Hi guys! Welcome back to Badminton Insight, I'm Greg, I'm Jenny and we're international
badminton players and I also have a lots of experience in coaching. We're now coming
to the end of week six of lockdown! We hope that you're enjoying our videos, we're trying to
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Today's video is going to show you how to improve your next spin
skills from home and we're also going to show you how to retrieve a net cord like this
Firstly we're gonna look at how to practice controlling the spin from our
opponent's net shots and for this we have three key coaching points.
Firstly we're going to have a relaxed grip be nice and loose in our fingers and thumb.
Secondly we're going to try and hit against the spin of the shuttle as that
will really enable us to control the shot.
And lastly we're not trying to hit
the shuttle too hard, it needs to be a light delicate touch.
We're going to start by spinning the shuttle to ourselves to get used to this
control and feel of the shuttle on the strings. Now we're going to start in our forehand
and we're going to practice spinning it to ourselves from an out to in spin as
well as an in to out spin. This is of course most commonly used in singles as
creating that height on the shuttle is going to help generate the revolutions
and it's going to come down steeper, making it harder for our opponents to
retrieve. Now this is in contrast to doubles, where there's often more
pressure from the front of the court so we can't actually get away with playing
that loopier net shot so we often go for more flatter net shots, so I'm gonna
have a try this!
Okay as you could see I started off with the out to in spin and then went to an in to out spin.
Now we'll do it on our backhand...
Moving on from that we're going now practice
hitting with someone if you have someone in isolation with you that's a good level,
or you can get someone to hand feed you, but first we need to put our net up!
Thats a cord! So if you don't have anyone to hit with of a decent level, you can try hand feeding the shuttle. Now we're gonna do this by using the thumb
and your finger to spin the shuttle and really try and roll it over the net to
generate the spin. I'm going to hand feed Greg on his forehand side to start.
As you can see I was reacting to the spin that Jenny created because it was different
every time and I adjusted between going from in to out and out to in depending
where the cork was coming down. Now I'm gonna feed Jenny on her backhand side,
watch out for her taking the shuttle early to negate the spin and play a good
shot, but also sometimes she might make the decision to let this short drop so
the spin has gone out of it and she'll take it a lot later!
Ultimate spin!
Good!!
So we hope you can experiment with that.
Now moving on to our second how-to, we're gonna look at how to retrieve net cords like this...
Moving on to the second type of net we are using in this video, here we have hung a towel over our kitchen island,
or you can use a dining room table. And we've used the towel as a good visual
representation of when we're trying to get the net cord back we want to make sure
that we're not hitting the net as that's obviously a fault!
So we're going to take you through both the forehand and the backhand techniques
of how to get a net cord back.
For both the forehand and the backhand on this
there's a few key points we need to focus on. Firstly we need to have a deep
lunge with a low centre of gravity, nice and low. Secondly our arm needs to
be aligned with our lunging racket leg. Not out here so that we have control!
Thirdly we need to be quite close to the shuttle so we're not trying to play
the shot out there, again being close gives us that control! And lastly we need
to have relaxed fingers and thumb so for the forehand we actually need to have a
backhand grip and we need to go from an in to out motion like Ginting did on that video!
So moving on to the backhand side, for this we want a panhandle grip
and it's the same grip that we'd use when we're taking a late backhand shot in the rear court!
And as Greg said just before we want to have a nice low stance,
getting close to the shuttle and making sure our racket arm is in line with our front leg.
And as we're about to hit the shot at the very last second we want to bring both our
arm and our wrist back and away just like Lee Chong Wei did!
We are really urging you to make the most out of this time off court to
improve your skills, so when we go back on court you're better badminton players as a result!
We've also done some previous videos which you can go check out to see
how you can learn more skills and improve your game! And we'll definitely be
doing more when we get back on court! So go smash that subscribe button so you
don't miss out, thank you for watching and see you next time!