With the Bird Flu going around and price hikes, it's good to know there's a new player in the badminton shuttle market, Phoenix Shuttles (Phoenix). The website will be up within a week: www.phoenixshuttles.com. E-mail (up within 2 days): dennis@phoenixshuttles.com for more info. Phoenix has spent many months doing R & D in trying to make the best shuttle for the money. Phoenix has focused on flight accuracy and durability. Phoenix is offering three grades of shuttles: Gold, Silver, and Bronze and will be very competitively priced. I will post more once I receive the shuttles and test them...hopefully this Friday or Monday. I will take pictures and give you my thoughts. Disclaimer: I am not in any way associated nor compensated by Phoenix for this post.
From Dennis@PhoenixShuttles.com, shuttles should be in stock on this Wednesday and pricing is as follows, per tube: Gold: $15.00 (Retail), $13.00 (online) Silver: $14.00 (Retail), $10.50 (online) Bronze: $13.00 (Retail), $10.00 (online) Gold roughly equivalent to Yonex AS-30/40 Silver roughly equivalent to Hi Qua Blue/Red Bronze: roughly equivalent to Hi Qua Purple
Don't have any specifics but since you're in Cali and Phoenix Shuttles is in Cali I would assume minimal.
Well? Any updates? $13/tube for top-flight shuttles is very attractive, but, before I order any, I'd like to hear from the ultimate shuttle killer himself.
The shuttles are at the Port of Los Angeles but there's been a slight delay... Mr. Phoenix went to pick up the shuttles, so hopefully today. Yesterday we played with a shuttle we had not previously tried before called "BG2". We played a tough match, 3 sets and killed 26 shuttles (20 were BG2, 6 were Victor Gold). Gonna have to stay away from that shuttle.
26 shuttles?!? I must say that's one expensive match. Well, please do let us know how the Phoenix shuttles fare. May be only 14 of them per match, eh?
The Eagle...errrrrr... Phoenix has landed! Thousands of tubes of birds in this big rig truck...I'm leaving in about 30 minutes to pick-up/test.
The Phoenix has landed! I didn't get a chance to do a complete test of the shuttles but I did hit with the Silver/Club grade and they fly true. More later, I need some sleep. Here's a picture:
Dan, thanks for the new info.. wow, looking at your description and all, those are REALLY good price/bargain-can't beat it..i'm interested in purchasing a few first.. btw, is Dennis also local and plays at SGVBC??..And is he going to sell them at SGVBC??..i'll call you up later-
