Talk:Shuttlecock

Images

This page seems to need another image (The "Diagram" looks quite ugly)

I've come up with my own "Diagram", which is this:

(Yes, I'm no Ascii art fan.)

--bodq 11:44, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

TODO I shall make a photo as soon as I'd get my hands on digital camera I don't own any fearher shuttlecocks, but I might as well borrow it.

--bodq 18:39, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

So here is the promised picture.

It would probrably look better with border, but I don't know how ho achieve that.

--bodq 14:30, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

birdie

It seems to me, that every dictionary I've looked in, and all the top hits on Google, say that a shuttlecock is a name for the 'birdie' of badminton. This comes from the original game, shuttlecock and battledore, where the shuttlecock was the object hit back and forth and the battledore was the paddle used to hit it with. I'm going to revert the article and then add back some relevant information about this sport of shuttlecock, but I think that the far more common definition as a birdie should take priority in this article. QVanillaQ 04:26, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Jianzi

I just added back a link to the sport of Jianzi, which is what the rewrite of the page was about. QVanillaQ 04:35, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

The shuttlecock, called a jianzi in the Chinese game and also known in English as a 'Chinese hacky sack' or 'kinja', typically has four feathers fixed into a rubber sole or plastic discs. Some handmade jianzis make use of a washer or a coin with a hole in the center.

During play, various parts of the body, but not the hands, are used to keep the shuttlecock from touching the ground. It is primarily balanced and propelled upwards using parts of the leg, especially the feet. Skilled players may employ powerful and spectacular overhead kicks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 113.22.26.62 (talk) 09:34, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Shuttlecock sport and Shuttlecock Sport

These were both recently created by User:62.74.5.158 and User:Jostar (who may be the same person); I redirected the latter (which was identical) to the former, but presumably both should be merged here (if not deleted). — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 08:20, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Pricing of feather/plastic

I changed the part where it said that the price of plastics were very similar to those of feathers. HELLO?? Pricing is not even close. Because of this change, I also had to make a slight correction to the first sentence of the next paragraph. Tingalex 21:53, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Birdies

Should there be mention of this name (Birdy) in the article, because this is what I hear most commonly in reference to shuttlecocks-(at least in middle school)?

It already is there: "The name shuttlecock is frequently shortened to shuttle; a shuttlecock may also be known as a bird or birdie." If you think the correct singular for this slang noun is "birdy" rather than "birdie", go ahead and edit that spelling :) --Mike Hopley 22:36, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Could this be given some sort of clarification - perhaps saying that it might be called that in some geographical area, perhaps? I played badminton for many years, and I never once heard *anyone* call the shuttlecock a “birdie”; I’ve never seen anyone call it that on the odd occasion that I’ve seen a televised match, so I can’t see that it is anything other than a Bowdelerized term to avoid a word with “cock” in it… As it stands, the article makes this seem like some sort of official term in the game of badminton, and I don’t believe that it is the case, could it be downgraded in status in the text in some way?Jock123 (talk) 10:45, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

My guess is that Jock123 is probably right about the origin of the term "birdie" (which I have always seen spelled "birdie").

But I have always heard the term "birdie" when playing badminton in the Northeast U.S., at least. There is no justification for "bowdlerizing" an established usage from Wikipedia. 2601:200:C000:1A0:E00B:E959:D81E:1809 (talk) 03:16, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Source of Feathers

Are there any animal rights issues surrounding the use of feathered shuttlecocks? Were do the feathers come from? Are certain species of animals used and raised in captivity? It'd be an interesting topic.

The feathers are typically taken from live geese. Most come from China and India. Only a few feathers from each bird can be used, so it takes about three birds to fletch two shuttlecocks. Most of the birds go on to be killed for meat. 314159 (talk) 19:14, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

History

Anyone got anything to contribute? Turkeyphan^t 15:59, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Olympics using plastic shuttlecocks?

I paused my DVR and could swear that plastic shuttlecocks are being used in the 2008 Summer Games. I'm no expert on badminton by any stretch, so I don't want to edit the page really, but this line seems to contradict what I'm seeing on my television: "all senior international tournaments use only feather shuttlecocks of the highest quality." Additionally, this sentence seems to contradict WP:WEASEL anyway so maybe it should just be removed. Thx1200 (talk) 05:19, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

The olympic.org website defines a shuttlecock this way: "A piece of cork covered in goat skin with 16 goose feathers attached to one end. It can be made from natural or synthetic materials." (emphasis mine). Sounds like article needs to be updated. 00:17, 28 February 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.247.126.45 (talk)

Just no

"The object resembles a hawk's lure, used from ancient times in the training of hunting birds.[citation needed] It is frequently shortened to shuttle."

No, just no.

The shuttlecock is never shortened to shuttle.

The word "shuttlecock" is sometimes shortened to the word "shuttle". 2601:200:C000:1A0:E00B:E959:D81E:1809 (talk) 03:13, 18 April 2022 (UTC)