We play Badminton at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena

Part of our New Year’s resolution is to exercise more. We booked a game of Badminton through Glasgow Life.

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00:00so we are on our way to the emirates marina in the east of glasgow

00:04the emirates marina emirates arena we are on our way to the emirates arena to play a game of

00:10badminton so this is part of glasgow life we booked it through pay as you go you can set up

00:16an account for free and we booked an hour and there are various slots or various different

00:22locations you can go to and this is part of our january fitness so one of our new year's

00:28resolutions is to exercise more so neither of us have played badminton in years it was one

00:36of those sports in school where i think i quite excelled but um the reason we chose badminton as

00:43well is because it is absolutely freezing outside it's like minus four degrees so at least that's

00:48inside um a lot of people are doing park runs things like that i just i can't stand outside

00:57for more than a couple of minutes without shivering up so

01:08it took us a wee while to get into the rhythm of things the aim of badminton is to win points by

01:13hitting a shuttlecock across the net into the opponent's court forcing them to make an error

01:17to win a point a player must achieve a shot that ensures the shuttlecock either hits the floor of

01:22their opponent's court forces their opposition to not return the shuttlecock or if they do return

01:27it lands out of bounds the racket and shuttlecock are both light so it's a very fast game the game

01:33was actually created by the british military officers stationed in british india in the mid

01:381800s and was originally called battle door it started as simply a rally competition where

01:45players would try and hit the shuttlecock as many times as possible without hitting the ground it

01:50eventually developed into a competitive game and has been an olympic sport since 1992

02:09Glasgow Life operate 11 locations throughout the city where the public can book to play badminton

02:15you can hire one court for the maximum of four players it is a very simple online booking

02:21platform where you can pay as you go although there are membership options

02:25all the equipment you need is included in your booking

02:45so that was a lot of fun and killed an hour of our time and we're

02:58moving getting our fitness up so i would say it's very successful