Reply to: Badminton match throwing

[MarillionFan]

Crazy badminton lee Chong wei vs Lin dan Great Rally 2 - YouTube

Now that's a rally.

[Doggy Styles]

I'd still go for a longbow. It may slightly slower at 250 mph but it's going to go much further then a shuttlecock or slingshot & hurt a damn sight more.

We moved away from shuttlecocks to sharp stones hit with badminton raquets at 200+ mph.

A longbow would be better, but ammo wouldn't be as plentiful. Just wondering, did the ancient greeks have longbows? All the pictures I've seen are those piddly little ones.

[FiveTimes]

Shouldn't knock what you don't understand...

Like that matters around here

[Old Greg]

Was that faster? It did for Goliath.

Handy if you have a pile of sharp stones. The Romans used Balearic sling shotters as auxiliary troops who were handy swimmers as well for attacks across rivers.

[MarillionFan]

Sling shot is what you need.

I'd still go for a longbow. It may slightly slower at 250 mph but it's going to go much further then a shuttlecock or slingshot & hurt a damn sight more.

[Doggy Styles]

Sling shot is what you need.

Was that faster? It did for Goliath.

[Old Greg]

Ah, but if you used a pile of small sharp stones instead of shuttlecocks, you've got a handy deterent in an ancient Greek situation.

And you don't have to ask for your spear back to have a second shot.

Sling shot is what you need.

[Doggy Styles]

Yes but a spear will kill you whereas a shuttlecock might leave a bruise ... if they player badminton by throwing spears at each other I might watch that!

Ah, but if you used a pile of small sharp stones instead of shuttlecocks, you've got a handy deterent in an ancient Greek situation.

And you don't have to ask for your spear back to have a second shot.

[MyUserName]

200 mph is faster than anyone can chuck a spear.

Yes but a spear will kill you whereas a shuttlecock might leave a bruise ... if they player badminton by throwing spears at each other I might watch that!

[original PM]

Fastest racquet sport out there bar none. Murray serves at 120 mph or so at peak, I can drive a shuttlecock at over 200... And you can't let it bounce so you've got less than a second to form your return shot. Shouldn't knock what you don't understand...

ype fastest recorded shuttle cock smash was by some chinese geezer -- 421km/h - read that in the official olympic programme I bought at OT at the weekend.

[PorkPie]

Fastest racquet sport out there bar none. Murray serves at 120 mph or so at peak, I can drive a shuttlecock at over 200... And you can't let it bounce so you've got less than a second to form your return shot. Shouldn't knock what you don't understand...

Alan Partridge alert!

[AtW]

North Koreans would never do that...

[Doggy Styles]

oh yeah ?

and where was Murray when the Persians were getting speared at Thermopolae ?

see, I got you there havent I



yeah, take that

200 mph is faster than anyone can chuck a spear.

[EternalOptimist]

Fastest racquet sport out there bar none. Murray serves at 120 mph or so at peak, I can drive a shuttlecock at over 200... And you can't let it bounce so you've got less than a second to form your return shot. Shouldn't knock what you don't understand...

oh yeah ?

and where was Murray when the Persians were getting speared at Thermopolae ?

see, I got you there havent I



yeah, take that

[malvolio]

Who made Badminton a blooming Olympic sport anyhow ?

I mean can you imagine Spartacus and Hercules having a chat in an Olive grove on the slopes of mt Olympus in 360 bc

'OK herky, I'll race you 30 miles to Marathon, whoever gets there first is King of the castle all day'
'Fck off Sparty, you know I have to be here tonight so I can slip Aphrodite a greek sausage'
'How about throwing the javelin then, or heading the shot?'
'Tell you what Sparty, hows about a quick ponce about with my gaylord shuttlecock?'

'hahahahahha, Hercules is gay, Hercules is gay, I'm the king of the castle'

Fastest racquet sport out there bar none. Murray serves at 120 mph or so at peak, I can drive a shuttlecock at over 200... And you can't let it bounce so you've got less than a second to form your return shot. Shouldn't knock what you don't understand...