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Old 09-01-2025, 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by michgary View Post
As every one knows, or should know, tennis players bring their own tennis balls. They often play with older balls that do not bounce well. Until someone coughs up a can.
Pickle balls must be the dirtiest objects in TV. Never washed and played with for months, with sweat and snot all over them.
You can wipe off your own golf ball every hole.
The present pickleballs they are buying don’t last very long before they get soft or crack. Ruff surface applied courts surface increase wear factor. The Vulcan pro balls are little softer should last longer and retain bounce. Duralast 40s are about as expensive and are harder plastic which can in-cure defects like out of round, gets soft it heat and brittle cracks in winter which makes them unplayable in short time. So in theory they might be saving money in long run and getting better product… we should appreciate village recreation effort trying to supply better product.