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Fair points, but hand goes up and racket head goes zoom and I feel fucking *cool*.
It's no big deal, I'm 31 years old, high level play is out of reach. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Good to mention it. Being able to be familiar or practiced enough with using continental grip swings whenever you want or need to (such as better for a lot of net game, a must on serve, or slices on defense) , even for all types of shots as an option. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I’ve seen plenty of guys in their early 30’s who are dedicated get to 5.0 but they really really work at it | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
My take is that there was very few actual major advancements in racquet and string tech, and there wasn't a real advancement every few years. So a lot of new racquet hype each year over the years is often just marketing and I'd agree the very few advancements in general while it did add a bit of a boost, it's not a rea... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I am not talking about technically perfect pro level mechanics, I am talking about not arming the ball... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
The early/mid 2000s are the last racquets that had graphite in them. Everything has been frp since.
The materials are not precision materials that are used or sourced, as the produced racquets have significant variation in all specs and racquets die within 1-2 years of use now.
Take one of the early 2000 racquets or... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
To clarify for higher level play—is this saying it’s more difficult to play with one handed backhand vs developing the two hander more?
A one handed backhand slice is still utilized but should be using a 2hander to generate the power and topspin at the higher level?
Perhaps I made a mistake sorting through some of th... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Do the ball progression orange green yellow .. even usta says learn like a kid ! Start with a yellow belt before you break bricks, your reflexes are not fast enough to get the feel of the yellow ball as a 12 yo so why da F they better as adult ? They aren’t and it will take 10x as long to break bricks and the foot work... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
well, what I mean in precision is that the materials come from advancement in precision in industrial processes and manufacturing in general, and also the layering machines, using more modern chips and digital precision in the machines and tools since the mid 90's in general rather than just old analog to 8-bit chips a... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Yeah slice is great the problem is just using it all the time as a crutch. If you hit a one handed top spin backhand I think it’s easier to just fall back to using the slice as a crutch if you’re getting tight and the one hander is more easily over powered than the two handed | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Kinda' impossible for a kid who learned in the 80s, but slow-motion video and comparison with an exemplar. I'm not that talented, but I can at least mimic correct technique after an hour of reviewing video and making adjustments. And if you can mimic the mechanics, you can get pretty damn close to very good. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
I wish I learned from another or better instructor. He didn't bother to teach me good fundamentals with basically vague instructions. And I gave up tennis in my teens so I didn't bother to search for better instruction at the time. I had to learn from good videos on yt from a former pro, many years later to really begi... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Agree because this is what ultimately caused my shoulder pain and then my tennis elbow | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Thanks for this. I'm new and I've been focusing on technique but get anxiety about playing "too much", in fear of instilling bad habits without a teacher to help. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Potential injuries aside, I don't think even arming the ball is a huge issue if you're working on your strokes. And if you're not working on your strokes it's also not a problem because obviously you're fine with poor technique.
The point is, during match play you're not practicing your strokes. You're practicing matc... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
This is a lot different than other comments but why not:
When I was maybe 10 I had already been playing for two years. One day after a lesson my mom had asked me if would be interested in joining an academy, I said no. Simply because at the time no one had really told me how big tennis really was (i didn’t even start w... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
My pleasure! Actually, I think the worst thing you can do is practice. Poorly, that is. For example, you're hitting against a ball machine or a wall, but you're doing something wrong, if you have no video to show what you're doing wrong, or coach to tell you to stop and do it differently, you might spend months or year... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Well let’s just say that we appear to have a different understanding of what the words ‘completely’ and ‘biomechanics’ mean in this context. All good.👍 | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Haha.
I was forced to learn a one hander after I got “the elbow” in my non-dominant arm. I was an idiot and overdid it with bad technique and excessive ball machine usage. Rather than not play for months, I developed a one hander and now I use it almost exclusively. Not sure if it is comfort, or fear of more pain, bu... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Yeah who would’ve thought the human body could evolve so quickly | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Lessons with a good pro so you get the swing motion right. Took me almost 2 years to unlearn a swing that only took a year to learn. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-09-07 |
Continental has the most variety of shots which is super important for beginners. It’s not an intuitive grip, but once you’re comfortable it makes tennis much easier in the early tennis development. Topspin FH probably is the easiest to learn on. I have a great topspin FH and love off of that and blocked or slice backh... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-16-07 |
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Yeah it happens oftenly and shows how much mentality does. Getting good night sleep is important | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I slept like 8 hours in 5 days... im in that state where im observing that moment where u fall asleep.. cause u wanna sleep desperately. Im just accepting it now and happy with just a couple hours so i wont die. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I used to get only 4-5 hours of sleep before matches. Until i started meditating everyday. Now i get atleast 6-7 no problem | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
My beother bought this from a Japanese surplus but I'm not sure if they are just decal cracks or is the racquet already cracked. Any thoughts? | r/10s | post | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Cracks in paint veneer | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Thank you so much! Is this common for tennis racquets? | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Probably a Quality control failed racquet and that’s why it’s in a surplus store? | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Agreeing with Oc-Vag. I'm not sure if the Prince 03 white has been manufactured in recent years so even time, especially if these were stored in a warm environment, could contribute to paint shrinking/cracking | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I keep reading about tennis courts that get replaced by pickleball courts etc., but I think that it is a very specific issue in the US. I have not seen one pickleball court where I am from (Germany), as we mostly play on sand. So pickleball is definitely not taking over Germany at the moment.
So I would be interested ... | r/10s | post | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I’m in the UK - Pickleball is very new here and from what I’ve seen, not massively popular, but it is slowly being introduced | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I'm in the UK and the main issue is that I watched one video to find out what it was and now YT thinks all I want to watch is videos of people playing pickleball badly. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Never saw pickleball in the Netherlands, padel is booming tho. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Paddle seems to be getting bigger in the UK. At work, I'm the only person who plays tennis in the entire company but I can think of at least 10 people off the top of my head who play paddle | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Honestly I would rather see pickleball be popular than paddle. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Why, Tennis and Padel don't compete for court space the way Tennis and Pickleball do. Also Padel is much more interesting and dynamic than Pickleball. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
It's coming for you - it's already hit South Africa. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
It’s clearly not a global problem, only in the US. I live in Spain and padel has completely taken over here. Ive also traveled through Europe biggest cities and there seems to be padel courts everywhere.
Im also originally from LATAM, and padel is insanely big there. Literally everyone plays padel and courts everywher... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I always thought it didn't exist in Melbourne until my sporty friend's dad invited everyone to play lol. I didn't go though, so I have no idea how big the scene is and whether the pickle ball culture is the same as what's in the US.
But I don't think it's a "problem" because 99% of our tennis courts are run by clubs,... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
YouTube is heavy pushing pickleball content. I will always tell them not to recommend videos like this and block the channels when they pop up but there’s always more lol | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
In Brazil our "pickleball" is Beach tennis, but since the courts are so different, we are not at risk for now. Converting Clay to Sand is a one way trip and very costly. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Pickle ball has been making some appearances in Taiwan rn. But them pickle ball players here don’t seem to want to take over tennis courts and instead all go for indoor community centers and badminton courts, so it’s not really a problem for tennis players. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Why though? | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
The pickleball algorithm is absolutely insane. I cannot break free from it | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Padel is growing or maybe I should say coming back in Argentina. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Live in the Tampa area, have seen about 6 tennis courts get replaced by paddle. certainly not at near the same rate pickleball is replacing tennis courts in the area, but just something to take note of. I have played all three, a fair number of times, I definitely prefer tennis, then followed by pickleball and then pad... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Private clubs all across the US are converting some of their courts to pickleball, so don’t assume you’re immune. Without acquiring any real estate, a club can at least quadruple their court fees for a tennis court | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
To add, Pickleball is not an issue in the Netherlands for several reasons:
\* The sport is mainly played in clubs and not on free, open, public courts.
\* The sport is mainly played on non-hardcourt surfaces (Gravel and Smashcourt with a small sampling of artificial grass)
\* Padel is taking over as the easier ac... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Same in Berlin | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
We definitely have this problem in Canada | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
They are taking over our local courts in Sydney. Constantly hoards of them there and maybe correlation =/= causation but seems to be a lot more wear and tear on the courts and the tennis net since they've picked up. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I'm in the US, I've never played Padel and it's nowhere near as popular as pickleball at least in this area. Pickleball continues to grow with more courts popping up. I've tried it but I only play tennis. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I find paddle to be an ill designed sport, boring to play, even worse to watch (if at all possible with the walls) | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
walls are dumb | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Have you ever played padel? | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
My guess is Canadian snowbirds go south to Florida or other warm places in the winter and are introduced to pickleball. It’s easy to pick up and very social. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I'm guessing in US it's a problem due to hard-courts dominating. In Europe it's predominantly clay, not that easy to convert for pickleball or paddle. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Yeah we got two courts in my club. I get occasionally convinced to play with the excuse of having a pint while playing. Sad times. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I think it’s pretty fun tbh | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Canada - yes. Municipal courts are having pickle lines added to them, and some private clubs have converted either individual courts or entire facilities to pickleball.
I put this down to a combination of the aging population (pb is easier for old people who age out of tennis), and cost-prohibitiveness (time & money... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Watch out for Touch Tennis! | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Im in asia and the other day tried pickleball. First few hits later i smoked these so called seasoned players. They were really not athletic. I doubt they are in it for the long run. Unlike tennis where the gradual skill upskilling makes the tenure worthwhile but i dont see what unique skill you will gain from playing ... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
In northern Mexico. Pádel is the real problem. At my club we had 2 courts converted to 4 padel (boxes?) | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
ye there are no pickleball courts in serbia either, padel is a big thing now tho, arguably as big as tennis for older people | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Is this a London thing? I've met one person in England who plays paddle. I know many who play tennis | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
This is the pickleball problem. Moat casual picklers don’t care about getting good or competitive play. It’s all about the social aspect and ease of play. Add that pickleball is taking over tennis courts and we have a problem. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
The ease of the sport does promote a massive uptake of population for sure. Tennis is just too hard. It takes a moderately athletic person at least 2-4 years to get to 4.0. Pb? 2-4months. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
While I agree that taking over tennis courts is annoying/needs to change, I think anything that gets people up and active is ultimately a win. Not everyone wants to be competitive, nor does everyone have the time and resources to get skilled at tennis. A lot of beginners feel totally hopeless because to be very good, y... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Yes, should have said London as opposed to UK | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
In Vietnam, I am sure that 80% of sport clubs that have tennis courts have either drawn pickbleball lines on tennis courts or converted at least some to pickleball. In the city near my town, more than 80% of tennis courts have been converted to pickleball, there are less than 10 tennis courts in the whole city. All of ... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
South Florida here and it seems to be a bit worse than other big cities I've visited. I've seen clear separation between the two sports at parks in other cities; just not here in S Florida.
Padel is starting to grow down here, but the prices are geared towards the top 5% of earners with many facilities marketing them... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Unfortunately I’m a bit less holistic and more selfish lol. I’m not so concerned about everyone else so much but rather more about those things that directly affect me. People can walk, run, swim, ride a bike, etc if they want to move. Plenty of other options but pickle is a bit different in that it’s a game and soc... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Padel always existed, but it seems to be growing. As we don't have a public courts system, this is a non issue IMO, as private clubs will always have their courts and space to build different things. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Usually clubs in Brazil don't charge fees for court use (unless they are covered), as those are already part of the membership.
I pay something like U$75/month to be a member. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Pickleball is a US phenomenon. From what I’ve heard, Padel is also growing. But it sounds like they use separate courts whereas Pickleball is often played on tennis courts which is the source of friction. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I'm in rural New England and pickleball is definitely picking up steam here. In my local area, at least three public tennis courts have been converted into multi-use courts with pickleball lines and nets available for play. Pickleballers also stack these courts for hours making any tennis play on them hard to come by.
... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I think part of the problem in the US is that for a while, the USTA was promoting pickleball. I will never forget that I did an adult camp a few years ago at BJK and the friggin Director of Tennis made every attendee try pickleball at some point during the camp. Like, I am trying to fix my serve. I didn’t pay to play t... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Never seen pickleball in the UK. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
They could still quadruple their members without increasing facilities footprint. Same thing just a different payment model | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Pickleball is a North American problem. I live in Canada, and it's starting to take over some of our public courts, but only in areas that are predominantly older & white. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Never seen pickleball in Sweden. Padel peaked in Sweden a couple of years ago. So many padel courts were built and now a lot of them are struggling financially and some are forced to close. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Argentina here.
Paddle is massive but grows alongside Tennis.
Pickleball is non-existant or marginal ar best.
Other types of racquet sports are played but are marginal (Squash, Basque pelota variations)
No new tennis courts are being built but exisiting tennis courts tend to be full most of the time in cities. Peopl... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Padel is generally growing a lot in South America but very little Pickleball so far. (At least where I’m from, there is only one in my city) The tennis club and country club I go to both have 3 Padel courts but I think the tennis courts are safe.
The padel courts are just entirely new and didn’t take up any tennis cou... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
All and I mean ALL the padel coaches where I’m from are Argentinian. I would’ve assumed it was always pretty big there. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Agreed, BT is not a threat. In fact, I’ve seen people starting on BT and going for the real deal.
Also, the fact that clay courts are super popular here acts as a vaccine of sorts against pukeball. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Huh so it’s not just my club that charges extra for covered courts, good to know. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
it is somewhat big. but nothing like it was in the 90s, it was everywhere. then it fade mostly away, and now it's coming back. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
The doors is utterly ridiculous | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
The doors are utterly ridiculous | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Considering the convered courts usually demand extra investment and were usually made after the clubs foundation, one of the main "selling points" for the rest of the board is that the courts will end up paying for themselves.
So yeah, there are always extra fees to use those - and it makes sense, considering they are... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
It's also got a rather tall ceiling, but just so happens to have a low floor. Pickle isn't a thing here, but just from watching it on YouTube, it's just flat. No room to progress.
Padel starts hitting a point when even very good tennis players get destroyed. You start off relatively competent, the serve is easy to lea... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
All reasons it is actually pretty fun | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Yeah, it's just a different game. But I actually would encourage people to take tennis lessons rather padel, even if they're sticking to the sport. My strokes improved DRASTICALLY with a few tennis lessons that the few padel lessons I got couldn't even scratch the surface. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Dont even get me started on the weather, I’m from POA. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Orlando, FL Pickleball took over in 2022, now Padel creeping up too and the tennis players are getting older and older and complaining about the music on the pickleball courts. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I said it in another thread, but from what I've seen it looks like padel is being sold as a wealthy activity in the US. Dwayne Wade playing in Miami, Prada releasing padel accessories, etc.
Which kind of makes sense with pickleball being the cheapest and most accessible, and (for casual players) tennis coming in abo... | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
Same as a lot of countries mentioned here, it’s not big in New Zealand because we don’t have as many hard courts and tennis is played in clubs.
Clubs have still replaced courts for the meme sports, though. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
I live in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. Last year there were 28 tennis courts in the city, this year there’s only 16 left. 12 has been converted to pickleshit.
So yes it’s a global problem. Tennis is already rare here, having even less courts now is making my blood boil everytime I see anything related to that pussy sport. | r/10s | comment | r/10s | 2024-08-07 |
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