Badminton Drills to Improve Your Racket Speed and Fitness

These Badminton drills can be done anywhere and don’t rely on using a Badminton court. Of course if you have access to one then that is the preferred option.

These Badminton drills will help to improve your reaction time, racket speed and in the case of the second exercise, also your fitness levels too.

To do both of these drills you’ll need a willing assistant and a plentiful supply of shuttlecocks. This is how to do them both...

Badminton Drill #1

Stand facing away from your feeder directly in front of them at about five or six feet distance away and adopt a ready position, using a split stance with your body weight forwards on to your toes and racket in hand at the ready.

The feeder takes a shuttle in their hand and shouts out “turn”, at which point they throw the shuttle towards you at any height or angle at the same time as you turn around to hit it back over your feeders head.

You then turn back around and repeat the process until your feeder runs out of shuttles. Don’t move around excessively, this is not a footwork exercise, it’s a reaction drill, so all you need to do is turn around and hit the shuttlecock back each time.

This is one of the few Badminton drills that doesn’t require you to hit the shuttle back to any given place although you can if you’re doing this on court, but really this is all about reaction speed.

Ideally your feeder will throw the shuttles down at your feet to replicate the actions of an oncoming smash but really the feeds should come at you from varying angles.

Badminton Drill #2

This drill is similar to the one above but is a little more challenging, because this time you start from a lying face down on the floor position each time.
When the feeder shouts “go,” you quickly get to your feet and turn to hit the shuttle. The feeder throws the shuttle when turn, not when you’re on the floor. This is one of the more challenging of Badminton drills, so doing 3 sets of 15 repetitions will probably be enough to begin with.

As you get better, ask your feeder to throw or hit the shuttle faster to make the exercise more demanding.

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