Badminton

Today we had someone from Badminton Southland come to teach us some badminton skills in the hall.  We were learning the importance of keeping our eyes on the shuttle so that we could hit it more than once. 

First, we threw the shuttle into the air and clapped once before catching it.

Next we got another shuttle so that we had two.  We had to throw one shuttle into the air and catch it with the second shuttle.

Lastly, we were given a racquet to hit the shuttle with.  We had to hold the racquet with the hand that we write with, and the shuttle with the other hand, by the feathers.  Next we dropped the shuttle onto the strings of the racquet and hit the shuttle gently.

Did you know?

• badminton is the 4th most popular sport in the world - BB
• you use rackets and shuttles
• it is an indoor sport - AM
• the shuttle has a cork covered with goat skin at its base. This is the bit you hit with the racket - MO
• the shuttle has 16 goose feathers above the cork - BC
• it takes 2 feathers from 8 geese to make one shuttle - KR
• a shuttle can travel at 420km/hr