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Sport Courts

Matt Lund

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posted 8/21/08 - 10:32 am

Have any of you guys played on sport courts? If so what has been your experience with them? Are they harder to clean? Easier to get injured on? Our team may have to practice on one this fall. I am new to the sport and have never played on one.

Tom Hamill

posted 8/21/08 - 4:57 pm

I think you have to check it

I think you have to check it out to decide.  Philly practices and has hosted tournaments on a sport court type floor for years.  It's not wood but its very usable.  The old New Jersey team played on one that was like a wrestling mat.  It was awful and killed low pointers' ability to push.  There were a lot of sore shoulders after Atlantic Sectionals on a synthetic wood floor.  West Palm has great synthetic floors.  The worst I ever saw was at a clinic in Richmond on a tennis floor where players left divots.