What makes a badminton serve illegal

This means that they cannot move away from their initial ready position until the service has been delivered. Otherwise, it is a fault. Once your opponent is in a ready position, he is not allowed to remove his feet from the initial ready position. At this point, do not serve IF you find your opponent performing fake body actions. Wait for your opponent to settle down. This means that your opponent should not be moving and ready to receive the serve.

The rule is that once the receiver is in a ready position, he is not allowed to move the feet away from that position UNTIL the server hits the shuttlecock. Question 2: When I serve, my opponent makes a fake movement of racquet before I make contact with the shuttle with my racquet. This question is similar to the previous one. I understand that these movements can be very distracting.

If your opponent deliberately performs these fake movements before you serve, he or she is NOT considered to be ready to receive. My advice will be to HOLD your serve until your opponent stops performing these actions. In professional tournaments, the umpire will warn the receiver to get into a ready position. Question 3: When my opponent serves he keeps his racquet horizontally above the waist and makes a fake movement with his racquet and serves. Once the server and receiver are at their ready position to start the rally, the server MUST position the racket below his waist line and deliver the serve.

The server must deliver the badminton serve with ONE upward stroke. This means that you have only one chance to hit the serve. Your racket must also swing at an upward direction when performing the serve. If you can't find anything wrong, just take the IBF rules to the coaches and tell them to find it and prove YOU wrong lol. Gollum Regular Member. Thanks for clearing these things up Gollum. I don't know why I had the notions that the serves shouldn't be deceptive, maybe I've read too much bad advice.

To all Coaches. If you read this thread about illegal serves, please take it as a "grain of salt", read the IBF rule book, and to teach your players about the correct rules of a serve. I just try my best to follow and properly interpret the IBF rule book to help better my players and I feel you should do the same instead of clinging to your opinions without hard evidence to back-up you opinions stipulated in the IBF rule book. This is not about me being right and you are wrong, you have to remember it is about the students and players whom you are teaching and know that they will take some, if not many of your advice after they graduate and instill it in how they might live their lives.

So let us teach them the right way so they can live their lives the right way. Thank you. LazyBuddy Regular Member. You must log in or sign up to post here. Show Ignored Content.

Share This Page Tweet. Your name or email address: Do you already have an account? No, create an account now. If the server tries to return it then they are considered to be ready and if they miss the return or try to appeal it will be called a fault.

Raise your non-racquet up and out in front of you to signal the opponent to wait. A simple one but in doubles only the receiving player on the correct score side can return the serve. If one partner misses or goes the wrong way their partner cannot help them. One person to return serve at any time. Some of these faults are self-explanatory and some are often misinterpreted by many players. The easiest and the most common Badminton fault of all!

Yes, hitting the shuttle out is considered a fault. Full rule:. This fault has a number of situations. If the shuttle is drifting out of the court then there is the possibility that the opponent can hit the shuttlecock around the posts. Nobody is likely to do this as the shuttle must be travelling out to be able to hit it around the posts. Whether intentional or not, the shuttlecock is not allowed to touch the player, their clothing or anything outside the court during the rally. This is to prevent interference to the trajectory of the shuttlecock.

The full rule stated:. See this clip below where the shuttle touches the Danish player in blue. The point should have gone to the Japanese pair, it hit the players skirt and actually changed where the shuttle landed. The perfect example of why the rule exists. Scooping is essentially catching the shuttle on your racquet and then slinging it off.

You need to hit the shuttle in once motion. When no umpires are present then players need to be honest about this. A double hit is when a player manages to hit the shuttle twice before the shuttle crosses the net.

Below is an example of a singles player that manages to hit the shuttle twice playing a net shot. During the rally, players are not allowed to touch the net either with their racquet, their body or their clothing. The most common time this happens is when players try to kill the shuttle from a tight net shot or after playing a smash and rushing forward to follow up for the kill.

It is not a fault once to touch the net once the rally is over. Probably the most hotly contested fault in all of Badminton. A player is not allowed to hit the shuttle before it has passed over the net to their side. This is a very difficult rule to judge as situations where this happens can be very borderline fault or legal. People often make the mistake that this rule also means your racquet cannot pass over the net at all, that it is not true. As long as you hit the shuttle after it has passed the net then it is legal for your racquet to go over the net.

Obstruction tends to happen when one player tries to kill the shuttle at the net and the other raises their racquet to defend themselves and block the shot. In the video below are two examples of this fault in action. The first is called a fault but the second is not.

This is because in the first one the players do not clash racquets so technically the other player was not impeded. That would be a fault. Although not an example of a distraction fault the clip below shows a Lin Dan try to throw his racquet to try and get the shuttle back. Obviously a small gag but had the other player missed his shot he could have been called for distracting the other player. Gross misconduct comes from repeated offenses or single examples of totally unacceptable behaviour.

If things go too far umpires can disqualify players and award the opponents the match. This rule refers to section 16 of the rules which is quite long but the only section we need to worry about is section Basically, if you consistently delay play either getting ready to serve or receive serve then the umpire will eventually give you a warning with a yellow card and eventually a red card which is a fault and a point to the other player.