'service
fault' call and to provide shuttles to the players.
Line Judges: Line judges sit beside the badminton
court (Right in front of every in/out line) to determine
whether the shuttle is inside or outside the
boundaries of the court. Sitting opposite to the
umpire.

3. Line Judges - sit beside the badminton court

(right in front of every in/out lines) to determine
whether the shuttle is inside or outside the
boundaries of the court.

Fundamental skills

A. Grip - is a way of holding the racket in order to hit shots during a match. A grip is also the
wrapping around the handle of the racket. Most players change grips during a rally
depending on whether it is a forehand or backhand shot.

Kinds of gripping

 Forehand Grip (*handshake)- One of the most

common
styles of grip that your badminton friends or your
parents teach you. The bottom 3 fingers hold the
racket handle. 
- This grip is used to hit shots that are on the
forehand side of your body and around the head
shots.
- Hold the racket head with your non-playing hand
so that the handle points towards you

 Backhand grip - The backhand grip, also known as the

thumb grip, is like the forehand grip except the complete
bottom of the thumb is
in contact with the 3rd bevel and the index finger
is lowered down to a position below the thumb
 Panhandle grip (Penhold grip)- The grip is known as
panhandle
as it is like holding a frying pan or pen.
The panhandle grip is used specifically for the
forehand net kill. It allows you to negotiate the shuttle
when it is a little above and very close to the net.
Place your racket flat on the ground. Pick it up
without turning the handle.

B. Footwork - is simply having the ability to reach the

shuttle early while on balance. You can skip,
shuffle,
bounce, glide, chasse step or lunge on court.
There are no fix movements on performing
the badminton footwork, there are some basic
things to remember.

C. Serve - the serve must be hit in an upwards direction, with an underarm hitting action.
The main rule here is that when you hit the shuttle, it must be below your waist. To
be exact, the rules define this to be a height level with the lowest part of your
ribcage.
 DOUBLES

These are the four main types of services in badminton, and most can be executed with
either your forehand or backhand.
a. Low serve

b. High/Long serve

c. Flick serves
 d. Drive Serve

D. Receive -/Receiver - The person who

delivers the badminton serve is called
the 'server' while the person receiving
the serve is called the 'receiver'.

There are four different types of “Receive “.

e. clears,
f. smashes,
g. drives and
h. drops

E. Smash - an offensive shot fired from a high point and travels down steeply towards. it is
mainly used for attacking. It often acts as a winning shot in any badminton rallies.
Types of smashes:

a. Forehand

b. Backhand and

c. Jumping smash