Anyone play racquetball? ive been playing around 4-5 times per week. what a workout.

yea its a fun sport. took it up this year, but had to take some time off and switch my motion due to too much shoulder use ha

what exactly do you mean by racquetball? do you mean squash?

i'm going to participate in a tournament soon called racquetlon, you basically play five different sports

Tennis, table-tennis, squash, badminton and I think the last was called speedminton or smth like that... hope it'll be great fun

I'm also not sure what he means, but that thing you're doing sounds like fun ! ^^ Practiced any others but tennis? haha

damn that sounds awesome

damn that sounds awesome

Hahaha yeah it is pretty awesome, some of my friends participated in it last year but I forgot to apply

Basically you play to 11 (or was it 21) like a long tennis tie-break in each and every sport, and in the end you count the points. I'm not sure if you win by most points or by most sports, I actually think they go after points first and in case of a draw they check who won most of the sports. ^^



Well, I wouldn't say practised... but since I'm good at tennis I'm automatically pretty good at badminton and squash (obv not as good as people that focuses on that sport in particular, but hopefully I can score a some points even against those guys)

However I do suck at table-tennis and I will probably only get points by pure luck where I just hit the ball as hard as I can xD And I've never tried speedminton before, nor have I seen it except on youtube, but I was once explained the rules. You basically have a tennis court and you only use the four service boxes, then you got a racquet which is a mix of a squash/badminton racquet, and the ball is like a badminton 'ball' but even quicker, and then you just try to win the point I guess. I heard it goes really fast

Also there are different categories... in the toughest one (A class, the one I think I'll participate in) the prize is 3,000 euro But there is no way I'll even come close to winning it, since I'd need to be as good to the other sports as I am in tennis so yeah, I can pretty much forget the prize money ^^

But there are also a B, C and D category so it's really a tournament for all kinds of levels ^^ (I'll never lower myself to C or D though haha)

This post was edited by eschutaz on Feb 1 2011 07:04pm

being good at tennis definitely doesn't make you good at badmitton, trust me.

I've played badminton before as well of course, I would beat anyone who doesn't actually play badminton themselves, and sometimes I even see some people play it and I know I'd beat 'em in a match even though I barely know the rules. (Obviously they would be considered amateurs but still, the point is my tennis abilities helps a great deal in badminton, however it barely helps at all the other way around, badminton players can't play tennis for shit... it just requires too much strength)

This post was edited by eschutaz on Feb 1 2011 07:41pm

Ehh well I've played tennis for a long long time and I also happen to be pretty good at table tennis and betminton and hitting with baseball, it's all the same hand-eye coördination