"The spin serve in badminton involves adding pre-spin before the racket contacts the shuttlecock, making it highly effective and difficult to return, leading to its 2023 ban."
"The Badminton World Federation banned the spin serve to eliminate potential unfair advantages, viewing international tournaments as inappropriate testing grounds for this innovative technique."
"Shuttlecocks, unlike other sports projectiles, have an open conical shape and overlapping feathers, which create significant drag and influence both force required and trajectory dynamics."
"Physicists investigated the complex physics behind the spin serve, revealing that shuttlecocks can reach speeds over 300 mph, affecting player techniques and shot outcomes."
The spin serve is a badminton technique that adds pre-spin before striking the shuttlecock, deemed so effective that the Badminton World Federation banned it in 2023, pending further evaluation until after the 2024 Paralympic Games. The BWF's decision aims to prevent international tournaments from serving as testing grounds for potentially unbalanced techniques like the spin serve and the previously banned Sidek serve. Scientific research highlights the unique physics of shuttlecocks, which, with their open conical shape and overlapping feathers, experience significant drag, influencing speed and shot dynamics.
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