Week Post Three: Badminton Raquet Review

Honestly, a badminton racquet does not make you a better player when you’re a beginner. The racquet does not decide what shot to do, what direction the shuttle goes in, or how high or low the shuttle goes. A racquet is just an extension of a player’s arm, but I guess to an advanced player, it’s more than that. When it comes to purchasing racquets online, it’s tough because every badminton player is different, this means that not every racquet is going to feel the same for every player. A racquet is an extension of YOUR body, nobody else’s, so you have to basically play with it, before you buy it. When reading online reviews on racquets, the reviews are all personal, so you don’t know that it will do the same for you. The solution to this problem is to know how you play and to know the kind of player you are. For example, many reviews will provide the string tension and the racquet flexibility. If you don’t know your game, you don’t know how this relates to the racquet. So when deciding to either buy a ArcSaber Z-Slash or a Yonex Nanospeed 9000X, you either need to try it out first to see the compatibility between you and the racquet or really know the badminton vocabulary and how it relates to your game.