How to Play Badminton

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Dave Zarco with USA Badminton and I'm here at Don Shula's Athletic Club in Miami Lakes, Florida. In this clip I'm going to show you how to play badminton. Now right now this court has 4 players we're going to be playing doubles. Yaz is going to serve to Julio and Dudley and when you serve you have to serve across court. So it starts out on the right hand side and the purpose is it must be an underhand serve. Also when do you start the point, server and receiver cannot move their feet until the shuttle has been struck by the server. After that, anything goes. Also it must be, it must land on this line or beyond it. If it lands on this side of the line on the serve, it is no good. In doubles the service court is wider, it goes all the way to the end but it is shorter for the serve. The serve can only go up to here. After that play goes all the way to the back. That's and typically you want to hit the shuttle on the ground or force them to hit it into the net or to hit it out. Now this is how you play the doubles. Now in singles because you can play doubles or singles, it's one on each side and again, you serve cross court and when you play when you are serving the typical single serve is a high deep serve to push the opponent to the back. When you are watching the doubles court, the doubles game, the serve was short and that's the typical doubles serve. And this in a nutshell is how you play badminton. Once again this is Dave Zarco for USA Badminton, thank you for watching."