badminton

Everyone in this world has their own interests especially in sport. Of course every individual will be different in loving sport. Some people may enjoy going swimming in a beach, going jogging every morning, playing soccer in the weekend or maybe playing badminton every evening and there also some people who are very interested in a sport but they cannot play it, so that the only prefer to watch their favorite sport players competing in television or only look at people playing it. For people who are interesting in badminton, here we will discuss about it.

Badminton is a sport which is played by using racket and shuttlecock. It is played by either two opposing players (men's or women's singles) or two opposing pairs (men's or women's doubles) and two opposing mixed pairs (men’s and women’s mixed doubles), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their opponents' half of the court. Each side may only strike the shuttlecock once before it passes over the net. A rally ends once the shuttlecock has struck the floor. So, the technique in playing badminton is, first, service.  Second is Lob. The third is Drop shot (Punch Cut).The next is Smash. The last is netting.

Of course there are some equipments which are needed in playing badminton. First of all, we need to prepare the rackets completed with the string and the grip. We also need a shuttlecock, net and of course the court. If we want to make powerful lateral movements and protect our feet, we need to use badminton shoes. It is actually used in formal badminton, but if we just want to play it just for fun because it is our hobbies. We do not need all of the equipments. Just prepare the racquets and the shuttlecock then for the court we can play everywhere we like. It can be in our yard or in our garden. If we do not like to use shoes, we do not have to use shoes. That’s just up to the person who wants to play it.

Badminton is known as a sport that most of the way of playing is using the circle of our hand. So that’s way, how the way we hold the racket is so important because it can effect in the quality of our belting. One of the based techniques of Badminton that is very important to learn for badminton players is racket belting. The right way of holding the racket is that racked must be held by using our fingers smoothly, relax, but we have to have big energy when we belt the shuttlecock. Remember to avoid holding the racked using palm of hand like when we are holding a knave.

Indonesia has many good badminton players, like Susi Susanti. She is a badminton player from tasikmalaya.  Starting from sea Games competition in 1987 which bring her to get many rewards in every competittion like in Barcelona Olimpiade 1992 and World Championship 1993. She also got reward as Bintang Jasa Utama from Indonesia in 1992 and the world hall of fame in 2004. Now, she becomes a badminton coach. Indonesia has many incredible badminton players, not only Susi Susanti but also Alan Budi Kusuma. He is  Susi’s husband. He is a badminton player from Surabaya. He had won Barcelona olimpiade in 1992, he got gold medal like his wife and also became the winner of Dutch Open in 1989. Those achievements have met him with Susi Susanti. The next generation after Susi Susanti and Alan Budi Kusuma is Taufik Hidayat. He is a badminton player from Bandung. He has a good technique in playing badminton. His achievements are gotten in some competition in 1998 up to 2011 such as Brunei open Champion and the newest achievement is Runner up PROTON MALAYSIA OPEN SUPER SERIES. Because of him, indonesia has two gold medals  as the result of the good plays of taufik hidayat. Of course Indonesia is proud of their achievements.”

Beside badminton as national or international sport, which is usually used as a formal competition, badminton also can be a sport for people interesting in it in order to spend their free time, to lose their burden after a whole day working or studying, or to make their body healthier. If it is just a hobby, we do not have to know much about it. We can only play and enjoy it. That’s very simple. However, if we are really interested in it, we sometimes want to know much, even everything about it. For the very basic thing that is who the players we like the most, when there will be a badminton competition, and how is the best technique to be able to play badminton very well and so on.

Most people in Indonesia who like badminton, they do not really know about how good they are playing, but it is only about how enjoy they are. They usually learn by using autodidact way. For example, their parents are used to play badminton with their children in free time. From this way, the children may accustom to play badminton even though they do not know the good technique to play it because it is only as a hobby. Sometimes hobby of playing badminton is gotten from school. All of school in Indonesia has extra class included sport and from this opportunity they can play badminton and they are so much interested in it.

            Having interest in sport can have various meaning for people. It can be their means of being happy and fun. By playing badminton people will feel relax and enjoy. Badminton is not something difficult to learn. If we are used to play badminton, we will able to play it even though not really well. It doesn’t matter if we just take the sport only as their hobby, but if we want to be a badminton athlete of course there are some techniques that have to be learn deeply.