Good positioning is the quiet skill that makes everything else easier: stand in the right base, recover to it after every shot, and you reach replies you'd otherwise miss. This guide covers badminton positioning basics for singles and doubles — the central singles base, the front-and-back and side-by-side doubles positions, why you recover diagonally not straight back, and how good positioning turns a slow player into a player who always seems to be in the right place.
