Why Badminton is the Fastest Racket Sport!

Which of these would you guess is the fastest sport? If you said baseball, soccer, or even tennis, you’ll have to give it another shot. No its not pickleball either.
Considering the speed of the shuttle after being hit it can reach speeds over 200mph
Yes, Badminton! The sport many Americans play outdoors casually in their backyard, is one of the world’s fastest sports!
To understand why this seemingly simple sport holds the title for fastest racquet sport on the planet, we have to head indoors.
The weather is going to affect the flying performance of the shuttle. The wind and the temperature cause the temperature to fly in a different way than expected, that’s why professional players play indoors.
Indoors, players smash, clear, drop and drive the shuttlecock toward their opponents.
It’s a sport with roots in Ancient Greece, China, Japan and India, but its current regulations were developed in England and brought to the United States in the nineteenth century - where the first Badminton Club opened in New York in 1878.
The rules have changed over time, but the one constant was the shuttlecock.
This is kind of a unique shape for a projectile - it’s a cone shape with 16 feathers. They’re made of goose.
Only four feathers per bird make the cut, for the optimal and uniform curvature, shape and weight.
No matter how the shuttlecock is hit, it will fly nose first.
All other ball sports created the ball to fly faster. The shuttleockc is made to fly slower after being hit.
The feathers create a drag, which leads to a more predictable flight path, giving the player more control over shots.
80 percent of the speed can be preserved when flying to the other end of the court.
As the shuttlecock descends, the flight angle becomes more steep than its lift, a unique property for a projectile in sports.
The feathers break easily, which can make the shuttlecock wobble during flight. Several are often used in one match.
And players can even alter the speed of the shuttle with some minor adjustments to the feathers.
Just don’t try that during a match! It’s illegal.
And Dr. Qin Arthur Zhu would know! In addition to his work in kinesiology, or the study of human movement, Dr. Zhu is a national level badminton umpire and a top player trained in China.
Dr. Zhu and his team wanted to understand how players could transfer the most speed to the shuttlecock - to improve coaching techniques. He looked at racket angle, swing speed and string tension when players hit a smash power stroke.
Dr. Zhu and his team found that the fastest shuttlecock speed was achieved by expert players when the racquet angle was 71.6 degrees. Recreational players could swing the racquet just as fast as expert players, but since they weren’t able to hit the shuttlecock at the optimal angle, they weren’t able to achieve the highest speed.
It’s really hard to get that angle right because…
It’s a complicated process.
There you have it!
From lightning-fast shuttlecocks to split-second reflexes, it's clear why badminton is the fastest racquet sport.
Think you are up for this challenge? Why not grab your racquet and see for yourself? Thanks for watching, and don't forget to like and subscribe for more science and badminton videos!
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Directed/Edited by Emily Driscoll
Filmed By
Jon Foy
Emily Driscoll
Chris Colton
Narrated by Luke Groskin
Music by Audio Network
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Victor Ng
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Peter Teuben
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Chibing & Veronica Wu

[@NeelReddy-tg4zu]

Blink during a badminton game, and you'll miss the entire rally 😬

[@ethanfang7927]

and lose your testicles (i made that mistake with a guy on a smash)

[@bounce1603]

Correct

[@emily-driscoll]

Let's all try not to blink 😆

[@CherryMaePanaginip]

Wait until y’all here table tennis

[@bounce1603]

@@CherryMaePanaginip must be high or drunk

[@n0t0rious74]

calling badminton simple is an understatement

[@DarrenSaw]

Yeah it really isn't simple.

[@rjari8578]

Badminton is the easiest sport to start , you just have to hit the suttle with the racket, there is no spin, drift, But its the hardest and the most physical sport to master

[@emily-driscoll]

True - that's why its deceptively simple. People who haven't seen competitive sport think it's easy. It also doesn't translate well on TV!

[@grapefruitsyrup8185]

Absolutely not. Badminton is factually the easiest sport to play, just like pickleball. There is no spin, no slice, not much room for strategy due to small area, no techniques, no hitting mechanics. This is why everyone and their dogs can be decently good at Badminton after a few sessions. Even at the extremely pro level, it's just a test about reaction time and stamina and nothing else. It so easy I know many people completely lose interest in the game because of how boring and one dimensional Badminton is. This is the facts.

[@grapefruitsyrup8185]

​​@@rjari8578 you are half right half wrong. it is the easiest sport to start, but also the easiest sport to master. For pro athletes who have very good body conditioning and stamina, they can easily play extremely good badminton at a very high level, can the same be said about other sports like Tennis?? Absolutely not, without technique, perfect body mechanics and hitting form you are nothing, meanwhile all these does not exist in Badminton because it's a very one dimentional game. Physicality should be a given but that ALONE is never enough for more sophisticated sports. No need to sugar-coat the facts.

[@fakeaccount6230]

Too bad USA badminton is lagging so behind compared to Asia and Europe. Average American or school kid in USA only think of badminton as a backyard hobby

[@breathbadminton]

true that, unfortunately

[@emily-driscoll]

Agreed. There are pockets in the US where it's played competitively, but in general it's still viewed as a backyard sport.

[@blaisepascalianmammalwtf]

@@emily-driscoll califonia?

[@user-dm7ui6zx2u]

Badminton in US can be summed up as "Bro I'm so good at badminton! I can beat you! Let's play sometime in our school parking lot!"

[@Royston138]

😂​@@user-dm7ui6zx2u

[@VladimirMiyazaki]

In Indonesia I heard that there was once a badminton match where the attendance was almost 95,OOO.

[@prastcokro7176]

nah never,, thats happen in football, badminton is indoors sport, and the most capasity badminton arena in indonesia is 7166 seat,

[@VladimirMiyazaki]

@@prastcokro7176 thank you for clarifying

[@quantumhallow3522]

Bro stop saying that Americans play it. It more played in Asia. I don’t know why u guys always take Americans as an example for everything.Indians play 10 times better than Americans

[@grapefruitsyrup8185]

Indian have 10 times more players that's true but they are definitely not better.

[@JacobHuang-rl9jj]

@@grapefruitsyrup8185 The highest ranked indian player is 12th in the world. The highest ranked american player is 76th in the world. Not very high compared to 12th. He was born in the US, but he was ethnically Taiwanese, not white. Indians invented badminton. Americans play badminton in their backyard with no net no court and no idea how to play the game

[@wigglyk2796]

One of the intereseting things is that even the Americans playing Badminton are mostly of Asian(China/Taiwan/Indian) origin. I've seen this at my university.

[@leoem4nuel]

Americans play it as a backyard game rather than the sport that it is.

[@blazer9547]

​@@JacobHuang-rl9jj indians did not invent badminton, it's an urban myth. It was first played by British expatriates.. Doesn't matter what you feel about the British

[@stev4143]

isn't the current speed of this sport is over 500km/h?

[@fabiojonathanarifin1]

that's true the newest smashing record is above 500km/h

[@user-ku6bv4ni2f]

​@@fabiojonathanarifin1 The method of recording speeds have changed and thus why recently smashes got so much "faster"... on records. The 500+km/h is also gimmicky marketing stuff by yonex

[@ajayrathore8704]

@@user-ku6bv4ni2fit happened in a match yonex one had a speed of 575

[@leoem4nuel]

The video uses miles/h instead of km/h. 500 km/h = 310 miles/h, which is roughly the figures given in the video

[@unix11ai83]

Yes sir

[@Kausan1]

Table Tennis would like a word, in terms of reaction time needed. Shuttle has practically stopped by the time it gets to the far end in badminton

[@jamesgamingyt4529]

same goes after bouncing in the table it goes slow

[@anjingbabi4468]

Nah, i play table tennis in junior high - high school. Won some tourney with my school team way way back then. Now in my 30s i play badminton. Table tennis is easier to react to due to the smaller area you play with.

[@matti853]

​@@jamesgamingyt4529it depends on the shot, but in a normal ralley it doesn't.

[@irtiza4262]

Table tennis has far more dynamics than any other sport I know just because of the spin

[@itsflicked]

They are actually pretty close to eachother in reaction time needed. In table tennis when receiving big smashes you're often far from the table, giving you pretty good time to react, and additionally the ball also slows down a bit with only spin to maintain speed. Badminton goes far faster but slows down more, but a smash is pretty much unreactable with only reflexes and prediction to get a good smash. A clear is far slower though, with the only comparison I can think of for table tennis being a slice. You seem to be comparing a defensive shot here, both sports take pretty similar reaction speeds. The main difference is table tennis demands even more fine control than badminton, whereas badminton takes more stamina and leg strength.

[@JeanneDriscoll-se2xc]

Great description of how one achieves maximum speed

[@wenderis]

It does look 'simple' but there is just so much minute technique that goes into a single seemingly simple strike of shuttlecock in Badminton. So goddang difficult to reach elite level especially in China or Indonesia thats why there are some lesser elite players from these countries that migrated to US, Australia, UK, etc.

[@khalidalshatri3267]

Really good content you just earned a new subscriber you deserve more than 300 subs

[@emily-driscoll]

Thanks for the sub!

[@ishakkhan2920]

Really well made video! Your narration sounds very professional and the footage you got with the experts made me think this was a news channel like Vox!

[@emily-driscoll]

Such high praise. Thank you!

[@AircraftAegeus]

As an professional badminton player who lives in New York City, if you get distracted merely within a second, you may miss a shot. The trick is to shoot down while swinging fast, which is called a smash. Another trick is to shoot far away from your opponent, causing him/her to run in that direction, causing a high chance of missing.

[@spidernh]

This seems misleading. There's no reasoning given as to why this is the fastest. Of course, it's because of its high speed, but that's only on impact, and it slows down dramatically after impact. So it may have the highest top speed, but I personally disagree with calling it the fastest sport based on top speed alone, because the average speed is what really matters towards reaction time and general competitiveness. Maybe it is still the fastest, I don't know, but I feel this line of reasoning is flawed.

[@omniyx7837]

its still the fastest and it doesnt slow that much because the bird has not much distance to travel, these powerful smashes are hit straight down around mid court so it hits the ground before you even have time to react.

[@spidernh]

@@omniyx7837 Do you have numbers to back this up? Or any comparison as proof?

[@omniyx7837]

@@spidernh i wasnt talking about numbers, if you read it again you'd realize its something not related to that, and i know it for a fact because i literally experience it at practice everyday

[@omniyx7837]

@@spidernh ive played most of the sports he mentioned and its a very fast sport because the bird moves around fast and there is so much less space bnecause the court is tiny. This is also why table tennis is extremely "fast" despite its numbers being slow. Its fast because the court is very small.

[@spidernh]

@@omniyx7837 I see, thanks for the explanation. Wasn't really doubting you, but of course you're a random person on the internet.

[@SRMkay]

Right off the racket, yes. After flight and by the time the shuttle reaches the other side of the net, no. This coming from someone who plays both badminton and tennis

[@whoops7025]

Unless badminton player stands at the net

[@whyandhowdaushitenande]

As an professional badminton player from asia who have played nationals , i dont want to say anything, i cant describe chaos and storm on court during match , everything goes so fast yet it feels slow when youre facing the shuttle.

[@shanicestella2226]

Chinese Team , Japanese Team and South Korean Team (( Also Top 4 SEA countries representatives : Thailand , Singapore , Malaysia and Indonesia )) considered as ace of this game

[@arfarfdearfarf]

Arguably the toughest sport at an elite level, it's crazy how difficult and demanding it is to become a top player

[@CherryMaePanaginip]

What about table tennis?!

[@user-vy5uy9fo8p]

Its not that fast, the length of the table is short hence the reaction time is less. Normally 60 kph is like the best you can get in pingpong, whereas you can get 200 kph in a smash in badminton and the record is 500 kph.

[@paultrunz7986]

@@user-vy5uy9fo8pDue to the lack of feathers the ping pong ball is going to show down less as well. However, since the distance is so much smaller reaction times are much less.

[@ImuBozu]

@@user-vy5uy9fo8p Wrong speed in table tennis can exceed 116 kph due far shots away from the table

[@meouby2]

It has air drag too and the ball is light weight so its does not have really high momentum a bit of air resistant enuf to slow it

[@yasserpalantig1169]

badminton world record badminton smash 565km/hr💀💀💀

[@monax1a-yt]

Right now the badminton smash world record is 565 kph. Put that into perspective. In mens doubles smashes can often go beyond 400 kph. It is insane.

[@evansphenomenal]

Ever since the world record got broken recently, I think it just became the fastest sport period.

[@skychaos87]

There are two types of speed, reaction speed and coverage speed. Badminton has the fastest ball/projectile speed but its not the fastest in reactional and coverage speed required. That is because while the shuttlecock speed is fast, it slows down dramatically in the air because of the shape of the shuttlecock and the feather creating drag. The speed of the shuttlecock at the ending part of its travel distance becomes less than 1/3 of its top speed. This is unlike ball projectiles like Tennis ball or Ping Pong ball, where the speed stayed mostly constant and slows down lesser over the same distance and duration. In terms of reaction speed, its Ping Pong > Badminton > Tennis Shuttlecock may move faster, but because of the larger distance and dramatic speed reduction, its actually easier to react to a shuttlecock than a ping pong ball. In terms of movement and coverage speed, its Tennis > Badminton > Tennis Ping Pong while its harder to react it doesn't require much coverage of distance, thus most of the speed is reaction and arm speed. In Badminton not only do you have to react fast, you also need to cover some grounds too. Tennis on the other hand is other side of the extreme, you do have more time to react but you will need to cover way more ground. So having great reaction speed like in Ping Pong and Badminton isn't going to cut it if your body can't bring you fast and far enough to reach the ball. IMO all 3 sports are the fastest in their own rights and they require different skills and disciplines. In Tennis you need more power physical strength to move fast and further, whereas in Ping Pong you need more fast twitch reaction than power. Badminton is a combination and a balance of both.

[@yasserpalantig1169]

RANKIREDDY SMASH 565km/hr 💀💀💀

[@apoetsbrain6794]

Now i get why i always had some shoulder pains after badminton but not really for tennis. It always feels like I expended a whole lot of energy for little shuttlecock result lol.

[@juanfocc5790]

that just means you have poor technique lmao

[@apoetsbrain6794]

@@juanfocc5790 i humbly agree lol

[@ram1nath]

Key is to not generate power from shoulder but rather forearm..however needs practise and technique

[@apoetsbrain6794]

@@ram1nath in tennis we are told to use whole arm and the natural relaxed swing path not our wrist and elbows. I guess it is a similar concept. Tennis is my sport.

[@apoetsbrain6794]

@@ram1nath I also struggle with those very high baseline (not sure if it is also called baseline) shots. You know those types that send you way back and are coming in very high.

[@anuraghsaka8630]

isn't squash faster, im just asking, please enlighten me, i realize that the intial speed on impact from badminton is super fast but the speed of the shuttle deteriorates as it continues to move due to drag from the feathers, but the squash ball remains super hard to track even after intitial impact

[@alan887]

Despite the deceleration, the maximum pace of a badminton game rivals that of table tennis (known as the single fastest-paced racket game). Though squash is pretty fast, the extra bounces would absorb the ball’s momentum much more than how air resistance slows down a shuttle.

[@alan887]

Also, I estimate the total time available to retrieve a 250+mph smash is a bit under 0.5 seconds (500ms). Considering that the average human needs 200ms to react, top badminton players will need to reach the shuttle with only 0.3 seconds on the clock. That’s pretty fast.

[@lkx06]

wrong thumbnail should be 318.14 mph as of now

[@introvertbiologist7751]

Bruh check an Indian guy holds the world record and it's the same as it is mentioned in the thumbnail

[@unix11ai83]

@@introvertbiologist7751 The record is 500+ mph

[@introvertbiologist7751]

@@unix11ai83 no bro I'm talking abt the world record and it's accurate thh

[@JonMurray]

Great video! I loved badminton when I was younger. New subscriber ✌🏻

[@emily-driscoll]

Thanks for the sub!

[@ongkimchoon7383]

Soccer, Tennis, Baseball. How was their ball speed measured compared to badminton? Of the four, one is a high drag device by design. Not implying otherwise, are their recorded speed accurate, all else been equal?

[@AJ-iu6nw]

It’s the speed on impact, but it’s also the ball that decelerates the most. So it’s kind of not traveling at that speed when it reaches your opponent. Clickbait video

[@ongkimchoon7383]

@@AJ-iu6nw How was each measured? Same equipment, calibrated differently? Was drag equation added?

[@Cguy-bj8uc]

​@@ongkimchoon7383I believe they measured it by top speed achieved. Not necessarily how long the speed is maintained

[@ongkimchoon7383]

@@Cguy-bj8uc Than saying fastest racket sport is just that - saying. I have seen how it was measured as an advertisement project, impressive numbers, that's what needed in advertisement. Otherwise, when you add in all the other technical requirements for an achievable number by several people of equal capabilities, these numbers crumble like crackers.

[@whoops7025]

Ofc it is measured in the beginning since all shots arent going equally far. They measure the same way in every other sport but it is ofc obvious that you can shoot a badminton shuttle with more speed than a tennis ball since racket is so much lighter.

[@thedduck]

Oh the amount of trolls I got when I comment the exact same thing to a viral Instagram reel about Pickleball being the fastest racket sport is just 😂

[@RisingJeff]

Awesome video!

[@emily-driscoll]

Thank you!

[@nino88881]

It’s fast but it is not hard to learn to play. It is hard to be super good but not hard at all to learn to play as a hobby. You can learn it faster than tennis or table tennis.

[@nino88881]

I just dont want people who never try to get scared away. It’s a fun sport.

[@irtiza4262]

Exactly! In my experience I also found returning badminton shots way easier than blocking table tennis topspin loops, because of the spin Even though the badminton shuttlecock travels at a higher speed than a table tennis ball, I'd argue that table tennis requires more reaction time because it has a whole other dimension of spin which needs thinking

[@unix11ai83]

Badminton is easy. 😊

[@stello61]

this is very misleading. You can see in the first couple of clips how radically the ball decelerates as it moves forward, to the point that it's almost still when it arrives at the opposite side. Using the speed at which the ball exits the racket as opposed to with what speed it arrives at the opponent seems like an arbitrary method of categorization. "The initial and final velocity of feather shuttlecock for player 1 was 405.68 km/h and 55.15 km/h respectively. The initial and final velocity of nylon shuttlecock for player 1 was 420.27 km/h and 66.24 km/h respectively." --Aerodynamic Characteristics of the Badminton Shuttlecock Shortly After Smash, The Engineering of Sport 14, Purdue University, 6-10 June 2022

[@85amitray]

Yes, velocity decreases. But if you take the time taken for the travel from the smashers racquet to the defenders racquet, and then match it with reaction time of the defenders, you will find its a very fast sports. This this rallies happen s in quick succession, making it a fast sport. Compared to golf. Where one takes own sweet time to hit the ball.

[@JacobHuang-rl9jj]

@@85amitray true but the top speed of the shuttle is generally achieved using a smash. its really hard to attack the opponent after a smash even for professionals so after the smash, the shuttle wont go as fast. its definitely fast but not that fast compared to ping pong, cause in ping pong, the ball decelerates a lot less than in badminton and the table is much shorter so you have to react faster

[@85amitray]

@stello61 I have played both the game throughly. And I often use technique used widely in table tennis[TT]. Such AS CHOP SHOT AND position of opponent. Shuttle deaccelerates more than tt ball.. u r right.. but tt also gives you the advantage by allowing the ball to bounce once.. which gives u more time. In tt u can't let the Shuttle bounce.. for you one has to move very quickly.. change directions.. defense and attack.. thus is a little more physically tiring. Both are very quick game.. it's not the speed to Shuttle that always matters.. but also how quick one has to move constantly throughout constitutes. And the speed of Shuttle is not calculated within 2-3 feet after being struck.. it is calculated by covering the total distance and the time.. higher the speed. Lower the effect of deacceleration

[@omniyx7837]

except it doesnt have that much distance to travel especially if the smash is hit around mid court, hence why these fast smashes are almost never able to be returned

[@Michael-dx8qz]

Great video for 200 subs!!

[@HALOO_ANTON]

Amazing contet emily thank you

[@emily-driscoll]

Thank you!

[@shogrran]

Why badminton is the fastest racket sport?....because they slowed down table tennis for audiences to keep up

[@henrytienhung9023]

what the fuck?

[@xyzcv5]

Uhm, what casual player can swing the racket as fast as an expert player? I was an expert player over ten years ago, only playing casual now and I consider myself quite high level for casual, with an especially strong smash (one of the things that just never really rusts). But my racket swing compared to players in training is not even close. Consequently their smashes are much stronger than mine.

[@emmawagner8915]

That’s true in all the sports though

[@whoops7025]

They are wrong. No experts in this video.

[@gillybeann]

That's one fast birdy!

[@vishaltripathy3620]

how does table tennis compare to badminton?

[@nino88881]

IMO table tennis is harder to learn because of the spin.

[@matti853]

Ball itself is slower but u still have less reaction time. Tabletennis is the fastest 'return sport', idk how it's actually called in english.

[@irtiza4262]

Speed is debatable, but table tennis is way more complicated than any other sports I know It has far more dynamics just because of the spin I play both table tennis and badminton Even though badminton is a fast sport, for some reason, I find it easier to play and return a very fast shot I cannot block that well in table tennis, I guess its the spin but still

[@z.ace.44]

hhmm... probably it should be the "quickest" rather than "Fastest" because in my mind I consider Quick = Acceleration. But hey... thats just my opinion :D Great vid btw

[@whoops7025]

It is the velocity that is the highest in badminton. Not acceleration.

[@mtube620]

badminton is NOT a simple sport. pickleball is the easiest for beginner in racquet sport: then ping pong then squash and tennis then badminton

[@irtiza4262]

Ping pong isnt that hard because it uses sandpaper bats that dont have spin Table tennis is more complicated than any other sport I know because of the spin, the rubbers and blade also come with different characteristics, it has more dynamics than any other sport Also, yes, ping pong is different to table tennis, if you dont know, you can search ping pong championships 2020, it's different to table tennis championships

[@mtube620]

@@irtiza4262 ping pong/table tennis is hardly a sport, more closer to billard, air hockey. I don't see table tennis pros get sweaty or limp suffer injury. Go see paris olympic, women singles badminton gold medalist's leg is strapped with tape, a spanish player had to forfeit the match due to injury. court mat get mopped due to sweat dripping. Ping pong/table tennis is nothing more than a game of deflection, a reflex action game, and a paddle could make or break a player's performance LOL.

[@irtiza4262]

@@mtube620 ping pong and tt are two different things Ping pong is played with sandpaper bats that have almost no spin While tt is played with sophisticated bats with different types of blades and rubbers Ping pong is the casual sport that your comment describes, no table tennis If you've Table tennis matches you'd see that pro tt player gets foot and knee injuries very often, and they sometimes even cut their hand from the table's edge Ma long had to get many frequent surgeries for his knee so that it could be in shape for his future career These knee and leg injuries occur because of the immense footwork that takes place in tt But anyways, since when did injuries become the basis for telling if a sport is real or not?

[@user-it3gp4vm1z]

10 hours of tennis😅 vs 30 minutes of badminton💀

[@unix11ai83]

I played badminton for 3 hours (I'm from Malaysia)

[@Badmintongirl94]

interesting video!!!

[@emily-driscoll]

Thank you!

[@user-rl2gp5ge5k]

Im actually quite suprised that badminton is the fastest sport i first thought the fastest sport was table tennis bc of the speeds of balls reaching about 100-200+ of speed

[@whoops7025]

It is possible to throw a ball with the arm above 150km/h so yeah, 100-200 isn't very fast. Try shooting a table tennis ball with a badminton racket

[@marckronemeyer8001]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="207">3:27</a> that racket is bending

[@NetMaestro2009]

What about squash?

[@goonhoongtatt1883]

Tennis looks like a bore once you get to know badminton.

[@baconstopsultimateusers]

It’s the fastest for a reason, you can’t your eyes of the shuttlecock for a second or it’s on the ground along with your career

[@impravinunofficial]

Nice video ❤

[@emily-driscoll]

Thanks for watching!

[@malachirmoodie6067]

Table Tennis?

[@JovenAlbarida]

For me its Pingpong is the fastest sport with raket

[@Puffa_RLSS]

Badminton is the fastest paced sport but i still find tennis harder. Badminton’s shuttlecock slows down so much

[@JacobHuang-rl9jj]

ping pong

[@alphaca3541]

it depends who u play against, if the opponent is decent u would feel the speed. at pro levels badminton has higher skill ceiling. however tennis is physically more demanding and longer rallies. Beginner level tennis is harder but at pro levels both are equally challenging in different areas and ofc your opponent

[@irtiza4262]

​@@JacobHuang-rl9jjping pong and table tennis are two different sports using similar rules, ping pong uses sandpaper bats which makes it easy because there is almost no spins, meanwhile table tennis has rubbers which means it has way more spin and deception and generally it is way harder, i found it requiring quicker reaction times than even badminton

[@JacobHuang-rl9jj]

@@irtiza4262 I know that but generally I use ping pong and table tennis synonymously

[@fakeaccount6230]

Most unforgiving sport and injury prone at elite competition levels compared to other sports

[@Anonyme-zp7vj]

That is wrong. Look at american football or gymnastics or ...

[@nahometesfay1112]

You gonna need some citations for that

[@Alex-ii9sp]

Very cool emily

[@recalledsauce3955]

Table tennis has left the chat

[@cameron.denham]

Yes, because it has a far slower top speed

[@moonlightyegui6904]

What does the top speed matter if the ball slows down to 50kmph before it reaches you

[@irtiza4262]

​@@cameron.denhamit has a slower travel speed but the size of the table is also small, and I would argue that it requires better reaction time than badminton because it has a whole other dimension of spin that can deceive us I play both badminton and table tennis, and while I play TT at a way higher level than badminton, I found returning fast badminton smashes much easier than returning table tennis smashes and loops because in table tennis, the spin can very easily deceive the opponent while in badminton I just have to think about reaching the shuttle and hitting it or even touching it

[@samarthbagwe1736]

Indian badminton player Satwiksairaj reddy hit the fastest Badminton shot At Over 594kmph

[@yasserpalantig1169]

565 km/hr

[@blazer9547]

Fake😂

[@yasserpalantig1169]

@@blazer9547 search it.

[@yasserpalantig1169]

@@blazer9547 search it.

[@tsb7768]

​@@blazer9547Go search it Big boy

[@chitung2277]

Reminds me, I am certain re the yonnex world record smash speed, the shuttles are slightly rigged. At least the small trick with folding the tips.

[@piyapolphetmunee3879]

No. Yonex measures the shuttle speed just right after the point of impact.

[@devil01942]

nope, if you watch the video shuttlecocks slow down after being hit, so the earlier you can measure it, the higher maximum speed you get that's why smash speeds recorded in actual matches aren't as quick

[@djhappy2_040]

Ping pong is kinda fast to

[@Fanwithuke1324]

americans don’t even play it

[@Blue4Notes]

volleyball seems faster but it isn't (115km/h by US spikers *olympics 2024*)

[@sibeisun5272]

This is why the US should welcome Chinese scientists! How else would we know the optimal technique to smash a shuttlecock?

[@blazer9547]

That's why china wants to annex Taiwan to steal scientists

[@Harlock97]

I have practiced badminton and table tennis for several years, the latter is a thousand times "faster". Two beautiful and very difficult sports for sure

[@Anonyme-zp7vj]

its not faster, the distance is shorter.

[@irtiza4262]

it has a slower travel speed but the size of the table is also small, and I would argue that it requires better reaction time than badminton because it has a whole other dimension of spin that can deceive us I play both badminton and table tennis, and while I play TT at a way higher level than badminton, I found returning fast badminton smashes much easier than returning table tennis smashes and loops because in table tennis, the spin can very easily deceive the opponent while in badminton I just have to think about reaching the shuttle and hitting it or even touching it​@@Anonyme-zp7vj

[@shreyasraj2740]

​@@Anonyme-zp7vj your mum is faster

[@cabigtingjonaline9552]

I just checked the like section i saw 911 likes 💀

[@syedhamza2584]

Em o'driscoll

[@gr4j0m3r]

And yet American's badminton example is the weakest players in the world.

[@omniyx7837]

Most good american badminton players are asian anyway. I'm canadian and badminton tryouts were 99% asian

[@Cguy-bj8uc]

I genuinely have never seen a non asian american player at the pro level... or any casual above average american player like EVER. It's almost as rare as finding as a Mewtwo in real life

[@raahat_raaga]

USA prefers pickleball😂

[@grapefruitsyrup8185]

Both are easy one dimensional sports anyways.

[@raahat_raaga]

@@grapefruitsyrup8185 have you played badminton?

[@grapefruitsyrup8185]

@@raahat_raaga yes, and at the pro level

[@grapefruitsyrup8185]

@@raahat_raaga look at my other comments here.

[@raahat_raaga]

@@grapefruitsyrup8185 no pro will say that about an intense game.

[@AshutoshShelkeP]

Table Tennis is the fastest

[@user-yd3lt9tj1z]

🧢

[@KenGi973]

who cares?

[@kaiji2542]

If you dont like this video, why are you here?

[@grapefruitsyrup8185]

As someone used to be playing pro badminton, 1. The shuttercock decelerate insanely fast to the point where its so easy to return a Badminton smash than let say a Tennis smash. The receiving speed of the shuttercock is actually very slow. 2. The reason i lost interests in the game is because of how boring Badminton is. The room for strategy is miniscule and the amount of skills and techniques needed is at the minimum. This is why this is such a low barrier of entry sport and every old or unathletic person can easily play and be decently good at it. Just like how easy pickleball as a sport is, this is unlike sophisticated sports like Tennis where mentality, strategy and techniques plays a much much bigger role. Even Badminton drop shots or smash or direction hits can be easily countered with basic level of game awareness and training. Especially because of how small the court is and how extremely basic the hitting mechanics is. Meanwhile, just a Tennis serve alone would take people multiple years to perfect it and most still failed, Badminton? Just hit the shuttercock, there's literally no comparison. I felt like I've completed Badminton after easily winning, figured everything out, realised how simple it is and completely lost interest in the game.

[@omniyx7837]

There is so much room for strategy lol, you are clearly larping and are not a "pro player who completed badminton". I would ask if you can beat viktor axelsen or LZJ but in reality i would easily destroy you

[@Cguy-bj8uc]

"Completed" badminton? No you haven't, are you THE Lin Dan?? You claim you play in the Singapore national team and is "easily winning". Are you suggesting that you have trimph over players like Loh Kean Yew from Singapore? If so, why are you not representing your country?

[@stealthninja111]

Ping Pong is faster.

[@BlackFighter_95]

No. Simply no. I know both sports quite well. When playing the ball slowly close to the net with ping pong, this leads to a very intense and fast game, because the duration is short. The ball is however slow during such a game. During smashes, the shuttle in Badminton is much faster and also the duration of the ball until it reaches the oposing player is shorter than in ping pong (unless in awkward situations).

[@moonlightyegui6904]

A faster game IS a faster sport. The speed of sports isn't measured simply by the speed of the object the exact instant you hit it, because there are more factors to it

[@irtiza4262]

​@@BlackFighter_95it has a slower travel speed but the size of the table is also small, and I would argue that it requires better reaction time than badminton because it has a whole other dimension of spin that can deceive us I play both badminton and table tennis, and while I play TT at a way higher level than badminton, I found returning fast badminton smashes much easier than returning table tennis smashes and loops because in table tennis, the spin can very easily deceive the opponent while in badminton I just have to think about reaching the shuttle and hitting it or even touching it

[@rjari8578]

Badminton is the easiest sport to start , you just have to hit the suttle with the racket, there is no spin, drift, But its the hardest and the most physical sport to master

[@emily-driscoll]

Yes! That makes it a great entry for the sport, but also makes people think it's an easy sport!

[@grapefruitsyrup8185]

​@@emily-driscoll it is factually an easy sport.

[@irtiza4262]

it has a slower travel speed but the size of the table is also small, and I would argue that it requires better reaction time than badminton because it has a whole other dimension of spin that can deceive us I play both badminton and table tennis, and while I play TT at a way higher level than badminton, I found returning fast badminton smashes much easier than returning table tennis smashes and loops because in table tennis, the spin can very easily deceive the opponent while in badminton I just have to think about reaching the shuttle and hitting it or even touching it

[@shreyasraj2740]

​@@grapefruitsyrup8185 your mum is easy to ride on me

[@lordumas]

Should change feather to plastic

[@DarrenSaw]

Plastic shuttles are inferior in every way except durability.

[@lordumas]

@@DarrenSaw How?

[@DarrenSaw]

@@lordumas poor in flight stability, poor, dead feeling on the strings, trajectory is too flat as the skirt folds in flight. Plastics are ok for beginners though

[@lordumas]

@@DarrenSaw Stability goes out the window if your feathers get whacked. Feeling is subjective. You can get used to trajectory and feel. If you're so picky then you should use Yonex Mavis 2000 but I think you got a skill issue.

[@DarrenSaw]

@@lordumas Nobody plays seriously with plastics. Try playing a controlled spinning net shot with plastics. The only ones that come anywhere near feathers are Ashaway Birds, but they aren't as durable which is the main purpose of plastics and the flight and feel still isn't as good. Plastics remove the ability to play certain shots. Again they are fine for beginner and casual play but not for any higher level. Getting used to something doesn't mean you should.. I've played with every type of shuttle on sale and there is a reason high level players don't play with any of the Mavis shuttles. Maybe they'll design a decent one one day but for now they are not good enough.

[@mustamuri]

✨🪶✨ 👶❤️

[@mathias3593]

I think table tennis is faster

[@omniyx7837]

Absolutely not lol

[@rosihantu1]

@@omniyx7837 it is. Its all about reaction time required

[@de_doc]

Lol

[@mathias3593]

@@omniyx7837 Why?

[@irtiza4262]

​@@omniyx7837it has a slower travel speed but the size of the table is also small, and I would argue that it requires better reaction time than badminton because it has a whole other dimension of spin that can deceive us I play both badminton and table tennis, and while I play TT at a way higher level than badminton, I found returning fast badminton smashes much easier than returning table tennis smashes and loops because in table tennis, the spin can very easily deceive the opponent while in badminton I just have to think about reaching the shuttle and hitting it or even touching it

[@vishnuprasaad1541]

man what about Table Tennis, Also one of the fastest racket sport

[@tomas8742]

like the sport but not really that fast badmintion speed is around 560km/h than tennis is 263 km/h and table tennis is at 116 km/h

[@vv_vigo1239]

@@tomas8742yes but table tennis is only a short distance and badminton is a further distance so badminton is not that much faster

[@tomas8742]

@@vv_vigo1239 true distance matter but ball speed is still different

[@EntrepreneurZone23]

Squash? ​@@tomas8742

[@bounce1603]

​@@vv_vigo1239say what again?yeah try to return 500km/h smash

[@arash2792]

Great video!

[@emily-driscoll]

Thanks for watching!