r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DearEmphasis4488 • 14d ago

Video The process of making badminton shuttlecocks from raw feathers

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u/We-R-Doomed 14d ago

My family has made badminton birdies by hand with processes that have been a closely guarded secret for 15 generations and we were put out of business by BIG SHUTTLECOCK!

JK, I can't believe there is a demand for this scale of production. I would have thought the amount shown in this video would be enough to supply the world with birdies for 100 years.

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u/eugenepoez__ 14d ago

they get destroyed pretty quick. A couple of smahes and the shuttle is not feeling the best. After a game someone sweeps all of the fragments up with a big broom and it's a lot of broken pieces of shuttles

neylon shuttles are not exempt from this, they are just much more durable

and badminton is 2nd biggest sport im pretty sure

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u/apexodoggo 13d ago

A real feather shuttlecock becomes unusable if you hit it wrong once, and even if you hit it right they probably don’t last more than a single game.

So anywhere where there are people that take badminton seriously (so basically anywhere besides the United States), there’s a constant and high demand for more shuttlecocks.