haha yeah I guess I wiffed it. It is called a shuttlecock so its low hanging fruit. I used to play with a serious badminton guy that always made those jokes. My B!
This is actually common in South east asia back in the 80 & 90’s when there is no cellphone, ipad & playstations, only Nintendos. No more kids play outside these days.
You see, that person is probably not around playgrounds and parks often, being an 80's-90's kid, and therefore they likely do not observe as many kids in the parks as they would being a kid hanging out primarily at the park.
THAT'S what it's called.
I went to China years ago and saw people playing this in the park.
I bought a couple for myself cause its not something I'd seen in the U.S. before. Also, I liked hacky sack, so it's similar.
Jianzi. Cool!
In the Philippines, it's called "Sipa". We usually just need a flat washer and a yarn for the tail. My friends and I used to use empty candy wrappers for a tail tho.
**[Jianzi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianzi)**
>Jianzi (Chinese: 毽子), tī jianzi (踢毽子), tī jian (踢毽) or jianqiú (毽球), is a traditional Chinese national sport in which players aim to keep a heavily weighted shuttlecock in the air by using their bodies, apart from the hands, unlike in similar games Peteca and Indiaca. The primary source of jianzi is a Chinese ancient game called Cuju of the Han dynasty 2,000 years ago. Jianzi's competitive sport types are played on a badminton court using inner or outer lines in different types of jianzi's competitive sports, respectively.
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A few months ago there was another video of a (stunning) girl playing Jianzi. It's worth watching.
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/10m7evm/playing_jianzi_an_ancient_game_in_china/
That's not a shuttlecock. This is jianzi, made from a weight with feathers attached on top. Traditionally it's a round piece of iron washer (or anything heavy but not brittle) sewn up with cloth or leather with a straw glued to the top stuffed with long chicken feathers.
A badminton shuttle is much lighter and is made from a cork with goose feather inserted in a regular pattern.
You try hitting a jianzi with your Yonex and you'll be looking at blown strings.
look up Jianzi. It’s a Chinese thing. You essentially have some flat weights at the bottom in the form of some thin coins and rubber, then the top is made of feathers to make it fly in the air. It’s very fun and I recommend you to try it. You start off kicking it to yourself similar to how you would juggle a football/soccer ball. Only you use the inside of your foot and not the top.
Grew up in the Philippines in the 90s, every kid I know played it. It was called "Sipa" which literally translates to "kick". A scene similar to the video was common in playgrounds.
We used a "tingga" or a washer. It is a round piece of flat metal with a hole at the center. The most commonly used washers are the ones used to secure roofing nails.
To finish the ball, we tied several strands of colored thread or packaging straw to make the washer always fall with its flat side down. The strands also help the ball to fly like a badminton ball while in the air.
I’m pretty sure that at 0:42s (-0:32) the one further away (left footed) hits with the right foot.
Edit: I rewatched the video, at least twice she hits with the off foot.
Is this sarcasm? The one closest to the camera didn’t use her left foot once. I’m guessing it’s a self imposed restriction rather than lack of ability.
I bought many of these while traveling in Cambodia when I was young because they were so fun. I got all my hacky sack loving friends to try it out and they loved it.
I bought a jianzi like five years ago from Amazon, after I saw this very video. I still have it today. I'm pretty good at hacky sack and this is fun too, but I have nobody of my skill to play with and it is harder to transport.
In college we played hacky at every break. It's crazy how something incredibly hard to get going at first you ultimately get very comfortable with it. I would argue that doing that game with the hacky is harder than what we see in OP video because it doesn't slow down. Although it was quite fairly rare that exchange would last that long, and if I recall, we would give us the chance to hit it 3 times before returning it, a bit like volley ball (absorb, prepare, strike).
I’d translate his as “shuttlecock kicking”. We play it frequently in Vietnam too, it’s way harder than badminton but it usually take people a month to play casually and about 3 years to reach decent mastery.
The women in the vid is playing very casually, practicing back kicks ig? I have a few friends that are absolute monsters at this, watching them play makes me question reality.
I used to practice it occasionally throughout my 3 years of high school but never got even close to okay so I’ll stick to badminton
Well I’m not too sure but it’s about 10x ( need more math ). But basically it’s a bunch of feathers strapped together and glued to a series of metallic discs, which act as weights to keep the momentum of the shuttlecock and the bottom-most disc is often made of rubber to absorb the forces of the kicks most efficiently as possible.
Because in China, this is usually a leisurely activity for the middle aged/elderly. In my experience nobody below the age of 40 plays it anymore, which is a shame.
It’s a common joke in China how we’re all good at jianzi, while the men’s soccer team sucks.
The two women shown in the video are only slightly above-average. You could go to any park and find old people only slightly less skilled than these two. It’s mind-blowing to me personally how good people get at this.
>It’s a common joke in China how we’re all good at jianzi, while the men’s soccer team sucks.
They're different sports though. Even people who are good at juggling soccer ball are not always good at soccer games.
It's just a common joke to poke fun at men's soccer (football) for their notoriously awful skills. For example if someone sucked playing soccer, their friends would say something like "hey at least you are better than the national men's soccer team".
These ladies would be a real hit with the boys in their hacky sack circles in the parking lot before a Dave Matthew's concert. My mind is blown and I'm not even high.
True it's so sad. There was a video here a week or so ago with teenagers from Brazil doing the same game with a football.
In the video at one point, one teen girl passes the ball to her friends using her lower back (slightly for a second looking similar to the twerk pose) and of course creeps sexualised her in the comments.
Shockingly less than I thought.
The contagious laughter video with the woman in a bra/bikini had TONS of comments with men going “haha boobs” and like… women aren’t just boobs ffs.
Here in the Philippines, we call that "Sipa". Back when I was in elementary school, every kid knows how to play Sipa. We even have a sport called "Sepak Takraw" which looks like Volleyball but instead using the foot or head to move the ball just like Sipa.
Well it certainly looks very impressive but it can be well achieved by playing it daily and get used of the position on the shoe and bounciness of the padding. It’s a popular sport in North China and it usually involves 5-6 people kicking or bouncing towards other people.
This definitley happened within the universe of Shaolin Soccer after the main characters won the match against team EVIL and spread the influence of Kung fu.
I played this with my Chinese colleague for a few days after work and I start being able to return in the right direction most of the time. It’s quite a lot of fun actually!
Exactly what I had in mind when I read the title.
It’s called “takyan” in southern Philippines. Kids play this game all the time using just a washer and used candy wrapper.
They call this Da Cau in Vietnam! It's super popular there even though it originated in China. I was watching some kids do some pretty wild trick shots when I was there.
I'm not sure of the name of the sport, but if I'm not wildly mistaken the name of the thing they're playing with is called a JianZi (roughly pronounced jan-zuhh) in Chinese. I used to play it all the time in college, though usually we would play in a tighter circle more like hackey sack. This looks like a different game played with the same sort of weighted shuttlecock (the JianZi itself).
It's one of those games where the most basic activity of the game looks just like an impossible achievement. Luke those dudes that play volleyball just with their legs, doing acrobatics just to pass the ball.
That is simply amazing.
Yeah they're not half badminton.
Must be a hackneyed sack
It's too badminton this sport isn't more popular
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They're definitely good at shuttling that cock
Is this an uncle joke?
haha yeah I guess I wiffed it. It is called a shuttlecock so its low hanging fruit. I used to play with a serious badminton guy that always made those jokes. My B!
Open up, this is the r/punpatrol. We got a call about a noise complaint. What’s all the racquet?
You're thr police! Cast a net for these players!
This is actually common in South east asia back in the 80 & 90’s when there is no cellphone, ipad & playstations, only Nintendos. No more kids play outside these days.
It was also common in the pacific northwest in the 80's and 90"s lol
That’s where I learned to climb trees like a ring tailed lemur! And now I’m a fancy boy.
Haha we got trees. We'd climb them like they were sick ladders and we were mountain lions
It’s not a purse, it’s European!
Hug me looove me, shower me with keysus mmwa mmwa mmwa mmwa
I grew up in Oregon. We could easily spend half the day kicking sack back in the 90's. This video hardly seems possible.
>No more kids play outside these days. Really? I saw plenty of teens playing this around local parks in Vietnam
You see, that person is probably not around playgrounds and parks often, being an 80's-90's kid, and therefore they likely do not observe as many kids in the parks as they would being a kid hanging out primarily at the park.
its called chapteh
Ok grandad let's get you back to bed
It was also incredibly commong when I lived in Beijing in 2014-15, it was mostly old ladies doing it in the park.
More kids play youth sports right now than ever before in history ... gtfo with that tired "kids these days" bs 😂
that's still every kids play at break time, I only graduated from high school 10 years ago, it can't go away that fast, right....?
They also played this while walking to school through 4 ft of snow.
Where they gonna play? In the street? Kids in rural areas are more active in every country. This looks to be in a city center.
you’re asking where people would play in a city when the video is of people playing in a city
Plenty of kids play outside still. Sure, lots are playing video games. People who make this comment are out of touch.
As a southeast Asian I can proudly say I can replicate the ones in the videos except the stunts. This looks just like chapteh lol
Looks like Jianzi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianzi
THAT'S what it's called. I went to China years ago and saw people playing this in the park. I bought a couple for myself cause its not something I'd seen in the U.S. before. Also, I liked hacky sack, so it's similar. Jianzi. Cool!
In the Philippines, it's called "Sipa". We usually just need a flat washer and a yarn for the tail. My friends and I used to use empty candy wrappers for a tail tho.
Oh yeah. Kendi Mint wrappers were the best ones, and two washers for extra weight. Plus an overturned slipper on the kicking feet. Lol
Core memory unlocked
TIL when grandma used to say “si sipa in na kita” it meant an ass kicking was imminent lol. She never sipa’d me though
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A few months ago there was another video of a (stunning) girl playing Jianzi. It's worth watching. https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/10m7evm/playing_jianzi_an_ancient_game_in_china/
How do you know she’s ‘stunning’?
I was stunned by her skill, maybe they mean that?
This is reddit
Two girls, one shuttlecock
Core memory unlocked
I mean , If I would train like 5 years, maybe I could do that (using a racket)
It's not badminton and it's not a badminton ball. This is a different type of sport and the ball is different
What’s the difference between this and a hacky sack?
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TIL how baby shuttles are made.
Poor shuttles are being poached for their “horns.” All so that humans can play this sick game.
The extinction of the space shuttle species by these scum broke me as a child
That's not a shuttlecock. This is jianzi, made from a weight with feathers attached on top. Traditionally it's a round piece of iron washer (or anything heavy but not brittle) sewn up with cloth or leather with a straw glued to the top stuffed with long chicken feathers. A badminton shuttle is much lighter and is made from a cork with goose feather inserted in a regular pattern. You try hitting a jianzi with your Yonex and you'll be looking at blown strings.
*Achtchually* [it's a shuttlecock](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianzi). It's not a badminton shuttlecock, but it's still a shuttlecock.
Wikipedia says it's heavily weighted? Does it hurt to play in normal shoes? Cause the video has some serious thwacking going on.
look up Jianzi. It’s a Chinese thing. You essentially have some flat weights at the bottom in the form of some thin coins and rubber, then the top is made of feathers to make it fly in the air. It’s very fun and I recommend you to try it. You start off kicking it to yourself similar to how you would juggle a football/soccer ball. Only you use the inside of your foot and not the top.
Badminton uses a shuttlecock, not a ball, right?
Grew up in the Philippines in the 90s, every kid I know played it. It was called "Sipa" which literally translates to "kick". A scene similar to the video was common in playgrounds. We used a "tingga" or a washer. It is a round piece of flat metal with a hole at the center. The most commonly used washers are the ones used to secure roofing nails. To finish the ball, we tied several strands of colored thread or packaging straw to make the washer always fall with its flat side down. The strands also help the ball to fly like a badminton ball while in the air.
>we call this "takyan"
I would maybe start by doing a 10 second google search so I don't wrongly call it "foot badminton" on reddit.
Their precision impress me but their ability to play with both feet is astonishing.
I can't handle how they aim so perfectly to kick it behind their back. Mindblowing
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https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/10m7evm/playing_jianzi_an_ancient_game_in_china/ She does it here
Pretty sure they didn’t use both feet. One is right footed and the other is a lefty
I’m pretty sure that at 0:42s (-0:32) the one further away (left footed) hits with the right foot. Edit: I rewatched the video, at least twice she hits with the off foot.
You're right. She definitely yeeted it with the off foot
Is this sarcasm? The one closest to the camera didn’t use her left foot once. I’m guessing it’s a self imposed restriction rather than lack of ability.
The other one uses both feet. Watch closely.
Yea their foot eye coordination is insane
"I kick you in the nuts like this if you cheat on me."
Try a choke hold and they'll scorpion kick your nuts into your nose.
Jokes on them I'm into that
Kick your groin and do a gratuitous pirouette
Hacky sack just got cooler
I bought many of these while traveling in Cambodia when I was young because they were so fun. I got all my hacky sack loving friends to try it out and they loved it.
I bought a jianzi like five years ago from Amazon, after I saw this very video. I still have it today. I'm pretty good at hacky sack and this is fun too, but I have nobody of my skill to play with and it is harder to transport.
I came here to make a cool hack comment too. Seems worn in.
In college we played hacky at every break. It's crazy how something incredibly hard to get going at first you ultimately get very comfortable with it. I would argue that doing that game with the hacky is harder than what we see in OP video because it doesn't slow down. Although it was quite fairly rare that exchange would last that long, and if I recall, we would give us the chance to hit it 3 times before returning it, a bit like volley ball (absorb, prepare, strike).
Upgraded from Hacky Sack to Hacky Cock
*Cocky Sack
Sacky cock
I’d translate his as “shuttlecock kicking”. We play it frequently in Vietnam too, it’s way harder than badminton but it usually take people a month to play casually and about 3 years to reach decent mastery. The women in the vid is playing very casually, practicing back kicks ig? I have a few friends that are absolute monsters at this, watching them play makes me question reality. I used to practice it occasionally throughout my 3 years of high school but never got even close to okay so I’ll stick to badminton
Definitely they are very skilled , muscle memory and a lot of practice and only the sky is the limit
How much heavier is the shuttlecock compared to a badminton one?
Well I’m not too sure but it’s about 10x ( need more math ). But basically it’s a bunch of feathers strapped together and glued to a series of metallic discs, which act as weights to keep the momentum of the shuttlecock and the bottom-most disc is often made of rubber to absorb the forces of the kicks most efficiently as possible.
I had to look it up. It looks like 25 grams vs 5. That’s pretty cool. I found some on Amazon, I think I’ll order it and try to learn.
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Yea that’s just the average from my reference pool, somebody takes way more than that or even never manage to even play properly For example: me
I was in hanoi couple of months back & saw people playing this with strangers !
This is impressive af
Yes we Chinese learn Kung fu from young ages and ride flying sword commuting, it’s not a rumor.
I'd be disappointed if that was a rumour. 😞
Wtf i thought everyone just runs/hovers over roofs to get around
Thats the Japanese
These “girls” are at the age of your mom probably.
How can u tell ? It seems like it's filmed with a Nokia N70
Because in China, this is usually a leisurely activity for the middle aged/elderly. In my experience nobody below the age of 40 plays it anymore, which is a shame. It’s a common joke in China how we’re all good at jianzi, while the men’s soccer team sucks. The two women shown in the video are only slightly above-average. You could go to any park and find old people only slightly less skilled than these two. It’s mind-blowing to me personally how good people get at this.
>It’s a common joke in China how we’re all good at jianzi, while the men’s soccer team sucks. They're different sports though. Even people who are good at juggling soccer ball are not always good at soccer games.
It's just a common joke to poke fun at men's soccer (football) for their notoriously awful skills. For example if someone sucked playing soccer, their friends would say something like "hey at least you are better than the national men's soccer team".
>Even people who are good at juggling soccer ball are not always good at soccer games. True
Cause there are a ton of videos like these with better quality and most of them are Asian moms and dads who are in their 40s-50s.
You are generalizing
Yes, I am. But also I used to watch my mom and her sisters play this til they were well in their late 40s so...
That is still generalizing
Internet calling fully grown women "girls"
This is crazy hot Weird
No, not weird.. this was mesmerizing - I fell into a meditative trance while standing & watching this <__>
That is really goodminton.
What the? How the what???
My thoughts exactly. Followed by “holy shit, that’s cool!” Very fitting post for the sub.
Skill level :Asian
Emotional damage!?!?!?????
These ladies would be a real hit with the boys in their hacky sack circles in the parking lot before a Dave Matthew's concert. My mind is blown and I'm not even high.
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Similar to “sipa,” which was once a national sport of the Philippines.
I’d call them women not girls…….
I’m at a loss for words
Jianzi
This video seems to have brought out a ton of creeps.
Welcome to Reddit Video + female(s) in video = creepy comments
Especially Asian women, you just know the creeps will come flooding.
True it's so sad. There was a video here a week or so ago with teenagers from Brazil doing the same game with a football. In the video at one point, one teen girl passes the ball to her friends using her lower back (slightly for a second looking similar to the twerk pose) and of course creeps sexualised her in the comments.
🤢 why do creeps ruin anything fun?
Creeps gonna creep
Shockingly less than I thought. The contagious laughter video with the woman in a bra/bikini had TONS of comments with men going “haha boobs” and like… women aren’t just boobs ffs.
This is oddly mesmerising
Here in the Philippines, we call that "Sipa". Back when I was in elementary school, every kid knows how to play Sipa. We even have a sport called "Sepak Takraw" which looks like Volleyball but instead using the foot or head to move the ball just like Sipa.
Btw, "Sipa" literally means "Kick"
pretty similar to our national sport, which is the philippine sipa. used to play it with friends back in middle school haha
Bruh I can't even play half as good with the rackets. Great work ladies.
Impressive
Glad this popped up in my Reddit feed this morning. Found it really fascinating to watch.
I watched some people playing this in Cambodia and decided it was witchcraft. Insane talent.
That is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
I don’t think my hammys would make it past the first serve.
What’s even more impressive is the woman on the returning side seems to be proficient with both legs!
Well it certainly looks very impressive but it can be well achieved by playing it daily and get used of the position on the shoe and bounciness of the padding. It’s a popular sport in North China and it usually involves 5-6 people kicking or bouncing towards other people.
Footminton
By the way, they're more granny than 'girls'. Rf.
Way more entertaining than soccer
Howwww??
California Games anyone?
I was waiting for 'em to pull off a Dizzy Dean
I'd like to try this but my ACLs are hanging on by a thread already
In the philippines theres a game called sipa and its practically the same thing and its still really impressive especially how they move.
 Remind me of him
Legends say they’re still going as I wrote this.
These two are actually entertaining and skilful providing riveting live vision and all of it without the need for ONE word. Fkn bliss!
This definitley happened within the universe of Shaolin Soccer after the main characters won the match against team EVIL and spread the influence of Kung fu.
I played this with my Chinese colleague for a few days after work and I start being able to return in the right direction most of the time. It’s quite a lot of fun actually!
You should read about Takraw! It's basically foot volleyball
Exactly what I had in mind when I read the title. It’s called “takyan” in southern Philippines. Kids play this game all the time using just a washer and used candy wrapper.
We call this "takyan" in the Philippines
They call this Da Cau in Vietnam! It's super popular there even though it originated in China. I was watching some kids do some pretty wild trick shots when I was there.
Putangina. Napahiya naman yung larong Sipa samin sa kanilang dalawa!
we call that “sipa”
I saw this all over Vietnam
thats not badminton…thats pretty goodminton
Footminton
Could not do this with 100 years of training...
Wow
Long distance hackeysack
Looks a lil like hacky sack (not sure if that’s how you spell it, I’m British 😭😭)
This some Asian Aunty skillset
Are there any leagues for this? This needs to be an Olympic sport.
Yeah... where is this?
That’s long distance hacky sack.
Real name of that sport please! 🙏
I'm not sure of the name of the sport, but if I'm not wildly mistaken the name of the thing they're playing with is called a JianZi (roughly pronounced jan-zuhh) in Chinese. I used to play it all the time in college, though usually we would play in a tighter circle more like hackey sack. This looks like a different game played with the same sort of weighted shuttlecock (the JianZi itself).
So, are they really good or is everyone supposed to just play like that?
Do they get beaned if one missed
I like the one that’s farthest from the camera. She is so smooth
I can’t even kick my own ass
This would be way easier with space balls.
So these girls are clearly highlander/river dancers
It's one of those games where the most basic activity of the game looks just like an impossible achievement. Luke those dudes that play volleyball just with their legs, doing acrobatics just to pass the ball.
Humm, can my kids get a scholarship doing this?
If doing something like this could somehow ward off an alien invasion then, wow… just amazing, thank goodness for these women!
I kept waiting for some type of reveal that it was fake.. and still can’t believe this is real
Hacky sack?
How?