As
you can see, I'm a badminton player. But the picture above does not look
like me. At our school, we have a badminton team. We have a girl's team
and guys team. Everybody could play and there separated in categories there's,
bantam, midget and finally there's juvenile. At my school I'm playing midget,
but at the competition that we had recently, I played juvenile, because
there was someone that got injured, so I had to replace him. In bantam
there are two people that play single, but these two persons have to be
the best ones in the school that play bantam. It's all the same things
for the other categories. For the rules of badminton are the following:
SCORING AND SERVING:
15 points are required to win a set (11 for women) with possible exceptions:
If the score is 14-14 the player who reached 14 first is allowed to decide if he wants to end the set at 15 or 17 points
(Women: 10-10 --> 11 or 12).
2 sets won are required for victory in a game.
A player serves always from the right serving area across the court to the left, when having an even amount of points.
Correspondingly, when having an odd amount of points, the player serves from left to right. Please check out the hopefully
clarifying
figure if unclear.
SPECIALITIES FOR THE DOUBLES GAME:
Players are named: Even and Odd
The Even player serves as explained above, but the Odd player serves exactly in the opposite way.
A player servers as long as he is able to score points. After that his team mate continues.
After both players on the team have lost their serve once, the other team may start serving. The first serve comes always from
the rigth serving area and the first server, when having even points, is the Even player and Odd player on odd points
correspondingly.
SPECIAL
EXCEPTION: When a new set begins the team that serves first has only one
serve (even player).
OTHER RULES:
The shuttle is allowed to "touch" the net, but the racket is NOT.
The player is not allowed to prevent the other players "swing" on the net with his racket.
The shuttle landing on the line is considered IN.
While serving, the racket must hit the shuttle under the players waist level and the feet are not allowed to move.
One must serve with one continuous "swing", i.e. you are not allowed to stop the movement of the racket, once you've began
the
serve, until the racket hits the shuttle.