Tourney: London Open 2012 - August 25th and 26th

give mine to beginners too i guess.

First from right - Mine, for beginners please

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Found this on my camera along with an arse but can't figure out who it is? Kept me busy for an evening though.

thats brilliant. blue chunk shirt, little bit ginger down there. (no its not me)

Why and when was it on my camera?

Whose are these keys?

Those are Ste's shorts in the arse photo no?

Could be. Who's the sexy lady though?

Also, who was chucking around those bamboo socks? Put them on today and they're mega comfy/

where do we collect lost property from?

My place in Bethnal Green, just shoot me a PM to arrange a date/time, or I can bring to throw-ins.

Was thinking about the boards you use to make the courts - how to make them more stable. I noticed the boards that they're using for the paralympic football were constructed in a similar way to the one's we used but were tilted back a bit. A 6-8" lean seems to steady them right up. Doing the corners might be more difficult but it would give people foot room so that they put less weight on the top of the boards. I'm not sure how the ball would react to angled boards though.

Surely planks between the outside braces could be stood on by spectators, giving them a better view and keeping the boards up?

^ would be a bitch getting the uprights flush with leaning boards and the ground.

Surely planks between the outside braces could be stood on by spectators, giving them a better view and keeping the boards up?

Works to a degree, but only if you actually have spectators. Sandbags or other applied weights works pretty well. The thickness and weight of the boards have a lot to say as well.

It's all dependent on your budget, it would be easy to design better courts, but the trick is how to use the same amount of material.

This year we should have had a length of 2" x 4" running along the back of the uprights (as in LO2011) and should have had a full height upright where the boards met, this would of added 160 lengths of 2" x 4" to the cost though (£350 or so), but would have made them much more rigid.

I also think 12mm panels were too thin this year (but were much easier to handle), 15mm is ideal but I thought we might be able to get away with 12mm (not so as they warped too easily in my opinion), again 15mm is more expensive.

playing wise i was 100% happy with the courts. it was only as a spectator that i went "whoops" a few times as i leaned a bit hard. Take form that what you will.

ha ha these shorts!

For me boards were a real issue at london open this year, dangerous for players and crowd and really hard to play: no bounces and snaky shape of the courts. Hopefully nothing bad really happens. I thought players knew that checking people into these was kind of unsafe so we didn't see to much pushing in the boards play, but every time it happens, the shape of the courts moved.
If you use thin boards for sur you have to provide a frame behind to make them more rigid. But yes that's more expensive.

Sandbag looked useless too, provide step for spectator for using them as bigger sandbag.

Was it impossible to get the board from LO 2011 back?

They were a bit mouldy and no-one wanted to move them. We struggled for money this year. We are capable of better courts, etc.

London Open 2012 Highlights on Vimeo

So many highlights!

Felix, Ryan, Eric Kremin. You all made that video awesome.

Nice one Chan.

Nice!

Great vid, love the slo-mo-shotgun celebration from Ryan... :)

And that Chan saved pretty much the 1st shot of a shot for himself.

I think the victory celebrations were tops this year! Ryan shooting a cannon, Will running alongside his bike, Kremin doing his cum face... spectacular...