What is badminton for? -Part 7/.

... Where Ee is the existential predicament of the male half of humanity, A is the particular individual agent carrying this predicament, and å Í is the summation of the range of experience pain and pleasure through the enigma of ‘existence’.

Borrowing a scale from the government’s initiative to assess well-being in the population, the game is represented by Y J K L where Y is the embedded psychology of the game and J K L (called the Cameron scale) is the range of experience of ‘A’ within any game. Thus a game can be represented using the base of an equation from chaos theory (see Appendix).

Digression- self -abuse and wrist action in badminton

As mathematical equations tend to put people to sleep, let us divert temporarily to consideration of a demanding cultural practice. I refer to of course the vexed question of wrist action in the relationship between badminton and self abuse.

A little known study has proposed that successful wrist action in badminton is a sign of advanced self-abuse (Parham et al) and is based on the pre-conception that that power in badminton strokes comes mainly from the wrist.