Law 3: Testing a Shuttle for Speed

Test 1How a shuttle is tested for speed and how the result is readTake a test

1. The tester uses a full underhand stroke.

   Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.1 · recall

2. Contact is made with the shuttle over the back boundary line.

   Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.1 · recall

3. The shuttle is hit in a direction parallel to the side lines.

   Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.1 · recall

4. The shuttle is hit at an upward angle.

   Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.1 · recall

5. A shuttle of correct speed lands between 530 and 990 mm short of the other back boundary line.

   Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.2 · applied

6. Correct speed lands at least 530 mm short; 400 mm short means it carried too far.

   Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.2 · applied

7. Law 3.2 sets the zone: no nearer than 530 mm to that line and no farther than 990 mm from it.

   Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.2, Diagram B · recall

8. Contact over the back boundary line, an upward underhand hit parallel to the side lines, then the landing is measured short of the far back boundary line.

   Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.1, 3.2 · applied

9. The testing marks of Diagram B sit 530 mm and 950 mm in; the doubles long service line lies between them at 0.76 m.

   Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.2, Diagram B · applied

10. Landing more than 990 mm short of the far back boundary line means the shuttle is too slow.

    Source: BWF Laws 2027, Law 3.2 · applied