How complicated it is sometimes to find a companion to play sports. Not that it’s necessary, but we all know that exercising in company has numerous benefits.
However, how we also like to “go our own way”!, without depending on anyone but ourselves… For a soccer game we need at least one more person who would be our opponent, for running baseball or badminton too , and even for paddle tennis and tennis… But if what we want is to play sports alone, in addition to opting for running, we can choose racquetball, with more than 100 years of history that continues to have many followers.
It is a sport that was born in Mexico thanks to tennis; Apparently, it was the most famous tennis players of the time who began to hit the ball on the walls of the clubs, inspiring what is now known as frontis.
This activity requires great mobility, dexterity, mental agility, excellent psychomotor coordination and adequate physical-sports preparation.
Benefits of racquetball
Like any other sport, racquetball encompasses many benefits. You are exercising your body, so it will help improve coordination, agility, strength and mobility. It also helps increase muscle mass, improves flexibility and strengthens bones (prevention of osteoporosis). By moving from one place to another, it improves aerobic and anaerobic capacity, lowers blood pressure and helps manage and solve problems.
how to play
To play this sport, you will need two main tools: a racket and a ball. The racquet for racquetball is the same as the tennis racket, that is, large with grids. As for the ball, it is rubber with gas inside.
Frontenis is played on a court, known as a fronton, 30 x 10 x 10 cm (length, height and width), and it is the wall located in the front, where all the balls must touch so that the plays are valid. This space is usually made of concrete or quartz, and we will have to throw the ball at the marks on the wall to establish the score and the distance of the game. On the ground we will also find divisions that will determine the distance of the serves, short area and long area. This sport can be individual or team, and the person or team that gets 25 points first wins (with a difference of two between them), and it is forbidden to hit the ball with parts of the body, except for the hands.
Although racquetball was born in Mexico, it became popular in Spain and Argentina as well, and today it is practiced in many more such as the US, Italy, France or Costa Rica.
