The document discusses the key equipment used in badminton, including racquets, strings, grips, shuttlecocks, and shoes. It provides details on the materials, weights, tensions, and specifications of these items.
The document discusses the key equipment used in badminton, including racquets, strings, grips, shuttlecocks, and shoes. It provides details on the materials, weights, tensions, and specifications of these items.
The document discusses the key equipment used in badminton, including racquets, strings, grips, shuttlecocks, and shoes. It provides details on the materials, weights, tensions, and specifications of these items.
The document discusses the key equipment used in badminton, including racquets, strings, grips, shuttlecocks, and shoes. It provides details on the materials, weights, tensions, and specifications of these items.
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BADMINTON
2021
DATE \@ "MMMM d" \* MERGEFORMAT
May 31
Tshn1106 Authored by: Your Name
1 Equipment Racquets Badminton racquets are lightweight, with top quality racquets weighing between 70 and 95 grams not including grip or strings. Cheap racquets are still often made of metals such as steel, but wooden racquets are no longer manufactured for the ordinary market, because of their excessive mass and cost. Nowadays, nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes and fullerene are added to racquets giving them greater durability. Different racquets have playing characteristics that appeal to different players.
The traditional oval head shape is still available, but an isometric head shape is increasingly common in new racquets.
2 Strings Recreational players generally string at lower tensions than professionals, typically between 80 and 110 N . Some string manufacturers measure the thickness of their strings under tension so they are actually thicker than specified when slack. This is, in fact, incorrect, for a higher string tension can cause the shuttle to slide off the racquet and hence make it harder to hit a shot accurately. The most effective way for a player to find a good string tension is to experiment.
Grip The choice of grip allows a player to increase the thickness of their racquet handle and choose a comfortable surface to hold. A player may build up the handle with one or several grips before applying the final layer. Players may choose between a variety of grip materials. Replacement grips are thicker and are often used to increase the size of the handle.
Overgrips are thinner , and are often used as the final layer. Many players, however, prefer to use replacement grips as the final layer. Towelling grips are always replacement grips.
Shuttlecock A shuttlecock (often abbreviated to shuttle; also called a birdie) is a high- drag projectile, with an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen overlapping feathers embedded into a rounded cork base. The cork is covered with thin leather or synthetic material.
3 Synthetic shuttles are often used by recreational players to reduce their costs as feathered shuttles break easily. These nylon shuttles may be constructed with either natural cork or synthetic foam base and a plastic skirt.
Badminton rules also provide for testing a shuttlecock for the correct speed: 3.1: To test a shuttlecock, hit a full underhand stroke that makes contact with the shuttlecock over the back boundary line. The shuttlecock shall be hit at an upward angle and in a direction parallel to the sidelines. 3.2: A shuttlecock of the correct speed will land not less than 530 mm and not more than 990 mm short of the other back boundary line.
Shoes Badminton shoes are lightweight with soles of rubber or similar high-grip, non-marking materials. Compared to running shoes, badminton shoes have little lateral support. High levels of lateral support are useful for activities where lateral motion is undesirable and unexpected. Badminton, however, requires powerful lateral movements.
