Smash and Clear Tutorial: Get more power in your overheadshots

How to get more power into your smash or more length into your clear? In this video i will go in detail on probably the most common question in badminton and show you how to improve your overhand technique. In this video i will show you:
1) How the whole movement for a powerful clear and smash works
2) The most important aspects of the movement and exercises to train them
3) The most common mistakes, that will limit your power

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Here a short overview about the different sections and topics in the video:
0:00 Introduction
1:12 The Movement Step by Step
6:10 Grip and Forearmrotation
8:03 The Elbow
8:53 The Hip and Bodyrotation
10:49 Common MIstakes
14:30 Outro

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It is important to understand, that the movement for clear smash are very similar. That is the reason, why i made this tutorial for both shots, because they both follow the same principals. Actually there are only two realls small differences between smash and clear:
1) With a good technique you don’t need full power, to hit a clear from one baseline to the other so the movement is a little slower than the movement of a powersmash
2) The shots have a differen point of impact. A smash should fly downwards, so you should hit it front of you, so the stringing points downwards in the moment of impact. For a clear you hit the shuttle above or slightly in front of your head, depending on how high or flat you want to play the clear.


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