Long reads on the sport — written once, correctly. Rules, clubs, competition, and the science of gear that keeps flying.
Rally scoring rewrote badminton in 2006 and still confuses newcomers two decades later. Here is the full system — serving, faults, intervals — explained once, correctly.
Read the story →Also in this issue
American badminton thrives mostly out of sight, in school gyms and rented halls. Here is where the clubs hide, what a visit costs, and how to recognize a good one.
Read →Most rating systems see a match as one binary event. PERA, the engine behind competitive play on HmBr's platform, reads the score itself — and that changes what every match is worth.
Read →A feather shuttlecock is a keratin structure on a clock. Understanding why feathers snap, and what 65 to 75 percent relative humidity actually does, is the cheapest upgrade in badminton.
Read →From the desk
Full coverage →What we cover
From the editor
Anything Badminton is the reading room of the HmBr ecosystem. We write each piece once and correctly — no listicles, no churn — so the next player who asks how scoring works, or why their shuttles keep breaking, gets a straight answer that lasts.
— The editors · Keep flyin’