Nothing quite like playing sport in the rain. Everyone else thinks I’m crazy, but I personally believe that THEY are the crazy ones. Playing in the rain just means that you get to be the best, because you become so good at playing in those conditions that you’re booking it when it’s dry.
Same basic principle as runners running up in the mountains where there’s less oxygen. Then they come down to ground level and beta everyone at the Olympics. Easy as that.
Luckily the local club lets me play in the rain, on the condition that I dry everything off afterwards. That’s probably the biggest pain. Ever hauled in a massive bundle of soggy cricket nets and tried to get them dry for tomorrow’s game? And look, it’s not a huge deal for them to be wet anyway. It’s not like being wet makes them any less effective as sports nets. But those are the rules…you practice in the rain, you dry things off. Many a time I’ve just thought that I should find myself an indoor cricket place, with dry indoor cricket nets. But then that would defeat the entire purpose of my quest to be the very best in rain or shine, not to mention that I kinda like the rain. Not like it rains every day. Oh, and the people. Once it’s raining, you get the whole place to yourself…mostly because they’re all at the indoor sports centres.
No time for that. I have a rousing, solo game of rain tennis to play. I do find that most sports are rain-friendly if you have eye protection. The people at the club really don’t mind the tennis nets being soaking, since they tend to be sturdy and stay in one place anyway. I’d only count out one, and that’s rain badminton. Even in light rain, those little shuttlecocks are just unpredictable. That’s a sport best kept indoors, where you can thwock them into the sports netting and they STILL drift off course. I really don’t *get* badminton…
-Bryce