Playing in cold halls

[SorryForTheEdge]

For me the problem is humidity in warm areas everyone sweats and this makes my rubbers moist I have to wipe them after every point.

 

[MORTtheORT]

i have been through all the exercises to warm up the rubber and bat, but let's be honest: The effects of warming your bat (i used heating devices to warm up the rubber) is going to be gone latest after the first set and then you are not allowed to "treat" your bat with heat inside the match.

My only "solution" was to have a second bat with very similar but softer rubbers. So while i might play Rakza Z EH on the forehand, i know it would be a brick in cold halls, so i have a second bat where i have the Battle 3 with only 39° hardness, so that i can play with a similar feeling hardness in cold halls.

Just use your breath and hand cleaning method between every point to keep the rubber warm for each point.

 

[jk1980]

Just use your breath and hand cleaning method between every point to keep the rubber warm for each point.

That does not work. You won't raise the temperature of rubber by breathing onto it. Rubber is a good insulator which means it will not easily take temperature and transfer it on, but rather will not be affected by it. You could easily disprove this by using an optical temperature gun

 

[MORTtheORT]

That does not work. You won't raise the temperature of rubber by breathing onto it. Rubber is a good insulator which means it will not easily take temperature and transfer it on, but rather will not be affected by it. You could easily disprove this by using an optical temperature gun

Lol, couldn't be any more wrong. Slow breath (slow allows body temperature transfer from the lung to your breath) with the naturel moisture creates a temperature transfer particularly for soft rubbers. Then the friction heat created from your hand. On a car tire...no, but on soft rubbers...yes.

 

[jk1980]

You breathing onto rubber creates moisture which actually makes the friction less and even if the effect you think it has was truely happening (which I dispute) it is pointless if it only works on soft rubbers, because it's hard rubbers that feel like a brick in that scenario, not soft ones.

If the effect of warming the rubber 20 minutes with direct heat from a heating device disappears after being exposed to the sub 15° Celsius in mere minutes, you technique will not make a dent.

 

[Tyce]

In the not-so-serious leagues you can just plop your bat on your batcase between sets, so if you have one of those battery powered heated pads in there you can prolong the heating effect quite a bit throughout a match.

 

[MORTtheORT]

You breathing onto rubber creates moisture which actually makes the friction less and even if the effect you think it has was truely happening (which I dispute) it is pointless if it only works on soft rubbers, because it's hard rubbers that feel like a brick in that scenario, not soft ones.

If the effect of warming the rubber 20 minutes with direct heat from a heating device disappears after being exposed to the sub 15° Celsius in mere minutes, you technique will not make a dent.

Fascinating....the person who has problems in the cold....telling a person who doesn't they are wrong.....Basic rubber science says otherwise. I am going to leave this with the you not solving the problem with top pro players in the world are certainly not breathing on their rubbers and running them to have less friction.

 

[jk1980]

Lol, i highly doubt any top player would play in temperatures below 15° C, but hey.. whatever makes you feel good with your below elementary school fantasy physics.

 

[MORTtheORT]

Lol, i highly doubt any top player would play in temperatures below 15° C, but hey.. whatever makes you feel good with your below elementary school fantasy physics.

Or science school. I recommend breathing on your rubber and rubbing it with your palm and reporting back if the rubber stays frictionless due the moisture...or does it start to grip again as you rub it...but hey, you keep having problems with the cold. That is on you, not me.