In badminton, singles and doubles are basically two different sports, especially when playing, and there are great differences in footwork and strategy choices. Singles compared to doubles, "space advantage" is lower, because there is only one person on the field, the open space is larger, so it is easy to be killed, so the defensive task of singles is heavier than doubles, because the requirements for footwork are also more special, today we will take a look at the full-court footwork of singles.
Singles footwork – general principle
The general principle of singles footwork is to minimize the displacement of the center of gravity while maintaining the stability of the center of gravity. In simple terms, if you can reach the ball with your hand, don't move your entire body over and bend your arm.
Although this seems simple, but playing ball is not something that anyone can do, so let's look at an example of Lin Dan.
From this picture, we can see that Lin Dan did not move his entire body when he returned the ball. Lin Dan's side was very in place, he turned his body sideways, his left foot was near the bottom line, his right foot was very close to the center of the field, and his feet were connected in a straight line just pointing to the center. In this way, his center of gravity was only half the field moved. The body coming sideways easily covers the distance from the center of the field to the bottom line in length, and he can adjust the center of gravity back to the center as quickly as possible after hitting the ball. This ensures that there are no flaws for the opponent to take advantage of.
Therefore, if you want to ensure that the general rule requires less movement of the center of gravity and the maximum use of the length of the body to run less, you must hit the ball sideways.
Singles Footwork - The Step Principle
The step-by-step principle, i.e. the number of steps is minimized and the stride length is maximized. In layman's terms, it is to complete a shot, the fewer steps used, the better, and the larger the total stride, the better.
The optimal mode for singles is: two-point steps to the front of the net are simplified to two to one step, and two-point steps to the backfield are simplified to two steps.
Here's a simple footwork diagram:
As you can see from the figure, the first two points and the last two points are two steps, but the first step of the first two points is smaller than the second step, and the length of the first and second steps of the next two points is relatively small. And the left and right waists are one step into place. In addition, if the first two points of the net can be done in one step, do not get it done in two steps.
Singles Footwork — The Initiation Principle
Often when playing, there are golfers who feel that their footwork is not wrong, and they are also working very hard to take "cross steps" or "parallel steps", and the steps are getting bigger and bigger, but the speed is always a little worse, and they can't figure out why.
A big reason for this is that there is no pedaling to lower the center of gravity. Because pedaling is a relatively inconspicuous action, it will be ignored by many golfers, in fact, the pedaling action is crucial in the start of footwork.
What does the pedal rotation state look like, corresponding to the six lines of footwork:
Forehand net front pedal turn
Backhand net front pedal turn
Forehand backcourt pedaling
Backhand overhead area pedaling
Pedal around the left line area
Pedal around in the right line area
The above is the pedal rotation of the six footwork lines, but from the above six pictures we can also see the commonality of the two pedaling turns.
The first point: when pedaling, the two legs will be separated on the ground to support a little, which direction the body goes, the opposite leg will use more force to pedal the ground to start the center of gravity displacement.
Second point: Since the purpose of pedaling is to select a certain footwork line displacement, the two points of the two legs will be in the straight line of that route.
The above is the basic principle of singles full-court footwork, after reading it, you can practice it
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