Badminton is best played indoors. Badminton is also played outdoors as a casual recreational activity, often as a garden or beach game. Badminton is not only fun, but it is also extremely beneficial for your health. Participating in badminton provides a host of health benefits and promotes a long and healthy life. Playing badminton makes you feel good, strong, and motivated. It can help cope with anxiety and stress and offers relief from the pressures of everyday life.
It is quite easy to learn and adapts to all ages and physique, so anyone can practice this sport. Since badminton is a non-contact sport, it is also relatively safe, although it is not completely injury free. One of the most common injuries is falling or twisting, which can lead to knee and ankle sprains. Overstretching your arms during play can also strain your shoulder muscles. These injuries usually take time to heal and can cost a lot if you don’t have insurance. Poor traction can increase the risk of injury, so wear proper shoes and make sure the floors are not too rough or slippery. Warm up before playing and cool off afterward, and wear knee pads and wrist and ankle protectors.
Since 1992, badminton has been a: men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles and mixed doubles, in which each pair is a man and a woman. At high levels of play, the sport demands excellent physical fitness: players require aerobic endurance, agility, strength, speed and precision. It also requires good technical sport and the development of sophisticated racket movements.
Badminton features one player opposing another or competing pairs. The game is played on a surface called a court. The court size is 44 feet long X 17 feet wide for a singles match and 4 feet long X 20 feet wide for a doubles match. The net is supposed to be 5 feet 1 inch at the edges and 5 feet in the center. The objective is to hit the bird or shuttlecock past the opponent so that it lands on the court, or to make the opponent make a mistake and hit the shuttlecock into the net or off the court. A game is the best of three games, played to 21 points.
Badminton is the fastest racket sport and is also considered the second most played sport in the world behind soccer. There are regional leagues and tournaments throughout much of Asia and Europe, as well as countless people who play in schools, gyms, or clubs.
Professional badminton, although many think it does not exist, has all the characteristics that make a sport popular. The stereotype that badminton is an excruciatingly slow sport with little action could not be more wrong. Badminton is in fact the fastest racket sport in the world, even faster than the most popular racket sport, tennis.