If You’re Going To Watch One Badminton Highlight In Your Lifetime, It Absolutely Positively Must Be This One

I’ll be the first one to say it, I’m not historically a badminton guy. Every time I’ve ever played badminton I’ve been too drunk to remember it. It is the ultimate backyard barbecue game but so is drinking until you can adequately socialize with your aunts. But evidently, some people choose to play this sport professionally and the sport’s peak performers actually make it look like poetry in motion. I haven’t had a back-and-forth that electric since I told a girl on Tinder I wrote for Buzzfeed.

The rally above featured Japan and Denmark in the Dubai World Superseries Final last month and has amassed over one million views, which I’d venture to guess is prettay prettay good for the badminton community. All eleven of them.

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Matt’s love of writing was born during a sixth grade assembly when it was announced that his essay titled “Why Drugs Are Bad” had taken first prize in D.A.R.E.’s grade-wide contest. The anti-drug people gave him a $50 savings bond for his brave contribution to crime-fighting, and upon the bond’s maturity 10 years later, he used it to buy his very first bag of marijuana.