I have no idea how to open a can of balls. Seriously.

[ByeByePoly]

Thank goodness these guys never faced opening a can with a key!

I like your signature line. I heard one similar that would be good for me:

"I care about nothing ... but I have an opinion about everything"

 

[LeeD]

I still remember standing up a can of balls, taking the racket handle and pounding it into the lid of the can to crush the seal. Then just reach in with a key to remove the lid.

 

[RetroSpin]

Carry a small chainsaw in your bag. Problem solved, plus it will encourage you to be more careful with the pull ring.

Seriously, the Tennis Code specifies that if you snap off the ring, you are required to pound the snot out of it on the net post until it opens.

 

[Ronaldo]

I still remember standing up a can of balls, taking the racket handle and pounding it into the lid of the can to crush the seal. Then just reach in with a key to remove the lid.

Can.............recall getting a free can of balls every year when subscribing to either World Tennis or Tennis magazine.............They were Spalding balls

 

[Deleted member 743561]

Cat food cans were a real SOB until they took a page out of tennis ball cans' book. Can openers are inefficient.

 

[onehandbh]

Has anyone ever seem an ATP or WTA player open a can of balls to be used in their match?

I have not.

Why?

Because it is hard to do even for pros!!!

 

[ByeByePoly]

Has anyone ever seem an ATP or WTA player open a can of balls to be used in their match?

I have not.

Why?

Because it is hard to do even for pros!!!

I haven't seen them take a dump, but that doesn't mean they don't know how.

 

[onehandbh]

I haven't seen them take a dump, but that doesn't mean they don't know how.

Hide in the players' lounge restroom and you will learn that:

Federer's dumps are quiet and effortless.

Nadal's require a lot of vocalized grunting and straining. Messier but he eventually gets the job done. Never gives up.

 

[ByeByePoly]

Hide in the players' lounge restroom and you will learn that:

Federer's dumps are quiet and effortless.

Nadal's require a lot of vocalized grunting and straining. Messier but he eventually gets the job done. Never gives up.

Figured Fed was smooth at everything.

That makes sense Nadal has issues. I have watched him grab his butt for years ... I guess it is a tell.

 

[Mongolmike]

Figured Fed was smooth at everything.

That makes sense Nadal has issues. I have watched him grab his butt for years ... I guess it is a tell.

Nadal is my wife's favorite player... he's ok, but not my favorite, so whenever he's on I always say "Now smell it! Smell it!!" after he grabs his butt... because his next move is hand to face. My wife hates me.

 

[onehandbh]

Nadal is my wife's favorite player... he's ok, but not my favorite, so whenever he's on I always say "Now smell it! Smell it!!" after he grabs his butt... because his next move is hand to face. My wife hates me.

I cannot make fun of him for doing this because I sometimes do the same thing.

Having a bulbous derrière can cause undergarments to ride up a little bit during exercise so some adjustment is often needed.

 

[ByeByePoly]

Nadal is my wife's favorite player... he's ok, but not my favorite, so whenever he's on I always say "Now smell it! Smell it!!" after he grabs his butt... because his next move is hand to face. My wife hates me.

I have always been a Nadal fan, but I have to compartmentalize that habit.

I hear you on wife sensitivity. I can slam any tennis player I want ... but Ben Affleck comments are a problem. Actually ... it's best that she watch Affleck movies without me ... and I watch Cibulkova matches without her.

 

[ByeByePoly]

We have strayed from OP's tennis can product complaint. Of course, his complaint is misguided. The free market is infallible ... and it has spoken. The winners will be able to open tennis cans, and the losers will be left behind. Anything else would be tennis can opening wealth redistribution. There should be no such thing as universal tennis can opening... that violates the winners freedom.

Of course, this means all matches played with new balls will require one winner, or a volunteer winner from an adjacent court. Also ... the lines to buy tennis balls will be shorter.

 

[TennisCJC]

Remove the plastic lid. Stick finger in the metal loop. Turn shoulders and hips away from can while loading weight into legs via knee bend. Then pull that metal loop by driving with leg lift and core rotation and that can will open. To optimize form, you want to keep a loose grip on the can and the metal loop but not so loose that the can flies out our your hand.

 

[Alexrb]

I was watching recent video of myself playing tennis and I noticed a huge fundamental problem!
I have been unable to open a new can of tennis balls and have been forced to use used ones.

I realized that for my entire life, I have been unable to open cans of tennis balls.
I have strong hand muscles, so strength cannot be the limiting factor.

Without coaching, you will struggle to open a can of balls EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
It's just mind-blowing how complex and subtle the technique required to open a can of balls is.

Quite literally, I have tried everything but can't open it.
Pulling hard and quickly on the loop resulted in the loop breaking off.
Smashing the can with my feet resulted in the pressure escaping but lid still stuck on.
I tried a food can opener, but it destroyed the can and failed to get the lid completely off.
Open stance, closed stance, neutral. Nothing works.
It is quite ugly to see on video.

I think this can be solved with the ISR or industrial methods.

I am down to trying these two options. Which do you recommend?

Option 1.....
Bring the can of balls to an industrial plastic recycling plant, and pay them to melt it down but not destroy the balls.
This will require a lot of planning and is costly if it is even possible.

Option 2....
Train with finger plyometrics and use more ISR to get more hand pulling speed.
This may result in the loop breaking off, but if I can slow down at the moment before the pull loop usually snaps off and pull it up and across in that 3-4 millisecond window, maybe it won't break off.

Traditional methods of opening a can of balls no longer work. The ball manufacturing plants have mostly moved to China and the seals must have changed.

Using old balls has been preventing me from improving my game and opponents are starting to complain. The balls can barely bounce anymore and are getting close to only rolling even when you throw it on the court surface. At that point, I will no longer be able to play tennis because the rules state that you must hit the ball after one bounce or in the air.

If it comes to that then it will be TImeToStopPlayingTennis...

It's all fun and games until you slice the **** out of your hand. Did that once carelessly opening. Now I only open using expert technique.

 

[ByeByePoly]

Remove the plastic lid. Stick finger in the metal loop. Turn shoulders and hips away from can while loading weight into legs via knee bend. Then pull that metal loop by driving with leg lift and core rotation and that can will open. To optimize form, you want to keep a loose grip on the can and the metal loop but not so loose that the can flies out our your hand.

Metal loop kinetic chain is so old school

 

[Mongolmike]

I cannot make fun of him for doing this because I sometimes do the same thing.

Having a bulbous derrière can cause undergarments to ride up a little bit during exercise so some adjustment is often needed.

But do you then smell your fingers like he does?

 

[r2473]

Hide in the players' lounge restroom and you will learn that:

Federer's dumps are quiet and effortless.

Nadal's require a lot of vocalized grunting and straining. Messier but he eventually gets the job done. Never gives up.

 

[tennis_balla]

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

 

[Ronaldo]

 

[snvplayer]

Buy a can at the store and ask the store clerk to open it for you.

 

[Ronaldo]

Buy a can at the store and ask the store clerk to open it for you.

$2 and now you want it opened? No wonder robots will replace us.

 

[ByeByePoly]

$2 and now you want it opened? No wonder robots will replace us.

Nah ... there will be a robot wall

 

[ByeByePoly]

Buy a can at the store and ask the store clerk to open it for you.

What clerks. I was checking my own stuff out at Walmart recently and was waiting for a message on the screen to tell me to grab a broom and sweep an aisle to complete the transaction.

 

[ByeByePoly]

Impressive ... but can it absorb?

 

[Ronaldo]

Nah ... there will be a robot wall

And what will guard this wall? Slave labor?

 

[ByeByePoly]

And what will guard this wall? Slave labor?

I don't know who will guard the wall ... but it will be maintained like roads and bridges. After a few years ... it will be to dangerous to climb over.

 

[Ronaldo]

I don't know who will guard the wall ... but it will be maintained like roads and bridges. After a few years ... it will be to dangerous to climb over.

Save for the robots who guard the wall.

 

[onehandbh]

robot video

The USTA playa's code cleary states that robots are not allowed on the tennis court.


USTA code 133.344.36.11.5a

• For the opening of pressurized tennis ball cans, assistance from mechanical devices and/or self-operating machines cannot be used.

USTA code 133.344.36.11.5b

• In the spirit of recreational tennis, to protect the fragile male ego, winning a point by hitting lobs or soft shots lacking pace (aka "pushing") from the baseline until your opponent misses shall not be allowed for more than (2) shots in a rally.

 

[ByeByePoly]

The USTA playa's code cleary states that robots are not allowed on the tennis court.


USTA code 133.344.36.11.5a

• For the opening of pressurized tennis ball cans, assistance from mechanical devices and/or self-operating machines cannot be used.

USTA code 133.344.36.11.5b

• In the spirit of recreational tennis, to protect the fragile male ego, winning a point by hitting lobs or soft shots lacking pace (aka "pushing") from the baseline until your opponent misses shall not be allowed for more than (2) shots in a rally.

5b sounds like the golf rule: "putts that are close enough to be blown in can be blown in ... but no more than a foot because the game of golf should not be turned into a travesty".

If you banned mechanical devices you would lose half of the senior leagues due to hip and knee replacements.

 

[AllCourtHeathen]

I got a box of penn balls the other week, so had to open a fair few cans, those lids are lethal. got sliced a beauty on the fingertip. so opening tennis cans is no joke. I now outsource can opening to a professional firm that offers a "pick up/drop off" service, and a "no felt damaged" guarantee

 

[Deleted member 742196]

The trouble with the modern generation is kids are not used to work and a development of knowledge. Opening a can of tennis balls requires practice, repetition and soundness with the technicalities of tennis balls. Once you have put in the time and mastered the information, indeed it is simple:

I hear you OP, it took three years to find my solution.

Here is the foundation of the deep knowledge you will need to familiarize yourself with:

• Acclimatisation
  
• Pre-Compression
• Mass
• Size

• Deformation
• Rebound

• Durability

I hope this comes of assistance in your own journey to 5.0'ish Tennis Can Ball Opening.

 

[ByeByePoly]

The trouble with the modern generation is kids are not used to work and a development of knowledge. Opening a can of tennis balls requires practice, repetition and soundness with the technicalities of tennis balls. Once you have put in the time and mastered the ability, indeed it is simple:

I hear you OP, it took three years to find my solution.

Here is the foundation of the deep knowledge you will need to familiarize yourself with:

• Acclimatisation
  
• Pre-Compression
• Mass
• Size

• Deformation
• Rebound

• Durability

I hope this comes of assistance in your own journey to 5.0'ish Tennis Can Ball Opening.

hahaha ... most excellent.

If you go play tennis with those balls right after the durability test absorption is magical. The dog slober makes the balls cling to the string .... GOLD!!!

 

[Deleted member 742196]

hahaha ... most excellent.

If you go play tennis with those balls right after the durability test absorption is magical. The dog slober makes the balls cling to the string .... GOLD!!!

Yuk Yuk. Yep, in production we learned the only real way to determine durability is the factory lab[rador]. Testing and numbers really don't mean much, that's for insurance, liability and consumer rights nonsense. In fact the cans that have been QC stamped, well pawed, have been personally inspected by Poocherer.

 

[MisterP]

Reminded me of this:

 

[Shroud]

The secret is to increase the dwell time during the hold and absorb phase after making contact with the tab like the pros.

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You can poke fun all you want but clearly you dont know how to open a can of balls and probably get uncontrolled bounce offs

 

[CosmosMpower]

I need to learn this valuable skill as well but all my practice time is going towards learning how to spin the racquet to determine who serves first. Haven't quite mastered that one yet, one thing at a time.

 

[Shroud]

I have adopted Oscar's modern method!!! Find the tab and pull back! Thats where the power is. Works everytime!

 

[Mongolmike]

I need to learn this valuable skill as well but all my practice time is going towards learning how to spin the racquet to determine who serves first. Haven't quite mastered that one yet, one thing at a time.

Here's a secret... you don't have to spin. Just hold the butt cap towards yourself and ask them "Up or down"?

It's random whether you spin it or not. Saves you a lot of embarrassment if you have trouble spinning.
Or like some people who spin their racquet as they throw it in the air, and then make some awkward attempt at catching it.

 

[Crocodile]

I was watching recent video of myself playing tennis and I noticed a huge fundamental problem!
I have been unable to open a new can of tennis balls and have been forced to use used ones.

I realized that for my entire life, I have been unable to open cans of tennis balls.
I have strong hand muscles, so strength cannot be the limiting factor.

Without coaching, you will struggle to open a can of balls EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
It's just mind-blowing how complex and subtle the technique required to open a can of balls is.

Quite literally, I have tried everything but can't open it.
Pulling hard and quickly on the loop resulted in the loop breaking off.
Smashing the can with my feet resulted in the pressure escaping but lid still stuck on.
I tried a food can opener, but it destroyed the can and failed to get the lid completely off.
Open stance, closed stance, neutral. Nothing works.
It is quite ugly to see on video.

I think this can be solved with the ISR or industrial methods.

I am down to trying these two options. Which do you recommend?

Option 1.....
Bring the can of balls to an industrial plastic recycling plant, and pay them to melt it down but not destroy the balls.
This will require a lot of planning and is costly if it is even possible.

Option 2....
Train with finger plyometrics and use more ISR to get more hand pulling speed.
This may result in the loop breaking off, but if I can slow down at the moment before the pull loop usually snaps off and pull it up and across in that 3-4 millisecond window, maybe it won't break off.

Traditional methods of opening a can of balls no longer work. The ball manufacturing plants have mostly moved to China and the seals must have changed.

Using old balls has been preventing me from improving my game and opponents are starting to complain. The balls can barely bounce anymore and are getting close to only rolling even when you throw it on the court surface. At that point, I will no longer be able to play tennis because the rules state that you must hit the ball after one bounce or in the air.

If it comes to that then it will be TImeToStopPlayingTennis...

By the high quality cans, you are less likely to cut yourself,

 

[onehandbh]

The metal cans are the worst -- those made with high grade steel and the manufacterer has accidentally pressurized the can to 3000 psi.

I brought out the bum squad and flexed my glutes and tried sitting onthe can to crush it open.

Nothing.

 

[Ronaldo]

The metal cans are the worst -- those made with high grade steel and the manufacterer has accidentally pressurized the can to 3000 psi.

I brought out the bum squad and flexed my glutes and tried sitting onthe can to crush it open.

Nothing.

Blow it out your @SS, eh?