Off season condtioning

DelCarpenter · Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 499 Location: Cedar Falls, IA

I'm not sure reaction times also need off season conditioning. And maybe something that helps to exercise our sense of joy, or our ability to have fun could also use off-season conditioning.

Playing pickle ball is an excellent way to exercise reaction time & is also a fine way to keep having fun & exercise our sense of joy. My wife & I played a little outdoors last summer. About 2 months ago we started playing 2-3 days a week at our city indoor recreation center which sets up three pickleball courts on one of the basketball gyms 3 days a week. We enjoy playing enough we bought our own paddles last week. My wife is not a tennis, ping pong, badminton or racquetball player, but she really likes pickle ball.

Personally, I do think reaction times need off season conditioning, especially for we whose age qualifys us as geezers.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

swchandler · Joined: 08 Nov 1993 Posts: 10588

Craig, according to isobars's view of things, you're not getting Utah at its best. Speaking for myself, I have a hard time believing that.

GURGLETROUSERS · Joined: 30 Dec 2009 Posts: 2643

Grade inflation is a fact of life nowadays. (Education especially.)

It used to be confined to surfing, (should have been here yesterday - 20 foot in the sets), then it spread to windsurfing, (ditto), and nowadays it would appear that the world is teeming with radical supermen. (And women - according to most modern films.)

And yet, when I go shopping at the super market and look around at them all, in reality little seems to have changed.

Am I missing something here?

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

I apologize profusely for grossly exaggerating Utah's (and New Mexico's even stronger) wind. All I have to go by are NOAA data, personal conversations with my buds in the National Weather Bureau forecast center, my anemometer at several lakes, newspaper headlines, sail sizes I got blown off of, new windshields almost every year from NM sandstorms, an Air Force hurricane-penetrating C-130 Hercules airplane being blown out of the NM sky on a day I tried to sail, the dozens of big boats smashed to smithereens on the far shore of Willard Bay the day they had to transport a Coast Guard "ship" (?) from the Great Salt Lake to Willard Bay to rescue my buds who refused jet ski tows to our upwind shore, semis and at least one RR train lying on their sides, loss of power to whole counties for up to a month when scores of miles of giant interstate power towers were flattened, the loss of several professional bass boats on Elephant Butte in NM, and much more.

I had an advantage over Craig. I could see the Great Salt Lake (which is separated from freshwater Willard Bay only by a berm) from my home and my office, and drive there in just minutes when they blew. I also got off work at 3 PM, giving me up to 6 hours after work to go sailing.

Don't you guys ever tire of looking like biased idiots when you challenge me to support my statements?

swchandler · Joined: 08 Nov 1993 Posts: 10588

GT, I think you nailed it.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

cgoudie1 · Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:15 pm Post subject:

Hey Mike,

I've had good days and bad days at Willard. It can blow plenty hard
there (it can blow very hard at a number of Utah water ways)
I just spend my sailing time in the Gorge these days (and a
little on Maui). I've still got lots of good gear here, but by the time I stop
skiing, it's usually time to head for the Gorge. If my sailing buds were to encourage me, I'd probably sail more here, but they all sail mostly in
the Gorge now ;*)

I love both places, and am fortunate enough to be able to recreate in
both locales. If the system breaks down and becomes feudal, and I'm stuck
here, I'll sail here, it's a fine place to sail.

-Craig