Last year I worked with Simon Mills to design a Badminton unit and after much debate and discussion, we decided to go with a very different approach to our unit.  We had both worked in Japan and we had watched Japanese students working in PE using so much skill repetition to master skills rather than practice them.  And so we decided to see how our students would cope with skill mastery as the focus of our learning. We used a basic “How to learn Badminton” type book that started off with warm up skills and we used these series of skills as the backbone of our unit.  We didn’t know…