Badminton

Games badminton is a very common thing for everyone since badminton became sports interests of society. If you ever played badminton or even become a game of badminton sports fans certainly are well informed about matters relating to the game of badminton.

Although many people who love to play badminton or badminton. However, I am not sure they know all about understanding the actual game of badminton. Therefore, in this opportunity I would describe the sense badminton and also matters related to the game of badminton.

Badminton is a sport game played using a racket and shuttlecock (fur) by hitting or deflect the shuttlecock from falling into its own area.

The origins of this game is a game of Chinese ethnicity, Jianzi. This game uses shuttlecock but without racquets. object as manipulated by the foot. Objects or missions that keep the shuttlecock game so as not to touch the ground as long as possible without using hands.

In mainland Europe since medieval England is a game for kids called Battledores and Shuttlecocks was very popular. The kids will usually wear a bat / stick (Battledores) and scheming together to keep the shuttlecock remains in the air and prevent it from falling to the ground. UK resident to bring this game to Japan, the People's Republic of China, and Siam (now Thailand) when they colonized Asia.

Competitive sports are created by British Army officers in Pune, India around the 19th century when the additional nets and play a rival. The game was finally recognized as Poona was caused by the city of Pune which originally as Poona.

The soldiers brought the game back to England around the 1850s. This sport is getting its current name in 1860 in a pamphlet by Isaac Spratt, a supplier of various toys English, titled "Badminton Battledore - a new game". This sport is played in Badminton House, the Duke of Beaufort's estate in the city, namely the UK Gloucestershire.

The first rule is written by the Bath Badminton Club in 1877. Association that cope badminton United was formed in 1893 and the first international championship, appeared at first in 1899 with the All England Championships. Badminton became popular in the world, especially for East and Southeast Asia, which currently dominates the sport, and in the Scandinavian countries.

The company of the game is the International Badminton Federation (IBF) was established in 1934 and expressed the UK, Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Wales, Canada, New Zealand and France as a country pioneers. While India has joined as an affiliate in 1936. At the time IBF Extraordinary General Meeting in Madrid, Spain, September 2006, a proposal to change the name of the International Badminton Federation became Badminton World Federation (BWF) was accepted unanimously by all 206 delegates. This badminton became an Olympic sport at the Barcelona Olympics Summer 1992. Indonesia and South Korea gained each of the two gold medals that year.

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