Master the Smash Shot featuring Kevin Han (13-time USA National Badminton Champion)

[Music] the next drill in the next skill we're gonna we're gonna show you is the most explosive skill technique in the game of badminton it's called Smash and smash often can give you some instant gratification because you can put away your opponents without one hammer okay so let's just go through the basic technique how you're gonna hit the smash okay Chandra let's step this side and it's the setup is very much like the drop in the clear and you're you're not racketful forward and the record for backwards but in the back and lean your way towards the back on your setup position and when you get ready you raise your your arms and your racket elbow drop a little bit lower than the down wreck your elbow and you're you're not wrecking elbow is is raised a little bit higher and the hand is in the front so you want to to guide to see where the shadow is coming from so so you can be ready to smash the shadow okay so this is the red in motion and follow through the number two is pretty much the same as clear and clear you go high and forward right to hit the clear drop you go high in the hole and just to keep the just to tap the shuttle over the net but smash you go high and whipping across one two yes one you hear this song the fast song is just the one two so what you do is you use a lot of your forearm your swing you rotate your your shoulder cuff the at this at the point of contact you have to use forearm right here okay to whip through the whip through the shadow one two yeah one two and at the same time we whip it through it and you have to use your wrist okay your wrist to keep the shadow down you keep the shadow down so the shadow doesn't go up anymore it goes down after the shadow goes over the net okay one two yes one two what two and uh still after your day you shift your way to the right hand side to the left hand side okay to your now right to your non-racket foot okay so the drills we do is the same as drop we serve from the other side in the the first mesh we're gonna do is the straight Smash down the line Okay so we're gonna surf to Chandra you're here to sell the contact the sound should be as loud just as loud as when you hear the clear but the fly of the Shadow is different clear is high to the back but the smash is fast and down the line okay good good this is four hair straight Smash and uh we can do a forehand crossbow smash Chandra stay there and the forehand cross smash you just have to bring your racket close in inside towards where you want it to hit the shuttle okay the same motion whip through it nice whip through it ready straight is down the line cross you just bring your racket towards where you want it to hit okay good all right now we do I'm gonna serve to Chandra so it's he's around the head straight smash okay same thing trying to bring the shadow towards the Finish Line you know when Chandra finishes his he should be pointing to the straight line right here the rocket face what two nice see the whipping whipping saw good all right the last one is around the head cross diagonal smash okay just time record hour good [Applause] okay these are very good smashes Chandra just hit an industrial we demonstrate the basic technique of hitting a smash was from the setup position to where you hit the Shadow and when you finish the smash position and uh and the smashes can be heard from two different Corners in the back into four different kinds of Smash from the straight smash we'll show you how to hit a straight smash straight forehead smash straight uh cross core four half Smash and we also showed you the around the half straight Smash and around the head cross course smash all right and these drills is going to help you to match the skill of Smash