y10 badminton doubles game plan

Physical & Health Education MYP YEAR 5 Year 10 Badminton Doubles Criterion B Game Plan Task 1 1. Identify your own strengths and weaknesses Strengths: 1. During a match, I am able to serve forehand very comfortably and accurately. 2. During a match, I am able to clear shots towards the opponent’s court. 3. During a match, I am able to both hit the shuttlecock using back and forehand. Weaknesses: 1. During a match, sometimes I am not able to perform the drive serve. 2. During a match, sometimes I may not be able to hit the shuttlecock using my backhand. 3. During a match, sometimes I forgot to stand back in the base location of the court, therefore allowing the opponent to perform a smash towards that empty area. 2. Identify your partner’s strengths and weaknesses Strengths: 1. During a match, my partner is able to perform clear shots towards the opponent’s court accurately. 2. During a match, my partner is able to perform drop shots when the shuttlecock is close to the net. 3. During a match, my partner is able to quickly return back to the base location of the court after each shot. Weaknesses: 1. During a match, sometimes my partner is unable to serve the shuttlecock towards the correct side of the court. 2. During a match, sometimes my partner is unable to perform smash. 3. During a match, sometimes my partner is unable to hit back the shuttlecock after the opponent performs a push shot. Based on the weaknesses you have identified above, suggest technical ways to improve and strengthen these weak spots. Weakness 1 (Unable to perform the drive serves) Drive serves are serves that allow the shuttlecock to travel fast and low over the net so that it makes a horizontal flight over the net. During the matches and experiences I had before, I’ve noticed that I was not able to perform the drive serve, and are definitely a disadvantage for me during matches. To improve this, I will try to practice only serving this drive serve once a week and approximately 10-15 shots. This will enable me to be able to focus on practising a specific serve. Also, I will try to use more drive serves during practising matches, this will allow my peers to give me some feedback on my performance, but

also more opportunity to try out the actual serve in a match. Weakness 2 (Unable to hit shuttlecock using backhand) Personally, I’m a right-hander, and it has been a challenge hitting the shuttlecock using backhand. Most of the time during matches, I noticed that the reason why I was not able to hit the shuttlecock was that my timing and accuracy was not good enough when using backhand. Therefore, to improve this I will try to kindly ask my peers to serve different types of short towards my backhand side so that I can practice performing the backhand hit for different situations. Weakness 3 (Forgot to return to base location) From the past experience of playing matches with others, one of the biggest problems that I always notice is that I always forgot to return back to the base location of the court, which is crucial in a badminton game. Although this usually applies most in single badminton matches, but I believe that this is very important for double matches as well. Returning back to the base location allows us to have a better sight of the shuttlecock when the opponent hits back, but also allow us to easily go towards corners of the court and better reaction. To improve this, I will try to practice the different routes for running towards a different location of the court and try to remind myself that every single time I need to return back towards the base location. I will also try to ask my peers to serve a few shots towards my side, and allow me to form a habit of returning to the base location of the court.

Task 2: Game Plan Now you know your own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of your opponents you will need to come up with your game plan. *Remarks: A=Herman B=Edmond Game Plan 1 - Make a plan on how you will use your team’s strengths 1. Description of team formation; state and outline your initial game plan on how you will use your team’s strengths (player’s role, expectations, analyze the opposite team’s play strategy etc.)

For the first week, our team will be focusing on practicing our team working skills, therefore we will be mainly playing in a Defensive side-side formation. I will be focusing on the left side of the court, and my partner would be on the other side. We don’t have a lot of expectations on the first week, but we do hope that we can use this as a chance to strengthen our serving and rallying skills. At the start of a match, me and my partner will analyze the opponent team’s strategies first and come up with possible tactics to counterattack. We will be serving towards the opposite side (represented by the blue arrows), and using both drive and high serve. During the match, me and my partner will be responsible for hitting the shuttlecocks in our own side of the

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court (represented by the red arrows). However, during emergency or sudden situations me and my partner can both help and hit the shuttlecock in any location of the court (represented by the purple arrow), this allows us to have more freedom and chance of hitting the shuttlecock back, decreasing our chance of losing a point. Our team is

planning to focus on performing clear shots during the first half of the match, because we believe that this will definitely decrease the opponent’s ability and their energy level, therefore we can gain a advantage in the second half of the match.

2. Analyze each player’s performance after playing in week #1 Name#

Benson

Tsz

Strengths

Weaknesses

Performance

Suggestions

After playing a match with

Benson’s weakness was

Benson’s performance was

I would suggest Benson to

Benson’s team, I found out

mainly his

kind of stable throughout

focus on training and

that Benson had very strong

inconsistency. He

the game, however in the

practicing on his

power when he performs

sometimes performs

late game he did perform

consistency of different

clear shots. His clear shots

very powerful and clear

more mistakes. Maybe he

kinds of shots, because this

often land at the very end of

shots, however

has used too much power

was one of his weakness

the court, and it’s

sometimes he always

at the first half of the

throughout the game that

sometimes very hard to hit

hits the shuttlecock

match, and that made him

had led his team to lost a

back.

outside of the court area,

a bit tiring at the end,

few points.

which makes their team

which leads to many

lose a few points.

careless mistakes.

I found out that Tsz is an all

Tsz’s weakness is that

Tsz’s performance is more

I would suggest Tsz to try

rounded player, that he’s

sometimes he hits too

focused on the defensive

and practice more on

able to perform all kinds of

hard when he performs

side. He’s the one who’s

controlling the power

shots, and he’s able to

a clear shot. Sometimes

responsible for performing

when he performs any sort

accurately perform each

his shots went even

clear shots, and receiving

of long distance or clear

shot throughout the match

further back than the

the long distance shots that

shots. He should try and

with not much mistakes.

court area, and their

the opponent performed.

practice more by asking a

team often lose scores

partner to serve higher

because of this mistake.

shots towards him, and therefore giving him more chance to practice dealing with high shots that the opponent returns.

Stanley

I found out that Stanley’s

Stanley’s weakness is

Stanley’s performance was

I would suggest him to try

strength was his power

that he often performs

really stable and strong,

and perform more kinds of

control and performing

low serve, which

especially he’s focusing on

different serves rather than

drop and drive shots. He is

sometimes he places his

the offensive side. He’s the

just always performing

able to observe the

racket too low and

one who’s responsible for

low serves. This will not

positions of the opponents

therefore the shuttlecock

smash and drive shots,

only the opponent harder

and adjust his shots towards

ends up not going over

which is very powerful and

to guess where you’ll

area that are open and clear,

the net. This has

are an threat to the

serve, but also minimize

and therefore makes the

happened a few times in

opponent.

chances of making a

opponent harder to catch

the match and is his

but also consumes their

main weakness.

mistake.

energy faster.

Kaiser

I found out that Kaiser’s

Kaiser’s weakness was

Kaiser’s performance was

I would suggest Kaiser to

strength is that he’s able to

that sometimes his

really quite substantial,

return various shots easily,

footsteps are very messy

he’s an all rounded player

practicing his footsteps

his body is very flexible

and un organized. When

that both can attack and

himself beforehand. He

that he can easily return the

the opponent performs a

defend. He cooperates

could simply just find an

shots from different areas

clear shot, Kaiser

well with his teammate

open space and practice his

of the court.

always run backwards to

and he often

footsteps starting from the

catch the badminton,

communicates with him to

however this slows

try to win the game.

try to improve on

center of the court and towards each corner of the

down his speed to catch

court. This will simulate

the returning shot from

the real situation when the

the opponent.

opponent returns various different kinds of shots which requires organized footsteps to return easily and more efficient.

Summarize your team’s performance, design and outline a (better) game plan for next week’s lesson. (Did your team give their best while playing? Suggest possible changes for a better team formation and team strategy. State and outline two team tactics/formations/strategies to be applied in the next game.) Overall I do believe that our team did a pretty good job during each match with other classmates, although it was our first

week practicing double badminton but still I think me and my partner cooperated pretty well. We started off this week with a defensive formation to try and grasp what it’s like during a double badminton match but also we feel like it’s the best formation for warming up. Since it was the first week, I and my partner didn’t push ourselves to our limits yet, although we did try our best to practice how double badminton works and basically we’re trying to adapt this new formation style. Now that we’ve practiced a few times of how double badminton works and we feel like we’re ready to try something new, therefore next week we’ll try to play in an offensive formation. We’ll try to practice being more offensive and engaging, therefore we’ll try to perform more clear and smash shots to try and gain more points and as a result, develop our attack skills. Although we’ll be changing to an offensive formation, we will still maintain developing our team working skills further since we believe that it’s crucial in a double badminton game.

Con’t Game Plan #1 *Remarks: A=Herman B=Edmond 1. State, describe and outline a new / improved /revised game plan based on last week’s performance. From the experience that we got last week, our team will be focusing on practicing our attacking skills but at the same time continue to strengthen our team working skills, therefore we will be mainly playing in an Offensive front-back formation. I will be focusing on the back of the court, and my partner would be in the front of the court, but this formation could change anytime during a match (represented by the purple arrow). Since we’ve now warmed up and practiced the basic skills for double badminton, we will expect ourselves to be able to switch between the offensive and defensive formation anytime during a match. Also we would want to maintain our serving skills, as usual we will be in

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charge of serving in our own respective side of the court (represented by the blue arrow). At the start of the match, me and my partner will try to stay in the defensive formation for 2-3 serves to try and analyze the opponent team’s strategies first and come up with possible tactics to

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counterattack, then we will switch back to a offensive formation of the rest of the match. During the match, we will now be responsible for

returning the shuttlecocks based on where it seems to land, if it’s in the front of the court my partner is responsible (represented by the green arrows), and I’m responsible for the back of the court (represented by the red arrows). Therefore, this week my partner will be practicing returning drive and drop shots from the opponent, and I will be practicing returning the smash and clear shots from the opponent. However, during emergency or sudden situations me and my partner can both help and hit the shuttlecock in any location of the court, which this allows us to have more freedom and chance of hitting the shuttlecock back, decreasing our chance of losing a point. Our team is planning to focus on performing clear shots during the first half of the match, because we believe that this will definitely decrease the opponent’s ability and their energy level, therefore we can gain an advantage in the second half of the match.

2. Summarize each player’s performance and suggest ways to improve. Name# Adrian

Performance Adrian’s performance was quite smooth

Suggestions I would suggest Adrian to try practicing his

overall. During the match he was able to

clear shots, since he needs to improve his

return most of the shots that our team

power output when he performs this shot. He

performed, and he managed to return quite

could ask his partner to perform a high serve

well and strong. However, sometimes his

and this allows him chance to practice his

clear shots are not powerful enough to reach

clear shots, I think practicing 5-10 times

the end of our court, which sometimes

before each match would be ideal.

becomes an advantage for the opponent to perform a smash shot.

William

William’s performance was not that well

I would suggest William to try and play more

developed during our match. He was able to

casual friendly matches with friends, this

perform basic serving and returning shots,

could not only strength his basic skills but

however when the opponent performs a

also allow him to gain more experience of

smash shot or drive shot, he often could not

double badminton.

return the shot, which can be a pretty serious issue for their team.

Ryan

Ryan’s performance was really good,

I would suggest Ryan to basically practice

especially his offensive skills. In his team

more by playing friendly matches with more

he’s responsible for performing smash and

different opponents, this will strengthen his

clear shots, which during the match his

attack skills but also improve his team

shots was really powerful and well

working skills.

developed.

Chi Hin

Chi Hin’s performance was overall good.

I would suggest Chi Hin to try to practice

During the match he was able to perform

more with his partner and kindly ask his

drive shots most of the time, however he

partner to perform some smash and clear

wasn’t really able to return the smash or

shots to allow him to practice receiving these

clear shots from the opponent.

shots. I would suggest him to practice around 5-10 times before each match to give him a bit of a warmup.

Summarize your team’s performance, construct and outline the final (and the best!) game plan to be used in your final assessment. Overall I believe that our team really did improve a lot from the experience of the matches with other classmates earlier last week. I think that our overall performance, especially our offensive skills have improved a lot throughout these weeks. Last week we focused on building up our team working skills, and we’ve continued working on our team working skills this week, as a result we feel like we’ve definitely cooperated much efficient and better this time and much fewer mistakes performed. Our final game plan would be focusing on making use of both our defensive and offensive formation skills that we’ve been practicing the past 2 weeks, on the first half of the match we’ll be in a defensive formation and we’ll be switching to an offensive formation on the other half. Same as before, for both formations my partner will be focusing on the front areas of the court (mainly receiving drive shots) and I’ll be focusing on the back areas of the court (mainly receiving smash and clear shots). Although same as the past few weeks, our plan is that anyone of us could help out in all areas of the court during emergency situations in order to minimize as few point lost as possible. For the serving, mainly I will be the person who’s going to start the match, but anyone of us could serve according to the specific score we’re on at that moment. Both of us will perform different types of serves in intervals, and we’ll try to confuse our opponent on the type of serve that we’ll be

performing and that’s one of our tactics. Another tactic that our team will focus on is that when we perform smash shots, we’ll aim at areas that our opponent members are further away from or requires more reaction time for them to return, which allows us to score points easier. We hope that this game plan based on the experience from last 2 weeks would be successful. Game plan 2 – Make a plan on how you will exploit your opponents’ weaknesses 1. Describe, state and outline an initial game plan on how you will exploit your opponent’s weaknesses.

*Remarks: A=Herman B=Edmond For this alternative game plan that aims to exploit our opponent’s weakness, from our experience the last 2 weeks we believe that most of the opponent’s weakness is their in-consistency of shots. We analyzed their performance and weaknesses, and we believe that a defensive formation would be the best to counter their weakness. From the various matches that we’ve played with different opponent, we believe that most of them lose points because of their mistakes when they perform smash and drive shots. As a result, we plan to aim at leading them to making these mistakes. To do this we try to perform more clear shots (represented by the red arrows) and drive shots (represented by the

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B

blue arrows), which usually everyone’s reaction is to either return by performing smash or drive shots, which sometimes they might encounter their mistakes and we can gain points through this tactic. However, we understand that this tactic might not always work, therefore we plan to stand in a front and back position when we

perform this tactic. In this formation we could easily return the shots that the opponent performs in case they don’t make any mistakes, which is an alternative plan during emergency. 2. Analyze each player’s performance after playing in week #1 Name#

William

Strengths

Weaknesses

Performance

Suggestions

William’s strength is his

William’s weakness is

William’s performance is

I would suggest William to

reaction time when

that sometimes he’s

pretty stable throughout

try practicing more on

receiving shots from

unable to perform drive

the same, however he often

performing drive serves

opponents. He is able to

serves, he often performs

performs some let downs

and shots. To do this he

quickly react from the

the serve too low and

during the match and

could ask his partner to

smash shots that the

doesn’t cross over the

sometimes does cause his

help him by serving lower

opponent performs, and

net, therefore leading his

team to lose a few points.

serves or return lower

he’s able to return back

team to lose points from

shots to allow him to

the shot without much

this mistake.

practice his height control.

mistakes.

Jamie

Jamie’s strength is his

Jamie’s weakness is that

Jamie’s performance was

I would suggest Jamie to

power when delivering

sometimes his reaction

quite strong overall, since

try to practice more of the

clear shots, he is often

time is a bit slow. When

most of the shots he

methods of efficiently

able to perform clear

the opponent performs a

performs is pretty

moves of moving towards

Tien Yi

Hunter

shots that can hit right

clear shot, he’s able to

powerful. Most of his

different areas of the court.

into the back area of the

return it, however if the

shots is accurate and goes

To do this, he could set up

opponent’s court, which

opponent performs a

straight to the back area of

a track that simulates a

enables them to have

drive shot right away, it’s

the opponent’s court,

badminton court and

more time to prepare for

hard for him to return the

however sometimes he

practice making different

the next shot that the

shot again. This has been

does perform some

efficient routes towards

opponent performs.

Jamie’s team main

mistakes due to his late

each area of the court.

weakness.

reaction time.

Tien Yi’s strength is his

Tien Yi’s weakness is

Tien Yi’s performance is

I would suggest Tien Yi to

serving, and he mainly

that sometimes he is

not really consistent, and is

try practicing more with

performs high serves

unable to receive/return

lacking in receiving shots

his partner, especially he

during matches. His high

smash and clear shots

from opponents. Smash

should ask his partner to

serves really are high and

performed by the

and clear shots are one of

perform more smash and

fast enough that it really

opponent. When the

the most commonly

clear shots for him to

reaches the far end of the

opponent performs a

performed shots, and if

practice receiving so that

opponent’s court, which

clear or smash shot, he

he’s not able to receive

his performance can

is very hard for the

often strikes the ball way

these shots it might be a

improve during real

opponent to predict

too quickly and ends up

huge threat for this team.

matches.

whether it’s out or not.

missing the shot.

Hunter’s strength is his

Hunter’s weakness is that

Hunter’s performance was

I would suggest Hunter to

very fast reaction time.

sometimes his shots are

pretty good overall. He

try and practice more

He is able to return the

not controlled well,

was consistent throughout

controlling his shots that

shots that the opponent

which some of the shots

the whole match and has

he performs despite his

performed immediately,

went out of the court

definitely maintained his

immediate reaction speed.

and most of them was

area. Irony, due to his

quick reaction time

To do this he could ask his

pretty accurate. When we

quick reaction time, he

advantage, however

partner to perform

played a match with their

often performs the shots

sometimes he does

different kinds of shots for

team, he was really

too quickly without

perform some mistakes.

him to train to think about

confident in his shots and

planning where it should

where he wants the shot to

we were pretty amazed

go, therefore sometimes

go before he actually

by his immediate

the shots went out of the

strikes the shuttlecock.

reactions.

court area.

Summarize your team’s performance, design and outline a (better) game plan for next week’s lesson. Suggest possible changes for a better team formation and team strategy. State and outline two team tactics / formations / strategies to be applied in the next game/lesson.) Overall our team really did encounter and exploited some of our opponent’s weaknesses throughout the matches that we did with various teams. I think that our team’s performance really did improve a lot throughout the past few weeks, and certainly, it has improved from our revised game plan. Now during matches, I and my partner cooperate very efficiently and there are far fewer mistakes or communication errors compared to the past few weeks. This week we tried our new game plan in which we used both the offensive and defensive formation throughout the match. We followed our game plan and we switched from the first half in a defensive formation into an offensive formation in the second half, however that didn’t work too well. We decided to change this in our future game plan, in which we will reverse the order of our formation. From the matches we see that our

opponents tend to attack and engage more often in the second half of the match, meaning that it would not be a good idea to be in an offensive formation in the second half. Also next time, we will be introducing a tactic to attack our opponent quickly. To do this, we will sometimes switch to an offensive formation throughout the match (mostly when we believe that the opponent is tired or distracted), then we will try our best to find chances to perform smashes towards the corners of the opponent’s court area. Same as before, we will still maintain developing our team working skills further since we believe that it’s crucial in a double badminton game. Con’t Game Plan #2 1. State, describe and outline a new/ improved/revised game plan based on last week’s performance. *Remarks: A=Herman B=Edmond From the experience that we’ve learned from last week’s matches with other classmates, we’ve now decided that we shouldn’t have a fixed plan on what time we should be using which formation, instead now we can change our formation anytime during a match. We analyzed their performance and weaknesses, and we believe that still many teams are lack in their consistency of shots, especially when performing smash and drive shots. As a result, we’ve decided to follow mostly the tactics of our last week’s game plan, in which we plan to aim at leading them to making these mistakes. To do this we try to perform more clear shots (represented by the red arrows) and drive shots (represented by the blue arrows), which usually everyone’s reaction is to either return by

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performing smash or drive shots, which sometimes they might encounter their mistakes and we can gain points through this tactic. However, we understand that this tactic might not always work, therefore we plan to stand in a front and back position when we perform this tactic. In this formation we could easily return the shots that the opponent performs in

case they don’t make any mistakes, which is an alternative plan during emergency. Moreover, since we believe that it’s crucial to perform some attack during a match in-order to gain points and put pressure on our opponent, therefore we’ll sometimes engage attacks by performing multiple smash shots towards the corner area of the opponent’s court (represented by the green arrows).

2. Summarize each player’s performance and suggest ways to improve. Name#

Harry

Michael

Performance

Suggestions

Harry’s performance was not that consistent

I would suggest Harry to try practicing more

throughout the match, and most of the time

on his controls and reaction time when he

he couldn’t handle the smash shots that the

sees his opponent is about to perform a smash

opponent performs. Sometimes he does try

shot. To do this he could ask his partner to

to return the smash shots that the opponent

simulate the situation during a real match and

performed, however he often strikes the

perform multiple smash shots form him to

racket too quickly, which he misses the

return, so that he could gain more experience

shuttlecock easily.

on how he could handle these shots easier.

Michael’s performance was pretty strong

I would suggest Michael to try practicing

throughout the match, especially his speed

more on his drive shots, and try to manage to

when moving around the court. He is able

control the height of the shuttlecock when

to return all sorts of shots that the opponent

going through the net. To do this he could

performs and he is able to quickly change

simply ask his partner to perform some drive

the direction of the shuttlecock, making the

serves for him, allowing him to get chances to

opponent

train his drive shot skills, and practicing

harder

to

return.

However,

sometimes when he performs drive shots,

makes perfect.

he often changes its direction too quickly and it’s far too low, which ends up not able to go through the net.

Jacky

Jacky’s performance was very balanced

Although

there

aren’t

much

serious

throughout the match, especially me and my

weaknesses that Jacky needs to work on, but

partner was amazed by how good he

still I would suggest him to practice more on

handles the shots using his back hand.

enhancing his performance and handling of

When we perform some clear shots and

his back hand shots. I believe if he could train

even though we targeted at the corner areas

his back hand shots very well, this might be a

that is usually very hard to return, he

great advantage for his team when competing

managed to use his back hand to return

with other teams.

perfectly, and it was pretty amazing.

Theodre

Theodre’s performance was pretty strong

I would suggest Theodre to try and save up

throughout the match, especially sometimes

his power evenly throughout the match, and

he performs some unpredictable shots that

try not to focus on attacking too much all the

are quite hard to return, and I believe this is

time. To do this he could try and practice

his advantage in his team. However

more on his defensive skills, and try not to

sometimes because he focuses on attacking

always attack but instead try to boost his

all the time, he consumes up his energy

attack in suitable situations and become

very quickly, which makes his reaction time

unpredictable for the opponents.

much slower in the late games. Summarize your team’s performance, construct and outline the final (and the best!) game plan to be used in your final assessment. Overall our team really did a great job in dealing with some of the strong opponents that we’ve faced during the matches using our game plan. Our game plan focused on more of a balanced idea in which we’ve decided to incorporate the offensive and defensive formation together and switch between when needed instead of having a time frame of when to switch. I think that this idea really worked well and has certainly boosted our performance throughout the matches, therefore we believe that this should definitely be maintained for our final assessment. Also from our revised game plan, we’ve decided to make use of a new tactic which aims to attack the opponent quickly and to not let them predict when we’ll be attacking. From the actual experience of using this tactic during the matches, we believe that it worked realty well although we think that we should keep this tactic in the second half of the match to increase the chance of succeeding since some opponents may have consumed a lot of their energy. This tactic will definitely stay for our final assessment. Furthermore, for serving me and my partner both could be responsible for serving, however for the final assessment we’ve decided that we should be responsible for performing different types of serves throughout the game. I and my partner will change the types of serve that each of us is responsible for throughout the game, I will be focusing on performing high and flick serves and my partner will be focusing on performing drive and low serves. We hope that this last and most revised game plan would be successful in our final assessment.