Coaching Badminton 101

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Price: $19.95

Author: Gong Chen (San Jose State University)
Author: Carol Chen (Lynbrook (CA) High School)
Length: 170 pages
Published: 2009
Format: Book

Product Code: 9781606790380

Description

Coaching Badminton 101 is a book for everyone who wants to learn how to play, coach, or teach badminton and experience the fun of badminton games and tournaments. The book systematically presents all the fundamental and advanced skills while utilizing photographs, illustrations, and diagrams to provide readers with clear visual representations of critical skills and strategies. The session plan in the book provides teachers and coaches with suggestions of how to successfully conduct each lesson in order to ensure quality teaching and learning. The book demonstrates that with proper and systematic training, badminton can be a fun and exciting game for anyone.

Chapters include:

Introduction (the state of badminton in the US, benefits, etiquette, common injuries, and motivation to play)
Preparation for Training (attire and equipment, equipment selection, warm-up, cool-down, and body conditioning)
Badminton Basics (grips, racket motion and shuttlecock flight directions, ready stances, court positions, footwork, shuttlecock-handling exercises, and footwork training)
Serves and Returns
Underhand Clear Shot
Overhead Clear Shot
Overhead Drop Shot
Smash, Drive Shot and Push Shot
Net Drop Shot
Singles Game Strategies
Doubles Game Strategies
Coaching High School Badminton
Teaching Badminton.

The book also contains an appendix containing the basic simplified badminton rules.

Biography

Dr. Gong Chen is a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at San Jose State University. Dr. Chen teaches all levels of badminton classes at San Jose State University and coaches the San Jose State University badminton club, which has won many collegiate championships in Northern California. Dr. Chen has directed and been an instructor at San Jose State University badminton summer camps since 2001. In addition, he was an instructor at a 2002 camp with Dr. Li Lingwei, a 13-time world champion. Dr. Chen has also organized many badminton tournaments at San Jose State University.
Carol Chen is an assistant coach at Lynbrook High School (San Jose, CA). She is a student of Dr. Li Lingwei, coach Yuan Wang, and coach Cania Zhang. Chen played on Lynbrook High School�s badminton team and won many tournament titles in women�s singles and doubles. She was a Central Coast Section player.

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