Recently I read a very interesting article on sports medicine in one of the best magazines. The article was related to human muscles and the threads between the muscles, which gave quick success in full strength and relaxation. For example, a runner, or someone doing low weight cubes in a gym, can quickly move muscles, and this thread will move back and forth. It seemed to me that if we wanted to update the squash game, we could create a squash ball with a thread inside which it would move.
Imagine that for a second if you can; when you hit a squash ball, and depending on how hard you hit it, the thread will begin to change, changing the shape of the ball into an aerodynamic profile, the shape of a wing. When the ball hit the rear shield, the thread would have recovered, and the shape of the wing would return to the player. This would make the sport a faster, faster pace, and, indeed, would be more fun for players. Is this something we can do for squash to increase the level of the game, and to keep the sport from dying out due to other more intense sports with higher levels of arousal?
And why stop at this strategy only with playing squash? What if we recycle golf balls, baseballs, footballs and hockey pucks? What if we used a high-tech, innovative approach to materials using material memory technology to take all sports to another level? Now, I believe, there will always be those who do not want “their” sport to develop.
In the end, we saw it with the advent of snowboarding over skis. Many people ask themselves the question of how these sports play today, and they can say something like; “Don't you dare to play baseball,” or hockey, or football, or cricket, or any of several sports.
However, we have a lot of hybrid sports that people play for fun, like frisbee football. What if we tinker with some of these sports, as well as equipment and see what we come up with? I think that we could find that we would have a new interest in sports, new enthusiasts and more people who play in their free time, even if they were only in the local park.
If we could keep the squash game from dying on the vine, because today fewer people will play, it will be good, and let the face when it comes to these other sports - none of us can hit the ball, as in the pros, but perhaps it will give us more chances to hit at least one of the park from time to time. I hope you please consider all this and think about it.
