Wrist rotation in Badminton

Reviewer One of the most complete wrist lessons here.

Moderator Full breakdown of pronation/supination across different grips and shots (overhead, backhand serve, panhandle net kills), tied explicitly to avoiding wrist pain. Squarely on-topic.

Reviewer Detailed, accurate, and drillable — great value.

Moderator Detailed breakdown of wrist + forearm pronation + finger grip working together to generate power and control angle, with drills. Exactly what wrist rotation in badminton means.

Moderator A deep, direct dive into the exact mechanism - arm twists on the backswing, untwists on the forward swing, and it's not a deliberate wrist flick. Squarely the topic, more technical than most in this batch.

Reviewer Explains the why, not just the what - genuinely clarifying.

Reviewer Explains the 'why' better than most — genuinely useful.

Moderator In-depth explanation of pronation/supination, why grip determines whether rotation is even possible, and symptoms of not using the wrist (shoulder pain, short shots). Squarely the sub-skill.

Moderator Title says it directly, and the whole session is a coach correcting a student's wrist-twisting habit in favor of torso/arm rotation - exactly the topic.

Reviewer Detailed technical correction - takes real coaching to see this clearly.

Reviewer Practical and well organized — actually teaches you how to train it, minus a sales pitch at the end.

Moderator Squarely about wrist mechanics — two directions of wrist motion, matching swing size to shot speed, and a joint-by-joint practice progression. Textbook coverage of the skill.

Reviewer Accurate, detailed, will fix weak shots and wrist pain both — excellent.

Moderator Title's a hook but the content is exactly the wrist/forearm mechanism — pronation and supination replacing the wrist flick on the overhead, backhand rear-court shot and net kill. This is the real anatomy of wrist rotation in badminton strokes.

Reviewer Technical gold if you can see the demo.

Moderator Detailed finger-squeeze/wrist-snap mechanism for generating power, applied specifically to backhand lift and clear. Core wrist rotation technique.

Moderator Full walkthrough of how the wrist really works in badminton: forearm pronation plus finger and thumb grip, not wrist alone. Covers the loose neutral grip, squeezing from the little finger to the index finger at contact, the backhand thumb version, and three drills (side-to-side swings, short self-feeds, wall hitting). Squarely on this skill.

Reviewer Clear and practical: shows why the wrist alone gives you little range, how pronation and finger grip add power and control, then gives you three drills for home. A bit long-winded, but the content is sound.

Reviewer Specific, technical coaching on grip and control.

Moderator Title says it outright - this is squarely about correcting wrist use in favor of finger and grip control.

Moderator Directly addresses whether to bend the wrist for power - squarely the topic, myth-busting exactly what a learner searching this would want to know.

Reviewer Clear, safety-conscious explanation of where power actually comes from.

Reviewer Top-tier teaching: detailed, accurate, well sequenced.

Moderator Reverse slice is built on wrist and forearm rotation; they call it the most important thing, doorknob and jam-jar cue, plus a dedicated drill. Dead-on for wrist rotation.

Reviewer Solid, clear explanation, if a bit repetitive.

Moderator Title says it directly and it systematically goes through wrist use across the basic shot types, consistently making the case for underarm/forearm rotation over wrist bending.

Moderator This is centrally about rotating the racket and grip to change shot direction - the exact rotation mechanic this page is about, just applied specifically to backhand deception.

Reviewer Specific, practical breakdown of how the rotation actually changes the shot.

Reviewer Good, specific cues for how little time it takes - the finger-squeeze timing is the detail most players miss.

Moderator Caption is specifically correcting wrist bend vs. forearm rotation for the backhand - exactly the sub-skill, applied concretely with a water bottle drill.

Reviewer Clear, accurate coaching on the rotation and how to train it.

Moderator Forearm rotation, supination and pronation, which is exactly what wrist rotation means in badminton. Covers where it is used and how to train it.

Reviewer Thorough, myth-busting, with real drills.

Moderator All about wrist versus fingers, thumb and forearm, the exact wrist-rotation topic. Argues it is really fingers and forearm, which is correct, and that is the skill.

Reviewer Simple and easy to copy, and the cue is the right one: strings to the wall, rotation from the forearm, not the body. Short on common mistakes, but you can use it tonight.

Moderator Wall drill for forearm rotation: face the wall, push the elbow up, start with the racket pointing back and rotate until the strings hit the wall, with the rotation coming from the forearm and not the body. That's the rotation behind clears and smashes, so it's right on this skill.

Reviewer Nails a real, common mistake and tells you exactly what to fix instead.

Moderator Talks specifically about forearm rotation -- internal rotation for forehand, external for backhand -- as the real source of badminton power instead of swinging with the whole arm. This is exactly what 'wrist rotation' means in most coaching shorthand, even though it's technically forearm pronation/supination rather than the wrist joint itself.

Reviewer The 'forearm leads, wrist follows' cue is exactly the fix most self-taught players need.

Moderator 'Forearm rotation, wrist follows around' is describing the actual biomechanics of the wrist-rotation skill for a whip/smash shot - correctly framed and on-topic.

Reviewer Good starter drill for the rotation feel.

Moderator Kids-focused but squarely teaches forearm rotation with the V grip via a 'chop and punch' drill — this is the wrist/forearm rotation mechanic itself.

Moderator Short explainer on forearm pronation as the main power source: internal rotation on the forehand side, external rotation on the backhand, and learning to rotate and punch instead of swinging the whole arm. Directly on this skill.

Reviewer Gets the idea across: rotate and punch, don't swing bigger. It's a quick concept talk, so there's no drill to take away.

Reviewer Concise, accurate explainer of the rotation.

Moderator Forearm rotation, supination and pronation, finger positioning for each grip. Exactly the wrist-rotation topic.

Reviewer Fine as a warm-up drill, but you'll need someone to tell you if you're doing it right.

Moderator Straight isolation drills for forearm/wrist rotation with a racket, exactly on-topic.

Reviewer Excellent, detailed - teaches the snap properly.

Moderator The stick smash IS a wrist-and-forearm-snap shot - they build it explicitly around snapping the wrist and forearm to get the steep angle, elbow stops then the forearm/wrist whips through. Wrist rotation is the engine of the shot, well covered though wrapped inside the full stick-smash lesson.

Reviewer Useful, shows right versus wrong, but light on detail.

Moderator Forearm rotation across five shots, exactly the skill, showing right versus wrong way.

Reviewer Excellent slice breakdown - keeps the same prep as your smash, rotates late for disguise, and shows how swing speed trades against slice. Watch the whole thing.

Moderator Video is a full slice drop-shot tutorial, but the heart of the technique they hammer is exactly the forearm/wrist rotation at the last millisecond — rotate the forearm so the palm faces sideways, then straighten the wrist through contact. They even make you stop and drill two smashes vs two slices with the wrist+forearm rotation. So wrist rotation is genuinely taught here, just packaged inside the wider slice shot rather than as a standalone lesson on rotation. Solid but not a pure rotation video.

Moderator Slow-motion look at smash mechanics: the elbow comes forward while the racket goes back, and with the arm already rotated at that point the rotation through contact happens on its own and creates the power. Shows where forearm rotation comes from, so it sits close to the core of this skill.

Reviewer Useful insight that the rotation happens by itself once the elbow leads and the arm is set, but it leans on the slow-mo visuals and is over before it gets to a drill.

Reviewer Goes after the right thing, how wrist and forearm work together on the backhand drive. Short, so expect pointers, not a full breakdown.

Moderator Backhand drive technique focused on how the wrist and forearm rotate through the shot, with common mistakes flagged. Directly on wrist and forearm rotation in badminton, presented through one stroke, the backhand drive.

Reviewer Outstanding biomechanics breakdown.

Moderator Backhand clear biomechanics - heavy on forearm and shoulder rotation, grip squeeze and the wrists role in the chain. Wrist/forearm rotation is genuinely central, even if framed as the whole clear.

Reviewer Good overview, not much technical depth.

Moderator Answers 'how to use the wrist' directly — when to snap it (attacking shots) vs control it (defense), ties it to smash mechanics. On topic but fairly brief Q&A format.

Reviewer Decent drill for finger control, just a bit unfocused.

Moderator Mostly about the 'free finger' grip principle and shaft-lag, which is the mechanism behind the wrist snap — relevant but framed as grip technique more than wrist rotation itself, and he even downplays forearm rotation near the end in favor of raw arm speed.

Reviewer Excellent - research-backed, accurate, clears up the wrist/forearm myths properly.

Moderator Sub-skill is wrist rotation specifically, but this is a full smash breakdown. It actually argues the smash is NOT just the wrist and spends most of its time on hip/torso/shoulder rotation and the forearm-rotation myth. Wrist is touched on (snap at last second) but it is one piece of a whole-body tutorial, not the focus.

Reviewer Correct, specific cue: time the rotation so contact is slightly in front of you. That's what turns the swing into shuttle speed.

Moderator Backhand clear power: time the rotation so the racket head meets the shuttle slightly in front of the body, converting rotation into shuttle speed. About the backhand clear as a whole with rotation as the mechanism, so on topic for rotation but not a wrist rotation lesson on its own.

Reviewer Clear, honest reverse-drop breakdown built on the wrist action.

Moderator Sub-skill Wrist rotation. The backhand reverse drop is built on the wrist roll - pull the wrist back, roll it to slice, racket moving vertical to horizontal. Wrist rotation is the technical core of this shot, though the video is framed as a specific shot rather than wrist rotation in the abstract.

Reviewer Good underlying drill progression, just hard to follow as delivered.

Moderator Despite rough, likely-translated phrasing, this actually names the right mechanism -- internal rotation of the forearm/wrist, practiced against a wall, plus a 'helicopter' arm-swing drill and a relax-then-tighten power transfer cue. That's the real content of wrist rotation for a badminton stroke.

Reviewer Good explanation of forearm rotation, bundled into the full clear.

Moderator Six-step clear tutorial. One of the steps is explicitly the forearm rotation - rotate the forearm and reach up to generate power - so the sub-skill is genuinely covered, just inside a broader clear lesson.

Reviewer Great strength tool, just not badminton-framed.

Moderator A DIY forearm/wrist rotation strength tool build (the 'stick grenade') -- not badminton-specific, but it directly trains the physical capability (loaded wrist rotation strength) that underlies the badminton skill.

Reviewer Good mechanics on the jump backhand smash — elbow premove, forearm snap, that in-between grip. A bit loose and demo-heavy, no drill plan though.

Moderator Sub-skill is Wrist rotation. The video teaches the jumping backhand smash, and forearm rotation is one of the three explicitly named power elements (elbow pre-move, forearm rotation, finger power), repeated several times and shown on the GoPro. So rotation is a genuine, prominent component here — more than incidental — but the video is really about the whole backhand smash, not isolating wrist/forearm rotation as a skill. Note many coaches treat forearm rotation and wrist rotation interchangeably in badminton, which lifts this above zero.

Reviewer Good gym-side complement to on-court wrist work.

Moderator This is finger/wrist/forearm strength conditioning (drop-and-grab, finger curls, grippers) — supports wrist rotation but doesn't teach the rotation technique itself.

Reviewer Correct as far as it goes (relax, open, snap shut), but it's only a first step in twenty seconds and doesn't show how it fits into a full swing.

Moderator Step one of a smash wrist progression: relax the grip, open the hand, then close it fast with the wrist and fingers. That's the grip-and-finger snap that works alongside forearm rotation rather than the rotation itself, so it covers part of the skill.

Reviewer Good shot tutorial overall; the wrist-specific content is just one ingredient in it.

Moderator This is a full jump-out smash tutorial — footwork, split step, hip/shoulder positioning — with wrist/grip looseness mentioned as one component near the end for generating racket speed. It touches wrist rotation but isn't centered on it.