Low Noise Basketball
Low Noise Basketball
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Can anyone help me find a low noise basketball? The car pad next door has some teenagers playing basketball. It's 6 feet from our front bay window. It's not so much the sound noise as it is the vibration off the concrecte pad that is producing a steady series of shocks as I try to read the newapaper.(windows closed tight!)
I've been to 2 local sports stores but they only have real basketballs.
Any and all advice welcome.
I've been to 2 local sports stores but they only have real basketballs.
Any and all advice welcome.





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I think it was E-A-R Corp that passed out some samples to demonstrate their damped rubber material. They looked exactly like SuperBalls, but no matter how hard you threw them at the floor, they'd just sort of thud, rebound an inch or two, fall to the floor and just lay there.
Recogizing that a lot of the elasticity of a basketball comes from the pressurized air within, nevertheless a ball made of that material would sure take a lot of energy out of the game. I wonder if you'd even be able to dribble it.
Got front money for a batch of custom energy absorbing basketballs?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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I remember it was answered extensively at that time; if it wasn't you, you might want to do a little search.
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