{"id":2004,"date":"2022-12-07T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2023-05-05T10:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T10:25:43","slug":"why-play-badminton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/?p=2004","title":{"rendered":"DofE Choices: Why do Badminton?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As many of you know, badminton is a sport; it is played by men, women and children, in pairs or individually, both for competition and for fun. Badminton is a good sport to take up for the physical aspect of DofE as it\u2019s fun and good exercise. Badminton is played with a racquet, and instead of a ball, like tennis or squash, it\u2019s played with a shuttlecock which can be made of plastic or feathers. The feathers of a shuttlecock traditionally come from the wings of geese.<\/p>\n<p>At school there is a club dedicated to badminton which you can attend to both improve your skills and play competitively. The club is run after school on Tuesdays and at lunchtime on Thursdays. I attended the club at the end of the last school year, but it was so much fun that I decided to go when it started again this year!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pic-1-530x285.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"285\" title=\"pic 1\" alt=\"pic 1\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pic-2-530x388.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"388\" title=\"pic 2\" alt=\"pic 2\"><\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019m also training for competitions . There are a lot of advantages of playing badminton. It not only improves your stamina but also helps\u00a0 in team spirit and confidence.<\/p>\n<p>The rules of badminton are that you play singles (one player on each side) or doubles (2 people on each side) and you have to hit the shuttle until the other team can\u2019t take the shot. The team that can\u2019t bring the shuttle back loses the point and the team that hits wins it.<\/p>\n<p>Badminton was originated in India in a version called Poona.\u00a0The sport was played more than 2,000 years ago in Greece, China and India, but the British game was born in Gloucestershire in 1873, when the\u00a0Duke of Beaufort introduced the sport at his country estate, Badminton, from which the game now derives its name. The sport is a lot more intense than tennis and is one of the\u00a0most popular sports in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Shreeya Kalakala<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"777\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pic-3.jpg\" title=\"pic 3\" alt=\"pic 3\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pic-3.jpg 777w, https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pic-3-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pic-3-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, badminton is a sport; it is played by men, women and children, in pairs or individually, both for competition and for fun. Badminton is a good sport to take up for the physical aspect of DofE as it\u2019s fun and good exercise. Badminton is played with a racquet, and instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-4","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theview.boltonschool.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}