The Court
The Post and Net
Shuttlecock Rule
Game Rules: The Racket
The Players, Toss, & Scoring
The Players, Toss, & Scoring
Faults & General
Badminton Racquets
Portable indoor badminton post and net set
The CourtShuttlecock RuleGame Rules: The RacketThe Players, Toss, & ScoringThe Players, Toss, & ScoringFaults & GeneralBadminton RacquetsPortable indoor badminton post and net setThe All England Open Badminton Championships, or simply All England, is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious badminton tournaments. Played annually, it developed after the success of world's first badminton tournament held in Guildford in 1898. The tournament was successfully organised in April 4, 1899, however only three categories (Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles and Mixed Doubles) were originally staged. Both Men's and Women's Singles were added the following year. The first three tournaments were named "The Open English Championships". It was eventually considered (especially after the first Thomas Cup series in 1949) the unofficial World Badminton Championships until 1977 when the International Badminton Federation launched its official championships. Since 1984 the tournament has been exclusively sponsored by Yonex.
The tournaments were halted twice: during World War I from 1915 to 1919 and World War II from 1940 to 1946.
The tournaments were halted twice: during World War I from 1915 to 1919 and World War II from 1940 to 1946.
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Like all the other sports, Badminton was not invented overnight. In fact, it is not possible to trace the birth of a game or its transformation into a sport to a specific historical or geographical context with any precision. A game’s invention happens over time, undergoing continual modification according to particular circumstances. However, it is just as erroneous to believe in a single and eternal game, historically untraceable, which Adam and Eve would have played to pass the time. It’s the same with the fallacious legend of the invention of modern badminton at The Duke of Beaufort’s Gloucestershire home “Badminton House” when guests at a dinner stuck goose quills in champagne corks and began batting them across the table.
The circumstances linked to game's evolution form such an entangled mess that it is futile to try to unravel them completely. However, this complexity cannot be ignored. It is important to attempt to reconstruct, demystify and analyse it in order to trace the origins of a sport, understand the changes in its evolution and explain its contemporary physical and cultural characteristics. Badminton is no exception, on the contrary. The idea that it sprung to life suddenly in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and that like most other modern sports the British invented it is oversimplified.
In fact it is both true and false. It is true insofar as the game of Badminton as we know it today is very similar to the game played with a net, invented and developed by a handful of British officers at the turn of the century. It is false however if one considers its social and historical context, and the technical similarities which link it unmistakably to the “battledore and shuttlecock” game, an English and French recreational activity about which there are many references as far back as the fifteenth century.
We must not overlook the games played with shuttlecock on other continents with the hand, the foot or a bat, and which also played an important role in defining the modern sport. Badminton’s development is therefore not linear. It is especially clouded by mysterious aspects that can partially explain its relative anonymity or at least the modest amount of media attention it generates in some parts of the world. With such a rich and varied background history, spanning from France to Japan or from China to North America, Badminton could be one of the most ancient and universal of sports.
For this reason it was necessary to have a complete overview of its history focusing on its various stages of development rather than concentrating on technical or regulatory aspects.Finally, the story will be dealing with the international recognition symbolised by its status as an Olympic sport, which for many has confirmed the universal dimension of Badminton.
Like all the other sports, Badminton was not invented overnight. In fact, it is not possible to trace the birth of a game or its transformation into a sport to a specific historical or geographical context with any precision. A game’s invention happens over time, undergoing continual modification according to particular circumstances. However, it is just as erroneous to believe in a single and eternal game, historically untraceable, which Adam and Eve would have played to pass the time. It’s the same with the fallacious legend of the invention of modern badminton at The Duke of Beaufort’s Gloucestershire home “Badminton House” when guests at a dinner stuck goose quills in champagne corks and began batting them across the table.
The circumstances linked to game's evolution form such an entangled mess that it is futile to try to unravel them completely. However, this complexity cannot be ignored. It is important to attempt to reconstruct, demystify and analyse it in order to trace the origins of a sport, understand the changes in its evolution and explain its contemporary physical and cultural characteristics. Badminton is no exception, on the contrary. The idea that it sprung to life suddenly in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and that like most other modern sports the British invented it is oversimplified.
In fact it is both true and false. It is true insofar as the game of Badminton as we know it today is very similar to the game played with a net, invented and developed by a handful of British officers at the turn of the century. It is false however if one considers its social and historical context, and the technical similarities which link it unmistakably to the “battledore and shuttlecock” game, an English and French recreational activity about which there are many references as far back as the fifteenth century.
We must not overlook the games played with shuttlecock on other continents with the hand, the foot or a bat, and which also played an important role in defining the modern sport. Badminton’s development is therefore not linear. It is especially clouded by mysterious aspects that can partially explain its relative anonymity or at least the modest amount of media attention it generates in some parts of the world. With such a rich and varied background history, spanning from France to Japan or from China to North America, Badminton could be one of the most ancient and universal of sports.
For this reason it was necessary to have a complete overview of its history focusing on its various stages of development rather than concentrating on technical or regulatory aspects.Finally, the story will be dealing with the international recognition symbolised by its status as an Olympic sport, which for many has confirmed the universal dimension of Badminton.
