Cooler, many village kids in Malaysia and Indonesia use feathers and they play on hardened mud surfaces or cemented surface. In comparison, your crappy floors, etc., etc. are a luxury.
so by your prior reasoning, these village kids must be superb players or does this prove that feather playing doesn't automatically equate to skilled players? were these village kids have the opportunity to get plastic shuttle or play leftover used feather shuttles? How much does these village kids know about what shuttle choices out there?
Winex has the ideal solution to this debate of "Feathers" vs "Plastics", http://badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50922. I'm still waiting for my samples to arrive. A few years ago, there was reports of the IBF using plastics for tournaments (http://badmintoncentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29197)
then just abandon the argument there's a saying that goes "a scholar cannot win an argument against a soldier" i see your logic and it seems very moderate compared to the extremist views of the feather advocates over here they say that nylons will never prevail in history but i am sure that the technology is the stepping stone for synthetic birdies that, in the future, will completely replace feathers also, throughout this thread you have been proposing the same ideas as have they. this is obviously going nowhere. just let time tell..
Wow Master Peter, that was like 2 years ago almost!!! and still no samples? Still though it is nice to see the manufacturers making attempts at making some higher quality nylon shuttles.
since most discussion in this thread abandon any sense of logic, statistical soundness, and employed tit-for-tat arguments. this thread will be closed. if in the future, members chooses to argue without any logic, try to twist statistics, nit picking words, we will continue to lock threads.
