Write a short essay about your hobby (badminton)?

Badminton is one kind of exercising that will make people enjoy it. It’s also good for our health. That’s why, I’m taking badminton as one of my hobby.
Badminton is a very easy game, everyone can play it. In fact, you can play it anywhere with rackets and a shuttlecock. The shuttlecock is made from goose feathers pushed into a small piece of cork. Badminton rackets are very light. They normally weigh from 90 grams to about 110 grams. The smash of the shuttlecock can travel up to 260km per hour.
There are six main shots: the serve, the clear, the drop, the smash, the forehand drive and the backhand drive. The court on which badminton is played is in the shape of a rectangle and is divided in half by a net. There are two or four players, each team is on each side of the net.

Badminton takes its name from the home of the Duke of Beaufort, Badminton House in Gloucestershire, England where the first game of badminton was played.

There are many benefits of playing badminton for our health. It reduces bad cholesterol and increase in good cholesterol and increases the levels of HDL good cholesterol while decreasing the levels of bad cholesterols. When you play badminton, basal heart rate drops a few beats per minute and blood pressure is reduced, which protects you from heart disease. It also can reduce weight for overweigh people and attain optimal weight for their height and age. That’s why it keeps you feeling well, strong, motivated, enthusiastic and young.

I don’t like sports basically, but badminton are special. I have always been enjoying play that. I’d like to continue play this sport as my hobby and have fun.

Badminton is popular over the world, but particularly in Asia continent. A wealth of half-truth seems to exist as to where the sport actually, came from. So, I did a little research and I’ll try to put it straight. 

Many say that English invented Badminton, but actually traces of its history comes from long back around 500 BC in Ancient China. There was a game named TiZianZi , which involved a ball with feathers , similar to modern shuttle cock and no racquet were used. 

By the 16th century, badminton evolved in children’s game. By 17th century the upper-class people of Europe had become badminton lovers too. By then it was known by the name “jeu de volant”. 

Meanwhile in India a game called Poona was developing much similar to badminton and the British rulers were drawn to it and took it to England. Soon the first ‘Badminton club’ was formed. They had made the rulebook that we follow today.