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What to teach absolute beginners first?
June 2, 2013
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RobHarrison
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Whilst I have a lot of experience playing badminton I have very little when it comes to coaching, especially juniors / beginners. I have recently started helping out my clubs coach with the beginners and am looking for ideas on what to focus on.

Generally its a case of trying to get them to get their feet in the right place to play the right shot, along with using the correct grip. A lot struggle with hitting full clears, any ideas on teaching this? Granted some of them lack strength, but I'd like to enable them to do more with what they have.

Any ideas, tips, things to focus on, drills etc much appreciated.

June 2, 2013
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I would say grips, how to change grips, serving, court positioning, To start with.

June 2, 2013
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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 

June 4, 2013
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Hi Rob

I agree that correct grip is very important and so is technique. I make sure that beginners understand that a good throwing action is the bedrock of all overhead shots. Get them throwing shuttles or soft tennis balls across the net to each other and make sure that they have a sideways stance, that the rear leg pushes the hip through, that the back swing creates an L shape and  and they reach up when they throw. They don't need to throw too hard, technique is everything the power will come. Also important is to make it fun, see how many shuttles / balls they can score hitting a target or into a bucket.A good tip is to ask open questions,e.g.  how do you think you can improve, why do you think your timing is out, what do you need to improve on, this gives you good feedback from the learners.

Finally enthusiasm, patience, praise and encouragement are all vital parts of coaching. If coaching is something that you think you may wish to improve on, check out Badminton England Level 1 coaching course, it's well worth it. You can also download a LI instruction manual from the Badminton World Federation website  http://www.bwfbadminton.org     

June 4, 2013
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Thanks for the ideas guys. Your comments have re-enforced some things we are already doing and given some new things to try out.

I'm looking into the coaching course at the moment as our local Badminton England rep might be able to help me out with that.

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