Tomasz Dzierzewicz

Rules of Badminton

October 31, 2013

The absolute basics

You and our opponent has the same goal - to hit the shuttlecock1 withyour racket so that it passes over the net and lands inside your opponent’shalf of the court. Whenever you do this, you have won a rally; win enoughrallies, and you win the match.

Once the shuttle touches the ground, the rally is over. In this respect,badminton is not like tennis or squash, where the ball can bounce.

You must hit the shuttle once only before it goes over the net (even indoubles). In this respect, badminton is not like volleyball, where multipleplayers can touch the ball before sending it back over the net.

Equipment:

• Racquets,

• Strings,

• Strings,

• Shuttlecock,

• Braveheart.

1A shuttlecock/shuttle also called a bird or birdie is a high-drag projectile used in thesport of badminton

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History and development

Badminton is a very old game. Which history starts over 2000 yearsago. In the 5th century BC, the people in china then played a gamecalled ti jian zi2The objective of the game was to keep the shuttle from hittingthe ground without using hand. It was the first game that uses a Shuttle.

About five centuries later, a game named Battledore and Shuttlecockwas played in china, Japan, India and Greece. This is a game where youuse the Battledore (a paddle) to hit the Shuttlecock back and forth. By the16th century, it has become a popular game among children in England. InEurope this game was known as jeu de volant to them. In the 1860s, a gamenamed Poona was played in India. This game is much like the Battledoreand Shuttlecock but with an added net. The British army learned this gamein India and took the equipments back to England during the 1870s.

In 1873, the Duke of Beaufort held a lawn party in his country place,Badminton. A game of Poona was played on that day and becamepopular among the British society’s elite. The new party sport became knownas ”the Badminton game”. In 1877, the Bath Badminton Club was formedand developed the first official set of rules. The International BadmintonFederation (IBF) was formed in 1934 with 9 founding members: England,Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Denmark, Holland, Canada, New Zealand, France.

2Ti jian zi mean kicking the shuttle.

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Badminton at the Summer Olympics

Badminton had its debut at the 1992 Summer Olympics and has beencontested in 5 Olympiads. 50 different nations have appeared in the Olympicbadminton competitions, with 19 appearing all 5 times. It is governed bythe Badminton World Federation.

Medal tableRank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total

1 China 16 8 14 382 Soutch Korea 6 7 5 183 Indonesia 6 6 6 184 Denmark 1 2 3 65 Malaysia 0 3 2 56 Great Britain 0 1 1 27 Japan 0 1 0 17 Netherland 0 1 0 19 India 0 0 1 19 Russia 0 0 1 1

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The physics of badminton

Physical Terms in Badminton

• Drag -FD = 12pv2CDA

• Momentum p∆ =∫F (t)dt

• Tension∑ ~F = 0

• Velocity ~F = s∆t∆

Mass Added versus Average Velocity of Shuttle

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Contents

The absolute basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1A bit of a Badminton history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Badminton at the Summer Olympics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3The physics of badminton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

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