An Importance of Foundation in a Play of Badminton

The fundamental badminton skills are essentially used as a foundation in a play of badminton; this can be from your stance to how you serve in a play of badminton. Making a habit of extensively practicing these techniques will immensely increase the development of your technique in a play of badminton. There are many variations of serves however the basic four are; Flick, High, Drive and Low. The flick serve is used to gimmick the original back handed low serve but ends up catching the opponent off guard from thinking that the shuttlecock will land closer to the service line where as it would have higher directory and further to the back the court. 

This is useful as it can either disorientate the opponent leaving the court open or making them play a risky shot which would most definitely lead to a point for me, however for an elite player they would be used to the idea of a flick shot being played meaning they would be very prepared and probably go the many types of training methods to combat this type of serve. The high serve is primarily used to push the opponent to the back of the court as well as giving you more time to think on the position you stand and which shot, they will respond with. 

The drive serve is used unlike the flick serve is played horizontal, fast and low over the net. This serve is to catch the opponent and stimulate an instantaneous response to the start of play. An elite player would prioritise this type of serve because they used to a fast-paced game of badminton and like to win as fast as possible meaning they would be able to conserve more energy. The low serve is to start the play off with drop shots and hits that are low to the net this is used if the opponent is confident in the ability of plays low to the net and giving them the upper advantage to predicting to what will occur in the rest of the play. In one of my plays I used a high serve to slow the opponent’s arousal levels down so when he returned the shot I could trick him and quickly play a fast shot which he would be unprepared for inevitably winning me the point. 

In a recent performance I used a drive shot because I could see that the opposition’s arousal levels where diminishing and they were getting tired this would give me the upper advantage as anything to immediate the person will play a lot clumsier than before as her energy is running out, this is why I decided to play a drive serve which would be a big change for the opponent as they wouldn’t be used to the fast shock of a quick underestimated however this also was a risky serve for me as I never used a drive serve before as the concept was quite unusual to me as if she did react fast enough I would inevitably lose the play. In the overall game this impacted the opposition as her arousal levels dropped because she felt as if she wouldn’t win a game and probably was very tired because of the constant change of play throughout the game making the opposition more aware but also a lot more tired.