Senior: 11 & 12: Unit 3, Topic 1: Tactical Awareness in Badminton

Tactical awareness, critical to game performance, is the ability to identify tactical problems that arise during a game and to respond appropriately. Responses might involve on-the-ball skills, such as passing and shooting, and off-the-ball movements, such as supporting and covering.

• Why game play is just as important as a tactical approach (Human Kinetics journal)

• Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) Approach (PlaySport) 

• Games classification system: Teaching strategic understanding and tactical awareness 
  Academic article by Tim Hopper, in California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Vol 66 (4), pp 14-19

• Tactical awareness as a developmentally appropriate focus for the teaching of games in elementary and secondary education
  Academic article by Mitchell, Stephen A., Griffin, Linda L. In Physical Educator, Winter 1994, Vol. 51, Issue 1 

• A Model for Developing and Assessing tactical Decision-making Competency in Game Play 
  Academic article by Pagnano-Richardson, Karen; Henninger, Mary L. In Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance; March 2008; Issue 79, No.3;  p.24

• A tactical framework for teaching games: Teaching strategic understanding and tactical awareness
  Academic article by Hopper, Tim ; Bell, Rick, in Physical & Health Education Journal, 2000, Vol.66 (Issue 4), p.14

• Four Rs for tactical awareness: Applying game performance assessment in net/wall games
  Academic article by Hopper, T F. In Teaching Elementary Physical Education, 2003, Vol. 14, Issue 2, pp. 16-22

• The 4Rs of the game of tennis (University of Victoria)

• Decision making by coaches and athletes in sport
  Academic article by Adem Kaya, in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences ( 2014 ) pp. 333 – 338

• Teaching Games for Understanding: What does it look like and how does it influence student skill acquisition and game performance? Academic article by Tim Hopper and Darren Kruisselbrink , in Journal of Teaching Physical Education, November 12, 2001

• An integrated approach to teaching games for understanding (TGfU) By Paul Webb and Philip J. Pearson, ResearchGate, January 2008.

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• The Effects of a 3-Week Unit of Tactical, Skill, or Combined Tactical and Skill Instruction on Badminton Performance of Ninth-Grade Students (University of South Carolina)

• Four Rs for tactical awareness: Applying game performance assessment in net/wall games 
  Academic article by Tim F Hopper, in Teaching Elementary Physical Education, 2003, Vol.14 (2), p.16-22)

• What are the technical and tactical skills of badminton? (Control the court)
  Tactics are usually the ability to make wise decisions based on the peoples’ awareness of the situation. It involves studying the situation first and then be able to react to it. This implies that coaches have to develop players who can rely on themselves, be able to understand what is happening in the court, and come up with a technique to respond appropriately

• Shuttle Time BWF Schools Badminton Teachers’ Manual (Badminton World Federation)
  See Chapter 3.

• The development of skill and tactical competencies during a season of badminton (European Journal of Sport Science)

• Badminton tactics (Single, Doubles, Serving) (The Badminton Bible)

• Badminton Strategy for Singles: How to Beat Your Opponent with Smart Strategies (Master Badminton)

• Tactics and strategies (The Badminton Guide)

• Designing Winning Tactics in Badminton – Part 1 (Paul Stewart Badminton)

• Designing Winning Tactics in Badminton – Part 2 (Paul Stewart Badminton)

• Relationships between tactics and energy expenditure according to levels of experience in badminton
  Academic article by Olivier Dieu , in journal Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2014, Vol.119 (Issue 2), p.455-467