In my view, indoors has always been a race for grip. The player that has better grip on the floor will (virtually) always win so everyone starts experimenting with different types of footwear to combat the dust that is never cleaned from gym floors. I ended up going for squash shoes that I wet (yes, I actually spit on my hand and rub it on the sole) before every point. I'm sure anyone who's played long enough has experienced the horror of your foot sliding then, just as you position yourself to ride out the slide, hitting a patch of floor with good grip and nearly/totally rolling your ankle.
Then came the rubber crumb and suddenly everything changed; you could wear your astro/hard ground boots and grip was guaranteed. That levelled everything and the game was back to being about positioning and reading the situation. There are draw backs, but finding rubber crumbs in your bed/shower for a few days is hardly a high price to pay! Anyway, just thought I would throw in my two pence while the crumb holds just over 50% of the votes. Nick ________________________________ From: Emily Harford <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, 7 October, 2009 9:15:20 Subject: Re: [BD] Indoor Ultimate Surfaces Having played on both, you are just as likely to get friction burns on either, but 3G indoor rubber crumb pitches are much less likely to cause or aggravate impact based injuries such as shin splints, so I have a preference for those over the traditional wood flooring. Emily -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 06 October 2009 23:22 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BD] Indoor Ultimate Surfaces > If you have no opinion but would like to see the results please select > the third option. > > I will email the results in a months time. > > -Chef I have no real opinion having never played on crumb, so I selected option 3. I do have a question though. Is crumb really that much better (currently 18 votes to 12) or are the results just skewed by the saddo's {myself included} who are still up and checking e-mail at this time of night!) Seriously, what's the deal with crumb. Do people think that it gives a more 'grassy' feel and so can kid themselves that they are still outdoors, just on a smaller pitch? For me the two games are completely different. Being a slow old git (TM) I find that indoors can be more about position and turning ability than outdoors. After all, it's a lot more difficult to turn it into a straight foot race when you know you have to decelerate in 15-20 feet or run into a wall! Santa Devon 96 (outdoors) Second Wind Solar (indoors-ish) __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
