Badminton equipment selection learning

Jayce September 2, 2024 2 0

Playing badminton requires little equipment, the price is not expensive, so many people will always have a racket at home. However, there is a lot to learn about the selection and preservation of equipment.

Badminton

Badminton is divided into two kinds of indoor and outdoor for ordinary enthusiasts, a tube of 20-40 yuan ball is enough. But many people do not know, the same price of the ball is also divided into two types of indoor and outdoor.

Most of the balls we use in our homes are outdoor balls. These balls are made of red rubber, so you don’t have to work too hard to hit them far. The regular tournament balls are indoor badminton balls with white heads. This type of ball has cork inside the bottom bracket and white sheepskin outside, which is suitable for indoor games. There is also an all-plastic badminton ball is also very popular, but it is less elastic, it is recommended that readers who want to learn real kung fu do not use such a badminton ball.

The quality of the badminton backing determines the amount of elasticity of the ball. If it is an outdoor ball, then the rubber must be uniformly thin and tightly bonded. If it is an outdoor ball, then the wood should be soft and the sheepskin wrapping should be dense.

The 16 feathers on a badminton ball determine whether it will fly smoothly. The best feathers are hard, straight, durable goose feathers, which have the best falling speed. Chicken and duck feathers have thin tubes and thin walls, so they bend and deform easily, so the quality is less guaranteed. Feather length should be between 60-70 mm, but also evenly spaced, the same thickness, there should be no inverted hair, broken stalks, insect moths and other problems, otherwise the ball will not go the right way.

Badminton Racket

Racket too light is also not good now on the market a variety of rackets, the price from dozens of yuan to hundreds of yuan, thousands of yuan. I recommend that beginners buy 100-200 yuan brand racket for practice. 30 yuan racket is not unable to play, but it is just that its texture is hard, and can not hold out for a long time will be easily broken.

Some people think that the lighter the racket, the more advanced the material used. In fact, too heavy racket will certainly make people muscle strain, not conducive to sports, but the racket is too light is not strong enough, will seriously affect the strength of the ball, so too light racket is not good.

When picking a racket, you should swing it to see if it shakes your hand. A racket that feels like it shakes your hand is usually too stiff in the shaft and head, and less flexible, which is not conducive to movement.

The handle of the racket can be big or small, when you pick it, you should hold it to feel comfortable. Generally speaking, people with big hands, holding a thin or square handle will be uncomfortable; people with small hands, holding a thick handle is also disproportionate. Finally, check the racket head for deformation, cracks or overall bending.

String

String should not be too tight high-level racket generally do not pre-stringing, which requires the buyer to buy a racket according to their own sports to formulate the texture, tightness of the appropriate string.

From the texture of the strings, there are generally sheep intestine strings, nylon strings, cattle string and chemical fibre sheep intestine synthetic strings four kinds. Sheep intestine string elasticity is good, but easy to break; nylon strings beautiful, but poor elasticity, affected by the temperature, brittle and easy to break in winter; cattle tendon strings are stronger, the price is also low, but the elasticity is poor. Chemical fibre and sheep intestine synthetic strings are the type of strings that professional players love to use in official competitions, which are both firm and flexible, but because of the complicated production process, they are expensive.

The poundage of the string should be different according to the different conditions of each person. The general professional players use a very high poundage of string, the racket surface is very tight, so the return speed is very fast, the technical requirements are higher. For ordinary badminton fans, the racket string needs to leave a little elasticity, do not need to be so tight, 18-22 pounds is enough. If it is offensive playing style fans, racket string needs to pull a little tighter; defensive playing style fans of the racket string can be a little loose.

Keeping Equipment

Keeping equipment should be careful nowadays people use badminton racket is made of carbon alloy material, it is not easy to deform, but afraid of pressure, extrusion, grinding, so it is best to put on the racket cover when not in use, hang up and save.

New rackets usually have soft leather wrapped around the handle, which can prevent players from getting injured when using them because of too much force on both hands or for too long. However, in order to prevent the racket from slipping, athletes also commonly use terrycloth rubber or gauze to replace this layer of soft leather, so that the handle can absorb sweat and feel comfortable and soft in the hand.

Clothing

Badminton is not too demanding on clothing. Generally speaking, the texture is light and soft, flat heel, wear-resistant, shock-absorbing effect of shoes can be used as badminton shoes. And generally loose and comfortable and breathable sweat-absorbent sportswear trousers will be enough to adapt to this kind of sports.

However, travelling shoes with high heels and shoes that will show black marks after friction on the ground are not suitable for this kind of sport that requires sudden running and stopping, so it is recommended that you pay a little attention to your choice.