Badminton

Badminton The History of Badminton Badminton’s Origin Like many other sports, a variation of badminton can be traced back to the first century B.C.E. in China. The game of Ti Jian Zi involved hitting or kicking a shuttlecock with your hands or feet. This game was not only popular in China but also in Japan, India and Siam. In the fourteenth century, the British played battledore shuttlecock, a sport in which players attempted to keep the shuttlecock in the air with the use of a racket or paddle. During this period up until the mid-1800s this game was widely recognized as a children’s game. Modern Day Badminton In the early 1860s, British army soldiers stationed in India played a competitive sport called “poona” a game very similar to shuttlecock which included a net and boundaries. These soldiers brought the equipment and the game back to England in the mid-1870s and are credited with introducing the sport to the British people in particular to royalty and people of leisure. The game was renamed badminton after a group of vacationing Indian colonials on the Duke of Beaufort estate, Badminton House, tossed about a champagne cork with chicken feathers. Originally, the badminton, sport, game, players, british, world, shuttlecock, played, first, years, india, held, england, cup, countries, championships, century, usba, until, throughout, team, status, sports, soldiers, rules, renamed, publishers, professional, prix, popularity, popular, plan, people, olympic, new