a pro play for money not because it is feather tournament. if a plastic tournament prize is $1,000,000 for first, and 500k for second, and a different feather tournament with prize of 5k for rist and 2.5k for second, and both occur the same dates, which tournament would top pros go to?
u did not answer my question. Feather shuttles is the only paramenter they can change, in competitive play, what other variables can a player physically change?(except for another racket) it sounds repetitive but here goes again, pros prefer feathers before they eat, play, sleep, train in feathers. I said it before, it is human nature to choose what is easiest and familiar to them. Try asking taneepak to eat rye bread with his steamed fish
Hypotetical, and higly irrellevant.. If LD got $1.000.000 for playing a charity game of baseball, I am pretty sure he would accept.. Pro player have been asked number of times if they prefer feather shuttles or nylons, and I have never heard a pro suggesting nylons would be as good, or even acceptable.. I am sure i pro players asked for it we would have plastic tournaments already.. I would bet that if we did a poll of badminton players regardless of skill and asked the question "if money was not an object, would you prefer to use plastic shuttles or goose feather shuttles" .. my guessis that an overwhelming majority would choose "real" shuttles. This is the real issue, not weather the pros wouuld accept inferior equipment for large enouugh monetary incentives ?!?! /Twobeer
Well, They can't really "change" the shuttle parameter, as they can only switch to a new approved one.. Other things similar is that they can wipe the floor to "change" it to dry if it became wet.. They can replace racket/strings if strings break (just as they can change shuttle if shuttle breaks). And yes, they have the right to appeal to the umpire to overrule or switch linejudge if the main judge feel the line judje is unfair. (§17.6.4) /Twobeer
wrong, for charity, LD might even do it for free, he is genersous as i've said before as for a competitive baseball match?? i do not believe LD would participate since he has 'zero' chance of winning playing against other top baseball pros. LD won't even qualify to be in a team, how could he play? Please find better scenario to compare like tennis or table tennis. Still, LD wouldn't compete in those tournaments that has near zero chance of winning. Zero times gizillion $ is still zero. i can easily answer your last question LOL Korea willing to sign up victor and china willing to sign up Li Ning. Why? for large enough monetary incentive. They even willing to play against players using yonex
u obvious miss the whole point of the argument. Plastic players can't request change to mavis shuttle in bwf tournaments can he/she? Since they can not nor bwf willing to adopt plastic tournament, it is useless to say top pros only play feather coz they have no choice.
It amazes me how much things you "know" for sure.. You know what LD would do and not do, and what the pros "really" feel about shuttles and money, and You know exactly what they think about different rackets from Li Ning, Yonex, Victor etc.. It's good that you know so much, and have so few doubts
i know action speak louder than my supposed assumption about the players did taufik show up at the 09 racket rally for feather playing, sichuan foods, west coast air, skiing, to taste canadian beef, to meet haugek or for the dough? have i made any wrong assumption about TH yet? U are free to look through all my prior postings to find contradiction.
Really good point!! I hope it becuase the game is so challenging and exciting...And that many pros love the game, and that makes it more than just a "job"...
To earn a living? Not sure if you were aware... But often times tournaments in north america were passed over by the top ranked badminton stars because the tournaments here did not offer much money, and conflicted with scheduling of other tournaments. Occasionally you'd have a high profile/high ranked (eg. top 5 rank in the world) player come through... but few and far between Many have tried, and with some degree of success to sponsor, and help raise the profile of badminton, to attract more top players to generate more excitement in the public eye... However, its a vicious cycle. Tough to compete against more popular sports... "No money, no talk" I think the saying went. Food on the table is nice... unfortunately not all our brothers and sisters are so fortunate back to the topic... Mavis 500 > than Mavis 300
Yes, I agree. However, it's a free world. If the nylon folks like a folding skirt, then all the fun to them.
Well I play with both and like feathers more, however the goal is still to put the bird on your opponent's floor, and any open minded player would not whine about one not being the "real" game. But if you guys like to passionately get threads closed due to mavis vs feather debates...I guess you guys can go do that. However for me, plastic or feather, I'm always ready to play.
