Essay 1-02a badminton

I search about badminton. My elementary school area is strong and my parents are play badminton too. So I start badminton when I was fourth grade in elementary school. I play badminton now. I like badminton very much. So I search it.


The badminton beginnings 18 century British and India. Being particularly popular in the British garrison town Pune, the game also come to be known as Pune. Intially, balls of wool were preferred by the upper classes in windy or wet conditions, but ultimately the shuttlecock stuck. This game was taken by retired officers back to England where it developped and rules were set out.


We use racket and shuttlecock when we play badminton. Racket is light, with top quality racket weighting between 75 and 95 grams including the strings. They are composed of many different materials ranging from carbon fibre composite to solid steal, which may be augmented by a variety of materials. Shuttlecock is a high-drag projectile with an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen overlapping feathers embedded into a rounded cork base. The cork is covered with thin leather or synthetic material. Synthetic shuttles are often used by recreational players to reduce their costs as feathered shuttles break easily. These nylon shuttles may be constructed with either natural cork or synthetic foam base, and a plastic skirt.


Badminton has three kind of game. Singles, doubles and mix doubes. Singles is very hard. Since one person needs to cover the entire court, singles tactics are based on forcing the opponent to move as much as possible; this means that singles strokes are normally directed to the corners of the court. Doubles is both pairs will try to gain and maintain the attack, smashing downwards when possible. Whenever possible, a pair will adopt an ideal attacking formation with one player hitting down from the rearcourt, and his partner in the midcourt intercepting all smash returns except the lift. If the rearcourt attacker plays a dropshot, his partner will move into the forecourt to threaten the net reply. If a pair cannot hit downwards, they will use flat strokes in an attempt to gain the attack. If a pair is forced to lift or clear the shuttlecock, then they must defend: they will adopt a side-by-side position in the rear midcourt, to cover the full width of their court against the opponents' smashes. In doubles, players generally smash to the middle ground between two players in order to take advantage of confusion and clashes. Mix doubles is both pairs try to maintain an attacking formation with the woman at the front and the man at the back. This is because the male players are substantially stronger, and can therefore produce smashes that are more powerful. As a result, mixed doubles requires greater tactical awareness and subtler positional play. Clever opponents will try to reverse the ideal position, by forcing the woman towards the back or the man towards the front. In order to protect against this danger, mixed players must be careful and systematic in their shot selection.

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