the Wall | EP.1 | Badminton SMASH
Today, we'll start with a theoretical explanation. Coach Han's elbow seems to be stuck in mid-swing. From different angles, his elbow is still in the air. Even his torso is fixed in the air. If I replay this short moment again, you'll see it more clearly. His torso and elbows are frozen. What about the amateur? His elbow follows the direction of the racket as he swings. Here's another amateur. His entire upper body is in motion as he swings. You wouldn't see this unless you had a super-fast camera. So why do Coach Han and his students look so different? When I shoot super fast, my elbow appears to stop. The torso is slow, but the elbows are fast, which is why it looks that way. You have to gather your strength in your torso, wait, and then explode all at once.
But amateurs swing with their elbows extended,
so their hands are the most forward. Why do you guys swing like this? To help you understand, we have prepared a baseball batting scene. Generally, good batters plant their feet on the ground right before the swing. This is a technique called "walling". They set up a wall to keep their body from moving forward,
and then they start to swing. The torso never moves forward. This is not a new theory. It's a time-honored, best hitting mechanic of the present day. Watch Coach Han's swing while imagining the wall being built. Do you see the 'wall' too? The amateur, on the other hand, keeps moving forward without a wall. This swing comes from unnecessary shoulder force. Professional players use the force of their torso rotation to extend their folded elbows as they swing.
You guys are using shoulder strength, so your elbows are opening too early. That's why your swing looks different than the pro's. The torso looks like it's stopping, and then it swings. The shuttlecock falls in front of you or behind you. You guys don't have an accurate hitting point. It's jagged and incoherent. If your target is clear, you'll swing in the same spot. If the target is not clear, your body will be dragged forward. The goal of today's academy is to improve these issues little by little. At the end, think of it as pulling with the force of a belly. You pull it like this. like this. (Sportswear that makes you good at badminton) Pull! Right. You pulled your belly, but not your hands. You have to pull your stomach and hands together. Don't strain. more. more. You need to pull the racket faster. okay. no! You stopped swinging, didn't you? You know. You know what happens if you stop mid-swing.
The swing will come in quickly at the end. You have to pull it out quickly at the moment. okay. more. You're just trying to hit it hard, insisting on hitting it high as usual. You want to come in like this, pulling your torso forward, but you don't want to stop the racket early. slowly. It's like this again. The torso should turn and pull the racket like this. A shuttlecock is hit by a racket, so you want to swing it so that the racket is in front of you.
More. Both the body rotation speed and timing must be correct. It takes less rotation. The swing should be as short and fast as possible. Your swing is the same speed from start to finish. (X) The swing should be slow at the beginning and fast at the end. Do you need to force your swing to get faster? I need to relax. Should I relax? You need to relax quickly. The moment it turns, relax. Feel it for yourself. Which swing is faster. more. Is it a hitting height or not? Your torso is not turning because you're struggling. Look at the distance exactly. Is your swing faster or slower? It's slowed down. Does a high target make your swing faster? I feel like my swing slows down when I have a high hitting point. The turning radius is large. What swing speed would be faster? Don't try to hit from too high of a place, but rather lower your hitting.
Not like this… like this. What happens now? What would happen if you hit the shuttlecock like this? The shuttlecock floats away. The rackethead is coming forward, but your wrist is coming forward. The racket head came forward. But what are you doing? Then, of course, the shuttlecock floats away. What can you do to add acceleration to your swing? You can't force yourself from here. The torso should spin and accelerate at the end. There is acceleration at the end of the swing. Come slowly and accelerate! Come slowly and accelerate! Now the swing is pushed. The torso should accelerate at the end of the rotation,
but because you're using force from the beginning, the racket can't come forward.
It flew away, right? come here. Try this. Take it very slowly. stop. You already stopped here. The racket head should come forward. Even now you can't. But you do it like this. you did it, like this. It has to be like this. It should come forward enough that you can see the racket head, and you end up like this. The racket head didn't come in. If you hit it like this, of course the shuttlecock will float away. It's pulling on the racket to make the racket head look like this. You should think of dropping the racket head. That's like stopping the swing, right? okay. The racket head should be pressing down, but it shouldn't be stopping. The racket head must come in first. again.. shoulder.. (Same old, same old, but it's not easy to improve…) One, two, three. You have to do swing, like this. We'll continue in the next episode..
