Badminton

by Tony Grice

Players clocking shuttlecocks at speeds of 200 miles per hour, new scoring rules, and nonstop action make badminton one of the fastest racket sports in the world. With Badminton: Steps to Success you will learn the skills and tactics to excel at the highest level. Through detailed, fully illustrated instruction, you will develop precision, power, and finesse as you use this step-by-step guide to master serves, forehands, backhands, clears, drop shots, smashes, drives, and more. Badminton: Steps to Success also breaks down common errors players make and provides corrective techniques to pinpoint problems and improve execution. Over 100 drills will further enforce correct technique, with designated drills for tactical practice, conditioning, and teamwork for doubles play. If you're ready to master today's game, rely on the one resource proven to make a difference. Badminton: Steps to Success--part of the popular Steps to Success Sports Series with more than 1.5 million copies sold--is your ticket to winning play.

165 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published December 12, 2007

About the author

Tony Grice works for the European Union's Leonardo da Vinci programme as an assessor, teaching materials writer, and plain language editor. He has worked on coursebooks for English for Fashion Design, Industrial Design, E-Commerce, and Telecommunications, as well as editing online technical dictionaries and writing for science magazines.

His teaching experience includes teaching medical English to nurses in Zimbabwe and Turkey. He is a first-time author with Oxford University Press. Previous EFL publications include Everyday English for Nursing (Bailliere Tindall).