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How to get ready for badminton?

I was wondering if there was anything I could do to play badminton more better. For instance, should I lift weights to have more arm srtength and how many times a week should I do that? Or how much should I run each day? Tips and drills woudl also be helpful :]

Badminton is actually about endurance and dexterity, more than strength. For basic training, laps are generally a good way to go - I would say that you need to start at however many laps you can run and work up to a reasonable number (like a mile or two)...any more and you'll be training to run instead of training for badminton. Additionally, you can do some of the endurance training with footwork. On my badminton team, after we ran laps, we would do straight passes up and down the gym skipping, galloping, and doing 'grapevines' or crossing our feet back and forth to work on both agility and endurance.

If you're looking for drills more specific to badminton, you generally want to just have a whole lot of birdies and either throw them in the air yourself or get someone to hit them to you - do smashes from half court and high clears or drops from the back of the court (or serves if you need practice with those). It's good to mix them up, for example, do a cross-court clear followed by a straight, down-the-line clear and alternate them. One of the patterns we used often was 'clear, clear, drop, drop.' Usually, we were required to use some combination of cross-court and down-the-line shots. For example: straight clear, cross clear, straight drop, cross drop (from one corner of the net to the other side - it's difficult), then the next person would do a straight 'flick' to the back of the court and it would start over: clear, clear, drop, drop. Any combination of those can help you out - especially if you pick the ones you need to work on the most (like if you need to work on cross-court re-drops).

Another drill that works really well and helps test endurance is the 'clock drill' - this one is also useful because you can do it by yourself if you need to. First, imagine numbers on the court: odd numbers are to your right and even numbers are to your left. 1 is at the net, 5 is mid-court, and 3 is at the back corner, all on the right. Then 2, 6, and 4 are in the same positions on the left. Stand at 'home court' in 'ready position' (this means that you've got your feet just on either side of the line down the middle of the court, a little closer to the net than half court and with your right foot a little bit ahead of your left, if you're right-handed, and you should be on the balls of your feet with your racket up and ready). From this point, either pick numbers or have someone call them out randomly. The goal is to get to the position, mime the swing that you would do there (and by mime, I mean that there's no birdie, but you should put all your energy into it as if it were real), and get back to home position before the next number gets called. It should follow the speed of a regular game, or be a little faster - usually we had no real chance of getting to home position before the next number was called, but then, you rarely have that luxury in a match. Mix them up to work yourself - go from the back of the court to the net for a drop; go cross-court...the idea is that the harder you work in these sorts of drills, the 'easier' it will be in a match.

Also, you need to work on the dexterity of your wrist - that's where you get power to smash the bird and it helps with flicks and drops and whatnot as well. We used to exercise our wrists by holding our rackets and swinging it back and forth as fast as possible only using our wrists. Make sure that you're stretching your wrists enough, too - if you kneel and press the palms of your hands to the ground with your fingers facing toward you (and your wrists facing out in front of you) and then sit back on your heels, you'll get a good stretch through your forearms. You can also bend your hand all the way toward your forearm and then all the way back using your other hand (that stretches both directions and helps prevent 'tennis elbow' and that kind of stuff).

Beyond these, there are a lot of drills that you can do to practice specific things - like 'rotation' and doubles techniques. You can also make them up as you go along. If you need to work on serves, practice serves and see where they fall, or have someone hit them back to particular places if you have trouble with the return after a serve. If you need to work on your backhand, have someone serve birds to the '6' position and practice hitting backhands - both deep and drops (maybe alternate them so that you practice both at once). Figure out what skills you'd like to improve and practice them - mix them in with the stuff you do well (if you do cross-court clears well, combine them with the backhand stuff or [enter skill here] so that you'll get used to having combinations and including different skills with the ones that you use regularly. Check out your local library, too - they may have books about badminton that give some other suggestions or drills that may focus on areas you want to improve.

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Like the other guy said, it's similar to tennis. Main difference between the two is, with tennis you swing the racket using muscles in your hips, and shoulder. With badminton you swing the racket with your wrist, you can swing it without the wrist action but that birdie will never go fast.

Badminton court has less room to run around in, but you'll replace the long distance running of tennis with lots of shuffling and jumping. I used to play both, and I sweat a lot more when I play badminton, it's quicker paced than tennis.

Have fun Monday, and don't sweat looking like a "boob", we all go through that at one point. I'm sure your friend will walk you through the steps.