Monday, December 1, 2008

Period 2 Badminton


Badminton Rules and Regulations

A badminton match is played to the best of three games. Rock-Paper-Scissors determines first serve or choice of side. The object of a badminton game is to hit the badminton shuttlecock over the badminton net and onto the ground within bounds on your opponent's side of the court. A rally can also be lost by hitting the shuttle into the badminton net, out of bounds, before it crosses the net to your side, or if it strikes your clothing or body rather than your badminton racket.
Badminton Scoring Formats
In class we will utilize rally play; 21 points are needed to win a badminton game.
In rally play, a point can be awarded to either team, and in most cases, a point is awarded along with resumption of service, except when a rally point is lost by the first member of a serving doubles team.
At the conclusion of each badminton game, players or teams must switch sides. If a third game is necessary during a match, sides are switched during that game when a player/team has reached eight points in doubles or men's singles, six points in women's singles, or 11 points in rally play.

Badminton Serving Rules
As in tennis, badminton service is always done diagonally, e.g. from the right service court to the opponent's left service court. The first serve is always taken from the right court, and subsequent serves are taken from alternating sides.
Line shots in badminton service or rallies are considered in, though court bounds are different for singles and doubles play. The back line is the same for both, but singles badminton is played with the narrower of the two sidelines.

For your blog for this week. Tell me one thing you learned about badminton that you did not know before reading this blog.

P.S. The rock/paper/scissors thing I made up it is not an official badminton rule.

36 comments:

Anonymous said...

Philip Ni-

Before this blog, I didn't know that you had to first play rock, paper, scissors before the match. I also didn't know that the shuttle cock can't touch you.

Anonymous said...

Allen Zhou

I learned that 21 points are needed to win a badminton game.

Anonymous said...

Jennifer Huang - pd 2

In this blog, I learned that if there is a third game, in the middle of the game, the teams switch sides. I also learned that badminton plays until 21 points and that they serve is done diagonally like in tennis.

Anonymous said...

I learned that badminton plays up to 21 points

Brandon Wong

Anonymous said...

The game ends after a team reaches 21 points.

-Emily Corcoran

Anonymous said...

i learned that 21 points are needed to win a badminton game.
-Teresa Turmanian

Anonymous said...

Willis Ibeh:)

I did not know that in badminton, you have to serve diagnally and also you cant serve overhead.

Anonymous said...

Daniel Nozick -

I did not know that it was called a shuttlecock, i always thought it was called a birdie. I also never knew that the serve is decided by rock-paper-scissors.

Anonymous said...

you play best out of three games in badminton, play to 21

Evelyn Ting

Anonymous said...

Before I didn't know we had to switch sides everytime someone scored. i thought they stayed on the same side.

Eddie Tsao

Anonymous said...

i learned that there are legitamate rules in badmitten.

Frances Lasday

Anonymous said...

Young Sung Hong

I learned that the first serve is determined by game of rock, papaer and scissors. (kidding)

With this information, I learned that the first serve is always taken from the right court, and subsequent serves are taken from alternating sides.

Anonymous said...

I learned how to spell Badminton. Besides that i learned how two teams decide who will serve first, by doing rock paper sciccor shoe.

-JAKE

Anonymous said...

I learned that in Badminton, the bounds for the court are different for singles and doubles play. I also learned that it is socially appropriate and acceptable to say shuttlecock as many times as desired even in public places such as school.

Johnny Stopher

Anonymous said...

i learned that to win, you have to get 21 points

Eddy Yang

Anonymous said...

-luke moon

You asked for one thing I learned but I'll list 3
-(not offical) have to play Rock, paper, scissors, to determine who goes first
-also did not know game goes up to 21
-lastly that the shuttle can't touch you

-noo actualy the 4th thing I learned was the shuttle's name
(shuttle cock)

Anonymous said...

I learned that a rock paper scissor match decided who served first.

Kevin Liao

Anonymous said...

Helena H.

I never knew that you lose points if it hits your clothes.
I also didn't know about the whole "serve diagonally like in tennis" thing.

Anonymous said...

i learned the first serve is taken from the right of the court. Also the subsequent serves are taken from alternation sides

Casey Dowling

Anonymous said...

I didn't know that a badminton service is always done diagonally in which the first serve is always taken from the right court.
Victoria Xu

Anonymous said...

Mayya Agapova

I did not know that you had to get 21 points in order to win and that it was best out of 3 games.

Anonymous said...

I did not know that the badmintion serve is always diagonal and is an underhand serve.

Madeleine Mietus

Anonymous said...

I learned that the serve has to be diagonal and that the shuttle cannot hit anything besides the racket.

-Edward Wang

Anonymous said...

I learned that you need 21 points to win a game.

-Isabelle Ku

Anonymous said...

Nicolas Texier

From this blog I learned that badminton is played up to 21 points.

Unknown said...

i learned that in the third game, for rally scoring you switch sides after 11 points have been reached by one team.
Evan Rindler

Anonymous said...

before I did not know that in badminton the player has to serve diagonally. I also did not know that an overhand serve is not allowed. Lastly i learned that the birdie can also be called a shuttlecock.

Subhradeep Datta

Anonymous said...

Before this blog i did not know that to win a game you must earn 21 points.

--Nisha Patel

Anonymous said...

Irene Yang -
i learned that 21 points are needed to win

Anonymous said...

Sam Zacks

From this blog i learned that you are required to serve the shuttleCOCK to the side diagonal to you

Anonymous said...

Sam Zacks

From this blog i learned that you are required to serve the shuttlecock to the side diagonal to you

Anonymous said...

i learned that line shots are considered in for badminton
jessica yarvin

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

lauren celine
i learned that there are 21 points needed to win a badminton game.

Anonymous said...

ZaQ Mason

BEFORE THIS i did not know that the COCK can't touch you. also i didn't know that you had to play rock,paper scissors before a game


Also i didn't know the COCK was called a COCK

Anonymous said...

Kristopher Neild

i did not know that the serve went from right to left across the ney