This week I played a sport for the first time since I had graduated highschool…yikes. I remembered liking badminton when I was forced to take gym class, so I decided to coerce a friend into playing with me.

The rules are very very simple: a match is consisted of a single game of 21 points, everytime someone serves a point is scored for the other team, the team with the winning rally adds a point to their score.

There are doubles and singles, but since  I only had one friend available, we played singles. When the score is even the server serves on the right side of service, when it’s odd they serve from the left. If which ever side the birdie lands on the floor, who every wins the rally, the receiving side scores a point. The receiving side becomes the new serving side. Servers have to serve below the waist, and racket head must be below the wrist. You cannot do overhead serves. To determine who goes first–filp the birdie, or a coin honestly the coin toss is a lot easier than the birdie. Also determine lines, if you’re not on a proper court.

The goal of the game is to score 21 first. The game was fun, I like it a lot better than tennis since the court is smaller and easier to maintain. The smaller racquet, just everything is more manageable and more fun to do. Also the scoring system is really easy, it’s just numbers.

I’d be interested if you could play with three people.