2.  What is Badminton?
 History & Development
 Equipments
 Rules
 Strategy
 Governing Bodies
 Competitions
 Comparison with other raquet sports

3.  Racquet Sport
 Rectangular court
 Divided by a net
 With a shuttlecock
 One or two opposing another one or two

4.  Traced to the mid of the 18th century
 British India
 British military officers
 “BATTLEDORE & SHUTTLECOCK”
(Traditional English Game)
 Wool ball
 Back to England and established New
rules to the game BADMINTON

5. Racquets
Equipments
Shoes Shuttlecock

6.  Light weight 70g-90g
 Include grip and string
 Strings are made of
carbon fibers and most of
the players use thinner
strings
 Grip help to hold the
racquet and most of the
grips are synthetic

7.  conical shape
 Feathers are embedded in
to a rounded cork base
covering a thin layer of
leather
 There are shuttlecocks
made of plastic and
synthetic

8.  Light weight
 Soles of rubber
 Have a little
lateral support

9.  Court
 Equipments
 Scoring systems and services

10. • Narrow court but the same length
• Player has to cover whole court
Single
• Smashes are common & all the court is in use
• Both will try to gain marks & maintain th match
Double
• Men are back & women are in front & play strong
smashes
Mixed
• Requir a great awareness & should be positional
double

11. There are world wide federations &
the main one is BWF which that refers
to BADMINTON WORLD FEDARATION
 BAC-For Asia
 BCA-for Africa
 BPA-for America
 BE-for Europe
 BO-foe oceania

12. The BWF organizes several international competitions.
 Thomas cup
 Uber cup
 Sudirman cup
 BWF Championship
 Summer Olympics
 Olympics

13. BADMINTON TENNIS TABLE TENNIS
• Large but light weighted • Large and heavy weighted • Small and light weighted
racquet racquet racquet
• Uses a shuttlecock • Uses a tennis ball • Uses a lightly weighted
plastic ball
• One serve attempt • Two serve attempts • one serve attempt without
the net service
• Reaction time is less than • Large reaction time • The smallest reaction time
tennis