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12:14 pm
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August 10, 2010
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Hi al, I had a good read at the other post on teaching beginners.
My girlfriend has played badminton few years now but in my eyes shes a beginner. I haven't seen her play for about 6 months but she says shes improved a lot and she wants coaching. I even think she wants to come with me to pauls Coaching weekend in September but I know I have to coach her to get her there.
Last time I seen her play, her main prob is grip and clearing. She can not clear (good old panhadle grip). Goes half court if that. I know I can fix it if she will listen to me lol, she can be stubborn at times but shes says she will listen to me this time.
Am planning on getting her grip for the overheads sorted and working on proper technique for a clear as this is her worst shot. She can hit the shuttle 9/10 and he can smash and move the shuttle about.
Her serve is bad, no backhand, clear is weak, movement is very stiff and slow.
Any other advice on what to teach her and how to teach her. 1st thing il def fix is the clear.
1:01 pm
February 15, 2011
Offline I'm in no way qualified to give coaching advice but I can tell you what I'm doing with my daughters that seems to be going well.
Bear in mind they are complete beginners so sorry if it's too basic.
Firstly I got them to just drop the shuttle and hit it, purely for grip, technique, footwork/base and timing.
What really helped was getting them to relax everything and standing almost on top of them and playing their shot for them, holding their wrist and stopping their shoulders moving.
Not sure you can get away with doing that with strangers but daughters/girlfriends are different.
What surprised me a little was the position of the racket head when they hit the shuttle, having played I took it for granted but it made a big difference when i showed them why they were struggling to control where the shuttle went.
When they had that going ok, I stood them in the tramlines at the side and got them to hit it into the opposite side, gradually making them hit it higher.
Next, I showed them a forehand clear, I focussed on the hitting technique but when I concentrated on footwork and getting into position first it worked a lot better.
The serving thing was just repitition, I showed them the technique and just let them keep doing it, when I collected the shuttles for them I showed them a footwork drill from net to rear court and left them doing that for a couple of minutes.
For the last 10 mins or so i served to them (badly) and told them to take it early and try to hit me.
It worked well for them and they got quite vicious managing to hit me between the eyes a couple of times.
That's as far as I've got so far but I think mixing it up every 10 mins or so breaks the monotony a little and letting your girlfriend hit shuttles at your face may stop a row in the car on the way home !
And remember, patience is a virtue but regular sex is hard to live without 
4:46 pm
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August 12, 2010
Offline Phil,
I sympathise! I have been coaching my girlfriend for about a year now. On the positive side: she has almost perfect form on most of her shots (no backhand overheads as yet, but getting there) and fantastic movement. The movement is the one that I think is most important: if you can move, you can play, and if you can play then you can practise. On the negative: we don't practice enough and she doesn't play when not playing with me – we are both very busy!
However, I have found that the best improvements came from teaching drives, especially whilst playing singles. Drives (and pushes) are fantastic! They will give the player (your girlfriend) the confidence to defend properly (not be intimidated by smashes etc), the tecnique required to play soft and hard pushes from around the net, as well as intercepts (perfect for playing the net/mixed doubles) AND they are really useful for attacking in general! Thus, to quickly become used to playing actual games, I think focussing on the flat game is really important, because most of the time you can turn a game into the flatter game quite easily (and won't be uncomfortable when people do it back). On the other hand, the correct overhead technique is of course imperative. For overhead shots, I focus almost solely on quick drops, making them quicker and quicker.
So, in summary: I tihnk the overhead grips and general technique is the right way to go about it, but I think teaching the drives and pushes with correct grips (especially backhand) is also something that should be considered sooner rather than later!
Good luck
Matt
p.s. I hope this doesn't affect your relationship – I have heard and seen many horror stories of boyfriends teaching their girlfriends…
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