ADVANCED BADMINTON TRICK

To be a knockout badminton player, you have to have lighting-fast feet, strong technique, and a cunning sense of strategy. If you already know how to play badminton but want to do it even better, you have to find a way to maximize your strengths and exploit your opponent’s weaknesses. Try these more advance tricks:

1. Slice your net shots. This will make the shuttle spin and fall in an unpredictable direction. To slice your net shot, start the forward motion as you normally would, and then move the racket inward as you slice the racket perpendicular to the center of the birdie. Your opponent will be expecting you to hit the birdie directly forward, while it will actually spin cross court

2. Slice your drop shots. To do this, slice the racket, or move it perpendicularly over the center of the shuttle when it’s in the air. This will make the shuttle lose much of its momentum and quickly fall on the opponent’s side near the net.

3. Smash the shuttle. Smashing is when you hit the shuttle with all of your strength at the top of its arc. Aim your free hand up toward the direction of the shuttle for precision, and then swing the racket over your head with the other racket, hitting the center of the birdie and smashing it down into the opponent’s court. This is similar to serving in tennis.
   • When you’re smashing the shuttle, aim is just as important as strength. Don’t just blindly hit the shuttle as hard as you can — you should try to aim it either as far away from your opponent as possible or right at your opponent’s body so he will be caught off guard.

4. Don’t smash the shuttle every time. The smash should be used at a time when the shuttle is high in the air and you have plenty of time to approach — it should end the point in your favor. If you smash the shuttle at every opportunity, you will tire your arms and will risk smashing it into the net at inopportune moments.