I played it for the first time yesterday, and I am also a squash player. It was so difficult. The pro at the club where I played said it was the most difficult racquet sport he had ever played.
@@gabrielashton946 ahaha yeah right... it's more like everyone runs and just tries to hit the ball... occasionally it scores. Sorry it's outdated and this is a very good reason why it simply died... It's a lot of show off running... but in reality is just that. It's dead no matter how much a few like to think themselves as unique going on a special lonely lane and insist in playing it, as I said you could also be playing "Jeu de paume" just for historical fun... you wouldn't go further than that. Nothing to compare with Tennis and Squash (on these you can't go around waving the racket like catching butterflies running pointless like in "rackets"... ahahah you wish) :)
@@gabrielashton946 sorry, courts in rackets are expensive as we want them to be... a modern Squash court evolved for cheaper construction and better responsive materials exactly because the sport has far more interesting competitive and tactical edge and it obvious, like tennis, by spreading more creates a larger market that bring the prices down.... Rackets by being an outdated niche that didn't evolved... it will remain "expensive"... mainly because it's natural selection outdated in interest and dead, not because it's a "harder sport".
@@paulobastos1774 squash was invented from rackets ( original full name of squash was squash rackets) because rackets was so difficult they invented a slower easier game with a "squashy ball" hence the game squash.
@@mvrw (Another "historian" with the parrot line: "because Rackets came first before "Squash")... You don't get it that it's not what came first or not that matters. Jeu de Paume" came way before Tennis, Squash or Rackets... and is still played nowadays by a group of aficionados of past posh pose sport, it doesn't mean that it will become "again" a dominant sport, it didn't evolve and it is what it is.. a relic. Pretty much like Rackets. Rackets lost the race and it's tactically outdated as well. Rackets stalled because of lack of "real" tactical competitive hedge. Rackets it's fancy, spasmodic, you sweet a lot running crazy... but to win the point is more luck than real tactic. You bang the service and that's it. There's not much to say beyond the show-off running... In Rackets we "pretend" that there's a lot going on. But it isn't... this little factor didn't resist time. In Squash is totally the opposite. Compare it to a real Squash rally... and rackets looks what it is: Amateur over excitement posh "wanna-still-be". What it's really going on is the attempt to build new business areas around the dominant modern racket sports. And like in other business area, sometimes you go back to "revive" similar past products to try to build a niche again. It doesn't mean that just because you've found something forgotten, this thing will become a success. there's a reason for past things to become outdated and replaced with more efficient ones. When you don't understand the intrinsic contexts for the decay of a sport, you bring them back. Invest money and (because you think you've fund the wheel) you do a lot of noise for free in the social media, upload a lot of videos on RUclips... but it#s hard to cover up the ridiculous of calling it "World Rackets Championships")... it might cause a temporary "hip". Sell equipment and a few courts and it will fade back to the past. In the US in particular there's people spending a lot of money to push residential retirement sports like Pickleball doing huge campaigns on social media just to build the business area. But the crucial fact remains, Rackets and Pickleball are the typical show-off sports where everyone involved pretend that there's a lot going on... when in reality it doesn't. Amateurs love this little detail.
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I've played squash my whole life and always wanted to try Rackets but there aren't very many courts in the US and zero in Texas where I live.
I played it for the first time yesterday, and I am also a squash player. It was so difficult. The pro at the club where I played said it was the most difficult racquet sport he had ever played.
Absolute madness to play without protective eyeglasses
I wish I could see the ball! Also, why the need to say “play” all the freaking time?
completely outdated and dull, a lot of show off running... no competitive edge.
You don't like it then?
@@gabrielashton946 ahaha yeah right... it's more like everyone runs and just tries to hit the ball... occasionally it scores.
Sorry it's outdated and this is a very good reason why it simply died...
It's a lot of show off running... but in reality is just that. It's dead no matter how much a few like to think themselves as unique going on a special lonely lane and insist in playing it, as I said you could also be playing "Jeu de paume" just for historical fun... you wouldn't go further than that.
Nothing to compare with Tennis and Squash (on these you can't go around waving the racket like catching butterflies running pointless like in "rackets"... ahahah you wish) :)
@@gabrielashton946 sorry, courts in rackets are expensive as we want them to be... a modern Squash court evolved for cheaper construction and better responsive materials exactly because the sport has far more interesting competitive and tactical edge and it obvious, like tennis, by spreading more creates a larger market that bring the prices down....
Rackets by being an outdated niche that didn't evolved... it will remain "expensive"... mainly because it's natural selection outdated in interest and dead, not because it's a "harder sport".
@@paulobastos1774 squash was invented from rackets ( original full name of squash was squash rackets) because rackets was so difficult they invented a slower easier game with a "squashy ball" hence the game squash.
@@mvrw (Another "historian" with the parrot line: "because Rackets came first before "Squash")...
You don't get it that it's not what came first or not that matters. Jeu de Paume" came way before Tennis, Squash or Rackets... and is still played nowadays by a group of aficionados of past posh pose sport, it doesn't mean that it will become "again" a dominant sport, it didn't evolve and it is what it is.. a relic. Pretty much like Rackets. Rackets lost the race and it's tactically outdated as well.
Rackets stalled because of lack of "real" tactical competitive hedge. Rackets it's fancy, spasmodic, you sweet a lot running crazy... but to win the point is more luck than real tactic. You bang the service and that's it. There's not much to say beyond the show-off running...
In Rackets we "pretend" that there's a lot going on. But it isn't... this little factor didn't resist time.
In Squash is totally the opposite.
Compare it to a real Squash rally... and rackets looks what it is: Amateur over excitement posh "wanna-still-be".
What it's really going on is the attempt to build new business areas around the dominant modern racket sports.
And like in other business area, sometimes you go back to "revive" similar past products to try to build a niche again. It doesn't mean that just because you've found something forgotten, this thing will become a success. there's a reason for past things to become outdated and replaced with more efficient ones. When you don't understand the intrinsic contexts for the decay of a sport, you bring them back. Invest money and (because you think you've fund the wheel) you do a lot of noise for free in the social media, upload a lot of videos on RUclips... but it#s hard to cover up the ridiculous of calling it "World Rackets Championships")... it might cause a temporary "hip". Sell equipment and a few courts and it will fade back to the past.
In the US in particular there's people spending a lot of money to push residential retirement sports like Pickleball doing huge campaigns on social media just to build the business area.
But the crucial fact remains, Rackets and Pickleball are the typical show-off sports where everyone involved pretend that there's a lot going on... when in reality it doesn't. Amateurs love this little detail.