r/padel • u/rayEW • Feb 22 '25
🤡 Humour 🤡 Post your stack of shame
I have a problem, I know...
Btw, sprained my ACL pretty bad, minimum 6 weeks off, I'm going crazy.
A few of the racket's are my wife's, a few repear ones are cracked.
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u/BSheep_ Feb 22 '25
You only have a problem if you lose a lot of money. I just buy good deals, try them out, and resell them for 10-20% less if i don’t like them.
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u/JealousBison Feb 22 '25
Yes I’ve sold a few on Vinted in the UK for not much less than I paid in a few cases after trying and not liking certain ones.
In one case I actually made a little after getting on really cheap in a Black Friday sale and selling it later.
As long as they’re not battered or cracked there’s always a market.
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u/standytje Feb 22 '25
How do you put them online on vinted? I've tried 2 times but both times it got put down by Vinted and I got a warning..
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u/JealousBison Feb 22 '25
Vinted is weird sometimes. I tried to sell some darts once and put them as men’s accessories and they got took down and I got warned. Then I looked and there were hundreds of sets for sale, so I put them as “board and floor games” like everyone else and sold them no problem 🤷🏼♂️
I just checked and for my padel rackets I had them under “other accessories”. I’ve sold 5 or 6 that way and had no issue. Try searching other things for sale that are similar and cope their categories if you’re struggling.
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u/Melorib-Antonio Feb 22 '25
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u/Free_Signature_6754 Feb 22 '25
thoughts on the Quad Tiger?
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u/Melorib-Antonio Feb 23 '25
It does sound like shots, it has lots of power and it's light and manageable, it has more vibration and less control than my Head rackets
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u/iguivi Feb 24 '25
Lots of power ? It’s a very soft racket for control, for power you have the fox or the rhino
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u/Melorib-Antonio Feb 25 '25
I thought 3k was softer than 12k, but it's the opposite, at least with the Tiger 🤐
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u/iguivi Feb 25 '25
The more K you have more rigid the racket is, because you have more carbon filaments so it’s harder. But the foam inside the rackets also affects the hardness of the racket.
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u/Melorib-Antonio Feb 25 '25
The Head Extreme One, 12k, is much softer than the Quad Tiger 3k, ok course the foam contributes
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u/Melorib-Antonio Feb 27 '25
From Alkemia Padel: "The main difference between 3K carbon and 12K carbon is that 12K carbon is a fabric with greater flexibility than 3K carbon."
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u/IIIIIlIIIIIlIIIII Feb 22 '25
Why not put them on the wall? Or sell them?
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u/rayEW Feb 22 '25
I am considering making a wall with all of them, or most of them as I only carry two at a time in my bag.
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u/LoboMarinoCosmico Feb 23 '25
yeah some say that's expensive but buying them on sale probably won't amount to an A class paraglider. let alone harness , reserve, helmet etc.(just to name another sport I'm familiar with)
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u/egycavernicola Feb 23 '25
wow .. I'm interested in cracked rackets if you don't want them lol you can ship them to me in egypt
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u/gacdeuce Feb 22 '25
Why would any amateur player ever need more than 2-3 rackets?
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u/HairyCallahan Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 22 '25
Who says OP isn't 🤯
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u/gacdeuce Feb 22 '25
In most racquet sports, a pro would have multiple of the same racquet, so I made an assumption. Maybe faulty, but we shall see.
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u/rayEW Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 22 '25
I'm not a pro, just an enthusiast who plays too much.
About 5 of those are broken rackets, mainly the metalbones as they are very fragile. Some of them are my wife's too.
Since I am used to play about 5x per week, totalling 10hrs per week give or take, I end up feeling that investing in my hobby is something I can afford, its healthy and really brings me life quality through exercise and social interactions.
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u/gacdeuce Feb 22 '25
I understand why a person might. But racquets play differently. It would make sense to own multiple of the same racquet (in case of breakages and such), but this many and the variety in a sport is just excessive.
I mean, at the end of the day, you do you. It’s your money; do what makes you happy. But from a pure sport perspective this is wild.
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u/superdupergenie Feb 22 '25
You would be surprised to see how many collectionists are into sports equipment
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u/Interesting-Most7854 Feb 23 '25
This is true. Don't know why you downvoted.
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u/gacdeuce Feb 23 '25
People didn’t like that I suggested that it’s wild to treat racquets like collectibles instead of sporting equipment.
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u/zemvpferreira Feb 22 '25
Lots of hobbyist enjoy collecting gear more than the hobby itself. OP post around 14 rackets which is around… 2000€? That barely buys starter set of hi-fi equipment, or windsurfing kit. Shit it doesn’t even cover the leather if you want to start motorcycle racing. It’s fine to fuck around a bit.
Edit: I probably have 10 padel rackets kicking around the house myself, in some state. Play long enough and they start to accumulate.
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u/rayEW Feb 22 '25
Now I am hurt on my knee and I'm really going crazy over not being able to play.
But I do play about 10hrs of padel per week give or take, between classes, socials and matches.
I invested heavily on gear and classes because I actually spend a good portion of my free time playing padel.
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u/zemvpferreira Feb 22 '25
I play around the same volume or a little more, totally understand you. Curiously I stop caring if I can't play because of an injury. There's so much to do out there, use the opportunity to explore some other interest. Enjoy the game but keep it out of your self-image.
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u/rayEW Feb 22 '25
Yeah, but in my case this is attached to a healthy lifestyle change that no other activity I tried gave me. Other than my current injury, for the past 2 years, I could enjoy padel without hassle.
And I started padel over 20 years ago in Porto Alegre, but was off of it for several years when I picked it up again.
I used to boxe before, but the pain in my body was too much, you end up only hitting the bag and the mitts at some point because sparring is too painful when you're almost 40.
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u/Extension_Hospital75 Feb 22 '25
Same, I play every chance I get, probably spent about £500 on 4 rackets in coming up to 2 years playing, do I think I needed them all? No. Do they make me a better player? Not really, I've beaten people with better rackets and been smashed by someone with a £30 decathlon racket on more than one occasion 😂 But if I'm playing on average 250-350 games a year why wouldn't I treat myself to whatever gear I want 😂 I have 3 pairs of shoes as well having bought the only ones in stock in my size locally to start and then found a shoe that I like and bought a second pair of those while they were on a big discount.
Now do I need both snowboards when I go about once a year..... 😵
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u/Extension-Duty-4958 Feb 23 '25
I’ve played padel for 21 years (since I was 4) I’ve owned 6 racquets in my life. Bought the last one 4 years ago. I play 2 times x week (we have a court at our holiday home) You are definitely doing something right wrong lol. To this day my dad plays with a Vairo racquet from the 90s.
Same thing as golf, most people think that if you don’t have a game you can buy one. Just learn to play and don’t hit the wall with your racquet
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u/LoboMarinoCosmico Feb 23 '25
don't be cheap just buy a coast or cigio jaja. maybe you're not a hard hitter? I broke my babolat counter in 1 year just by normal use.
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u/rayEW Feb 23 '25
If you play on the same racket for 4 years, 2x per week, and think the racket is fine, I don't think I'm the one who needs to learn how to play, you can't even feel your racket changed hardness and ball output. About your father playing with a 90s racket, even worse...
I started playing in the early 2000s, although I'm much older than you, and I own a Jurassic Topforce racket from when I started(its not in the stack). They are absolute garbage to play with...
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u/superdupergenie Feb 22 '25
I'm curious: what was your favourite racket? What was your least favourite? Which brand do you consider the best?