Analysing Performance: Badminton Observation of a player in a game and in practice

 

Training: The amount of training that someone does and the type pf training they can do can play a great role in sport, there are many types of training to help players become better at sport:

• Practicing skills over and over again can improve a players skill
• Running is a type of training that can help build up stamina so a player can last through a whole game and does not begin to slack in their efforts
• Weight training or press-ups could be done so that the player can build strength to hit powerful shots.

Injury: Injury can affect players in many ways these affects are mostly always negative. Injuries can be picked up in many ways and many parts of the body can be affected, these can result in the player being out of play and training therefore they can sometimes gain weight and weaken their skills. They may also have to take it easy so they do not injure themselves again.

Diet: The food that sportspeople is highly important because they need to maintain a healthy well balanced diet.

• Proteins are required so that the body can repair itself and help the growth of muscles
• Carbohydrates are good for the body because
• Fats, sugary and fatty foods are good for the body because they provide quick and easy energy, they should only be taken in small amounts because overindulgence can eventually lead to obesity
• Fibre is good for the digestive system as is helps to digest food quicker and eases the passage of food form the body.

Social Factors

Support from friends and family: Support form family and friends is good because it is a form of external motivation that helps give a player the will to win, it help the player gain confidence if he knows that there are people backing him.

Culture: The culture and ethnicity of a persona can affect how good they are when playing certain games there are a range of reason for this:

• They may have role model that have the same background as them and they may inspire the person to do similar things in sports
• They may come from  country where a certain sport is highly popular and played in abundance therefore they may be good in that sport, e.g. English people are enthusiastic about football and therefore the people form England could be good at football because nearly everyone is interested in football

Environment: depending on what climate you live in or in what kind of local area you live in could also affect how much you take part in a certain sport. If there are people from hot countries they may take part in more of the out door sports as opposed to people from colder countries who may take part in other kinds of sport played indoor.

Socializing: The people that one socializes with can affect them because in most cases they will play the same sports and also play together, the friends that one socializes with may look upon a certain sport with a negative attitude and this might put somebody off taking part in that sport.

Peer pressure: This can affect what sport a player does and how well or how badly they perform. Other people maybe in the same age group as them or something, similar people who can be looked upon can apply pressure upon people to do things. Some people motivate themselves to do well in sports so that people can look to them and they can be popular. This is not the only thing peer pressure can do, if other people see another sport as not so good it may put another person away from doing it because they do not want to be seen in a position in which other people dislike them.

 Mental Factors

Motivation- Motivation internal and external motivation is highly important for sport people as this is what normally helps people do better and go on to win. If someone is motivated internally they are setting themselves a goal for a set reason and they feel that they have to achieve it therefore they try to make themselves do well and achieve their ambition. Extrinsic motivation is the motivation received by people who are supporting you, this could be you family and friends, this type of motivation helps a person gain confidence and realise that they do not have to win for themselves but also for the people who are relying upon them to win. Intrinsic motivation can also go against the player because if the player does not meet the goals and win the people who are supporting him may not be happy with him or some people may criticize him making him feel bad. Intrinsic motivation can go against a person because once again if they don’t achieve their goals they will loose confidence in themselves and probably loose the will to exercise and even the will to win.

Concentration: Concentration can affect a player because a in  a sort like badminton a player may be required to keep his eye on the shuttle so that he knows where to go and how to perform the shot. If there is large crowd that are watching him and making noises his concentration may wonder resulting in him making a fatal mistake. Also if someone has something on their mind there concentration would be on that as they would be worrying about something or they may be excited about something as opposed to concentrating on the game.

Stress: if someone was stressed out then they would be worrying about something or would have other things on their mind, they could be emotional or have a lot of things to take care of and this may hinder their concentration and accuracy resulting them loosing vital points, also if someone is not paying full attention they may be susceptible to make a mistake and cause them self an injury. An example of this in a game of badminton could be that there may be a doubles game and the player may forget to call for it and get in the way of the shuttle, the other player may have tried to strike the shuttle and may accidentally hit the player.

Will to win: The will to win can really affect someone, because if someone has the will to win they will most probably put as much effort as they can.  

Criticism: Criticism is a negative thing because a player may not have had a good game and people may have started to talk about him in an ill mannered way however the way that the player reacts to this depends on the outcome. The player may listen to the comments made about him and feel sad and loose hope in him self or the player may listen to the comments and think that he has to prove them wrong by giving more of an effort for the next match.

List the Players Major Strengths

• Long serve
• Clear

Uways’s best shot was the long serve, evident from the analysis he correctly performed eight out of ten long serves. While observing Uways’s I saw that his long serves were long and high and landed near to and in the back tramlines. His timing was good as he dropped the shuttle and hit it just before the shuttle made contact with the racket. His strength was mainly in his ability to hit the shuttle high up with power and make it g far back to the back of the court. He was using the correct technique and flicking the shuttle at the end, he also knew how to disguise his shot by moving the racket up slowly then flicking it powerfully

Uways’s second best shot was the clear he had 7 successful clears out of ten, he used the correct technique and most of his shots reached the back of the court. He was good at hitting shots high with a good amount of power. Before hitting the shuttle he got beneath the shuttle and stepped into the shot.

The Players Major Weaknesses

Uways was weak at short serves, as my tick sheet shows that’s only three of his ten shots were a success. Although he played them with less power they were too high and very easy for the opponent to smash or return. The technique for a good short serve is to hit it lightly to keep it as low as possible and aim to try and place it at the very edge of the service box. He could further improve his shot by lowering the trajectory and gently pushing the shuttle as opposed to flicking it.

Another weakness that Uways has is his drop shot. The tick sheet shows that he only had four successful drop shots out of ten. This shot has to be played at the correct time and the correct place, the opponent should be an air distance from the net and he should be fairly close to the net. Uways did not time his drop shots; sometimes they were too powerful land the opponent returned them to him. Uways also tried to attempt a drop shot from the middle of the net and his opponent also returned this shot. Uways has t learn when to time the shot and how hard he should hit it.

Ways of improving the main weakness

Short Serve

The short serve has to be played lightly with low power and has to go low over the net and land swiftly. It has to land near to the edge of the front side of the service box. The sort o f shot that should be used should be a push.

1. Main technique
   
   The main technique is to play the shot lightly with the push shot, the shot has to be hit fairly lightly and has to go low over the net and land pretty soon after the shuttle ahs gone over the net.
   
2. Simple practice
   
   A simple way to practice this shot is to get a racket and a shuttle and attempt to play the shot into the opposite service box. A good way of making your accuracy better is o place a racket in the box and try to aim to land near the racket or to really boost accuracy try to land on the racket, you do not have to do this yet, all you have to concentrate on is trying to hit a shot that is low and lands in the service box. Introduce points for performing successful moves and aim to make a certain amount of points so that you can get better at the skill you are practicing.
   
3. Practice Harder
   
   To practice harder you could, lay some hoops in certain places in the opposite sides service boxes and try to aim the shuttle so that it lands inside the hoops. Te hoops could be placed anywhere near to the beginning of the box of any of the first two corners.
   
4. Extend the drill further
   
   You could extend your badminton drill further by adding to hoops in the corners of the service box in which you have to land the shuttle.
   
   
5. Try it with a closed practice
   
   After you have tried to land the shuttle in two hoops placed in the service box try to narrow down your practice to a certain area, after you have practiced one area try another so that u become good at hitting the shuttle into many places.
   
6. Introduce an opponent with certain conditions
   
   After you have tried all of these various drill and learnt the shot, try adding an opponent. Try playing the drop shot to them and see in they can return your shot, but make it easy to begin with by adding conditions. These conditions  could be that the player has to stay in a certain place  if they can then it means your drop shots needs to be practiced and developed further and if the opponent cannot return the shot then It will probably mean that you have learnt the correct technique to play the shot. Try this with more then one opponent and try playing opponents of different abilities so that you really do know how well you are playing.
   
7. Then play a proper match
   
   if you are happy about the way you are playing and you feel that you can perform successful shots, try putting all of these shots into a real game situation in which you have to perform shots with accuracy and good timing to score points. If you win or have a close match then you will know that your badminton is of a good level.

Improving Another Weakness

Drop Shot

Uways has a very poor drop shot; he hit it at the wrong time

1. Main technique
   
   The main technique is to play the shot gently also adding some curl by slicing it with the tap shot, the shot has to be hit fairly lightly and has to be very close to the net and land straight away.
   
2. Simple practice
   
   A simple way to practice this shot is to get another person to keep on playing you shots that you have to return using the drop shot. You could jus play a rally in which the opponent hits it lightly and low over the net allowing you to go and play the drop shot  
   
3. Practice Harder
   
   To practice harder you could, still maintain the player feeding shot but u could place a hoop down on the other side of the net so that you know where to land the shuttle when you are playing the shot.
   
4. Extend the drill further
   
    The drill could be further extended by making the player have to land the shuttle in an even narrower space along the net. You could do this but putting a long piece of thread along the other side of the net on the court and you could try to land the shuttle before the piece of thread each time you play the shot
   
   
5. Try it with a closed practice
   
   You could attempt this drill in a closed practice because the person playing a shot to you could play the shot to your right or left hand each time you could try to jus perfect upon that shot I that position. After you have done this u could still keep the drill closed bout u could practice the shot in an alternate position.
   
6. Introduce an opponent with certain conditions
   
   To practice a drop shot you always need to practice with an n opponent; however when you have progressed to a certain level of your game practicing with your opponent would help you out. At this stage you may still not be good enough to go straight into a proper game situation in which you play for points. In this situation you could add a player who is playing against you and not just giving you shots that you could return as drop shots. To begin with you could start with certain conditions with the opponent for example the opponent has to stay in the middle of his service box and one of his feet ahs to remain in one place. The opponent could then serve and you could then return this until you receive a shot that is adequate for returning as a drop shot, in this case perform the drop shot and see if the player can come forward from the middle of the court and return the shot. If the opponent returned the shot then the player would know that he still ahs to practice his shot however if the opponent did not return it the player would know that his shot is of a good standards. Also the player could play with different opponents so that he is tested against people of different abilities. This would be good because the player gets a large amount of feedback upon how good his shot is.
   
7. Then play a proper match
   
   The final stage of the training programme could be to play a proper match. In this match the player would be able to use a whole range of moves to try a win points. Also at the appropriate times he could perform the drop shot and see if his opponent was able to return it. There are two ways of seeing if a player is good from a match. These are if the opponent is able to hit the shots back or not or alternatively if he performs enough successful shots to win the match