Backcourt Hitting Techniques
Here's a common situation in a game of badminton: You are standing in the front half of the
court when the opponent blasts the shuttle towards your back boundary. You don't react fast
enough and the shuttle flies behind you. Even if you manage to hit the bird by stretching your
body to its limits, all that results in is a high shot that doesn't fly past your opponent's
mid-court, resulting in an easy kill shot. You might even hurt yourself if you are not careful. This
scenario happens very often in a competitive badminton game, so what is the best way to for a
player to handle this situation?
The situation in the last paragraph happens most often when you go to the net to return a drop
shot with a lifting shot. The opponent will hit an attacking clear to your back boundary. Even if
you try your hardest, you are still about 1 -1.5 meters away from where the bird will land. At that
point, the shuttle is falling close to vertically downwards. Even if you bend and stretch your
body backwards, the bird is still too far back for you to produce a good hit. You can try a slice
drop or a half-smash, but again you are not in the best position to hit those shots and will
probably end up missing or hitting the bird into the net. This is a pretty tough situation to get
out of, and there are currently no instruction material or badminton classes that teach people
ways to handle something like this. So is there no way to make an effective return? No, there is
an answer for this problem, and the answer is an unconventional and sometimes miraculous
hitting technique that many players wouldn't even think of.
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