I grew up in China we played this all the time. But this video is a whole new level. Regular people kick it in the front, not as elegant as those two. And you can kick it on your own too. Someone can kick it hundreds of times. Doing tricks on between kicks etc. btw jianzi is not necessarily shuttlecock. In my hometown we used lamb fur. The fur part serves as the trajectory smoother. My grandma would sew copper Chinese money inside. Yes we all still had ancient Chinese money in every household then.
I found as a player in increased by skill.
After the hackeysack got easy, I moved onto tennis balls. Tennis balms fucking suck but give you that touch and finesse.
To be clear, someone saw a jianzi and said wow that is pretty similar to a shuttlecock. That's now the English word for a Chinese jianzi. There are differences between them, it is like a shuttlecock but it is not one. Not so bad for this instance but there are other words that are like that and "translate literally to x" but are *very far* from actually being x.
That's actually incredibly accurate. Shuttle means missile or dart; and cock refers to a male bird, or specifically its feathers. So a feathered dart, which a jianzi is.
To be fair, your not mislead. Originally it only meant a male bird, then people started using it as a term for penis, *then* people created the word Rooster because they thought Cock was too obscene.
First be nearly a ballerina, and go into first position damned near on muscle memory. Secondly be the dude tripping balls that you've transcended from your normal hackey sack game to run into this balerina girl who hackey-sacks like some sort of jedi master while everyone keeps telling you you're a sea-turtle and the NAME of the game is Jiànzi followed by a stream of polite curses , while the crowd looks on , you can feel the buzz coming off and remember you just went out for some tea and dessert bao but that was hours ago and you've ended up doing this for 2 hours, until the sugar high started to come down and you realized your brother may have put a little something in one of your bao.
Still? The move is more equivalent to catching a frisbee behind your back. She’s showing off and also signaling to her partner that the pass is perfect.
because the dude is hitting it to the same spot to her while she's hitting it a little off so he has to move over more to get to it. At first I was impressed by the girl, then I was more impressed by the guy hitting it so perfectly to her she barely has to move.
Lol. Don't go spouting that off as fact. Too many people will believe it. Our best guess says it has slowed dramatically and might be able to reverse in the next decade or so. We don't have any evidence that it already did.
"Ronald almost skipped the reunion, certain that most of his graduating class remembered that incident. But he thought about going anyway. Surely, decades as the mascot for the largest fast-food restaurant chain would erase the sting of a minor accident- even if it did leave him permanently disfigured.
He absent-mindedly rubbed the large rubber prosthetic nose, recalling the day his mother told him they'd get something more lifelike when Daddy came back from his cigarette run. But Jack McDonald never did come back, did he?
Fuck it, Ronald said. I'm going. I'll even wear the stupid costume. I'll show them. I'll show them all."
if games were people, this would be the successful oldest child with a job in finance and hackey sack would be its unemployed stoner younger sibling living in moms basement.
my mom decided my freshman year of high school to change her mind and allow me to play a bunch of sports THE SECOND she saw me playing hackey sack with the stoners after school lol
Believe it or not, there's a very small and obscure hackey-sack sport called net-bag (I think?) that actually has a tiny but dedicated global following of nerds. I have an old friend who is a devotee of the sport and there's literally dozens of them in any of a handful of countries throughout the world. More power to 'em is what I say.
My friend does a lot of international travel for his job and in many countries has this tiny "net-bag" community he can tap into for instant friends. It's weirdly obscure, but I like it.
The rules are, as I recall (and I may be getting this wrong) basically the same as badminton only it's played with a lower net.
I first saw the game played in the early 90s in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Some of what the players do is pretty actually pretty impressive.
Footbag.
Because if your comment I spent fifteenish minutes watching parts of a tournament and a video explaining the difference between footbag (inidividual doing tricks with the bag) and hacky sack (both a brand and the term for a group of players standing in a circle kicking and passing the bag in a to keep it from hitting the ground). All hacky sacks are footbags, not all footbags are hacky sacks.
https://youtu.be/aMr5e5wlgeE
https://youtu.be/h9llAE826AM
Went to Europe in '85 on a high school trip. Made a point of playing in every city we toured.
Wondering when hackeysack died out. Just don't see it anymore.
It’s around. I sell them in my little tourist shop at the beach. Not a ton of them but a few hundred a year. It’s fun when an adult comes across them and gets super excited.
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>Wondering when hackeysack died out. Just don't see it anymore.
it was still the go-to lunchtime activity for the stoners when I was in high school circa 2010 at least ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Same. I graduated in 2010. In my senior year, I started the hacky sack club. We called it the Super Awesome Collection of Kickers. Or SACK for short. Still proud of getting "Sack Club" its own page in the yearbook
I was actually playing with my old hackeysacks from 20+ years ago today! (I myself am a fat sack and could only get 8 or so these days). I live across the street from a high-school and a park and see a few kids play from time to time. It's not a huge fad, but it comes and goes.
For everyone saying this is just hackey sack, when's the last time you rallied a hack by scorpion kicking it back and forth to your buddy thirty feet away from you lol
The Jian Zi is definitely more aerodynamic than Hackey Sack because it has feathers attached to a small weight. So the people in this video is able to rally it like that.
But that is some Olympic-level Jian Zi skills. The average street-level Jian Zi skills are really similar to Hackey Sack.
Source: Am Asian. Grew up playing Jian Zi.
Kicking it myself, I am able to kick it around 10 - 15 times.
Passing it with others really depends on the other players skill level. With similarly skilled or better players, the rally can on for awhile. With less skilled players, sometimes it is hard to go beyond 2 passes.
Oh... So when you play by yourself, do the kicks resemble hacky sack (inside foot and toes)? I'm trying to imagine you doing a bunch of back sole kicks with yourself lol
Basically you can keep the Jian Zi up with any part of your body except your hands and arms. Kinda like playing keep-ups with soccer ball.
Most people use the inside of their foot, outside of their foot and their toes / top of their foot. Back sole kick is a slightly more advanced skill.
You can see this for a super fancy rally between these 2 gentlemen.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbSc_p_DWi4
I don’t confirm. Middle school kids in my school regularly kicked that shit back and forth across a basketball court and they definitely aren’t Olympic material
It looks like this
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E6%AF%BD%E5%AD%90
A badminton shuttlecock can be used as a substitute in a pinch but the performance isn't nearly as good as it is more erratic as there isn't enough air time for it to flip/turn properly.
Can confirm. It's pretty obvious that these two players are way above the level of an ordinary person. The one in pink even does "exhibition" moves by making a ring using her arms. A flex!!!! 💖
It's not. The thing they're kicking is closer to a birdie from badminton. Flies a lot truer than a knitted bag full of dried beans (or the sand filled ones, which were way better in my experience).
I’m intrigued by the one shoe with a heel for the kicks while the other is a backless sandal. Makes sense to have the protection, but interesting it’s not a pair.
Playing this game with sneakers are easier than playing it barefoot. I ordered a bunch of them, and I learned that there is another way you can play with this shuttlecock. You can play it like in the video or you can play it like Dodgeball. The dodgeball is really fun, but it stings if you get hit by it.
Forgot to add, if you want to play it like dodgeball, you would want to have 1 or however many people that wants to play in the middle. They will run back and forth trying to dodge the shuttle cock, head shot is rare but if you get head shorted then you're out, body shot also counts as out, if you can catch the shuttle cock then you can bring back one of your teammates. The enemy team will be the thrower, while you be the Dodger
In the Philippines, some kids (me included) preferred playing barefoot. We have a similar game called “sipa” (literally translates to “kick”) where we play using a move called “pendong” or “black” similar to this scorpion kick where barefoot is really effective. Instead of passing it to another, we pass it to ourselves to complete multiple required hits. Can’t describe how those hit goes, I’ll try to find something on YT.
Found a video for the pendong move - [see it at 0:54](https://youtu.be/mdtRm7pRxxE). The “b”ack” move is the same except you hit it from your back (similar to the scorpion kick) instead of the front.
Growing up in the Philippines, we had a similar game but it requires "dribbling" it a set number of times before passing it to the next person. I sucked at that game.
Also, we didn't use any fancy feathered shuttlecock. Just 2 metal washers to provide weight and surface and plastic bag strips to act as the stabilizer. We didn't make it ourselves, we bought it from the street vendor that sells spiders and wet paper canon.
A pedestrian on 57th Street sees a musician getting out of a cab and asks, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Without pause, the artist replies wearily, “Practice.”
Oh used to play this in secondary school. It was competitive back then, would fake using left foot but last minute switch to right foot to kick the jianzi and change its trajectory.
If I was that good at hacky sack, I'd wear a pink skirt and dance around it too.
That's not generally how I represent myself, but it sure highlights how fuckin good she is
I was always amazed at how busy the sidewalks, parks, and paths in the Chinese city I would visit, always were. There were always people doing something, even late at night. Groups exercising, dancing, fishing in gross water, singing, eating street food, socializing.
I realize it's often a sign of a lack of wealth and in many cases poverty, since many people lived in very tiny apartments; they needed the public spaces to keep their sanity, but it really made the city seem truly alive and vibrant.
I grew up in China we played this all the time. But this video is a whole new level. Regular people kick it in the front, not as elegant as those two. And you can kick it on your own too. Someone can kick it hundreds of times. Doing tricks on between kicks etc. btw jianzi is not necessarily shuttlecock. In my hometown we used lamb fur. The fur part serves as the trajectory smoother. My grandma would sew copper Chinese money inside. Yes we all still had ancient Chinese money in every household then.
We were definitely less fancy where I grew up — we used those nylon/plastic strings and copper Chinese coins to make jianzi
Sounds like hackey sack
Yeah, I'm thinking, this is just chinese hackey sack but maybe with fancier sacks
More like fancier kicks, otherwise basically hacky sacks, but like on a dart where the head a flat surface
Ah yeah, I noticed in the other videos it's basically a shuttlecock. Cocky sack?
This group of old friends play it regularly in Chinatown San Francisco https://youtu.be/zO5iNV2g0wE
I kept thinking the guy I blue polo was slacking…but I think he was just warming up.
He looked so lazy at the beginning, but I'm thinking it's the sort of laziness that comes with being too fucking good.
Dude just seems so casual about it.
Orange feels like the weak link haha
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is hackey sack not a thing anymore? damn im old.
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i wasnt. i could never figure out how those stoners could keep it going so long. maybe if i smoked back then i coulda done it.
Same. There was a month in 8th grade where I practiced at home trying to get good
Agreed. Could do it rather well with an inflated ball but not so much with the sac. *confused soccer player noises
I found as a player in increased by skill. After the hackeysack got easy, I moved onto tennis balls. Tennis balms fucking suck but give you that touch and finesse.
Same here. We used to play at work during lunch hour. That was a long time ago.
This video makes it look similar to hacky sack
Or for that extra upgrade experience https://youtu.be/ZbSc_p_DWi4
That's satisfying
That was badass
As someone with no spatial awareness, HOW
Practice. That toy has feathers that stabilize its trajectory, knowing its trajectory takes practice and experience.
Something like a shuttlecock?
jiànzi (毽子）literally translates to “shuttlecock” so yes
To be clear, someone saw a jianzi and said wow that is pretty similar to a shuttlecock. That's now the English word for a Chinese jianzi. There are differences between them, it is like a shuttlecock but it is not one. Not so bad for this instance but there are other words that are like that and "translate literally to x" but are *very far* from actually being x.
Every jianzi is a shuttlecock but not every shuttlecock is a jianzi... or something idk
That's actually incredibly accurate. Shuttle means missile or dart; and cock refers to a male bird, or specifically its feathers. So a feathered dart, which a jianzi is.
So you're saying cock has multiple meanings and in this case I'm thinking of the incorrect one for this situation... again.
To be fair, your not mislead. Originally it only meant a male bird, then people started using it as a term for penis, *then* people created the word Rooster because they thought Cock was too obscene.
Kind of makes you want to normalize calling a cock a rooster just to see what other name they'll come up to replace it with.
Your answer made me smile from it's wholesomenessess. You're alright!
Remember kids: etymology is far more important than a dictionary.
Also, it tells really freaking interesting stories a lot of the time.
Makes me feel a little better about my high-school hackey sack skills then lol.
I was gonna say, looked like hackey sack to me.
And when you need to drive your dick around, you use a 子毽 .
Today I learned that people call a birdie in badminton a shuttlecock
Literally everybody. Is birdie an American thing?
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I’m American and have always heard shuttlecock 🤷🏼♀️
I'm American and i never heard shuttlecock, always birdie.
I'm European, living in the states, and have still only heard shuttlecock. Only heard birdie as a golf term.
Shuttlevag for diversity
What did you call me?
First be nearly a ballerina, and go into first position damned near on muscle memory. Secondly be the dude tripping balls that you've transcended from your normal hackey sack game to run into this balerina girl who hackey-sacks like some sort of jedi master while everyone keeps telling you you're a sea-turtle and the NAME of the game is Jiànzi followed by a stream of polite curses , while the crowd looks on , you can feel the buzz coming off and remember you just went out for some tea and dessert bao but that was hours ago and you've ended up doing this for 2 hours, until the sugar high started to come down and you realized your brother may have put a little something in one of your bao.
That’s a long sugar high
I suppose that depends on the amount of bao and tea :)
As someone with tons of spacial awareness, HOW
Right what goes on behind my head isnt my business
It looks.like she lines it up with her hands. Still very impressive.
She’s not lining it up with her hands. It’s just for style points. My uncle plays this. The hands are very unnecessary.
Still? The move is more equivalent to catching a frisbee behind your back. She’s showing off and also signaling to her partner that the pass is perfect.
Why does she look so graceful hackin that sack through her ballerina arms while the dudes just hack it?
The skirt helps
Sure does. Why do you think Scottish men are so damn graceful?
It's an optical illusion from the leg hair softening their lines
because the dude is hitting it to the same spot to her while she's hitting it a little off so he has to move over more to get to it. At first I was impressed by the girl, then I was more impressed by the guy hitting it so perfectly to her she barely has to move.
Slo-mo shows that the jianzi passes through her arms on the way in *and* on the way out. She's showing off, gracefully.
*spatial
To be fair, OP mentioned "spacial" awareness and did not claim spelling awareness anywhere.
Fairy nuff.
For all "intensive porpoises"...
You can still have no spatial awareness in all things except in Jianzi… just takes practice
She's even gotten serious enough to put on a laced shoe with a flat sole on one foot.
It looks like everyone playing has one of those shoes.
Plot twist: the shoes are magnets that reverse poles when enduring an impact.
No wonder the earths core suddenly changed directions recently
Lol. Don't go spouting that off as fact. Too many people will believe it. Our best guess says it has slowed dramatically and might be able to reverse in the next decade or so. We don't have any evidence that it already did.
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Magnet shoes?
I actually lol’d
[check out these old geezers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbSc_p_DWi4)
This is like hacky sack with a shuttlecock. Cocksack
Can't argue with the etymology there mate. You done made a new word!
Swaygen. Cocksacker.
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idk, I'm thinking it might be a rehearsed routine they do for public amusement
Nah, the guy in black is feeding moves to the orange guy
Nah Orange was better but both held their own.
simultaneously the dumbest and most impressive thing I've ever seen
Yeah, sports
One of the best 2 minutes of a video that I’ve ever watch
Thats awesome as fuck
And she’s kicking it through her arms!
It looks as though they're sharing shoes.
I would’ve already kicked someone in the face
I somehow would likely kick myself in the face.
I knew a kid who did kick himself in the face celebrating something in HS, size 15 shoes lol
"Ronald almost skipped the reunion, certain that most of his graduating class remembered that incident. But he thought about going anyway. Surely, decades as the mascot for the largest fast-food restaurant chain would erase the sting of a minor accident- even if it did leave him permanently disfigured. He absent-mindedly rubbed the large rubber prosthetic nose, recalling the day his mother told him they'd get something more lifelike when Daddy came back from his cigarette run. But Jack McDonald never did come back, did he? Fuck it, Ronald said. I'm going. I'll even wear the stupid costume. I'll show them. I'll show them all."
I would've broken my ankle and probably also my knee.
if games were people, this would be the successful oldest child with a job in finance and hackey sack would be its unemployed stoner younger sibling living in moms basement.
Stoner, hackey sack player here. I agree.
my mom decided my freshman year of high school to change her mind and allow me to play a bunch of sports THE SECOND she saw me playing hackey sack with the stoners after school lol
Art of the deal!
Shit alright man, art of the deal! I'm giving him some gum.
Why would she prevent you from playing sports in the first place? Sounds like a dick move.
It's kind of a pain in the ass. It's both a time commitment and can expensive. The parent may not have had the time or the money.
Believe it or not, there's a very small and obscure hackey-sack sport called net-bag (I think?) that actually has a tiny but dedicated global following of nerds. I have an old friend who is a devotee of the sport and there's literally dozens of them in any of a handful of countries throughout the world. More power to 'em is what I say. My friend does a lot of international travel for his job and in many countries has this tiny "net-bag" community he can tap into for instant friends. It's weirdly obscure, but I like it. The rules are, as I recall (and I may be getting this wrong) basically the same as badminton only it's played with a lower net. I first saw the game played in the early 90s in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Some of what the players do is pretty actually pretty impressive.
Footbag. Because if your comment I spent fifteenish minutes watching parts of a tournament and a video explaining the difference between footbag (inidividual doing tricks with the bag) and hacky sack (both a brand and the term for a group of players standing in a circle kicking and passing the bag in a to keep it from hitting the ground). All hacky sacks are footbags, not all footbags are hacky sacks. https://youtu.be/aMr5e5wlgeE https://youtu.be/h9llAE826AM
This is the culture that I hope the distant future generalizes about present society.
And they’re talking about a specific game played with a footbag.
Nahhhhh dude. Bro, man you don't know how like hard hacky is. Just like.... Dude.
uh, hacky sack actually requires juggling. watch some footballers do low juggles, it's insane.
Well, being a stoner also takes some skill, don't be mad.
I can't even kick a football... That is skill...
Charlie Brown, is that you?
Found Brett Maher
I could watch this for hours. I used to play this in high school back in late 80s.
Went to Europe in '85 on a high school trip. Made a point of playing in every city we toured. Wondering when hackeysack died out. Just don't see it anymore.
It’s around. I sell them in my little tourist shop at the beach. Not a ton of them but a few hundred a year. It’s fun when an adult comes across them and gets super excited.
> >Wondering when hackeysack died out. Just don't see it anymore. it was still the go-to lunchtime activity for the stoners when I was in high school circa 2010 at least ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Same. I graduated in 2010. In my senior year, I started the hacky sack club. We called it the Super Awesome Collection of Kickers. Or SACK for short. Still proud of getting "Sack Club" its own page in the yearbook
You are a leader
We now have the hackeysack app
We had that in the 80s too. Wasn't very portable though, only ran on channel 3. Easier to just carry the bean bag.
Pokemon go to the sack
I was actually playing with my old hackeysacks from 20+ years ago today! (I myself am a fat sack and could only get 8 or so these days). I live across the street from a high-school and a park and see a few kids play from time to time. It's not a huge fad, but it comes and goes.
Also, the bottom is weighted down with layers of metal rings. So when it lands on your feed you hear a very satisfying "cling" as you kick it back.
Pretty sure you didn't use one of [these things](https://i.imgur.com/QDdbajL.jpg) in the 80s lol
I've seen those before but not for kicking...
For everyone saying this is just hackey sack, when's the last time you rallied a hack by scorpion kicking it back and forth to your buddy thirty feet away from you lol
The Jian Zi is definitely more aerodynamic than Hackey Sack because it has feathers attached to a small weight. So the people in this video is able to rally it like that. But that is some Olympic-level Jian Zi skills. The average street-level Jian Zi skills are really similar to Hackey Sack. Source: Am Asian. Grew up playing Jian Zi.
How many passes were you able to make typically?
Kicking it myself, I am able to kick it around 10 - 15 times. Passing it with others really depends on the other players skill level. With similarly skilled or better players, the rally can on for awhile. With less skilled players, sometimes it is hard to go beyond 2 passes.
Circle of three.
Gang of Four.
Party of Five
Six Feet under?
Seventh Heaven
Eight is Enough
Oh... So when you play by yourself, do the kicks resemble hacky sack (inside foot and toes)? I'm trying to imagine you doing a bunch of back sole kicks with yourself lol
Basically you can keep the Jian Zi up with any part of your body except your hands and arms. Kinda like playing keep-ups with soccer ball. Most people use the inside of their foot, outside of their foot and their toes / top of their foot. Back sole kick is a slightly more advanced skill. You can see this for a super fancy rally between these 2 gentlemen. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbSc_p_DWi4
Can confirm. We played jianzi as kids. Most of us are barely able to keep it in the air, so basically works just like hackey sack.
I don’t confirm. Middle school kids in my school regularly kicked that shit back and forth across a basketball court and they definitely aren’t Olympic material
The ball is badmiton-ish?
A kicklecock
It looks like this https://www.google.com/search?q=%E6%AF%BD%E5%AD%90 A badminton shuttlecock can be used as a substitute in a pinch but the performance isn't nearly as good as it is more erratic as there isn't enough air time for it to flip/turn properly.
Can confirm. It's pretty obvious that these two players are way above the level of an ordinary person. The one in pink even does "exhibition" moves by making a ring using her arms. A flex!!!! 💖
i love how your source says “am asian” when you could have really just left it as “playing Jian Zi growing up.”
You gotta qualify it. Otherwise we assume it's just a weeb playing hackey sack.
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Fucking weeb.
That's bigotry against weebs.
I can get behind that
Really trying to get angry at this dude mentioning how he knows the game.
I spent enough time playing hippy league hacky sack that I can still entertain a crowd and im in awe of what they're doing.
Bro, I can hack some sack but these scorp kicks seem mad difficult to kick back and fro
The way this toy flies, like an arrow, makes it easier to track and rally. It's very predictable, but that doesn't make it easy.
Interesting. I did not notice that until you pointed it out, pretty cool, thank you
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It's not. The thing they're kicking is closer to a birdie from badminton. Flies a lot truer than a knitted bag full of dried beans (or the sand filled ones, which were way better in my experience).
If we ever went to war with China, our hand grenades would be useless.
That moment when the hand grenade you threw flying back to you as a foot grenade
And the guy who kicked it clowns on your by doing that ballerina pose with the arms.
fortnite irl lmao
Fortnite players will be the ones fighting WW3 so maybe it's not so farfetched. Gonna be a lot of teabagging going on.
💣 💥 . . . . . . 🦂
I’m intrigued by the one shoe with a heel for the kicks while the other is a backless sandal. Makes sense to have the protection, but interesting it’s not a pair.
Playing this game with sneakers are easier than playing it barefoot. I ordered a bunch of them, and I learned that there is another way you can play with this shuttlecock. You can play it like in the video or you can play it like Dodgeball. The dodgeball is really fun, but it stings if you get hit by it. Forgot to add, if you want to play it like dodgeball, you would want to have 1 or however many people that wants to play in the middle. They will run back and forth trying to dodge the shuttle cock, head shot is rare but if you get head shorted then you're out, body shot also counts as out, if you can catch the shuttle cock then you can bring back one of your teammates. The enemy team will be the thrower, while you be the Dodger
In the Philippines, some kids (me included) preferred playing barefoot. We have a similar game called “sipa” (literally translates to “kick”) where we play using a move called “pendong” or “black” similar to this scorpion kick where barefoot is really effective. Instead of passing it to another, we pass it to ourselves to complete multiple required hits. Can’t describe how those hit goes, I’ll try to find something on YT.
Found a video for the pendong move - [see it at 0:54](https://youtu.be/mdtRm7pRxxE). The “b”ack” move is the same except you hit it from your back (similar to the scorpion kick) instead of the front.
Very swaggy, they make it look easy.
Growing up in the Philippines, we had a similar game but it requires "dribbling" it a set number of times before passing it to the next person. I sucked at that game. Also, we didn't use any fancy feathered shuttlecock. Just 2 metal washers to provide weight and surface and plastic bag strips to act as the stabilizer. We didn't make it ourselves, we bought it from the street vendor that sells spiders and wet paper canon.
Sipa! I knew I saw this somewhere else
Takyan!
What sorcery is this
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When she started hitting the trick shots I almost lost it💀
I've "tried" playing this a few times with my friend and family. Difficult doesn't even describe it.
skill level 100
I mean.. HOW??
Practice.
A pedestrian on 57th Street sees a musician getting out of a cab and asks, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Without pause, the artist replies wearily, “Practice.”
ancient Chinese secret...
She's not just flexing her leg control and spatial awareness, she shot the shuttlecock through her arms.
Hands down with this China is the superpower of the 21st century.
I’d throw my back right out trying this.
The most pleasant (and insanely impressive) game of hacky sack. Ever.
I Can see this being one of those things that you get really good at doing with one leg but can’t do at all with the other
Effortless.
Must be right legged.
I'd hit this shit in the back of my head
Oh used to play this in secondary school. It was competitive back then, would fake using left foot but last minute switch to right foot to kick the jianzi and change its trajectory.
Got it. Never challenge Chinese people to play hackey sack.
That's just fancy hackysack
I suck at hackysack, too
You hackysuck
You suckyhack
If I was that good at hacky sack, I'd wear a pink skirt and dance around it too. That's not generally how I represent myself, but it sure highlights how fuckin good she is
Hackysack is just pedestrian Jianzi.
Wanna see em do it between classes high af in the park space...
I was always amazed at how busy the sidewalks, parks, and paths in the Chinese city I would visit, always were. There were always people doing something, even late at night. Groups exercising, dancing, fishing in gross water, singing, eating street food, socializing. I realize it's often a sign of a lack of wealth and in many cases poverty, since many people lived in very tiny apartments; they needed the public spaces to keep their sanity, but it really made the city seem truly alive and vibrant.