DISCOVERY HISTORY OF BADMINTON.

Badminton name comes from the name of a house or a castle in Gloucestershire region. The site is located at about 200 km west of London, England. Badminton House, the name of the palace, to witness the history of how the sport began to be developed into its present form. Dibangunan such, the owner, the Duke of Beaufort and her family, in the 17th century became the sport activists. However, the Duke of Beaufort is not the inventor of the game. Badminton is only a name because that's where the game is recognized among the top and then spread. Badminton became the only sport whose name is derived from place names.

    Which then becomes a question mark is in England or in India's first game as of now do? The evidence shows in Indialah first sports game rules were written. This occurred in the 1870s.

    Also a big question mark is how the name of the game changed from Battledore into badminton. The name of the game from two people who slap the ball forward (forehand) or backward (backhand) as long as possible it was Battledore. The origins of the game using a shuttlecock Battledore (kok) itself is also a mystery. Past, people used penepak of wood (bat). Two people slap "bird" it forward and backward as long as possible. The game has done this kind of childhood and adult more than 2000 years ago in India, Japan, Siam (Thailand), Greece and China. In this last region played more with the foot. In the UK found medieval woodcut containing images of children are kicking shuttlecock.

    In game-century l6 Such well-known among the children. In the next century, the game commonly known as jeu de volant this becomes filler moments of leisure events in many European countries. Sometimes it is played by one person who beat or slap-kok nepak it up, with one or two penepak wood. An other game similar featherball (with a ball of chicken skin is soft) is played in Denmark, Germany, France, and Sweden.

    The game uses really does have a special attraction. If ditepak or hitting upwards so that "fall" (down) really slows down, allowing people to pursue and menepaknya again to the top. The question mark, how can form really like now, there is a head with one end rounded and flat at the other end plugged into dozens of similar feather fowl? The materials to make kok already exist in nature. Kok head shape, the round, there are already around us, can be found in fruits or stone. The question is, how early the feathers can be stuck to the head why? Some say, when people are sitting in a chair and in front of her desk, she was daydreaming and thinking about something far away. Incidentally he took the bottle cap, made of cork, and then stuck-nancapkan pen, which when it was made of feathers. Some pen tertancapkan and be a really simple form. Of course there is no proof. Only kernudian indeed formed such a game device, which sctiap differently shaped areas.

    Whatever happens around the evolution of his tools, in the 19th century the game spread widely in the outskirts of British towns. Large houses with the rooms and courtyard into a fertile place for the game. No exception at Badminton House earlier. Family teiah Sommerset who lived in that house since the time of Charles II and then received the grace of the title as the Duke of Beaufort. At Badminton House is now still found interesting collection equipment Battledore game and his shuftlecock. How come that time two times larger and heavier than they are today. The length of "racket" or Battledore his two feet with a round head. No strings. Penepak timber is sealed parchment so that if someone hit a sound like someone hitting a drum. That sound is heard when in the front room (Front Hall) Badminton House is no game Battledore. All the tools that are available in this palace and the people who will be playing live come.

    In the 1840s and 1850s family of the Duke of Beaufort The 7 most often the organizers of this game. According to Bernard Adams (The Badminton Story, BBC 1980) Duke's children-seven boys and four girls-this is what started to play it in Front Room. They are tired after a long time game that's all. They then stretched the rope between the door and the fireplace and take across kok pass play with the rope. That was the beginning of the net. The late 1850s began a new kind of game it is known. In 1860 there was a toy salesman from London, might also Battledore equipment providers - called Isaac Spratt, write Badminton Battledore-a new game. Inscription on it describes the evolution of the game occurred at Badminton House.

    The stories above obtained from the seed of the present Duke of Beaufort. Others again with the story of Sir George Thomas, who for 70 years in badminton, as the players and organizers. He clearly gives the year 1863-68 as the initial estimate of badminton. He said rain fell at a party and people trying to find a new joy of the game battledare normally. One of the participants have ideas cermerlang party. "He stretched a rope across the room and get rid of all children's toys and badmiton, in its earliest form. Evidently, it is in accordance with the taste party and later became a regular entertainment held in the house ... and the house was nevertheless believed to be the origin of the game was "the figure who later donated the championship trophy up for grabs for teams son, Thomas Cup. Sir Thomas is calling a visitor party than the Duke family. However, later the Duke family who introduced this game to the public.

    That version is called Inggrislah as the origin of the game. Another version called India as the origin of badminton. Written in a script about the rules Lawn Tennis, Croquet, Racquets etc which appeared in 1883. In one part consisting of 10 pages, the authors refer to badminton as a 'tennis played with a shuttlecock and not the ball'. In the opening brief he wrote on the history of the game in four small paragraphs 'badminton first played, I believe in India and was introduced to England by the Duke of Beaufort in the summer of 1874'. Who wrote the manuscript is not known.

    Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 edition writes about badminton: "This game seems to arise in Britain around the year 1873, but before it is played in India, who was still popular." Well, the more information it adds a question mark about the origins of badminton. From India or England?

    There is information, British officers who served in India play a game similar to badminton, but more superior, known as Poona. Because really liked the game that fast, they bring home to England, complete with utensils, especially his kok. Then some of these officers were invited to the Duke of Beaufort at Badminton House memainkannnya. And then you introduced kemasyarakat wide. British Army it seems that many associate with this badminton. When they returned to England and retire they continue to play in residential areas where they spend their retirement, mostly in coastal areas like the South Sea and Bath. Evidence of this was incomplete, so it can not be said really happened. Apparently, either the officers or employees of the British to India as well as the Duke of Beaufort family and their guests who frequently visit the Badminton House has contributed to the development of this badminton.

    The game itself is growing rapidly in India and a favorite for outside the building. So Sunday was famous so people forget to go to church to play badminton, which is called 'Sunday badminton'. Badminton is played in Madras, Bombay (now Mumbay), and Calcutta. The first regulations were introduced in Poona in l873, although the game itself only serves as a means of interaction and no competition. Those who returned to England and then more serious play badminton. They are - among others, S. S. C. Dolby, J.H.E. Hart, Bagned Wild, and G.W. Vidal - who then gradually develop rules to the game. The clubs also emerged and in 1893 they agreed to form the Badminton Association of England (Badminton Association of England) in a meeting in Southsea, Hampshire. In 1898 the tournament was held open, a special double, in Guilford. This is the first year badminton entered the era of competition. A year later held the All England championships. In the first championship only last one on April 4, by taking place in the London-Scottish Drill Hall in Buckingham Gate, London. Complete its own new regulations that could have been prepared in 1901. There is set among others about the field that looks like now. Before World War I entered the badminton gold. Badminton Gazette magazine was created, the goal for badminton news gets airy place, not like before that only a small news in tennis magazine, The Field. Championship All England itself has continued and only stopped for the year 1915-1919 due to World War I and 1930 - 1946 due to the outbreak of World War II.

    Prior to the 1900 badminton spread to Ireland and Scotland in 1907 crossed over to British colonies as far away as South Africa, British Columbia (Canada now), and even the Falklands Islands (known here as the Malvinas Islands) and New York. Although in 1908 standing club in Hamburg, Germany, but developments in mainland Europe are not encouraging. In the 1920's badminton spread to Northern Europe, North America, and Asia. The years that badminton entered Malaya (now Malaysia and Singapore). Also the years that incoming Indonesian badminton. In Europe, Denmark provides its own color to the sport. This country makes badminton as a winter sport and make a nice facility with a field inside the building. In the past ten years, Denmark has produced All-England champion. Who became a pioneer in the country is and Alksel Hans Hansen. Both are around the country to popularize badminton and even then go spread to Norway and Sweden.

    Crossing the Atlantic Ocean perch badminton in 1914 and British Columbia in the 1920s spread to several cities in Canada. 1921, Canada held its first championship. Badminton is also spreading to the United States, with New York as the city's first stopover. Hollywood also stop off, and had made the movie Good Badminton to develop it. But only 1905 Badminton attracted much public attention. World Series held that year which brought Jack Purcell from Canada and Jess Willard of the United States. About 3000 spectators packed the building in Seattle, with Purcell won 15-7, 15-6, 15-9 in the match the best of five match. Enthusiasts were more and more, carrying around 20,000 U.S. players and this allows the establishment of factories kok own. In 1936 stood the American Badminton Association. The first championship was held the following year.

    The development of badminton is fast becoming a world sport that requires the establishment of an international body. In the month of July 1934 established the International Badminton Federation (International Badminton Federation, IBF) with Great Britain (England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland), Denmark, Canada, New Zealand, and France as the country's founder.

    To the east, in India's development was slower than in Malaya. State of this British colony forming Badminton Association of Malaya (Badminton Association of Malaya, now Malaysia, BAM) in 1934. Very rapid development in Malaya. In 1938 about 25,000 registered players, nearly half the number in Inggri time. Malaysia Badminton book, History and Struggle, written Dr. A. Fadzin Che Wan (Ensimal (M) Sdn Bhd 1993), tell it on initially played badminton at missionary schools located in Penang, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, and Singapore. Recorded the game came in 1809 in Penang, with officials played by the East India Company (VOC's sort of English). In 1885 the employee's wife to play it in E & O Hotel in Penang this. Year 1920-1923 Sir George Thomas visit to Penang and get a game that was popular with the people there. Stand 1925 Penang Badminton Association.

    Badminton was quickly spread to various parts of the country. 1930s the game became more popular with the return of students studying in the UK. In 1937 they had entered into Malaya and the Open Championship the same year they joined the IBF. When the Thomas Cup team championship was first held in 1948 the first Malayalah invaders. Malaya became the first player in All-England champion is Wong Peng Soon in 1950.

    Now badminton has become the sports world. Quality permainanpun higher. One can not play anymore if you want to be the highest level