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Badminton

            
            
             Like many other sports, a variation of badminton can be traced back to the first century B. The game of Ti Jian Zi involved hitting or kicking a shuttlecock with your hands or feet. This game was not only popular in China but also in Japan, India and Siam.
             In the fourteenth century, the British played battledore shuttlecock, a sport in which players attempted to keep the shuttlecock in the air with the use of a racket or paddle. During this period up until the mid-1800s this game was widely recognized as a children's game. .
             Modern Day Badminton.
             In the early 1860s, British army soldiers stationed in India played a competitive sport called "poona" a game very similar to shuttlecock which included a net and boundaries. These soldiers brought the equipment and the game back to England in the mid-1870s and are credited with introducing the sport to the British people in particular to royalty and people of leisure. The game was renamed badminton after a group of vacationing Indian colonials on the Duke of Beaufort estate, Badminton House, tossed about a champagne cork with chicken feathers. .
             Originally, the game was played in an hourglass shaped hall, narrower in the middle than at the ends. Badminton was played on this odd-shaped court until 1901. Standardized rules were instituted in 1887 and were revised in 1895 and 1905.
             Throughout the British Isles many competitive clubs were established from 1870 to 1900. In 1877, an English colonel in Karachi, H.O. Selby published the rules of badminton and the first all-England Championships were held in 1899. .
             Badminton's popularity spread from the British Isles to the Scandinavian countries and North America in the 1920s and on into India and throughout Asia. Many of these Asian countries have produced the top-ranked players in the world in the past fifty years.
             The International Badminton Federation ("IBF") was formed in 1934 with nine member countries - England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada, New Zealand, Denmark, France and the Netherlands.


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1. Badminton

... played in ancient Greece, India, and China. "It is known that around 1860, the daughters of the Duke of Beutfort were playing Battledore and Shuttlecock in the great hall of Badminton house, the seat of the Somerset family in Gloucestershire, England. To add a little variety, they rigged up a string across the hall from the doorway to the fireplace and the aim ... was organized in 1936 (changed to USBA in 1978), when Donald Wilbur, Robert McMillan, and twins Donald and Phillip Richardson, all from Brookline, Massachusetts, decided to combine the nation's various badminton groups. Progra...

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2. Biomechanical Analysis - Badminton Smash Shot

... body (Kirk, Burgess-Limerick, Kiss, Lahey and Penney, 1999). Biomechanics can help improve the performance in badminton by studying how the body moves and how it can improve the technique of the badminton smash shot. The smash is the most aggressive and attacking stroke in badminton and is often employed to finish a point or to increase the tempo of the game. This essay ... the importance of understanding bio-mechanical principles and recommend specific changes in technique to effectively execute the smash shot in my game. When studying biomechanics and how it can improve Badminton perf...

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3. Internal Assessment - Achievement Standard

... know them, we found out they were involved in a wide range of different types of activities, including speedball, dodge ball, dancing, swimming, kickboxing and badminton. We also asked them about the barriers and enablers, a barrier being something that prevents them from getting involved in physical activity, where an enabler is something ... new things in the future is able to adapt much easier and find it more enjoyable. So taking this to account we decided to choose badminton as a three day session. Looking back at our logs we are able to see that amongst the three sessions all the ...

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4. Components of Fitness

... posture, builds muscle easily) Endomorph (underdeveloped muscles, generally gains muscle easily, trouble losing weight, round shaped). Nobody is only one of these groups however have different characteristics of each. Badminton players are usually mesomorph because they need to have good strength, posture and aerobic/anaerobic capacities. 3. Flexibility - there are generally 3 types of flexibility; Dynamic, Static-active, Static- ... passive flexibility (see. Chpt Flexibility). Each is important for badminton however I feel that dynamic flexibility is the most important because a performe...

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5. School systems

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6. Explosive Speed Training

... transfer is small or negligible. If the tasks are more similar, the transfer tends to be higher yet still typically small. An example would be a badminton player taking up tennis. Because of this athlete's past experience, the skills of badminton may help in learning the game of tennis. However, a proficient tennis player will unlikely become a better tennis player as a result of learning ... badminton skills. Never has a world-class tennis player become a world-class badminton or table tennis player. The skills may appear similar, but differ greatly as a result of play area, racket wei...

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7. Benefits of Regular Exercise in Our Lives

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8. ATTITUDES TOWARD EXERCISE

... mental strength. If they practice exercises every day, they will feel more comfortable. For instance, in parks every morning, a lot of boys and girls join in sporting activities such as: badminton, running, jogging, etc. Young age strength allows many of them to play different sports, which are strenuous forms of exercise. The elderly, on their part, exercise to maintain their health ... to play games together. There are many kinds of exercise for everybody to choose a suitable one for themselves. The middle aged can get light exercises like jogging, walking or playing badminton. Suitab...

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9. school

... Debating Tournament and was the fourteenth ranked debater out of all Ontario private schools. My love of sports has allowed me to play on varsity teams-namely, rugby, tennis, and badminton. The latter has been the most successful, where our school won the T.D.C.A.A.'s and placed at O.F.S.A.A. When I get the chance, I also like to stay active by playing intramural ... badminton, table tennis, soccer, and tennis. As far as clubs, I have been on the Scrabble team and a member/junior coach of the Brebeuf Debating Society. In 2000, I was appointed the head ... ...

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