NAME: CHRISTIAN JANUS P.

GATILLO COURSE: PE 03
PROGRAM AND SECTION: BSEE- 2C

BADMINTON
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 other team's half of the court.

HISTORY
 Games employing shuttlecocks have been played for centuries across Eurasia,
but the modern game of badminton developed in the mid-19th century among the
expatriate officers of British India as a variant of the earlier game of battledore and
shuttlecock.
 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 originally developed in India among the British expatriates, 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.
 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 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" 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 and the BWF now governs international badminton.
RULES
Court
 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 full width of the court is 6.1 meters (20 feet), and in singles this width is
reduced to 5.18 meters (17.0 feet).
 The full length of the court is 13.4 meters (44 feet).
 The net is 1.55 meters (5 feet 1 inch) high at the edges and 1.524 metres (5.00
feet) high in the center.
Serving
When the server serves, the shuttlecock must pass over the short service line on the
opponents' court or it will count as a fault. The server and receiver must remain within
their service courts, without touching the boundary lines, until the server strikes the
shuttlecock. The other two players may stand wherever they wish, so long as they do not
block the vision of the server or receiver.
Scoring
Each game is played to 21 points, with players scoring a point whenever they win a rally
regardless of whether they served (this differs from the old system where players could
only win a point on their serve and each game was played to 15 points). A match is the
best of three games.
Lets
If a let is called, the rally is stopped and replayed with no change to the score. A let may
occur because of some unexpected disturbance such as a shuttlecock landing on a court
(having been hit there by players playing in adjacent court) or in small halls the shuttle
may touch an overhead rail which can be classed as a let.

EQUIPMENT
 Badminton Racket
 Shuttlecock
 Badminton Shoes
 Grip

TERMS
 Backcourt- The back third of the badminton court.
 Bird/Birdie- Another name for the shuttlecock.
 Carry- An illegal stroke occurring when the shuttle comes to a stop on the racquet
and is "carried," leading to a sling-like sequence.
 Center position- Also known as the base position, the central area of the court
where ideally a singles player wants to return after each shot.
 Kill- A hard, downward shot that is not returnable by the opponent.
 Push shot- A soft shot executed by "pushing" the shuttle with small wrist
movement.
 Rally- An exchange of shots following the serve.