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  • clearly a lot if the olympics thinks it is important to ban certain shoe technologies like the Nike Alphafly

        • heart rate monitors should be used I think because of all these young sports men and women who seem to be having heart attacks half way though competing. power meters less so as sports person should be able to feel whats good power for them through practice.
          Surely a good coach would know these things.

        • Good Photo Owen, you didn’t look like that last time I saw you. Obviously you have been enhanced by technology!

  • One day I found 4 old wooden squash racquets in the rubbish (ones that I started playing with in university in the ’70’s). When I tried these woodies in the mid 90’s I was using the most up to date composite fibre on the market.

    The amount of effort and energy to use the old wooden ones was DRAMATICALLY higher and the ball didn’t go as fast!

    The same applied to PICKLEBALL where I started out with a wooden paddle in 2018 and today the composites are resulting in us OLDIES complaining about how it now hurts when you get hit with the wiffle ball

  • In the late 90s I was walking in the neighborhood and saw three old wooden squash rackets that I learned on in the ‘70’s being sent to rubbish. I took them to the club and could not believe how much more difficult it was to go back to what I learned on.

    I also found the same when I started playing pickleball in 2018. At that time I started playing I used a wooden paddle which was fine and the balls were nice and soft. Since then they have gone to the same graphic rackets I was using in the 2000’s, and us oldies were complaining that we are getting hurt when they are being hit with the ball that is harder and the racquets that send the ball MUCH FASTER

    • Do you think that in the old days sportsmen and women were more hardy than those today. They were using heavier and harder equipment yet still setting records, should the records set today be less honourable because of the use of technology?

  • It might actually be a hindrance to true athleticism… after watching the world series this year and observing players talking into the devices in their mitts and hats, apparently to avoid stealing of signs, it struck me that the sport has been crippled by technology. That and those funny oven mitt looking gloves they wear to avoid hurting their fingers when they slide? Sheesh. Man up. My sister was a competitive fast pitch softball player and I asked her once about the latest equipment trend of pitchers wearing masks to protect from pitches coming back at you… she was emphatic (if not, perhaps a little ruthless) — if a pitch comes straight back at you, it is your own fault for pitching it wrong and you deserve all the dental surgery headed your way, lol.

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