When is it too cold to play outside? - Page 2

ubermeyer · 10-10-2009, 08:21 PM

Texas weather sucks for tennis. It's like 1000 degrees here.

I once played in 40 degree weather back in California, it was fine cuz it wasn't windy

SuperDuy · 10-10-2009, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by mikeler

I have the opposite problem down in Florida at the moment. This October record heat wave with highs of 95 degrees is brutal. It was 80 degrees at 8 AM this morning and humid. Please send a cold front down here!

Id rather be there then where i am where its 34 degrees feerenheit for a high!

ubermeyer · 10-10-2009, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by SuperDuy

Id rather be there then where i am where its 34 degrees feerenheit for a high!

I highly doubt that anyone would prefer Floridan weather to their own... unless they live in Texas!

heycal · 10-10-2009, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by ubermeyer

I once played in 40 degree weather back in California, it was fine cuz it wasn't windy

Lack of wind is key. I've had enjoyable matches with temps in the high 30's. So whenever I contemplate playing in winter months, I'm looking at wind forecast as much as temperature.

SystemicAnomaly · 10-10-2009, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Treebeard

Is there any concern about racket frame fracture in the cold?
With these new frames and the materials used (carbon, etc.) could that be a concern?

I wouldn't worry too much about the frame. Carbon (graphite), titanium, & other exotic metals used in racquets can probably tolerate very extreme temperature ranges. I'd worry more about the strings, the balls and your own skin tolerance to temp extremes before worrying about the frame.

10ACE · 10-11-2009, 08:06 AM

Why not give paddle tennis a try, real fun sport in 30-50 degree weather. As for tennis, 60's is still good by me, when it gets bellow 60 into the 50's the cold air can mess with my lungs, like ice daggers.

tennytive · 10-12-2009, 05:25 AM

Get this… I show up on Sunday ready to play, and there isn't a soul anywhere. I call a couple of the guys who are in charge of rounding up the players and they both tell me "Are you #@%! nuts? It's too cold!" In fairness, it was in the 30's with a west wind.

Worst part was it was the bye week for the Bears…

charliefedererer · 10-12-2009, 05:41 AM

Mike Ditka says he's proud you came ready to play.

Give your pals some sound advice.
When it's cold out, don't wear a skirt.

mike53 · 10-12-2009, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by heycal

Lack of wind is key. I've had enjoyable matches with temps in the high 30's. So whenever I contemplate playing in winter months, I'm looking at wind forecast as much as temperature.

Yeah, you can probably have fun right down to 30 degrees as long as it's sunny, dry and the wind is completely calm. We always had at least a couple days like that late in the year, back in Ohio.

J011yroger · 10-12-2009, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by heycal

Lack of wind is key. I've had enjoyable matches with temps in the high 30's. So whenever I contemplate playing in winter months, I'm looking at wind forecast as much as temperature.

You are just deranged. I have seen you play in sub-artic temps. I am lucky to be alive today instead of dead of hypothermia and stuffed under the bleachers of the NTC.

J

film1 · 10-12-2009, 01:57 PM

When I was young we would layer up and play in 20s.
Now I would not play under 50.

snoopy · 10-12-2009, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by mike53

Yeah, you can probably have fun right down to 30 degrees as long as it's sunny, dry and the wind is completely calm. We always had at least a couple days like that late in the year, back in Ohio.

I agree.

When temps are in the upper 30s I'll head to the courts with sweats and a sweatshirt. If the sun is shining and the wind isn't blowing, I find myself stripping down to shorts and a t-shirt within 15 minutes of arrival.

J011yroger · 10-12-2009, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by film1

When I was young we would layer up and play in 20s.
Now I would not play under 50.

I used to play in the cold, but when I turned 25 I wised up.

J

apor · 10-12-2009, 04:16 PM

i play down into the low 40's, but at that point the only one who shows up is the wall. i wear lots of thin layers that slowly get taken off as i warm up. you def have to warm up, and the balls hardly bounce unless you beat them hard.
i wonder if my ball machine can handle those kinda temps.
anyone know how tretorn micro-x balls bounce in the cold?

SuperFly · 10-12-2009, 04:23 PM

This year my high school tennis coach made our team practice on Good Friday. It was below freezing. I went out with 3 layers or shirts and shorts and won every single ladders match I played.

So yeah, it's never too cold to play tennis.

Frank Silbermann · 10-14-2009, 07:33 PM

There used to be a tennis sock that went around your hand and then around the racket handle. Ordinary racketball gloves also work well, though you might want to use a special racket with a slightly smaller grip.

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Originally Posted by SystemicAnomaly

Balls don't bounce very well in colder temps, even temps in the 50Fs. Need to warm them up by bouncing them a lot or artifically with a heating pad so that they don't feel like Flinstone's balls (aka rocks).

Cold makes the air in pressurized balls contract, thereby reducing the pressure and making them play dead. I find that pressureless balls keep their bounce better in cold temperature. That makes sense when you realize that the first pressureless tennis balls were made in Sweden (Tretorn brand).

SuperDuy · 10-14-2009, 07:57 PM

It's been in the 30s now where i am but this week end 40s finally!

SuperDuy · 10-14-2009, 07:58 PM

Haha, 50 is my limit actually.

PureDrive4life · 10-17-2009, 05:21 PM

i played in the 40's today.

mikeler · 10-17-2009, 05:40 PM

After suffering through a record breaking 10 days of record highs in the mid 90s, I'm loving every minute I spend outside now that some fall weather has arrived. Supposed to get in the upper 40s here in Central Florida tomorrow night.

10-12-2009, 04:16 PM	#34
apor Rookie Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 146	65 too cold? i play down into the low 40's, but at that point the only one who shows up is the wall. i wear lots of thin layers that slowly get taken off as i warm up. you def have to warm up, and the balls hardly bounce unless you beat them hard. i wonder if my ball machine can handle those kinda temps. anyone know how tretorn micro-x balls bounce in the cold?

10-12-2009, 04:23 PM	#35
SuperFly Semi-Pro Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 772	This year my high school tennis coach made our team practice on Good Friday. It was below freezing. I went out with 3 layers or shirts and shorts and won every single ladders match I played. So yeah, it's never too cold to play tennis. __________________ Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them and still keep on partying." -Andrew W.K.

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