4 Corners Badminton Footwork Basics 

Badminton Smash. 1. Footwork Start with weight on back foot, move weight onto front foot (racket hand foot) as you address the shuttle. Your weight needs to transfer via the rotation of the body stage. Jump and change from back foot to front front. 2. Body rotation The movement start with the feet but weight transfer should carry on with the hips alternating to the opposite facing position (left hip to face right or vice versa in the jump stage depending on your racket arm like the feet they should end up in the opposite position. 3. As you are about to jump to rotate point at the shuttle with your non racket hand draw back your racket hand (like a bow) 4. Your body needs to project forward reaching towards the highest point you can hit the shuttle from. 5. Use your arm like whip. hitting the shuttle at the highest point. As you make contact with the shuttle your wrist should pronate (inwards) the knuckle on your thumb should be pointing down as you finish the smash. 6.Your racket head should end up pointing down towards you non racket hand foot. This action will improve your dynamics of smashing. When you realise little effort is required by over exerting power you will hit the shuttle clean and with power without over hitting. Hope this helps!

try ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8QlW8_PdYbw.html 1:55 onwards is a good example!

www.tubemate.video/videos/detail_web/gwDNZsEEvJ4

what about footwork side by side?

Poison Cobra lol suddenly found your comment here..

Jordan Hii practice a forehand net and practice the around the head shadow ! You don’t even need a court

Interesting

A chasse to the front forehand side is probably a more advanced movement for starters. I believe that it is actually more efficient and faster.

Just to clarify, are you talking about taking running steps (like in this video) vs chasse steps? If so there's a reason for that. This is really supposed to be a VERY basic overview of badminton footwork for beginners. I do mention there are different movement patterns for different in game situations. For example if you play a cross court drop from around the head, and the opponent does a straight block - your footwork is going to resemble running steps much more than chasse steps. Of course the opposite is true, there are many situations where you'll need to chasse to the FH corner. But as coaches, it's important not to overwhelm the player with too much information, especially at a beginner level. We may take it for granted, but this is a lot to remember for someone who is new to the sport. So for that reason I chose to simply it, and just give one type of movement for each corner in this video. So why did I choose running steps instead of chasse? Well I used to do a lot of coaching with Xu Huai Wen (European Champion singles player), and we found that this technique comes much more 'naturally' for beginners. So we've always first introduced them to moving in this way, and as they become more confident we introduce additional movement patterns that are more appropriate for certain situations. At the end of the day neither of them are wrong, but this is the way I've always taught it and it works well. But there are many schools of thinking in badminton, and that's part of why I love it so much. I respect your channel a lot, so I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

Swift Badminton School we can see your point. It might be the greatest answer we have ever had! I (Mads) will really try to teach older 'beginners' these techniques! Actually they have seen your video as preparation for tomorrow's session. You are completely right about making the cross, to demonstrate simple movement patterns - which definitely will be very easy for everyone to apply as a basic. Then afterwards when it gets necessary, the footwork can have a remake. Again great video! We are really hoping for more cooperation in the future ✌

Me too, love your channel and it's really great to be able to share insights with each other. I've been to Denmark to play badminton once and it was a great experience!

Plus which racket is in your hand, I bought a mao 11 II, do review it.

Hi

RU-vid needs a setting to watch videos in mirrored view :)

Absolutely, this is covering the basics only.

awesome man!

I'm down in Surrey

will do mate

Swift Badminton School thanks bro. I really appreciate it.

You should be able to get to the extreme corners like this. But feel free to take more steps if you need to

Yep sorry about that mate, shoot me an email and I'll manually send you a copy

5MWN will do!

I do and generally don't have issues with that. But you could try contact lenses

Pranav Shinde the method your coach taught you is correct, but more for beginners who can't reach the net in 2 steps. As you get better you'll want to just take 2 steps as it's much faster.

Swift Badminton School ok so I'll try this one from now on

You should be aiming to reach all four corners with 2steps from the mid making 2step a basic why would you learn a 3 step movement and relearn a 2 step, when I started my training my coach constantly make me move only 2step thus making it a basic to all of my footwork

Not sure why you're tripping, but you can try chasse stepping instead.