I am also getting into badminton been playing for 2 months now. But at least when I did Track and Field I was a jumper so I have experience in increasing your jump. In my experience the best way is to perform squats and other exercises while also consistently doing plyometrics. For good plyometric exercises lookup Plyomorph on Instagram that guys posts tons of workouts.

shuttle runs, shadow movements, box jumps

Not really, you need coaching to get the technique correct first, then you can focus on speed and power.

If you just practice doing the incorrect technique faster, you're making negative progress that'll take more time to undo with a coach.

If you're serious about playing and learning, get a coach ASAP and get the technique correct first.

An exercise we sometimes use with our oldest Junior bunch of students in coaching is called "fast feet". Stand feet shoulder width apart and you do the exercise for busts of 30 seconds. It's like walking on a spot but much harder and quicker and you only move ankles and heels / balls of feet as fast as you can.

The other one is getting them to stand in one of the tramline corner boxes, and have them jump with both feet together across a line, back into the middle of the box and work their way round it until they get to 10 repetitions. "forwards, back, right left etc".

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For bigger jumps, practice vertical jumps. Don't hurt yourself and work on grips and footwork to begin with in my opinion.

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And play more!

Repetition is the mother of skill. As per below, if your coaches are teaching you properly, then the rest is really up to you and training your body so that it feels like second nature. From the sounds of it, you're not quite there yet - but everyone's gotta start somewhere and even after many years, footwork can always improve!

Here's some footwork challenges you can do to make it more exciting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHvHcqn-XDs

Well if your coaches are any good they'd be telling/teaching you correct footwork, so maybe ask them

Look up 6 corners footwork for badminton. There's a lot of resources out there for drills about this you can practice almost anywhere you have a bit of space. If the space is limited like say in your living room with the coffee table moved out of the way, focus on the steps or rhythm and increase your speed. If you have more space like in an empty garage, you can try and cover more distance with each step.

You really need to get your footwork sorted as soon as you can, this was the first thing I learned when I first started. A great smash is useless if you can't get there in time because your footwork is lacking.

Agility ladder is good for improving footwork, get one and look up some exercises on YT.

We used to do something my coach called “Spider Drill” as well. Stand at service box T, put a tennis ball at each corner and center of sidelines and baselines, and one at the center of the net (8 total). Run and grab one ball at a time, then bring it back to the middle. Time how long it takes, work to improve your time.

Depends what kind of footwork.

In terms of speed I would say use a speed/agility ladder like this:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEvPqdKNcRh/?igsh=MTdodzhqY3B5NzR1NQ==

For explosiveness you likely need to a combination of strength and plyometric (jumping) exercises.

Good example here by Maria Sakkari: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrV1BmWr1MO/?igsh=MTJ6NzRibTlxenVu

Although a junior athlete here this is also a good example: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGlAGVTzO5P/?igsh=OHZlMHpuMzZqc2s3

For students I make them hold the racket still/lock it in place at the “perfect” point of contact. I then toss a ball and say make the racket contact the ball, without moving the racket itself. To do so, you have to move a lot and take little adjustment steps that mimic real footwork/real hitting since that’s essentially the function of footwork (to give yourself the best possible contact point, in addition to weight transfer and some other things).

I make them do like 10 reps with the racket locked in place. Then add a 40% swing, then up the racket head speed gradually. Then start tossing the ball deep and short to emphasize the movement even more.

For me, a lot of it was mentality. You look at the difference between federer and djokovic, both incredible movers but federer is still better and I think it comes down to how much he's thinking and committing to his footwork. You hardly ever see him half-doing it, he always gives it his all.
Drills will help you build up the technical side but to make it an instinct you have to commit on every ball and not allow yourself to be lazy

Just keep forcing yourself. Footwork is hard because it is physically exhausting and very demanding.

Our bodies natural instinct is to do the least possible, and you have to consciously fight that the whole time.

Ive been trying to focus on footwork since just after starting, and its pretty funny. I'd get a solid couple rallies and become cement feet. Then a few minutes, then 10, etc...until I could do ok for much of a session, match. Hopefully some day soon a baseline of decent.

Lots of effort and reps.

Can you jump rope? Learn to jump rope, learn to go foot to foot and do the boxers skip. Do it for 20 minutes a day until you can jump and skip without missing for the whole time. Your footwork will improve.

All great stuff already said about jumping rope, leg strength, split step, etc. In addition to that, you may also have to work on your anticipation and reflexes.

There are a number of ways to work on this like volley drills, approach shot drills, getting one of those weird bouncy balls, reaction games like Boxbollen are fun. Most of the time when I have trouble getting to a ball it’s because I got distracted or lazy, didn’t split step in time, and didn’t look at the opponent’s trajectory before the ball came over the net. When I’m focused, split step, and watch them carefully, I can get to where I need to be on the court before it’s too late. I wouldn’t call myself fast but having the split second to know where to go before the ball is even over the net makes a big difference.

Building leg strength is very under appreciated. It is hard to split step/bounce all the time when your legs are weak/tired. Incorporating leg training at the gym (dumbbell lunges, etc.) can really help a lot. Also plyometric exercises to diversify the jump rope suggestion. Check out Mattspoint_Tennis on insta for ideas on plyos, leg exercises.

I played a ton of DDR growing up in the early 2000’s.

Purpose in your mind to take multiple continuously adjusted small steps to prepare for every shot. The quality of each shot is largely down to the quality of the foot preparation.

Whenever you are missing shots check if you are taking those baby steps or if you remain planted after your shot.

It looks like we need to continually be on the move. Flat footing is only acceptable after the point

If you have enough you can practice footwork. You don’t even have to do a crazy long time, 40 minutes a day is more than enough.

there’s a badminton wand that will make a sound if there is enough speed. i used it and it makes my backhand hit much powerful using the wrist power.

it’s sold on taobao

Badminton insight. The badminton zone hq.

dumbbell curls, hammer curls, shoulder raises, lateral raises, dumbbell wrist curls

split squats, watching games and doing split steps.

if you have a high ceiling

grip training and smash training

Watch pro games to figure out when to hit what shot and what is a bad shot to hit.

Was your feeder a coach? They are feeding you shuttles without giving you time to get back to a home position. Maybe it's the point of the exercise, but it looks like you need to regress a bit in my opinion (look where your racquet finishes at 0:04, your non racquet leg at 0:06 as some examples).

I've also just noticed your racquet leg didn't finish infront of your body at 0:04.

What I would recommend is practice footwork without shuttles and a racquet first. Focus on getting a good first step (split step) and finishing strongly on a lunge when the footwork pattern calls for it (not rearcourt shots).

Once you are happy with your footwork and speed into all the corners, you can introduce randomness by having someone point or call out which corner to move to. See how you get on with that.

When you are happy with the above, introduce a shuttle and do it to half the corners, then the other corners, then all the corners in sequence, then all the corners randomly like you showed footage for. Be patient and keep filming your progress for review :)

Just a casual player here, maybe I'm seeing it wrong, but I feel you stand on your heel too much. Try shift the weights more to the toe, then the split steps might push you more. Step sequences feel a bit suboptimal sometimes, but I also suffer from the same problem lol

From the video, it's obvious you play badminton better than me. I'm one levels below you

When doing lunge, put your weight on the rear leg while launching your right leg

Instead of "falling" to the front leg

Your drill list is already impressive! 

Biggest thing is although you've described it as a 'control' drill, you could be doing much more to get further behind the shuttle.

A couple times you finish your footwork early, before the shuttle reaches you, and end up hitting the shuttle slightly behind you. You're waiting for the shuttle, but better footwork would be to time your backward footwork such that you maximise the distance backwards, giving you loads of options to clear/drop/smash the shuttle.

At 0:11, you take a single step to play a half smash, with the shuttle only very slightly in front of you with very limited recovery step (because you're leaning back slightly), whereas you could have moved further back and taken the shuttle more in front of you, allowing you to step forward as a more easier recovery.

I feel you maybe play at the front in doubles a bit, as your feet are quite square in the front which makes moving backwards more difficult. Additionally, after a net shot in singles the preferred movement is a chasse step back to centre, keeping your dominant foot forward (ready to play a net kill), and giving you power to push off backwards. You prefer to move your dominant foot back, which is ok for anticipating a lift to your backhand rearcourt, but is a nightmare if they lift to your forehand rearcourt, and even worse if they net it back to you.

I would highly recommend the ATG program by the knees over toes guy ! Best athletic strength/flexibility program that I’ve ever done

In terms of explosiveness you could develop your legs with simple exercises like squats and bulgarian squats for a compound exercise, leg extensions for quads, leg flexion for hamstrings, and calf raises. Lunges and weighted lunges can also help with muscle development and flexibility.

For agility and speed do drills like the 3 cone drills and there's many more to look up

skipping, although you don't need to go to the gum for that.

I normally just do my routine as usual. And after the routine, I’ll try to find an empty space and do some footwork there. I would consider it as my cardio as well cause I really move alot.

Maybe include a short clip of your footwork to let us have a clearer picture of what you meant.

Stomping at the end of a lunge indicate a lack of control. You are letting your momentum control your body instead of absorbing it through your muscles and landing light. Stomping is also gonna bust your knees quite quickly if you do it consistently. Sounds like you would need to spend some time working on proper footwork movement as well as some physical training to build up your muscles( calves and quads to move and land well, core muscles to control your upper body and not lurch forward and downwards when you land).

Also, focus more on moving on your toes. Your heels should be just hovering off the floor, open your feet slightly, body leaning slightly forward and lower your centre of gravity. Going low allows you to move and react faster, but too low will defeat the purpose of doing it so just be careful. Standing too straight will make it tough for you to push off as well.

If you get tired around 7-8 points then your overall stamina is the first problem. How long these points lasts ?? Single is very hard on the cardio because you can’t take a break. If people refer to your footwork as heavy because of the noise your feet does when you lounge then don’t fret about it because everyone does it every now and then.

A clip of you playing would help a lot.

But overall improve your stamina. Jog for 20mins each day for 2 weeks and you will see already progress in your game. Then you can move up from there

Try keeping your shoulders 'up' your arms esp your elbow 'up'.

Players can like idk sag down? Which can be fine when defending but covering the court will be an issue.

Raising your body position up can help being on your toes a bit more let you carry your body/arm around court can play an important part in helping you not 'stomp'. You only want to be landing on your heels when you are lunging for shots, any other time should be landing/pushing off with the front parts of your feet making you be 'on your toes' when covering the court.

(Also had a quick peak in your posts and not smoking cigars maaaaay help as well with energy?)

When you do a lunge, start your lunge low with your left leg bent.

Work on strength and conditioning outside of just playing games.