Influence of Loading Phase on Attaining Maximum Height During Badminton Smash

Besides table tennis and tennis, badminton is one of the fastest Olympic racket and net sports in the world. The purpose of the present study was to know the effect of loading phase on attaining maximum height during badminton smash. For the purpose of the study, eighteen [N = 18] professional male badminton players were selected as the subjects. The data was collected in the proper standard procedure and in control condition. The standard instruments and software were used for the study for digitized the biomechanical variables. The vediography technique was employed to record the performance of smash shot. For digitizing the selected variables (loading height and gaining height), the Kinovea 2D motion analysis software was used in the study and product moment correlation coefficient was employed for analysing the data. The results demonstrated the significant relationship between the independent variable (loading height) and dependant variable (gaining height) at 0.05 level of significance. So the findings concluded that positive correlation between these two variables i.e. for achieving the height for a winner smash shot, the players need to positively go down at optimum level to generate or produced the maximum contraction in his legs.