Serve (low) in Badminton

40 free videos on technique, drills and tips, each tagged by level

What coaches agree on

  • Hold the shuttle by the tip of the feathers, not the cork, pinched between your thumb and index finger.
  • Stand as close to the short service line as you're allowed and lean your weight slightly forward, so the shuttle has less distance to travel and you can move to the net quickly.
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  • Keep your serving action short and simple — the power comes from your fingers and wrist, not a big backswing or a full arm swing.
  • Contact the shuttle below your waist — the rule sets the limit at 1.15m from the floor — and keep both feet on the ground throughout the swing.

Common mistakes

  • Serving even slightly too high, or letting the shuttle stay flat too long before it dips, lets your opponent make contact above the tape and attack it straight down — the most common way a low serve gets punished.
  • Serving to the same spot with the same rhythm every time makes your low serve predictable, so opponents learn exactly when and where to jump on it.
Backhand Serve - A step-by-step guide EVERY BADMINTON PLAYER NEEDS!
Beginner
Backhand Serve - A step-by-step guide EVERY BADMINTON PLAYER NEEDS!

Reviewer Excellent, repeatable low-serve technique plus tactics.

Moderator Step-by-step backhand low/doubles serve — grip, shuttle hold and angle, stance, hit out of the hand, off-centre contact, dip over net, plus low-serve set plays. Squarely the sub-skill.

3.9
Perfect Backhand Low Serve In Badminton
Beginner
Perfect Backhand Low Serve In Badminton

Reviewer The eye-focus tip alone is worth the watch - small detail most coaches never mention.

Moderator Same sub-skill as the other one, structured even more tightly - prep/position/shot breakdown, entirely about the backhand low serve.

3.8
Tag that friend who needs to know this! The low serve in ...
Beginner
Tag that friend who needs to know this! The low serve in ...

Reviewer Accurate, detailed, and correctly cites the actual service rules - better than most full-length serve tutorials.

Moderator Textbook low serve breakdown - bevel grip, distance from the service line, foot position, contact point below 1.15m, weight transfer without lifting the whole back foot. Every line is about executing the forehand low serve. This is exactly what the sub-skill is.

3.8
4 Reasons why your low serve FAILS
Intermediate
4 Reasons why your low serve FAILS

Reviewer Genuinely useful drills, not just talk — great resource.

Moderator Squarely about fixing and varying the low serve — depth control, placement, tempo variation. Exactly the skill.

3.8
How to Hit a Low Forehand Serve | Badminton
Beginner
How to Hit a Low Forehand Serve | Badminton

Reviewer Clear, correct and complete — a genuinely good first lesson on the low serve.

Moderator Entirely and specifically about the low forehand serve, step by step.

3.8
The PERFECT Backhand Low Serve (At Home)
Beginner
The PERFECT Backhand Low Serve (At Home)

Reviewer Clean, specific, and gives you a drill to actually practice at home. Good stuff.

Moderator Dead center on the skill - this is the doubles backhand low serve, broken down stance to release, nothing else competing for screen time.

3.7
Backhand Serve Like A PRO - Step-By-Step Tutorial!
Beginner
Backhand Serve Like A PRO - Step-By-Step Tutorial!

Reviewer Outstanding, detailed and accurate low-serve coaching.

Moderator Eight-step backhand low serve, start to finish — grip, racket angle, shuttle hold, stance, release, contact point, placement. Could not be more on the sub-skill.

3.7
Master LOW SERVE in BADMINTON
Intermediate
Master LOW SERVE in BADMINTON

Reviewer Solid, specific, five real tips you can use in your next match.

Moderator Wall-to-wall low serve: focus point, breathing, stance, grip, contact point, disguise. Nothing here is about anything else.

3.4
Your serve is SO important in doubles, so here are 3 tips to ...
Intermediate
Your serve is SO important in doubles, so here are 3 tips to ...

Reviewer Three sharp, correct cues for tightening up a wobbly serve - the shuttle-angle tip alone is worth it.

Moderator This is the backhand serve, which in badminton is essentially synonymous with the low serve in doubles - nobody serves backhand high. The three tips (slow, unhurried prep, 45-degree shuttle angle, short swing) are all specifically about getting the shuttle tight and low over the net, which is the entire point of a low serve. Caption mentions '4 serve types' more broadly but the actual transcript content stays locked onto the backhand/low serve throughout.

3.4
Master Backhand Serve like a Pro
Beginner
Master Backhand Serve like a Pro

Reviewer Solid, honest starter lesson on the backhand serve.

Moderator Squarely the backhand low serve — the classic doubles low serve — with grip, rhythm and motion length all covered.

3.4
Fix Your Badminton Serve: The Correct Shuttle Grip Explained
Beginner
Fix Your Badminton Serve: The Correct Shuttle Grip Explained

Reviewer Precise, practical coaching on the shuttle hold for a clean low serve.

Moderator Dead on the low serve. The whole video is how to hold and release the shuttle so you hit the tip not the feathers, avoiding spin and twisting so you control height, length and precision, and it extends to the low serve out wide in doubles. This is core serve technique.

3.2
Mastering Short Serve Techniques in Badminton - TikTok
Beginner
Mastering Short Serve Techniques in Badminton - TikTok

Reviewer Good fundamentals and a useful fault-rule callout, just delivered fast and a bit rough.

Moderator This is squarely a low/short serve lesson - backhand grip, staggered stance, keeping the shuttle tight to the racket face, and it even covers the racket-head-below-hand fault rule that trips up beginners. Covers both singles and doubles use of the short serve, which is exactly what 'Serve (low)' means in this sport. No digression into other shots.

3.1
Badminton Low Serve Masterclass
Intermediate
Badminton Low Serve Masterclass

Reviewer One real trick, shown clearly, but that's all it is.

Moderator Entirely about disguising a low serve's direction by rotating the shuttle late -- squarely low serve.

3.0
How to Achieve the Perfect Low Serve in Badminton
Beginner
How to Achieve the Perfect Low Serve in Badminton

Reviewer Clean basics for the doubles low serve - one-feather hold, hit the base not the feathers. Good starter, but it stops at the basics.

Moderator Pure low/short serve tutorial - body lean, O-shaped arm, holding one feather, bevel-grip thumb, elbow bend-and-stretch, contact point and aiming the shuttle for direction. Doubles short serve start to finish. Exactly Serve (low).

3.0
Low serve tips #foongyixin #badminton ... - Instagram
Intermediate
Low serve tips #foongyixin #badminton ... - Instagram

Reviewer Good, specific tips if you can follow the choppy delivery - better watched than read.

Moderator Caption and content are about low serve mechanics - grip length, shuttle pinch position, contact zone on the racket face, and it explicitly says 'your backhand serve... can also go just over the net,' which is low serve language. The transcript is choppy, clearly cut-up captions rather than full sentences, but every decipherable fragment is about the low serve, nothing else creeping in.

2.7
Perfect Your Low Serve In Badminton
Advanced
Perfect Your Low Serve In Badminton

Reviewer Useful add-on trick once your serve already works.

Moderator Covers one specific low-serve trick (rotating the shuttle to disguise direction), narrower than a full serve lesson.

2.4
How to master the backhand serve in badminton (Stop losing easy points)
Beginner
How to master the backhand serve in badminton (Stop losing easy points)

Reviewer Good grounding in backhand serve mechanics and rules - useful for a newer player.

Moderator Covers the backhand serve broadly - both the short/low serve and the flick serve - with an explicit goal for the low serve ('don't let the shuttle go up too high') and the 1.15m height rule. It's about serve technique in general with the low serve as a core piece, not a dedicated low-serve-only video.

10 tips to improve your Badminton Serve (part 2)
Intermediate
10 tips to improve your Badminton Serve (part 2)

Reviewer Useful, match-minded serve advice.

Moderator Part 2 serve tips placement, safe zone, flick direction, variation, third-shot readiness. Heavily about serving incl. the low serve.

2.4
Mixed Doubles Serve variations
Intermediate
Mixed Doubles Serve variations

Reviewer Solid technical detail across the serve variations.

Moderator Five mens mixed-doubles serve variations; the low basic and low-to-sides are core, plus flick and flat. Covers the low serve well among variations.

2.3
Spin Serve Tutorial - Tips From The BEST In The World!
Advanced
Spin Serve Tutorial - Tips From The BEST In The World!

Reviewer Real tips from elite servers, but interview-loose.

Moderator Spin/curve serve is a low-serve variation; the whole video teaches it with two top servers. Squarely a low-serve skill, just the spin flavor.

2.3
Forehand Serve - A step-by-step guide!
Beginner
Forehand Serve - A step-by-step guide!

Reviewer Thorough, accurate forehand serve tutorial with good tactics.

Moderator Sub-skill Serve (low). Full forehand serve tutorial covering both high and low serves. The low serve is addressed directly (less squeeze, slower swing, more control, short follow-through) but the video weights toward the high/relaxed serve and tactics. Low serve is covered among other things.

2.2
Badminton forehand serve - Low and Flick
Beginner
Badminton forehand serve - Low and Flick

Reviewer Honest and serviceable, but the coach admits the forehand serve is not his game.

Moderator Skill is Serve (low). Video is the forehand low serve start to finish: how to hold the shuttle, neutral grip, body rotation, slice under, then the flick and high-serve disguise off the same action. Right on the sub-skill.

2.2
Different type of low serves - Instagram
Intermediate
Different type of low serves - Instagram

Reviewer Too short and too vague to actually teach anything - more of a label than a lesson.

Moderator Content is about varying the low serve - hitting different racket zones for a straight, tight, or flat-fast serve. Still squarely low-serve territory even though it doesn't name grip or stance. The 'flat and fast' variant edges toward what some call a drive serve, but it's still delivered low and sits under the low-serve umbrella, so I'm not marking it down much.

2.0
The 4 Best SERVES To Play In Men's Doubles - Badminton Strategy
Advanced
The 4 Best SERVES To Play In Men's Doubles - Badminton Strategy

Reviewer Strong doubles serve tactics; sponsor break aside.

Moderator Four doubles serve set plays, mostly low serves to T/body/wide and what to do after. About low-serve usage and placement rather than the technique. Solid topical overlap.

1.8
3 Tips To Dominate The Serve In Badminton
Intermediate
3 Tips To Dominate The Serve In Badminton

Reviewer Handy serve-tactics tips, brief though.

Moderator About the serve but the angle is tactics — read the return, mix flick and placement. Helps the low serve game but does not teach the low serve technique.

1.6