Are you a badminton champion?  Or are you more interested in cattle?
I'm more of a badminton person myself. I like the speed - shuttlecocks have a higher speed than many balls in other similar sports.
However, they always run out of feathers by the time I'm done playing a set.
became popular. It is frequently shortened to shuttle. The "shuttle" part of the name is derived from its back-and-forth motion during the game, resembling the shuttle of a 14th-century loom, while the "cock" part of the name is derived from the resemblance of the feathers to those on a chicken.
Specifications.
A shuttlecock weighs around . It has 16 feathers with each feather in length. The diameter of the cork is and the diameter of the circle that the feathers make
was Mads Pieler Kolding's recorded smash at a Badminton Premier League match.
Statistics such as the smash speed, above, prompt badminton enthusiasts to make other comparisons that are more contentious. For example, it is often claimed that badminton is the fastest racquet sport. Although badminton holds the record for the fastest initial speed of a racquet sports projectile, the shuttlecock decelerates substantially faster than other projectiles such as tennis balls. In turn, this qualification must be qualified by consideration of the distance over which the shuttlecock travels: a