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Badminton Coaching

Improving Your Badminton Smash – Exercise 3

March 9, 2010
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Three Simple Tips To Increase The Power Of Your Badminton Smash

March 8, 2010

One of the hottest topics I’ll be covering in my online coaching program is increasing power to your badminton smash.
Wherever I travel to coach, there are always two major questions I’m asked

How to improve the backhand
How to get more power in the smash

There are a number of simple adjustments you can make that will help [...]

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How To Vary The Pace of Your Badminton To Outwit Your Opponent

December 21, 2009

No matter what standard of badminton you’re playing, there comes a time in a game when you need to try something different in order to outwit or outmanoeuvre your opponent.
Perhaps the easiest and most effective way of achieving this is to either inject pace or reduce the pace of the rally. This usually has the [...]

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The Basics Most Badminton Club Players Choose To Ignore – And They Wonder Why Their Scores Don’t Improve!

December 7, 2009

Whenever I’m asked to visit a club for a coaching evening, I ask the organiser to canvass the club members and give me a list of the areas they would like me to work on.
Overall, I’m met with similar responses, which are:
Men – smash and backhand
Women – clearing to the back and returning a man’s [...]

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Badminton Coaching Video – Moving Backwards In Balance

November 16, 2009
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Testing Badminton Shuttle Speeds – Coaching Video

October 9, 2009
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Why Do We Ask The Impossible From Women Partners at Badminton Mixed Doubles?

September 13, 2009

A high percentage of games played at club, league, county and international level are mixed doubles. It’s become a favourite in clubs and it’s probably the only sport at Olympic level where men and women complete together.
What still amazes me when I watch mixed doubles in club and league is the inability of some men [...]

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Why Incorrect Badminton Shuttle Speeds Are Killing Skill Levels

September 6, 2009

As a player and a coach I’ve often wondered how top flight players have generated such amazing power. It’s a combination of many factors including timing of the shot, getting behind the shuttle to hit it, body-weight transfer, string tension, conditioning/training and the athletes natural muscle fibre combinations to name but a few.
There is one [...]

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Badminton Coaching Video Tips – ‘Focal Points On The Net’

July 31, 2009
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