For today's badminton session we found a unusual shuttle lying on one of the courts!
It was the first time for us to see this black color shuttlecock. We did our warm-up with this one and later left it aside.
After digging deeper to know why this one was different, I found an interesting fact that all badminton shuttlecocks are made by overlapping Black Goose/Duck feathers. They are whitened by some special methods for better appearance. Some players use the black ones so that they stand out quickly over lighter backgrounds.
This know-how made me realise that this was the usual one in the lot...the rest(white ones) were the unusual's!!!
After digging deeper to know why this one was different, I found an interesting fact that all badminton shuttlecocks are made by overlapping Black Goose/Duck feathers. They are whitened by some special methods for better appearance. Some players use the black ones so that they stand out quickly over lighter backgrounds.
This know-how made me realise that this was the usual one in the lot...the rest(white ones) were the unusual's!!!
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