THE traditional Chinese game of shuttlecock has never really caught on in Hong Kong as a popular sport - and we may be missing something good here.
In order to promote the game, and remind us that once upon a time it was a favourite recreation of generations past, the Urban Council has launched a series of shuttlecock promotion activities, which include demonstrations and competitions.
Some Young Post readers may have already seen a recent shuttlecock demonstration by elite players from the Guangzhou Shuttlecock Team, either on TV or during the team's visits to secondary schools.
The ace players made kicking shuttlecocks look more like an art than a sport.
Some of them staged moves that looked like kung fu stunts.
Recently the team, along with representatives from the Hong Kong Shuttlecock Association, showed a crowd at Hong Kong Park how to play the game as a match between two three-member teams.
A standard badminton court was used, with the net set lower than for badminton. Each team was allowed a maximum of four kicks of the shuttlecock before sending it over to the opposing team.