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Though the origin of Taiwanese shuttleball was from traditional shuttleball, nowadays the former is quite different from the latter after being added a ball under the shuttle by Master Min-shou Li.

In the very beginning, shuttleball was in the same size as the traditional shuttlecock and without the ball underneath.  It started coming with a ball when turning to its second generation.  In its fourth generation, the shuttle and ball could be taken apart since we could change only the part where it was broken.  However, the shuttle had been changed to yellow from white in color and was not made by real feather anymore, and the ball was white in its fifth generation.  After the sixth generation, all shuttleballs are almost the same that their shuttles are purple and balls are yellow.  In a matter of fact, shuttleball has been developed to its tenth generation, nevertheless, the ball part is too big to kick in the tenth generation so people usually use its ninth edition only.

In the past, it was usually stuffed with cottons or foams inside the ball while it is made of plastics at present.  Both of them has a little hole in the ball part to allow the air come in.

(reference: http://www.wretch.cc/album/shuttletw)

 The milestones of Taiwan’s shuttleball

1. Shuttleball was introduced to the primary educational faculty in Taipei City in the occasion of a shuttleball teaching presentation in 1981.

2. Shuttleball was included into the referee and coach short-term training for folk sports in 1982.  Shuttleball the sport was hence had its own tournament. 3. Shuttleball was introduced in the opening ceremony of Secondary School Sports Meet in 1986.

4. Shuttleball has been re-designed to be endurable may times from July, 1977.

5. Taipei Sports Office held a tour of folk sports in April, 1989.

6. We introduced Taiwan’s Shuttleball sport at the 22nd anniversary of World G.E. seminar in Austria in July, 1989

7. Wan-Huaw Junior High School was invited to present with a Takraw team from South Asia in Taiwan Area Sports Meet in 1989.

8. Youth Cup Tournament of Shuttleball was held by Taipei Shuttleball Committee in December, 1989.

9. Mayor Cup Tournament of Shuttleball was held by Taipei Sports Office in April, 1990

10. Shuttleball was listed as a new and developing event in the G.E. teachers’ seminar held by Education Division of government in May and June of 1990.

Resource: http://home.kimo.com.tw/wwww1030. Though the original page cannot be found directly now, it is still available on http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/ in Chinese language.