A guide to jianzi, a Chinese game with a shuttlecock (but no racket) ... It can be played just about anywhere, at any time, and whether you are on your own, in a pair or part of a group.

Part of Physical Education Badminton. ... Rotate your body and step forward towards the shuttlecock with your racket leg, transferring your weight through the shot.

Badminton is a racket sport where two to four players hit a shuttlecock across a net. The shuttlecock is a shaped like a cone and made of overlapping feathers attached to a circular cork base ...

Outside its strongholds in Asia and parts of Europe, badminton is at best, little understood - at worst, written off as a pointless pastime. Tavita admits to once being both ignorant and dismissive.