Chapter 1

Introduction
Brief history and background of
badminton

Nowadays, badminton is an addiction that has

gone beyond Philippine shores and holds in its
grip of Filipino communities. Its amazing how
badminton has grown in the past few years and
its growth is most obviously seen in the large
number of badminton courts not only in the
National Capital Region, but also in other places
in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. What really
amazing is that only few years ago, not many
Filipinos recognized badminton as real sports.

Badminton is lightly expensive sport. But,

for the beginners, you just need a racket and
a place to play. Families can troop together
and play, regardless of age or gender. It is
highly integrative sports together, family,
friends, business, and community. But to
play the game well or to play competitive
badminton, one required a certain level of
skills and sound basic know-how to do so.

BRIEF HISTORY

Badminton evolved from a Chinese

game of the 5th Century B.C. called
ti jian zi that involved kicking the
shuttle. A later version of the sport with
rackets rather than with feet was
played in ancient Greece and India. A
similar game called Shuttlecock and
Battledore, or jeu de Volant
appeared in Europe during the 1600s.

Modern badminton begun as

Poona in India. It was a
cooperative game in which players
worked together the Bird in the air
for as long they could by children in
India. Siam in Japan. When a net
was added it become a competitive
called Poona.

British army officers stationed in

India adopted Poona in the 1800s
and took it back to England. The
army men introduced the game to
friends, but new sports was definitely
launched there at a party given in 1873
by the Duke of Beuafort at his country
place; Badminton Gloucestershire.

During that time, the name Badminton

was attributed to Duke of Beuafort and
there upon, Badminton became its official
name, and four years later Badmintons
popularity soon spread beyond Britain to
the rest of the Europe and countries, and
the Bath Badminton Club was founded
and wrote the first written rules of the
game. This version forms the basis for
todays game.