What is the meaning of drive in badminton?

Answer 1

Drive is a fast and flat shot, your opponent has to be alert in order to return it. By hitting drive(as it is fast) your opponent has lesser time to react hence working to your advantage, helping you to gain points

Answer 2

A drive in Badminton is typically a flat, fast shot to the back of the court. However, there are variants of the shot; such as a cross court drive, requiring the head of the racquet to be at an angle - still flat and fast, but going in a different direction.

Cross court drives are very useful in doubles when your opponents are smashing down the line and you manage to take the shuttle early - if you whip the shuttlecock cross-court you can get it past the front player to the far corner, away from the rear-court player, forcing them to lift and giving you the attack.

Answer 3

In Badminton, a drive is the description of the path of the birdie due to a certain swing of the racquet. When in a drive, the birdie is traveling almost parallel to the ground, over the net. To perform a drive, you must have your racket face (the round part with the strings) be where the birdie hits. Once the birdie is being returned to you, and is near your racquet, snap your wrist quick and hard, which will cause momentum in your racquet, and this will cause the birdie to go in a drive.

Answer 4

Drive is a flat stroke in which the shuttle is sent over the net, just clearing it and parallel to the floor. In this process it should not be sent high towards the opponent.

Answer 5

"controlled smash" shot