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__**What Is Badminton ?**__

Badminton is a sport played inside on a court with a net in the middle. Badminton is a fun and enjoyable game which involves you hitting a shuttlecock with a racket, over a net and on to the other side of the court.

On one half of the court there a two rectangular shaped boxes in the middle with a outside line in the shape of a rectangle as well on the right and left side also at the back of the court. It has the same on the other side with a net in between.

The rules of the game are if the shuttlecock is in play and you and your opponent are hitting back and forth to each other and one of you hit the net the other person gets a point. If it was singles where there is just you and one opponent the left and right rectangular boxes, on the out side are out and the rectangular box at the back and the two boxes in the middle are in. So if you hit the shuttlecock to your opponent and it lands on the left or right rectangular boxes your opponent gets one point. If there is you and a friend on one side and two opponents the left and the right are out and the back is in. So you would want to it it at the back of the court and not at the sides of the court.

The aim of the game is to hit the shuttlecock onto the other side of the net and get it to hit the ground inside of the court. If you do that you get one point and you will have to try and get it to hit the ground twenty-one times and you get twenty-one points if you do so you win because you are supposed to get twenty-one points to win and if the other person you are playing against gets twenty-one points then you lose.

There are four of positions in badminton there is left and right those are attack positions those positions are good if you are wining the game, back and front are defensive positions this position is good if you are losing the game. if you are at the front you have to hit all the shuttlecocks that come at the front or just over the net you would have to lift it all the way to the back of the opposite side of the court or just hit it just over the net and make it difficult for your opponent or opponents. If you are at the back position you would hit all the shuttlecocks that come flying to the back and you would have to drop shot it to the front of the net or smash it to the back of the other side of the court.

If you are at the left position you would hit all the shuttles that come to the left or in the middle of the court if you were right handed and always have used the racket in your right hand you would hit the shuttles that come down the middle. If you were in the right position you would hit the shuttlecocks that come down the right side of the court and you hit the shuttles that come in the middle. You would only hit them if you were left handed and if you were left handed and you team mate was right handed you would have to talk to each other and rind out who would hit the shuttle that came down the middle.

For serving you can do a back hand serve or a lifting serve to the back of the court. If you are doing a back hand you are aiming for the front of the other court so you have do hit the shuttle lightly. If you are doing a lifting serve you are aiming for the back of the court and near the middle.

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