Origins of Badminton

Scope

• Development of rules and equipment over 3 time periods.
• Before 1800s.
• 1800s
• 1900s to present day.

5th Century BC

• Ti jian zi - kicking the shuttle.
• Played in China.
• Use of legs to prevent shuttlecock from touching the ground.

Before 1800s

• Battledore and shuttlecock.
• Played in ancient Greece and Egypt.
• Two players hit a shuttlecock repeatedly with rackets making sure it did not touch the ground.

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1800s

• 1860s - named changed to Poona where a net was added.
• Popular among British officers stationed in a town called Poona (modern day Pune).

1800s

• British officers took the game of Poona back to England.

1800s

• In 1873, Duke of Beaufort held a lawn party in his country place, Badminton.
• A game of Poona was played that day and soon became popular among the elite of British society.
• Guests at the lawn party introduced the game to their friends as "the Badminton game" hence gaining its current title.

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1800s

• Rules of the game were those that were played in India.
• In 1887, the Bath Badminton Club developed the first written rules.

1800s

• After various revisions, The Badminton Association of England published the first set of rules according to these regulations in 1893.
• In March 1898, the first open Tournament was held in Guildford.
• Modern day All England Open Badminton Championships.

1900s

• Denmark,USA, Canada(1930s)
• 1934-IBF formed (England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Holland, New Zealand, France and India joining in 1936.
• First Tournament IBF - Thomas Cup (1936)

1900s Road to Olympics

• 1966- Commonwealth games in Jamaica
• 1972, demonstration in Munich Olympics.
• 1992, officially an Olympic sport in Barcelona (singles and doubles).

1900s

• 1996, Atlanta Olympics (mixed doubles)
• Yay Equality!
• 5 countries have won gold medals at the Olympics - China, Indonesia and Korea, England and Denmark.

1900s

• Fun fact
• Susi Susanti from Indonesia won the women's singles in Barcelona, becoming Indonesia's first medallist after forty years participating in the Olympics. Ironically, Susi's future husband, Alan Budi Kusama won Indonesia's second gold medal in the men's singles.

1900s Rule Change

• Lose the rally, oponent serve
• Old method - point won only on respective serve

Rule Change

• Occurred in 2002
• Unpredictable,lengthy - Experiment with different methods of keeping score
• Improve commercial appeal/value

1st Revision

• The new system shortened games to seven points and best of five games. When the score reached 6–6, the player who first reached six could elect to set to eight points.
• Time still an issue
• Abandoned-2002 was the last to use this method

2nd Revision

• Dec 2005, regulate playing time, simplify
• Rally point scoring,21pts

Still Unhappy, 3rd Revision

• Match length increased since 2006
• 2014-Review
• In the end it was decided to try a system with 5 games to 11 points with no setting (ie, the game ends no later then 11–10). The system will be tried during a period from 1 August 2014 to 1 November 2014
• Was decided against

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