https://socialsporthub.com/journal/topics/badminton Stories on badminton from SocialSportHub Journal. en https://socialsporthub.com/journal/the-line-is-not-the-same-thing-in-every-sport https://socialsporthub.com/journal/the-line-is-not-the-same-thing-in-every-sport A ball on the line is in, unless you are playing basketball, where the boundary line is not court at all. The disagreement is written into the rulebooks, and it decides which edge of the paint the tape measure is held against. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://socialsporthub.com/journal/badminton-plays-on-two-courts-at-once https://socialsporthub.com/journal/badminton-plays-on-two-courts-at-once Singles and doubles use different sidelines and different back boundaries for the serve — and the two disagreements point in opposite directions. Doubles serves into a wider, shorter box; singles into a narrower, longer one. Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://socialsporthub.com/journal/every-net-sport-decided-something-different-about-the-middle https://socialsporthub.com/journal/every-net-sport-decided-something-different-about-the-middle A strung net always dips in the middle. Tennis decided to make the dip 156 millimetres and mandated a strap to produce it; badminton lets it be 26; volleyball forbids it and allows 20 millimetres of error. One physical fact, three regulatory answers. Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://socialsporthub.com/journal/how-tightly-does-a-sport-specify-its-ball https://socialsporthub.com/journal/how-tightly-does-a-sport-specify-its-ball A legal shuttlecock may vary in mass by 16 per cent and a legal tennis ball by 6. A football's inflation pressure may nearly double. And the golf ball has no permitted range at all — its rule bounds it in one direction only. Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://socialsporthub.com/journal/the-altitude-clause-three-sports-three-answers https://socialsporthub.com/journal/the-altitude-clause-three-sports-three-answers Tennis approves a separate high-altitude ball and requires sixty days of acclimatisation. Badminton lets a national association change the shuttle. Football states its pressure specification 'at sea level' and stops there. Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://socialsporthub.com/journal/the-shuttle-is-certified-by-where-it-lands https://socialsporthub.com/journal/the-shuttle-is-certified-by-where-it-lands Every other governing body in this Journal's corpus approves a ball by measuring it. The Laws of Badminton describe the shuttle in millimetres and then test it by hitting one down the court and looking at where it lands — a window 460 millimetres wide. Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://socialsporthub.com/journal/why-a-shuttle-loses-its-speed-so-quickly https://socialsporthub.com/journal/why-a-shuttle-loses-its-speed-so-quickly Drag rises with the square of speed, so an object with a very large drag area and very little mass decelerates violently. A study that built and validated a flight model for the shuttlecock found the term that dominates everything — and proposed replacing badminton's own speed test with it. Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://socialsporthub.com/journal/scoring-systems-are-arguments-about-fairness https://socialsporthub.com/journal/scoring-systems-are-arguments-about-fairness How a sport counts is not bookkeeping. It decides whether a disaster is survivable, whether a lead can be defended by running down a clock, and whether a match may end level at all — and football, tennis and volleyball each answered differently. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://socialsporthub.com/journal/why-every-racquet-sport-drew-a-different-court https://socialsporthub.com/journal/why-every-racquet-sport-drew-a-different-court A padel ball and a tennis ball are almost the same object. The ground they are hit on is not — because two of these sports decided that a boundary should return the ball instead of ending the point. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT