Talk:Adidas Jabulani

Powerorange
I read this ball (Powerorange) in the 2010 catalog of Adidas. It is a special Jabulani for snow game with orange colour because of winter. Who has data about that ball? Hoising (talk) 12:24, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

NASA section
The section "NASA Confirms the Criticisms" cites an article that, if anything, goes against the criticisms. It says that older balls knuckle at lower speeds, and the ball designs are being made smoother. The wiki section that cites the article seems like a gross misinterpretation. Capefeather (talk) 02:54, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It was a mess with a deeply POV heading and omitting the important fact that all balls knuckle. I think I've fixed it. Ultimately, I don't think it's fair to say that the NASA study goes against the criticism entirely, but nor does it wholly support them. It just looks to me like a classic case of engineers making a new design that happens to put a natural effect into the worst possible area of occurance. See Millennium_Bridge_(London) as a similar problem in the field of resonance. GDallimore (Talk) 13:52, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Well that's why I said "if anything" :) Capefeather (talk) 00:13, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Surely what the problem is is that players had gotten used to compensating for the knuckling behaviour of old balls. The new ball knuckles in different ways, and so their old ways of compensating don't work as well any more. --86.138.29.96 (talk) 03:04, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Name derivation
The FIFA website has it wrong. Jabulani is a second-person plural imperative, not an infinitive, so it's not "to celebrate" - that's "ukujabula", it's "celebrate" (as directed at more than one person - if you want a single person to celebrate, you would say "Jabula"). I can't find a simple citation for this, but if you type "jabulani" into the search box at isizulu.net, you'll see:

jabulani [ʤaɓuˈla:ni] ← jabula + ni Imperative plural of -jabula (v/i.) be happy

which contradicts FIFA. --Slashme (talk) 21:02, 10 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Good find. Shows you can't trust marketing types - shame every single media outlet in the English-speaking world did. There's got to be some South African paper that picked up on this mistake! GDallimore (Talk) 21:40, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Jo'bulani
'The name and color were chosen as a tribute to Johannesburg, sometimes referred to as Jo’burg or the "City of Gold".' Sounds a little awkward because it incorrectly implies that Jo'burg means "City of Gold". Johannesburg is sometimes called Egoli, which means city of gold. Kentstander (talk) 03:58, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

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