List of Cool Moves Thread

ahahaha.... LOL

 

headshots are always cool , but not cool when your playing against noobs, thats just mean...

 

i think everyone has, when i did it, i just pretended like nothing happaned, but i was limping around the court real bad lol and was kinda haunched over

 

I'm guessing that he was trying to laugh privately and not let the person know it was intentional, etc.

 

I'm working on five right now...

1) Gade Feint: everyone's seen it, and it's awesome, but damn hard to time in a real match

2) Between the legs smash return

3) Behind the back smash return

4) Running back, turning on racket side, let the shuttle pass the shoulder, bring racket down and hit shuttle at shin level. Almost got it perfect.

5) Same as 4, but between the legs, can turn either way. Can be done while jumping.

The last two are for late shots, especially useful against those evil offensive clears

 

Hey!!! I'm only 13!

 

Richard Liang can do all those shots and more. I have seen with my own eyes, the guy is crazy. The only one i can do is #4 but in a real game situation its a bit harder to pull off.

 

Noooo. Not the grip shot, the jump to the back-hand cross-court smash!

 

A "simpler" way of deceiving an opponent is looking in the opposite direction of where you're hitting any type of shot. Probably have to be pretty good to do this. I can't , but it makes anticipation a lot harder. My friend does that to me all the time and it throws me off.

 

I can't really do the behind the back or between the legs trick shots, but one of my favorite deceptive shots is this:

If my opponent lifts but is in good position to return a smash, I'll adjust my grip a little bit on the racket, rotating it probably 30 to 45 degrees. Then I angle my body towards the right if I'm positioned on the left side of the court, or to the left if I'm positioned on the right, so it looks like I'm going to smash cross court, and in fact I swing that direction too. But since the racket is turned a little bit, the shuttle ricochets off in the down the line direction instead. Granted it'll be a good bit slower, almost like a fast drop, but if it works my opponent is leaning/moving in the exact opposite direction from where the shuttle is going, so they pretty much have no chance. Then when they catch on, I do the cross court smash and they miss that, bwahahahaa.

 

I love the head fakes. Makes my friends look stupid when it works on them.

Of course, makes me look pretty stupid when they don't react at all to my move, and put it away easily.

 

lol i kinda do that too but instead of looking cross court, i look ahead and swing straight, with the racket hand angled left or right and the smash/drop goes there. Works best if im in slightly to the left or right of the center of the court.

 

yeah, that one's not bad either, especially since if i understood you correctly then they'll think you're firing one close to their body, so they might duck or whatever and it'll go way off to the side from them...that'll make them feel dumb, hahhaha.

 

lol yes, and the greatest part of the shot is that its nearly impossible to see the slightly angled racket face and since you are standing near the center, it can go either left or right. Even if they catch on, they still wont know how to react coz now it can go left, right or straight down the middle.

 

ooh very tricky!

[writes this down in Great Badminton Notebook]

 

That takes a little practice! My officemate can also do that, but only when he has to or has been put at an awkward position.

Besides, he's really good; he's former high school and college varsity player and now a badminton trainor. It's nice to watch them go 100% all out during tough Class A matches! Dont you agree?

 

you know what's funny? playing against a noob and while giving them a high clear, they swing and miss the bird completely then it bounces off their head. hehe....say it with me: "Boink!" hehehehe