Gold Badminton Shuttlecocks

Good points:

Prompt delivery.

Good quality.

Easy online ordering.

Room for improvement:

The ordering system applies discount only on exactly 10 tubes. Any amount over and above 10 does not attract discount. To get discount for the second 10 lot, you need to start another fresh order. Do not understand the business rationale of this. Is this a programming bug?

The gold shuttles from Volant certainly do the job. You can have intermediate to advanced games using these shuttles, and they should be able to last one game, especially if you steam them properly beforehand. But some things we noticed when playing with these shuttles compared to Aeroplane Black shuttles (which is our preferred shuttle): 1. we noticed that they start off fast, but slow down a lot quicker than aeroplanes, because of this, it's hard for us to know if we need 76 or 77 speed. Whereas aeroplane black usually we get 78 and the speed is mostly consistent until the very end when the shuttles dies, 2. They don't seem to ruffle as quickly or as much as aeroplane blacks, which is a good thing, 3. They don't have the same satisfying hitting feeling as aeroplane blacks. Best way to describe it is that it feels like less 'impact' and less 'feedback' from a hit. We figured that it must be something to do with the cork.

Overall it is a decent enough shuttle that does the job. There are better shuttles out there, and we do believe it is not as good as the aeroplane black shuttle that is most popular in Melbourne badminton. Price wise though, with any discounts we might get from Volant, it is an okay substitute so long as the gold shuttles work out to cheaper than aeroplane black. But this depends how much you can get aeroplane blacks for and what discount codes you might be able to use with Volant.