Badminton club

Badminton has been developing quickly. It is advantageous for our health and feeling. So I joined the GCA badminton club. I went to the gym of Nanjing foreign language school for playing badminton every Wednesday evening. This club brought me much fun and knowledge.

I learned the rules of badminton. Before play begins, the shuttlecock is hit in the air and the direction in which it is pointing when it lands determines which side serves first. I understood how to get scores. A singles and doubles games consists of 15 points. A match shall be 2 out of 3 games. The new rule is that a player or team may score points while serving or receiving. The service areas are different between singles and doubles games. The singles court is the narrow inside lines. The doubles courts court is the wider outside lines. The back line is the wide outside line and is the same in singles and doubles games. After joining the badminton club, I knew the rules of service. It is important during the badminton games. players or teams shall serve and receive from the right hand service courts when the server’s score is 0 or any even number of points. The players or teams shall serve and receive from the left hand courts when the server’s score is an uneven number of points. Both sides change service courts after each point is scored. In addition, the server may not serve unless his opponent is ready. However, the opponent shall be deemed ready if a return of the service is attempted. If when attempting to serve, the server misses the shuttlecock completely, it is not a fault.

I gained the insights about myself. During doubles play, two partners needs support each other and I can not play badminton by myself. I should draw on each other’s merits and raise the level together. I acquaint that I am good at playing on the fore-court. The skills that required to work effectively and safely with other students at GCA are respecting each others, supporting partners, being good at listening other opinion, and being ready before not procrastinating. The club would be develop well in the future. Currently, club held some plays against other schools. We won more than half games. This point prove our club will have a good development. Nevertheless, club members are too sluggish and always let the grass grow under their feet. Some people usually came when we prepare go home and some even not come gym to practice. They would lose many chance to learn and practice. I had joined the mixed doubles competition. Even though I lost the competition, I learned a lot from it. Before competition, we need prepare everything, for example: the suitable rackets, warm up, water and so on. When the situation was unfavourable, we ought to clam down and think what we would do next. Correct positions benefited from the players during the competition.

One of my personal goals is to loss weight. Playing badminton is a good way to achieve my goal. Yet, we can not play badminton anywhere, especially windy day. I like badminton because having a rest after studying or working is beneficial for my health.