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How To Analyse Your Badminton Matches

How To Analyse Your Badminton Matches

Hello and welcome back to Badminton Insight if you're 
new here we're Greg and Jenny two professional   badminton players and we also release a new video 
every Sunday on all things badminton! Yeah and we're   leaving in a few days for the Thailand Open so as we prepare for this tournament we're going to   do some match analysis yeah we've had a lot of 
requests for a video on how we analyse matches   so in this video we're going to give you a 
step-by-step guide of what we do and how you can   do it too so if you look at this document here you 
can see we've got a very long list of matches that   we've analysed this is for almost every opponent 
we've ever played including notes from both before   and after the match whilst that might look 
overwhelming remember that's data from the   last eight years this analysis often doesn't 
take more than 15 to 20 minutes and it can help   you win more matches! But how? Well as we just 
alluded to the first reason is that watching   your opponents before you play them can help 
your preparation for your match against them   and the second reason is that watching your 
match back after you've played is a great way   to analyse your strengths and weaknesses.

So we're 
now going to go through the four steps we follow   when analysing a match hopefully giving you lots 
of useful tips along the way so the first thing   we look for is our opponent's common serve and 
return patterns. We've been gathering data for   over two years now on the percent of doubles 
rallies that are over within the first three or   four shots and for professionals between 30% and 
40% of rallies are over within the first   four shots and for intermediate players which 71% 
of you said you were on a recent survey we did   this goes up to between 40% and 50% with many 
matches even higher than this, that's crazy!   crazy indeed and it hopefully makes you realize 
just how important getting an advantage in this   area of the game is so when we're doing our 
analysis we'll fill out this template if you   want to get this same template for yourself 
completely free then it's on our website we'll   include a link in the description below 🙂 Yeah it's 
very simple to fill out but provides us with lots   of useful information so in this first section 
here we'll fill in the serve placement so did   the opponents flick? How often did they serve low to the T or low out wide to the tramlines? etc etc this is really useful to know because if for 
example your opponents literally never flick then   you can move your starting position forwards and 
be earlier and more aggressive onto the low serve   we'll also do this with their return of serves so 
often players will have a favourite return of serve   they play if you serve to a certain area and once 
we've seen their favourite or most common returns   we'll look at what they do next so for example 
if they hit a soft return into the mid court on 50%   of their returns where are the gaps in the court
after this? Yeah or where can you serve to stop   them doing their favourite return, is there a place 
they really struggle returning from? Yeah and it's   also really important to look out for what they 
do in key moments of the match as people often   revert back to what they're comfortable with – so 
at 19 all for example! This is the part of the   match analysis that will take the most time but 
for doubles it's definitely the most important   and for singles you can gain a lot of advantage 
too and if we're analysing our own match back then   we'll use this template too! This helps us to see if we 
were using enough variety in our serve and return   and ultimately where we got success and maybe 
where we didn't okay so the next step focuses   on what happens after the first three shots and 
in particular your opponent's standout weaknesses   now you don't want to be leaving your match 
analysis with a list of length of your arm because   you're not going to remember all of these things 
so try and pick out their top two or three main   weaknesses an example of a standout weak point 
might be that they only hit their defensive shots   straight and can't hit it cross because of their 
positioning or grip these are things you can then   action in a match so here you'd hit your smash and 
your partner instantly knows to move to intercept   this straight shot yeah and it's obviously also 
important to look out for any standout strengths   maybe they always smash cross court to the tram 
lines and it's usually a winner or maybe they have   a really good drop shot.

Looking out for these 
things and being aware of them might mean that   you don't get caught out in a match potentially 
being the difference between winning and losing!   Step number three of analysing a match is to look 
out for your opponent's mentality and attitude   Do they get stressed or angry with their partner? 
Do they time waste or try and make you annoyed?   Knowing these things helps you be more prepared 
for the match! Yeah and if you're watching your   own match back you can do the same do you look 
nervous during certain points and did you notice   a difference in your game as a result? Or do you 
look absolutely exhausted which has given your   opponents a mental edge that they're less tired 
than you? We'll usually finish this match analysis   process by reminding ourselves of our strengths 
and how we should use these to our advantage   yeah and if you're watching your own 
matchback don't forget to analyse not   only what you could improve on but also some 
positives too – what did you do well in that match?   what have you improved on since you've been 
working on it? It's always good to have some   positivity and knowing your strengths is actually 
really important to give you confidence on court!   yeah and as a general guide when we're analysing 
our opponents we'll usually watch two sets of   one specific match or sometimes if there's a 
lot of footage available we'll watch one set of   two different matches to see if the opponents 
play differently against different opponents   we know most of you won't have videos available of 
your opponents but you can still do this at your   club night when you're sat off watching! So that's 
our four-step guide on how you can analyse a match   now we have an exciting video we want to do on the 
channel but it requires your help yeah we want to   analyse you our subscribers and your badminton so if 
you want to get involved with this video and have   your game analysed by us for free then firstly get 
a video of you playing for no more than 90 seconds   in length and you can cut out the breaks then 
send it to us at contact@badminton- insight.com via   wetransfer by the 29th of may and the video should 
be filmed in either 1080p which is what most   phones do or 4k if you want to go all out and it 
should also be in a horizontal format if you have   any questions leave a comment below and yeah send 
in your video if you want to get involved yeah we   actually do an in-depth video analysis every month 
on our Patreon where we analyse one of our patron's   matches so if you're interested in that we'll 
include a link in the description below yeah   and finally don't forget to SMASH the subscribe 
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hopefully see you on another one very soon bye 🙂

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