1. Factors Impacting a Badminton Performance
Higher National 6 PE
Factors Impacting a Badminton Performance

2. LI:
To know how the four factors can impact a badminton performance

3. Physical
There are lots of different physical factors that can impact your performance in badminton. These can be separated into 3 sub-categories:
Fitness
Skills
Tactics/Composition

4. Fitness
When studying this area you will realistically only focus on two or three features.
Here are some examples of role related physical fitness requirements that are specific to Badminton:
Aerobic endurance (CRE)
Suppleness
Speed
Local muscular endurance
Strength
Power

5. Fitness
Here are some examples of role related skill related fitness requirements that are specific to Badminton:
Agility
Balance
Control/Core Stability
Reaction time/Anticipation
Coordination

6. Skills
A skilful Badminton player will display a diverse repertoire of skill. This repertoire will include evidence of the following:
Understanding of skill classification
Technical Qualities
Special Qualities
Quality of Performance
Good information processing
Kinaesthetic Awareness
Awareness of the 3 Stages of Learning

7. Physical Skills Knowledge checklist
Types of skills
The impact on performance of different types of skill and their effectiveness
How to collect information about these skills
Stages of learning
Qualities of effective performance
Approaches to develop skills
How to monitor performance development
Justification of future needs following performance development

8. Tactics and Composition
A model performer in Badminton must have tactical intelligence. This will involve consideration of some/all of the following:
Personal strengths and weaknesses
Opponents strengths and weaknesses
Decision making
Creativity
Tempo of play
Spatial awareness

9. Mental Factors
A Badminton player’s ability to cope mentally has a very important impact of their level of performance. The following features help to give them the edge over opponents:
Concentration Level of Arousal (under/over)
Motivation Decision making
Problem solving Attention span
Mental toughness Processing information
Anticipation Cue recognition
Focus of attention

10. Emotional Factors
A badminton player is vulnerable to certain emotions during a competitive performance:
Happiness/sadness
Anger
Fear
Trust
Surprise
Good performers must learn to manage their emotions.

11. Managing Emotions Definition:
The ability to control feelings and deal with stress and aggression.
It is important to manage your emotions so as to control your:
Intolerance and impatience with others
Concentration
Inability to relax
Anxiety
Bad temper/ Aggression/lack of emotional control
As you can see, if you are unable to manage your emotions it can influence other factors/features of your performace.
*Remember all four factors are inter-related.
They contribute to your whole performance!*

12. Social Factors
Although you will mostly play badminton and analyse you performance individually, there are still some social factors to consider:
Competing
Working in isolation
Taking responsibility for performance
Etiquette
Respect for yourself and others
Codes of conduct/rules
Extrinsic motivation
Intrinsic motivation