Badminton Serving Techniques

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Dave Zarco with USA Badminton and I'm here at Don Shula's Athletic Club in Miami Lakes, Florida. OK in this segment I'm going to give you some badminton serving techniques. OK there are three serves, the regular high deep serve, the short conventional serve and the backhand doubles serve which is also used at times for singles in the higher level matches, OK? Now with the high deep serve what you will do is you will start with your weight on your back foot, you will just hold the shuttle like this and you open your hand so that it drops straight and you let it drop to down here and then you just step into your serve and you swing straight up across your body. Like what Julio will do. OK? That's the high deep serve. Now the short serve is like this where you're basically just going to have the racquet go parallel to the net and all you're doing is just turning at the trunk and you just block it across the net and you take it below the waist obviously and the racquet head must also be below the wrist. Short serve, just like that and that's meant to be a short serve which you use in doubles and also singles. Now the last serve is the backhand serve which is the service of choice for most doubles players these days and all it is is it's a backhand grip and you're holding it by the feathers this time and when you do it all you do is you bring the racquet back and you just block and you stop right there and it pivots at your elbow. Just like that. Once again I'm Dave Zarco with USA Badminton, thank you for watching."