Physical & Health Education

MYP YEAR 5
Year 10 Badminton Doubles

Criterion B Game Plan

Task 1
1. Identify your own strengths and weaknesses

Strengths:
1. During a match, I am able to serve forehand very comfortably and accurately.
2. During a match, I am able to clear shots towards the opponents court.
3. During a match, I am able to both hit the shuttlecock using back and forehand.

Weaknesses:
1. During a match, sometimes I am not able to perform the drive serve.
2. During a match, sometimes I may not be able to hit the shuttlecock using my backhand.
3. During a match, sometimes I forgot to stand back in the base location of the court, therefore
allowing the opponent to perform a smash towards that empty area.

2. Identify your partners strengths and weaknesses

Strengths:
1. During a match, my partner is able to perform clear shots towards the opponents court
accurately.
2. During a match, my partner is able to perform drop shots when the shuttlecock is close to the net.
3. During a match, my partner is able to quickly return back to the base location of the court after
each shot.

Weaknesses:
1. During a match, sometimes my partner is unable to serve the shuttlecock towards the correct side
of the court.
2. During a match, sometimes my partner is unable to perform smash.
3. During a match, sometimes my partner is unable to hit back the shuttlecock after the opponent
performs a push shot.

Based on the weaknesses you have identified above, suggest technical ways to improve and strengthen
these weak spots.

Weakness 1 (Unable to perform the drive serves)

Drive serves are serves that allow the shuttlecock to travel fast and low over the net so that it makes a
horizontal flight over the net. During the matches and experiences I had before, Ive noticed that I was
not able to perform the drive serve, and are definitely a disadvantage for me during matches. To improve
this, I will try to practice only serving this drive serve once a week and approximately 10-15 shots. This
will enable me to be able to focus on practising a specific serve. Also, I will try to use more drive serves
during practising matches, this will allow my peers to give me some feedback on my performance, but
also more opportunity to try out the actual serve in a match.

Weakness 2 (Unable to hit shuttlecock using backhand)

Personally, Im a right-hander, and it has been a challenge hitting the shuttlecock using backhand. Most
of the time during matches, I noticed that the reason why I was not able to hit the shuttlecock was that
my timing and accuracy was not good enough when using backhand. Therefore, to improve this I will
try to kindly ask my peers to serve different types of short towards my backhand side so that I can
practice performing the backhand hit for different situations.

Weakness 3 (Forgot to return to base location)

From the past experience of playing matches with others, one of the biggest problems that I always
notice is that I always forgot to return back to the base location of the court, which is crucial in a
badminton game. Although this usually applies most in single badminton matches, but I believe that this
is very important for double matches as well. Returning back to the base location allows us to have a
better sight of the shuttlecock when the opponent hits back, but also allow us to easily go towards
corners of the court and better reaction. To improve this, I will try to practice the different routes for
running towards a different location of the court and try to remind myself that every single time I need to
return back towards the base location. I will also try to ask my peers to serve a few shots towards my
side, and allow me to form a habit of returning to the base location of the court.
Task 2: Game Plan
Now you know your own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of your opponents you will need to come up with your
game plan.
*Remarks: A=Herman
B=Edmond

Game Plan 1 - Make a plan on how you will use your teams strengths
1. Description of team formation; state and outline your initial game plan on how you will use your teams strengths (players
role, expectations, analyze the opposite teams play strategy etc.)

For the first week, our team will be focusing on practicing our team
working skills, therefore we will be mainly playing in a Defensive
side-side formation. I will be focusing on the left side of the court, and
my partner would be on the other side. We dont have a lot of
expectations on the first week, but we do hope that we can use this as a
chance to strengthen our serving and rallying skills. At the start of a
match, me and my partner will analyze the opponent teams strategies
first and come up with possible tactics to counterattack. We will be
serving towards the opposite side (represented by the blue arrows), and
using both drive and high serve. During the match, me and my partner
will be responsible for hitting the shuttlecocks in our own side of the
court (represented by the red arrows). However, during emergency or
A B sudden situations me and my partner can both help and hit the
shuttlecock in any location of the court (represented by the purple
arrow), this allows us to have more freedom and chance of hitting the
shuttlecock back, decreasing our chance of losing a point. Our team is
planning to focus on performing clear shots during the first half of the match, because we believe that this will definitely
decrease the opponents ability and their energy level, therefore we can gain a advantage in the second half of the match.

2. Analyze each players performance after playing in week #1

Name# Strengths
After playing a match with
Bensons team, I found out
that Benson had very strong
power when he performs
clear shots. His clear shots
Benson often land at the very end of
the court, and its
sometimes very hard to hit
back.
I found out that Tsz is an all
Tsz rounded player, that hes
able to perform all kinds of
Weaknesses Performance Suggestions
Bensons weakness was Bensons performance was I would suggest Benson to
mainly his kind of stable throughout focus on training and
inconsistency. He the game, however in the practicing on his
sometimes performs late game he did perform consistency of different
very powerful and clear more mistakes. Maybe he kinds of shots, because this
shots, however has used too much power was one of his weakness
sometimes he always at the first half of the throughout the game that
hits the shuttlecock match, and that made him had led his team to lost a
outside of the court area, a bit tiring at the end, few points.
which makes their team which leads to many
lose a few points. careless mistakes.
Tszs weakness is that Tszs performance is more I would suggest Tsz to try
sometimes he hits too focused on the defensive and practice more on
hard when he performs side. Hes the one whos controlling the power
 shots, and hes able to
accurately perform each
shot throughout the match
with not much mistakes.
I found out that Stanleys
strength was his power
control and performing
drop and drive shots. He is
able to observe the
positions of the opponents
Stanley
and adjust his shots towards
area that are open and clear,
and therefore makes the
opponent harder to catch
but also consumes their
energy faster.
I found out that Kaisers
strength is that hes able to
return various shots easily,
his body is very flexible
that he can easily return the
shots from different areas
of the court.
Kaiser
Summarize your teams performance, design and outline a (better) game plan for next weeks lesson. (Did your team give
their best while playing? Suggest possible changes for a better team formation and team strategy. State and outline two team
tactics/formations/strategies to be applied in the next game.)
Overall I do believe that our team did a pretty good job during each match with other classmates, although it was our first
a clear shot. Sometimes responsible for performing when he performs any sort
his shots went even clear shots, and receiving of long distance or clear
further back than the the long distance shots that shots. He should try and
court area, and their the opponent performed. practice more by asking a
team often lose scores partner to serve higher
because of this mistake. shots towards him, and
therefore giving him more
chance to practice dealing
with high shots that the
opponent returns.
Stanleys weakness is Stanleys performance was I would suggest him to try
that he often performs really stable and strong, and perform more kinds of
low serve, which especially hes focusing on different serves rather than
sometimes he places his the offensive side. Hes the just always performing
racket too low and one whos responsible for low serves. This will not
therefore the shuttlecock smash and drive shots, only the opponent harder
ends up not going over which is very powerful and to guess where youll
the net. This has are an threat to the serve, but also minimize
happened a few times in opponent. chances of making a
the match and is his mistake.
main weakness.
Kaisers weakness was Kaisers performance was I would suggest Kaiser to
that sometimes his really quite substantial, try to improve on
footsteps are very messy hes an all rounded player practicing his footsteps
and un organized. When that both can attack and himself beforehand. He
the opponent performs a defend. He cooperates could simply just find an
clear shot, Kaiser well with his teammate open space and practice his
always run backwards to and he often footsteps starting from the
catch the badminton, communicates with him to center of the court and
however this slows try to win the game. towards each corner of the
down his speed to catch court. This will simulate
the returning shot from the real situation when the
the opponent. opponent returns various
different kinds of shots
which requires organized
footsteps to return easily
and more efficient.
week practicing double badminton but still I think me and my partner cooperated pretty well. We started off this week with a
defensive formation to try and grasp what its like during a double badminton match but also we feel like its the best
formation for warming up. Since it was the first week, I and my partner didnt push ourselves to our limits yet, although we
did try our best to practice how double badminton works and basically were trying to adapt this new formation style. Now
that weve practiced a few times of how double badminton works and we feel like were ready to try something new,
therefore next week well try to play in an offensive formation. Well try to practice being more offensive and engaging,
therefore well try to perform more clear and smash shots to try and gain more points and as a result, develop our attack skills.
Although well be changing to an offensive formation, we will still maintain developing our team working skills further since
we believe that its crucial in a double badminton game.

Cont Game Plan #1

*Remarks: A=Herman
B=Edmond

1. State, describe and outline a new / improved /revised game plan based on last weeks performance.

From the experience that we got last week, our team will be focusing on
practicing our attacking skills but at the same time continue to strengthen
our team working skills, therefore we will be mainly playing in an
Offensive front-back formation. I will be focusing on the back of the
court, and my partner would be in the front of the court, but this
formation could change anytime during a match (represented by the
purple arrow). Since weve now warmed up and practiced the basic skills
for double badminton, we will expect ourselves to be able to switch
between the offensive and defensive formation anytime during a match.
Also we would want to maintain our serving skills, as usual we will be in
charge of serving in our own respective side of the court (represented by
B
the blue arrow). At the start of the match, me and my partner will try to
stay in the defensive formation for 2-3 serves to try and analyze the
opponent teams strategies first and come up with possible tactics to
A counterattack, then we will switch back to a offensive formation of the
rest of the match. During the match, we will now be responsible for
returning the shuttlecocks based on where it seems to land, if its in the front of the court my partner is responsible
(represented by the green arrows), and Im responsible for the back of the court (represented by the red arrows). Therefore,
this week my partner will be practicing returning drive and drop shots from the opponent, and I will be practicing returning
the smash and clear shots from the opponent. However, during emergency or sudden situations me and my partner can both
help and hit the shuttlecock in any location of the court, which this allows us to have more freedom and chance of hitting the
shuttlecock back, decreasing our chance of losing a point. Our team is planning to focus on performing clear shots during the
first half of the match, because we believe that this will definitely decrease the opponents ability and their energy level,
therefore we can gain an advantage in the second half of the match.

2. Summarize each players performance and suggest ways to improve.

Name# Performance Suggestions
Adrian Adrians performance was quite smooth I would suggest Adrian to try practicing his
 overall. During the match he was able to
return most of the shots that our team
performed, and he managed to return quite
well and strong. However, sometimes his
clear shots are not powerful enough to reach
the end of our court, which sometimes
becomes an advantage for the opponent to
perform a smash shot.
Williams performance was not that well
developed during our match. He was able to
perform basic serving and returning shots,
William however when the opponent performs a
smash shot or drive shot, he often could not
return the shot, which can be a pretty
serious issue for their team.
Ryans performance was really good,
especially his offensive skills. In his team
hes responsible for performing smash and
Ryan
clear shots, which during the match his
shots was really powerful and well
developed.
Chi Hins performance was overall good.
During the match he was able to perform
drive shots most of the time, however he
Chi Hin wasnt really able to return the smash or
clear shots from the opponent.
clear shots, since he needs to improve his
power output when he performs this shot. He
could ask his partner to perform a high serve
and this allows him chance to practice his
clear shots, I think practicing 5-10 times
before each match would be ideal.
I would suggest William to try and play more
casual friendly matches with friends, this
could not only strength his basic skills but
also allow him to gain more experience of
double badminton.
I would suggest Ryan to basically practice
more by playing friendly matches with more
different opponents, this will strengthen his
attack skills but also improve his team
working skills.
I would suggest Chi Hin to try to practice
more with his partner and kindly ask his
partner to perform some smash and clear
shots to allow him to practice receiving these
shots. I would suggest him to practice around
5-10 times before each match to give him a
bit of a warmup.

Summarize your teams performance, construct and outline the final (and the best!) game plan to be used
in your final assessment.

Overall I believe that our team really did improve a lot from the experience of the matches with other classmates earlier last
week. I think that our overall performance, especially our offensive skills have improved a lot throughout these weeks. Last
week we focused on building up our team working skills, and weve continued working on our team working skills this week,
as a result we feel like weve definitely cooperated much efficient and better this time and much fewer mistakes performed.
Our final game plan would be focusing on making use of both our defensive and offensive formation skills that weve been
practicing the past 2 weeks, on the first half of the match well be in a defensive formation and well be switching to an
offensive formation on the other half. Same as before, for both formations my partner will be focusing on the front areas of
the court (mainly receiving drive shots) and Ill be focusing on the back areas of the court (mainly receiving smash and clear
shots). Although same as the past few weeks, our plan is that anyone of us could help out in all areas of the court during
emergency situations in order to minimize as few point lost as possible. For the serving, mainly I will be the person whos
going to start the match, but anyone of us could serve according to the specific score were on at that moment. Both of us will
perform different types of serves in intervals, and well try to confuse our opponent on the type of serve that well be
performing and thats one of our tactics. Another tactic that our team will focus on is that when we perform smash shots,
well aim at areas that our opponent members are further away from or requires more reaction time for them to return, which
allows us to score points easier. We hope that this game plan based on the experience from last 2 weeks would be successful.

Game plan 2 Make a plan on how you will exploit your opponents weaknesses
1. Describe, state and outline an initial game plan on how you will exploit your opponents weaknesses.
*Remarks: A=Herman
B=Edmond

For this alternative game plan that aims to exploit our opponents
weakness, from our experience the last 2 weeks we believe that
most of the opponents weakness is their in-consistency of shots.
We analyzed their performance and weaknesses, and we believe
that a defensive formation would be the best to counter their
weakness. From the various matches that weve played with
different opponent, we believe that most of them lose points
because of their mistakes when they perform smash and drive
shots. As a result, we plan to aim at leading them to making these
mistakes. To do this we try to perform more clear shots
(represented by the red arrows) and drive shots (represented by the
blue arrows), which usually everyones reaction is to either return
A B by performing smash or drive shots, which sometimes they might
encounter their mistakes and we can gain points through this tactic.
However, we understand that this tactic might not always work,
therefore we plan to stand in a front and back position when we
perform this tactic. In this formation we could easily return the shots that the opponent performs in case they dont
make any mistakes, which is an alternative plan during emergency.

2. Analyze each players performance after playing in week #1

Name# Strengths Weaknesses Performance Suggestions
Williams strength is his Williams weakness is Williams performance is I would suggest William to
reaction time when that sometimes hes pretty stable throughout try practicing more on
receiving shots from unable to perform drive the same, however he often performing drive serves
opponents. He is able to serves, he often performs performs some let downs and shots. To do this he
quickly react from the the serve too low and during the match and could ask his partner to
William
smash shots that the doesnt cross over the sometimes does cause his help him by serving lower
opponent performs, and net, therefore leading his team to lose a few points. serves or return lower
hes able to return back team to lose points from shots to allow him to
the shot without much this mistake. practice his height control.
mistakes.
Jamies strength is his Jamies weakness is that Jamies performance was I would suggest Jamie to
power when delivering sometimes his reaction quite strong overall, since try to practice more of the
Jamie
clear shots, he is often time is a bit slow. When most of the shots he methods of efficiently
able to perform clear the opponent performs a performs is pretty moves of moving towards
 shots that can hit right clear shot, hes able to powerful. Most of his different areas of the court.
into the back area of the return it, however if the shots is accurate and goes To do this, he could set up
opponents court, which opponent performs a straight to the back area of a track that simulates a
enables them to have drive shot right away, its the opponents court, badminton court and
more time to prepare for hard for him to return the however sometimes he practice making different
the next shot that the shot again. This has been does perform some efficient routes towards
opponent performs. Jamies team main mistakes due to his late each area of the court.
weakness. reaction time.
Tien Yis strength is his Tien Yis weakness is Tien Yis performance is I would suggest Tien Yi to
serving, and he mainly that sometimes he is not really consistent, and is try practicing more with
performs high serves unable to receive/return lacking in receiving shots his partner, especially he
during matches. His high smash and clear shots from opponents. Smash should ask his partner to
serves really are high and performed by the and clear shots are one of perform more smash and
Tien Yi fast enough that it really opponent. When the the most commonly clear shots for him to
reaches the far end of the opponent performs a performed shots, and if practice receiving so that
opponents court, which clear or smash shot, he hes not able to receive his performance can
is very hard for the often strikes the ball way these shots it might be a improve during real
opponent to predict too quickly and ends up huge threat for this team. matches.
whether its out or not. missing the shot.
Hunters strength is his Hunters weakness is that Hunters performance was I would suggest Hunter to
very fast reaction time. sometimes his shots are pretty good overall. He try and practice more
He is able to return the not controlled well, was consistent throughout controlling his shots that
shots that the opponent which some of the shots the whole match and has he performs despite his
performed immediately, went out of the court definitely maintained his immediate reaction speed.
and most of them was area. Irony, due to his quick reaction time To do this he could ask his
Hunter pretty accurate. When we quick reaction time, he advantage, however partner to perform
played a match with their often performs the shots sometimes he does different kinds of shots for
team, he was really too quickly without perform some mistakes. him to train to think about
confident in his shots and planning where it should where he wants the shot to
we were pretty amazed go, therefore sometimes go before he actually
by his immediate the shots went out of the strikes the shuttlecock.
reactions. court area.

Summarize your teams performance, design and outline a (better) game plan for next weeks lesson. Suggest
possible changes for a better team formation and team strategy. State and outline two team tactics / formations /
strategies to be applied in the next game/lesson.)

Overall our team really did encounter and exploited some of our opponents weaknesses throughout the matches
that we did with various teams. I think that our teams performance really did improve a lot throughout the past
few weeks, and certainly, it has improved from our revised game plan. Now during matches, I and my partner
cooperate very efficiently and there are far fewer mistakes or communication errors compared to the past few
weeks. This week we tried our new game plan in which we used both the offensive and defensive formation
throughout the match. We followed our game plan and we switched from the first half in a defensive formation
into an offensive formation in the second half, however that didnt work too well. We decided to change this in
our future game plan, in which we will reverse the order of our formation. From the matches we see that our
opponents tend to attack and engage more often in the second half of the match, meaning that it would not be a
good idea to be in an offensive formation in the second half. Also next time, we will be introducing a tactic to
attack our opponent quickly. To do this, we will sometimes switch to an offensive formation throughout the match
(mostly when we believe that the opponent is tired or distracted), then we will try our best to find chances to
perform smashes towards the corners of the opponents court area. Same as before, we will still maintain
developing our team working skills further since we believe that its crucial in a double badminton game.

Cont Game Plan #2

1. State, describe and outline a new/ improved/revised game plan based on last weeks performance.
*Remarks: A=Herman
B=Edmond

From the experience that weve learned from last weeks matches with
other classmates, weve now decided that we shouldnt have a fixed plan
on what time we should be using which formation, instead now we can
change our formation anytime during a match. We analyzed their
performance and weaknesses, and we believe that still many teams are
lack in their consistency of shots, especially when performing smash and
drive shots. As a result, weve decided to follow mostly the tactics of our
last weeks game plan, in which we plan to aim at leading them to
making these mistakes. To do this we try to perform more clear shots
(represented by the red arrows) and drive shots (represented by the blue
arrows), which usually everyones reaction is to either return by
performing smash or drive shots, which sometimes they might encounter
A B their mistakes and we can gain points through this tactic. However, we
understand that this tactic might not always work, therefore we plan to
stand in a front and back position when we perform this tactic. In this
formation we could easily return the shots that the opponent performs in
case they dont make any mistakes, which is an alternative plan during emergency. Moreover, since we believe that its
crucial to perform some attack during a match in-order to gain points and put pressure on our opponent, therefore well
sometimes engage attacks by performing multiple smash shots towards the corner area of the opponents court (represented
by the green arrows).
2. Summarize each players performance and suggest ways to improve.
Name# Performance Suggestions
Harrys performance was not that consistent I would suggest Harry to try practicing more
throughout the match, and most of the time on his controls and reaction time when he
he couldnt handle the smash shots that the sees his opponent is about to perform a smash
opponent performs. Sometimes he does try shot. To do this he could ask his partner to
Harry
to return the smash shots that the opponent simulate the situation during a real match and
performed, however he often strikes the perform multiple smash shots form him to
racket too quickly, which he misses the return, so that he could gain more experience
shuttlecock easily. on how he could handle these shots easier.
Michaels performance was pretty strong I would suggest Michael to try practicing
Michael
throughout the match, especially his speed more on his drive shots, and try to manage to
 when moving around the court. He is able
to return all sorts of shots that the opponent
performs and he is able to quickly change
the direction of the shuttlecock, making the
opponent harder to return. However,
sometimes when he performs drive shots,
he often changes its direction too quickly
and its far too low, which ends up not able
to go through the net.
Jackys performance was very balanced
throughout the match, especially me and my
partner was amazed by how good he
handles the shots using his back hand.
Jacky When we perform some clear shots and
even though we targeted at the corner areas
that is usually very hard to return, he
managed to use his back hand to return
perfectly, and it was pretty amazing.
Theodres performance was pretty strong
throughout the match, especially sometimes
he performs some unpredictable shots that
are quite hard to return, and I believe this is
Theodre his advantage in his team. However
sometimes because he focuses on attacking
all the time, he consumes up his energy
very quickly, which makes his reaction time
much slower in the late games.
control the height of the shuttlecock when
going through the net. To do this he could
simply ask his partner to perform some drive
serves for him, allowing him to get chances to
train his drive shot skills, and practicing
makes perfect.
Although there arent much serious
weaknesses that Jacky needs to work on, but
still I would suggest him to practice more on
enhancing his performance and handling of
his back hand shots. I believe if he could train
his back hand shots very well, this might be a
great advantage for his team when competing
with other teams.
I would suggest Theodre to try and save up
his power evenly throughout the match, and
try not to focus on attacking too much all the
time. To do this he could try and practice
more on his defensive skills, and try not to
always attack but instead try to boost his
attack in suitable situations and become
unpredictable for the opponents.

Summarize your teams performance, construct and outline the final (and the best!) game plan to be used in your final
assessment.
Overall our team really did a great job in dealing with some of the strong opponents that weve faced during the matches
using our game plan. Our game plan focused on more of a balanced idea in which weve decided to incorporate the offensive
and defensive formation together and switch between when needed instead of having a time frame of when to switch. I think
that this idea really worked well and has certainly boosted our performance throughout the matches, therefore we believe that
this should definitely be maintained for our final assessment. Also from our revised game plan, weve decided to make use of
a new tactic which aims to attack the opponent quickly and to not let them predict when well be attacking. From the actual
experience of using this tactic during the matches, we believe that it worked realty well although we think that we should
keep this tactic in the second half of the match to increase the chance of succeeding since some opponents may have
consumed a lot of their energy. This tactic will definitely stay for our final assessment. Furthermore, for serving me and my
partner both could be responsible for serving, however for the final assessment weve decided that we should be responsible
for performing different types of serves throughout the game. I and my partner will change the types of serve that each of us
is responsible for throughout the game, I will be focusing on performing high and flick serves and my partner will be
focusing on performing drive and low serves. We hope that this last and most revised game plan would be successful in our
final assessment.