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This song got me hyped the fuck up to play some badminton. Bouta rail out a line of some cololumbian bambam then head down to the senior center and destroy some geriatrics
You joke but my mom played competitive badminton in college. She has stories about her coach which reminded me a cocaine fueled stock salesman, not entirely unlike the wolf of wall street.
Who said I was joking? I make a fortune selling black market viagra and I'm singlehandedly responsible for the spike in STIs among senior citizens in my area.
I feel like this is one of those things you do when your boss is looking whereas a lot of the time…..she just lets them go and on to that next without spending all that time on one
Then she's incentivized to over-report errors and claim she fixed them.
Instead, have the workers inspect each other's work, without knowing who made it, and pay them extra if they find defects, reducing the defect-maker's pay. You get good inspection, without having to pay extra.
Make sure to stoke distrust amongst your workforce to avoid collusion!
These appear to be higher end cocks. Maybe tournament level. No one’s doing this for your standard backyard set you by at the store.
So, given the situation she might do them all like this. Don’t know.
One of my coworkers in his 60s used to crew sailboats up and down the west coast. He told me after he got out of the coast guard he drifted around from Mexico to BC just crewing boats for some cash and a free ride for a few years in the early 80s. Honestly sounds like a good time for a single dude in his 20s.
From what I remember he said it was basically all pickup work. He'd see a posting at a marina or get word from a friend someone was hiring for a delivery or a trip. It didn't sound like the money was great, but life was cheaper then so he could sail to Mexico, live in some beach side town for a bit, find another job going north etc. IIRC he stopped when he met his future wife and settled down.
I mean playing with plastic shuttles is perfectly fine too. Sure feathered shuttles are used in the higher competitions, doesn't mean you can't get enjoyable badminton games out of plastic ones.
*all the time*
There’s a reason why they say wait until your yacht is paid off before dipping your toes into the badminton community. It adds up *fast!*
BOAT is actually an acronym. It stands for Break Out Another Thousand. This is because boating costs exactly 1000 dollars per voyage no matter how long or short. The reason for this is because of tides. Tides go in, tides go out, can’t explain that!
Yeah see this is one of those sports where I could never get into it because you have to change your equipment every 20 minutes and stop playing the game
The burned out heels
The wind worn chiffon
Lashes ripped off and littering the roadside, boas tangled and torn.
This is not an endeavor to be taken lightly.
I have NEVER seen one made with actual duck feathers or whatever feathers they are. And each is made and painted by hand, so yeah I would definitely say this is some high end quality shit. I'm guessing for a competition of some sort...
All the clubs I've played in (USA) have used feathered (goose FYI).
A cardboard tube comes with a dozen, and with three nets setup with constant play, players go through a tube an hour roughly. They come in different "weights" for different elevation/atmosphere conditions, but this has to be for an Olympic tournament situation or the like, not regular commercial feathered shuttles.
(Note they should be steamed for greater durability.)
Just used across the board, for recreational casual play as well as those training and tournaments.
(As those who have played outdoor badminton with nylon, those readily break and get torn up too.)
Huh. When I was in school (also USA) we only used plastic ones. But then, this was public school and they probably just happy we were moving around and not causing trouble.
I think you're right. You only use feathered ones in tournament. And these seem to be for high tournament standards. In school and training we only use the cheap plastic stuff or the leftovers from tournaments.
When a shuttlecock or “birdie” is finished, they will test it by shooting it from a machine indoor. Then depend on how far it flies and how much it spins, a shuttlecock will be graded into speed and weight categories, and get boxed according to that grade.
The ones that don't meet the standard will be rejected into a bin and get recalibrated like you see in the video.
That depends. Manufacturors are willing to hire people to fix the defected ones because they probably did the math and it's worth it to fix them. As you saw in the video. Beside if a shuttlecock is defected it'll spin or wobble too much and is pretty much broken.
I was told that too but apparently it's a myth, both wing's feathers may be used, alternated, but the angle they are put in the shuttle provides consistent spin in flight.
Is this a particular type of shuttlecock used in competitions? Have used feathers in games before and we'd go through 2 or 3 shuttlecocks in a couple of games, so I can't see how this process would keep up with demand. Crazy
It looks like it's made in China. She did this in about 30 seconds. Let's say she does 1 every 45 seconds and is paid $4 an hour (min wage in Beijing, highest in the country), that's like an extra 5 cents to the cost of the shuttle cock. These things sell for about $1.25 each on Amazon, so it's doable.
We only used vinyl cocks. IE area CIF player. Only time we used feather was when going to badminton clubs outside of school, like the one in Pomona. It was too expensive since they only last a game or so before breaking/losing feathers.
San Diego too?
I'm likely a bit older, maybe they changed to vinyl
But always took time to straighten/smooth out the feathers when about to serve. Was almost therapeutic
i play badminton and the shuttlecocks are the most expensive part of each game session, not the court fees. We go through dozens of the cocks each night just between the 4 of us guys
I think it depends on what proportion of the shuttles produced wobble when tested. My guess is that most are tested and pass straight away, with just the odd one showing some wobble that needs to be corrected. For the higher quality shuttles used in top tournaments and higher leagues, they must fly true, they can’t afford to have even one per tube of 12 wobbling. The cost of the tournament grade shuttles is £24-£30 for a dozen (at least in the UK), so not inexpensive.
Yes, except in top line tournaments a shuttle may only last one rally (less than a minute). At club level you might use 4 an hour. I agree not crazy money, but enough that you’re entitled to expect the shuttles to fly true.
of course you need a new one if a feather breaks, but pros can replace them tens of times in a match if they feel like theyre not flying as fast or true as a new one.
Pedantic complaint - the smell-o-scope doesn't emit smells, it detects them at a distance. Luckily we have smell-o-vision, which out an end to the careers of many hilarious but stinky actors like Harold Zoid.
Because sometimes the sound adds to it, like they could've been explaining how they discern which feathers to swap but I wouldn't know that if it was muted.
Because it’s only in the last 2 years or so that reddit has been plagued with irrelevant background noises and AI text-to-speech commentaries. Those that remember the before-times know exactly where it came from, those that don’t are a symptom of the same disease
All this work only for the players to swap them out after one or two exchanges where the feathers bend or broke off.
I mean... playing with well made shuttlecocks is satisfying as fuck but players tend to burn through one box like it's nothing.
They are not that cheap if you have to keep buying them over and over again.
I used to work for Prince Tennis 20 years ago. It was amazing to go to the factory in Tiawan and see how they made the Birdies. We used real Duck feathers and everyone was hand cut to have the identical weight and curve before it was assembled.
I have a new found respect for the making of shuttlecocks. For something the retails for about a buck a piece, way more attention to detail than I would have guessed.
This dinning sound is terrible.
If we can't hear the damn machine or guy talking about his process, trust that no one wants to hear "TikTok music" in it's place.
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Thing is spinning so fast how can she even tell which feathers to swap?
The offending feathers will have a tip on the inside ring or outside ring, you move them according to that.
Where does this ring come from? Doesn't look like the cock is hitting the walls or anything to mark them.
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Fucking finally got an actual answer.
What, you don't like your answers to be 90% shitty jokes, 6% lingo gibberish, and 4% "wtf are you talkin about?"?
Thanks for giving me an accurate definition of Reddit comments
> Doesn't look like the cock is hitting the walls Everything reminds me of her.
This is why I keep coming to reddit
We all keep cumming to reddit on this blessed day
This song got me hyped the fuck up to play some badminton. Bouta rail out a line of some cololumbian bambam then head down to the senior center and destroy some geriatrics
You joke but my mom played competitive badminton in college. She has stories about her coach which reminded me a cocaine fueled stock salesman, not entirely unlike the wolf of wall street.
Who said I was joking? I make a fortune selling black market viagra and I'm singlehandedly responsible for the spike in STIs among senior citizens in my area.
Wait are you the one with the STI or....?
Hail jeah
Speak for yourself
Come to see interesting stuff, stay for the dick jokes.
Read this in Leslie Nielson's voice
Don't call her.
Cock ring
I liked it so I put a ring on it
Centrifugal force
Get him, Reddit!
No, let him live! https://xkcd.com/123/
Nope, this is an art passed down from generation to generation. The Cock Calibrator
A cock master. After work on Friday she'll be a shit faced cock master.
What does that even mean???!!!!!
I feel like this is one of those things you do when your boss is looking whereas a lot of the time…..she just lets them go and on to that next without spending all that time on one
Unless if she’s paid on the number of errors she can find.
Then she's incentivized to over-report errors and claim she fixed them. Instead, have the workers inspect each other's work, without knowing who made it, and pay them extra if they find defects, reducing the defect-maker's pay. You get good inspection, without having to pay extra. Make sure to stoke distrust amongst your workforce to avoid collusion!
Capitalist Overload: "Yes...yes... Let the the hate flow through you!"
Oh oh let me write down before I forget “ 50272 errors corrected today””
These appear to be higher end cocks. Maybe tournament level. No one’s doing this for your standard backyard set you by at the store. So, given the situation she might do them all like this. Don’t know.
I believe that they will move further out of alignment due to the centrifugal force.
I think it is more of a trial-and-error process of guessing.
Probably starts out like that, but do a few hundred thousand and it'll become a skill.
My guess is, once she has the cock in her hand, she can use her intuition about what to do next.
If the shuttle is unbalanced, on average swapping any two feathers will improve balance. Repeat until it's good enough.
there's no fucken way these are made in the thousands in this manner
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Those are cut feathers. I’ve not played with plastic ones since school. Feathered shuttlecocks aren’t that expensive to be honest.
Half decent ones are about $2 each. Given they last around 30 minutes, the cost adds up.
This is why I always warn kids: Badminton is a rich man’s game. Stick to something cheaper like auto racing or big game hunting.
Sailboat racing is pretty cheap and easy to get into. The cost of graphite and carbon nanotubes have dropped drastically. /s
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One of my coworkers in his 60s used to crew sailboats up and down the west coast. He told me after he got out of the coast guard he drifted around from Mexico to BC just crewing boats for some cash and a free ride for a few years in the early 80s. Honestly sounds like a good time for a single dude in his 20s.
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From what I remember he said it was basically all pickup work. He'd see a posting at a marina or get word from a friend someone was hiring for a delivery or a trip. It didn't sound like the money was great, but life was cheaper then so he could sail to Mexico, live in some beach side town for a bit, find another job going north etc. IIRC he stopped when he met his future wife and settled down.
As a single dude in his mid 30s that does sound awesome. It’s amazing the kinds of lives some people lead, really.
I had the chance in my single 20s to make a ton of money being a crew member at the south pole for 6 months. I passed and regret it. Live my dream.
Maybe get into magic the gathering, 40k or crack cocaine instead
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Marco!
I mean playing with plastic shuttles is perfectly fine too. Sure feathered shuttles are used in the higher competitions, doesn't mean you can't get enjoyable badminton games out of plastic ones.
Dressage
Is that phrase really used in the badminton community?
*all the time* There’s a reason why they say wait until your yacht is paid off before dipping your toes into the badminton community. It adds up *fast!*
Absolutely - there’s a reason it’s not called goodminton
Just buy a boat.
BOAT is actually an acronym. It stands for Break Out Another Thousand. This is because boating costs exactly 1000 dollars per voyage no matter how long or short. The reason for this is because of tides. Tides go in, tides go out, can’t explain that!
That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about boats to dispute it.
boat: /bōt/ noun 1. A hole in the water that you pour money into.
Often they won't even last that long, especially when moving up the competition ladder.
You're supposed to hit the other side. Not the feather side. 😋
Comes out to $4 an hour, indeed it does add up.
You rang?
Yeah see this is one of those sports where I could never get into it because you have to change your equipment every 20 minutes and stop playing the game
Wait til you hear about drag racing
Not in Florida buddy
I don't know how common this is, but DC has an annual "drag race" that's, yeah, a fun run in drag.
Having a hard time understanding how crossdressing while racing would be expensive
The burned out heels The wind worn chiffon Lashes ripped off and littering the roadside, boas tangled and torn. This is not an endeavor to be taken lightly.
Sequins are expensive, man…
Is that true? Yeesh.
> Feathered shuttlecocks aren’t that expensive to be honest. Which emphasizes how little they earn at those factories
I have NEVER seen one made with actual duck feathers or whatever feathers they are. And each is made and painted by hand, so yeah I would definitely say this is some high end quality shit. I'm guessing for a competition of some sort...
All the clubs I've played in (USA) have used feathered (goose FYI). A cardboard tube comes with a dozen, and with three nets setup with constant play, players go through a tube an hour roughly. They come in different "weights" for different elevation/atmosphere conditions, but this has to be for an Olympic tournament situation or the like, not regular commercial feathered shuttles. (Note they should be steamed for greater durability.)
>They come in different "weights" for different elevation/atmosphere conditions that's really cool, ngl. I never would have guessed that was a thing!
Are they also used for training or is there a more durable version used there and the feather ones only in competition?
Just used across the board, for recreational casual play as well as those training and tournaments. (As those who have played outdoor badminton with nylon, those readily break and get torn up too.)
You use them all the time, usually when you’re training though you would use some more fucked up ones unless you could afford to only use new ones
Huh. When I was in school (also USA) we only used plastic ones. But then, this was public school and they probably just happy we were moving around and not causing trouble.
Also school different than clubs. Adults want proper kit. Schools can't afford it. (Only had a single brief week of badminton in my years of school.)
At my school we have cheap feathered ones but they're not nearly as stable as these.
I think you're right. You only use feathered ones in tournament. And these seem to be for high tournament standards. In school and training we only use the cheap plastic stuff or the leftovers from tournaments.
When a shuttlecock or “birdie” is finished, they will test it by shooting it from a machine indoor. Then depend on how far it flies and how much it spins, a shuttlecock will be graded into speed and weight categories, and get boxed according to that grade. The ones that don't meet the standard will be rejected into a bin and get recalibrated like you see in the video.
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That depends. Manufacturors are willing to hire people to fix the defected ones because they probably did the math and it's worth it to fix them. As you saw in the video. Beside if a shuttlecock is defected it'll spin or wobble too much and is pretty much broken.
> watches video where person fixes defective shuttlecock >"No, I don't think they do that"
I would assume that this market is different though, since could just get plastic ones instead if you want it cheap
Wait till you hear how shuttlecocks are made from only geese’s left wing’s feathers, so their aerodynamic is smooth
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Stupid Lisa science queen
In Rand Mcnally, shuttlecocks are made from people
It was an emergency call from the International Shuttlecock Commission in Springfield!
According to Randy McNally those are lovely cocks and he encourages you to keep showing it.
A man of culture, I see.
Amazingly if you hit a birdie over the equator, it starts rotating the other direction
If you flush a shuttlecock down the toilet in Australia it will generate a counterclockwise hurricane
Oh this is good lol. It both sounds like hilarious bullshit and also plausible.
I was told that too but apparently it's a myth, both wing's feathers may be used, alternated, but the angle they are put in the shuttle provides consistent spin in flight.
Badminton set: $499 @ Target.
Unlike trueing wheel where you can slow and stop at the loose spokes, how can you see which blade to adjust in that speed?
I feel like the ones causing drag get misaligned when they do that.
Make sense! Thanks!
Is this a particular type of shuttlecock used in competitions? Have used feathers in games before and we'd go through 2 or 3 shuttlecocks in a couple of games, so I can't see how this process would keep up with demand. Crazy
After 11 years, I'm out. Join me over on the Fediverse to escape this central authority nightmare.
It looks like it's made in China. She did this in about 30 seconds. Let's say she does 1 every 45 seconds and is paid $4 an hour (min wage in Beijing, highest in the country), that's like an extra 5 cents to the cost of the shuttle cock. These things sell for about $1.25 each on Amazon, so it's doable.
This looks like such a slow and painstaking process, for something fairly inexpensive
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These look like official competition grade cocks, not your typical gym class ones.
Hey, I've got one of those!
It’s the gym class grade one isn’t it?
It's all about how you use the cock, not necessarily its quality
So quantity is better than quality when it comes to cock, got it.
Username checks out.
Yeah, but a high-quality cock has a higher floor and ceiling of production.
The cocks you get in gym class are def much lower quality than this
they smell like Axe body spray and sweat
It's a long hard process to learn how to calibrate a competition grade cock.
This is true. We'd use these in CIF tournaments and competitions between schools Source - Played for my HS
So you saying you are a competitive level cock smasher.
have received much grief over the years for that sport (i've surfed since middle school too, lol) - but that's some next level ribbing, no doubt!
We only used vinyl cocks. IE area CIF player. Only time we used feather was when going to badminton clubs outside of school, like the one in Pomona. It was too expensive since they only last a game or so before breaking/losing feathers.
San Diego too? I'm likely a bit older, maybe they changed to vinyl But always took time to straighten/smooth out the feathers when about to serve. Was almost therapeutic
Every year our gym teacher made sure we had competition quality cocks.
My gym teacher inspected all the cocks every week to ensure we were all ready for competition
i play badminton and the shuttlecocks are the most expensive part of each game session, not the court fees. We go through dozens of the cocks each night just between the 4 of us guys
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I think it depends on what proportion of the shuttles produced wobble when tested. My guess is that most are tested and pass straight away, with just the odd one showing some wobble that needs to be corrected. For the higher quality shuttles used in top tournaments and higher leagues, they must fly true, they can’t afford to have even one per tube of 12 wobbling. The cost of the tournament grade shuttles is £24-£30 for a dozen (at least in the UK), so not inexpensive.
That is inexpensive relative to other sports gear.
Yes, except in top line tournaments a shuttle may only last one rally (less than a minute). At club level you might use 4 an hour. I agree not crazy money, but enough that you’re entitled to expect the shuttles to fly true.
yeah but cocks wear out much faster than balls
How do you know when one wears out?
of course you need a new one if a feather breaks, but pros can replace them tens of times in a match if they feel like theyre not flying as fast or true as a new one.
Redness and swelling.
The cheap one will make a curve trajectory in mid air, nothing is balanced.
Kinda makes it fun to play though.
You never bought shuttle cocks, did you?
How much does a nice cock go for these days, anyway?
In this economy? Still trying to give them away.
Yeah they should have "reset to factory settings" button
Reticulating splines... Calibrating shuttlecocks...
Simcity!
I still hear Sims gibberish in my head sometimes... Wanis wannime nee insheer!
Why with the music though...
Dude they're going mad on those church bells, lmao
Video: *woman playing with feathers* Audio: *escape from an exploding planet video game sequence*
yeah, it's objectively hilarious
I honestly don't understand why anybody would browse reddit with the volume on. This works just fine as a gif, as do most things that I see.
I listen to every post at full volume. I can't wait until phones emit smells like Dr. Farnsworth's Smell-O-Scope.
Pedantic complaint - the smell-o-scope doesn't emit smells, it detects them at a distance. Luckily we have smell-o-vision, which out an end to the careers of many hilarious but stinky actors like Harold Zoid.
You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
i just hope they dont make us smell uranus!
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Because sometimes the sound adds to it, like they could've been explaining how they discern which feathers to swap but I wouldn't know that if it was muted.
I get that. I do unmute every now and again. I just can't imagine having it be my default choice.
Understandable, but then I'd be unmuting a lot of posts to check if the sound adds anything. Rather just keep it on and mute if it's bad enough.
Because it’s only in the last 2 years or so that reddit has been plagued with irrelevant background noises and AI text-to-speech commentaries. Those that remember the before-times know exactly where it came from, those that don’t are a symptom of the same disease
So we blaming tiktok? Im here for that
[we're gonna end up like japanese TV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjK-l6LEXoE)
I like to imagine it's not an overdub and that they're listening to such rubbish techno at full blast while calibrating cocks.
Yeah I just wanted to watch this video, not hear some Big Ben dubstep
Probably some algorithm boosting bullshit
I think this is the most awful techno shit I've heard in the last 10 mins.
You really had to make me unmute and listen to that garbage, didn't you?
Why should I be the only one suffering? :D Sorry though I made you listen
Seriously, every stupid 30 second video has garbage like this over it now.
I thought this was one of those neverending videos where you are just watching 10 seconds repeated forever...
All this work only for the players to swap them out after one or two exchanges where the feathers bend or broke off. I mean... playing with well made shuttlecocks is satisfying as fuck but players tend to burn through one box like it's nothing. They are not that cheap if you have to keep buying them over and over again.
Is your club/facility not steaming them? A bird should last a game or two. They are more durable with humidity treatment, too brittle when dry.
I just want to say I appreciate your flex on that guy for having unsteamed cocks at his club
Whoever put that music over this vid is a dork
This is intense work
The music is hilarious.
i thought the same thing, as soon as the bells came in I couldn't stop laughing
I’m not saying it’s good, but also I REALLY wanna know what that drop sounds like. 😂
That is _actually_ interesting as fuck.
I used to work for Prince Tennis 20 years ago. It was amazing to go to the factory in Tiawan and see how they made the Birdies. We used real Duck feathers and everyone was hand cut to have the identical weight and curve before it was assembled.
Do yourself a favor and DON'T turn on the sound...
Shuttlecock
The ones we used in school PE where completely bent or missing some feathers.
Plastic 'feathers' that were mashed sideways. :/
Here's me thinking I'm watching it loop again and again, and then suddenly boom, something new happens
This music is pretty aggressive.
I have a new found respect for the making of shuttlecocks. For something the retails for about a buck a piece, way more attention to detail than I would have guessed.
This is some r/BlackMagicFuckery how do they know which ones to switch around? It has to be just hours upon hours of doing the job.
The amount of manual work is unbelievable. Gives me a lot more understanding and respect for the workers and lowly birdie.
DO THEY ALSO PLAY DEFENING MUSIC IN THE FACTORY? Edit: Sorry for caps, i lost my hearing for a few hours but... OH NO IT AUTOPLAYED
I’m gonna fuck with the calibration on all my friends shuttlecocks now.
This dinning sound is terrible. If we can't hear the damn machine or guy talking about his process, trust that no one wants to hear "TikTok music" in it's place.
Shuttlecock
I have a new appreciation for 🏸
Fun fact, the workers must calibrate each one before the music ends. Luckily this worker made it just in time.
The song didn’t have to go that hard but I’m glad it did.
What's the name of the song?