How Do You Hold A Badminton Racket?
“Hi I’m Dave Zarco with USA Badminton and I’m here at Don Shula’s Athletic Club in Miami Lakes, Florida. In this segment I’m going to show you how to hold a badminton racquet. Now if you’ll look at this racquet, if you see there are two fat parts to the grip that coincide with the face of a racquet. What you do is you take this finger and I’m going to have Yaz over here show you, you take this finger and you put it right here and then on the other fat part you take your thumb and you put it there and then you just curl it on your finger. So you are basically holding it loosely on your fingers and not in the palm of your hand. That is your basic forehand grip. Now to go to the backhand grip, all you are going to do is you’re going from this to this and when you do that it turns the racquet and it puts your thumb flat with the face of the racquet on the fat part and you just hold the racquet with your other four fingers on the other side and that’s your backhand grip. And then there is o
