We often hear a lot of people saying that they only have a half court to train on and we've
also had this problem in the past and still do at tournaments, so today we're going to go
through the best routines you can do on half a court. These will help to improve your consistency
and refine the many skills you need in order to become a better badminton player.
So we're going to get straight into it by showing clips of me and Greg doing
all of the routines and make sure you listen out for us giving tips on every practice as we go.
The first exercise is smash and layoff. For the person who's smashing
it's a great exercise to focus on your smash timing and your footwork.
The exercise is also good for the feeder who can practice their defense and their lift accuracy.
If you want both players on court to work then you can change it to smash
block and lift like this. And all the exercises we're going to show in this video are great no
matter if you're a doubles or singles player, you might just need to slightly adapt your technique.
Okay so next up we have drives, and again there are two levels to this exercise.
Level one is just basic drives focusing on generating power in your shots with a short action
and changing your grips quickly.
Level two is then drives where one player can occasionally lift
and the other player moves back to smash it and then they go back into drives like this. This is
so that you don't get too comfortable hitting it from one position and you can practice still
moving back to get the lift. It's really important to use your fingers and thumb to help you generate
power in these drives and being nice and relaxed until the point of contact will help you with this.
This exercise is similar to the first but focuses more on the longer movements
as this time you move all the way to the service line. As well as focusing on your footwork and your
consistency the worker should practice their overhead variety using different pace drops.
The fourth exercise is pressure defense, an exercise we do many times in our weekly
training. For the defender this is great to work on your reactions and also your defensive technique.
And for the feeder at the net, it's a great exercise to focus on having
a short and crisp hitting action and also changing your grip quickly.
There are actually three varieties of this exercise but we'll go through that on a future
video so make sure you smash the subscribe button if you haven't already so you don't miss out.
This is a simple exercise however think about how many times you miss a simple shot in a match.
And this is why we need to sometimes practice the basics so we never miss!
It's great to focus solely on your consistency and technique of your drops and you should do
a variety of different shots and place a high emphasis on not making any mistakes. Once again
the feeder can also practice their accurate lifting and movement timing on their lifts.
And the next exercise we have is rear mid. Despite commonly doing this across the full
court, it's still a great exercise to do on a half court as we sometimes end up in
a side by side battle in doubles meaning we only cover our half. The emphasis on this for
the worker is explosive speed, consistency and also shot choices, not going for 100% power from
the drives or smashes when you're not in a good position like Jenny is demonstrating well here.
For the feeder it's a good exercise to focus on defense quality and lift
accuracy. For you advanced players out there you can switch between feeding big court,
so high and open lifts and maybe a flatter style making the worker jump
out onto everything. It's a great exercise for agility in that sense.
The seventh exercise is one of our favorites and my favorite exercise
I like to do just before going into a match. This trains our fast reactions and both players should
focus on having a short hitting action otherwise you won't recover quickly enough for the next shot
This is actually the exercise we did when breaking the Guinness World Record
so go and check that out after this if you missed it.
And our final exercise is mid-court pushes and this is a great exercise to have a bit
of competition and also improve your shot quality, touch and control. Here we're playing a game where
a shot that hits the net tape is a point, whilst pushing it down the tramlines and it's first to five points.
Now with all these exercises they are great for both singles and doubles players
however singles players in this exercise will of course do it on the singles court.
We'd recommend doing each of these exercises for around 60 to 90 seconds and then swapping
over with your partner after every set. Working through all of these exercises twice through will
take you around 45 minutes.
And let us know in the comments below if you have any other favorite
half-court routines you like to do and also if you get as competitive as we did during them. After all, you've
got to have some fun although the main point of training is because you like winning of course
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