Module 3

- Badminton
Officials and
their duties
- Fundamental
Intended Learning Outcomes

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

Skills
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. Sitting opposite
to the umpire.

3. 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.

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.

4 MAIN TYPES OF SERVICES

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