Attitude is by far the most complex aspect of performance and is inextricably bound up with skill and fitness in contributing to good performance. It is relatively easy for any keen and enthusiastic badminton player to attain a high standard of fitness and technical skill with hard work and then, with a sound knowledge and understanding of the tactical moves and experience in competition, produced to reached high standards in all these aspects but fail to realize their potential and gain success, solely because of their inappropriate attitude before and during a game. This problem does not only apply to players who have reached high standards of performance within the framework and operate a high levels of play on the pyramid. Players at all levels and of all ages can suffer from an attitude which is inappropriate to the game.
When the attitude is positive and appropriate to the game one might not give a thought to the player's private experience. We just assume that everything is going well and he is getting on with game just as he should. But even though we don't know what sort of attitude he is expressing. We will know that it is a positive behavior. It is only when the attitude appears to be negative and inappropriate, which we judge from the way he is playing as compared with how we think he out to play (as against objective standards within a framework), that we reflect upon his or her experience.
Kumar, Ashok. 1999. Dph Sports Series-Badminton. Discovery Publishing House: New Delhi, India.
