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clearly a lot if the olympics thinks it is important to ban certain shoe technologies like the Nike Alphafly
technologys should not give advantages
So you want to ban heart rate monitors, power meters etc?
But oh how they do!
Practice makes perfect, equipment makes it easier to become perfect.
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
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.
Have you ever seen cricket? Very hard ball and not a mit in sight….
Cricket makes a great deal of sense. Same with rugby, come to think…
It’s money right? VAR in football (sorry soccer) spends 5 minutes to get the wrong decision… It’s all part of the theatre…