Equipment:

• Racquets.
• Birdies, possible some feathered birdies so the class can experience how they move.
• Nets.
• Some sort of birdie retrieval system, device; ex. Ladder.

• Proper gym strip; gym/court shoes, comfortable short/sweats, shirts, etc.
• No food or drink in the gymnasium; messy & possible slip.
• No chewing gum; choke.
• No hats; slip.
• No loose birdies or racquets; slip.
• Never have students practicing a skill directly across from one another, unless they are a distance away, or practicing a net shot, or overhead clear; projectile injuries.
• Have a emergency action plan in place encase of any emergency.
• Have a first aid kit in the gymnasium.

Useful Hints:

Progressions:
Skill:

• Underhand clear and serve.
• Overhead clear.
• Drop shot.
• Net shot.
• Smash.

• Movement.
• Consistency.
• Placement.
• Positioning.
• Singles.
• Doubles.

Teaching Underhand Serve:

• To drop the birdie, put a racquet against your front heel, perpendicular to your body and place another racquet parallel to your body, facing forward, with the handle in the middle of the other racquet.  Your objective is to drop the birdie in the parallel racquet head.  You are forced to extent your arm out in front to get the birdie to land on the racquet head.  This arm extension is the motion that you want to repeat every time you serve.  This birdie placement is the exact drop area that you want, to develop a proficient serve.

• Everyone, especially teenage males enjoy smashing and will attempt to perform it as much as possible.  Smashing is a useful badminton stroke, but is not fundamental to rallying.  Have the class learn the overhead clear and underhand clear prior to smashing.  The overhead clear is an almost identical stroke to the overhead clear, but instead of hitting up, you hit down.  Once the class can overhead clear accurately with proper technique then slowing move into the smash.