Extreme dynamic range: these hard shots – aim them up and they absolutely soar, giving your opponent plenty of time to get in position, but also plenty of time to overthink it and whiff at the last minute.It almost feels like you’ve gone slightly back in time to get another chance. You pretty quickly learn to lunge for shots you think you’ve already missed, because the proportionate slowdown is so extreme that you sometimes get them anyway. The harder you hit it, the faster it slows – meaning, basically, go ham. It has Bullet Time built in: a shuttlecock is a weird little contradiction – streamlined in silhouette but engineered to slur through the air like it’s treacle.This is because of a secret feature of badminton: It involves a lot less walking around and picking things up: this is the main thing it has over tennis – even a ridiculously overpowered shot never goes more than a couple feet from the court, and in tennis even the gentlest shot can bounce to a neighbouring country if you’re not there to stop it. I’d say the only sport that can claim more satisfying noises is archery, and in badminton no-one has to die. You’ve got your gentle pongs, your lively thwaps, all the way up to the fearsome splack of a good overhand smash. Sound effects: hitting a shuttlecock (they call them birdies here) doesn’t just make a great sound, it makes a whole range of them. Badminton is the best sport – and I’ve tried easily six of them.
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