The very few weaknesses in Karl’s play is his serve, he does not really do a short serve or a long serve it always seems to land in the middle and a opponent is left to smash the shuttle but Karl’s excellent reaction gets the shuttle over the net. If Karl is told to do a short serve it seems to hit the net or land in the middle. This could to Karl’s grip, or angle of the racket or because he just wants to get on with it as he is inpatient.
IMPROVEMENT OF PERFORMANCE
To help Karl’s problem on serving I will need to examine in closely by him serving s I will need to look out for the racket action the face of the impact I will do this by looking at his grip before the serve takes place and after he has made the serve I will look at the racket face of the impact and then correct him.
Karl’s problem is when serving he has a very tight grip but there is no swing in the shot which the shuttle loop over Karl action is very straight and when told about this his grip is very loose and when during contact of the shuttle the racket seems to move a lot not a smooth swing and so he locks the grip tight and hits it hard with no swing. Karl’s problem is his grip and the action of the serve.
To make Karl’s badminton skills better I will put a small hoop on a area close to the lines and if a short serve skimming the top of the net and landing in and if a long serve looping with pace and landing in the tram lines and a target from this is 7 out of ten for the short serve and 6 out of ten for the long serve.
The progress of Karl’s performance will measured by monitoring his swing in the shot, the shuttle landing in the hoop the grip of the racket on the serves different types of grips for short and long serves, for a short serve the shuttle skimming the net, the position of the body for the correct serve and the check the racket for the correct angle which is needed for the shot.
