Darren, what was the outcome ?

Lately I see more and more Viktor Queen shuttles in competition. Don't know about others, but I find them rubbish. They are ok for drives and dab's, but as soon as they go through the air for a clear, they stop halfway. At that point I would love plastic ! A proper yonex, I can hit from baseline to baseline. If I play Viktor, I avoid clears as much as possible. Or they are old shuttles ? How to tell ?

Cheers, ED

That's a good idea to get some plastic shuttles to have some games on a club night before a match, would help a lot, I can see that working (and the same if a club uses plastics got some feather shuttles to practice with).

In the league that I play in, all the clubs use feathers and I think it is written in the rules, but each league has their own rules and whilst you could bring it up at the next AGM for feathers to be used by everyone, I can't see it getting sanctioned as times are hard and money is hard to come by. Shuttles are a very difficult thing to maintain and can easily cost the club more than they have and we have had quite a few teams disappear over the years so whilst I can see you annoyance of using plastics, at least you have clubs to play against! After all, at the end of the day, it's a bit of fun (serious fun mind ) so playing is better than not.

At least you will be better prepared for the next time plastic shuttles are used, good luck!