Rob

Grip is essential. You can do keepie upsies if you know what they are focussing on good grip technique.

There are lots of footwork games you can play. I use a soft football and have the kids standing behind each other really close together. They have feet together initially and i slowly bowl the ball at their feet. They all have to “split jump” to avoid the ball which gets across first movement in badminton.

Also high serve game where a player serves and their partner has to stand on front doubles line. The player hoists a high serve towards the back line. They have to give their partner enough time to move to the read court using badminton movement so that they can catch the shuttle in the rear tramlines. The idea here is that the training is on the movement but everyone thinks it's the serve.

The catcher runs back to the net to pass the shuttle to the player and they repeat until they have a score of 5. Then change.

You can make really good games of this and also extend in so many ways. e.g. by adding split step at the beginning, asking the catcher to return to the middle before throwing the shuttle to player and then returning to base (they have then already returned to a true base.)

I could go on but I think you get the picture.

Paul