Well, Actually I was thinking about making it sort of more a tournament, more than a fundraiser... Maybe at the end of this year or next year the I'll organise a guiness one... :)

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Adam - this is really just a fund raiser event (like Adz said) as I described - not for the Guinnes Book of Records, and there was really no winners or losers; maybe the club who managed to keep the court going the longest was the winner (no the club who raised the most money was the winner I think in our case), but the recipient of the money was the ultimate winner I suppose too.   Chris will always talk about this when he reflects on his journey to become a top pro player I am sure.  Squash got a good plug.
There was no format but just for the appointed player by that club (mostly a top junior)  for that court to keep hitting the ball no matter who they had on court.
It was a chance for the juniors to meet other club players, and something for the Grandma's and Pa's to do on their way home from the pictures, and spend a few bob on raffle tickets etc. and see their grandchildren in action...kids dropping off to sleep on the seats, etc.

Hey, nobody has to follow what the others did, invent your own thing using ideas from all of the posts.  If you have no juniors well you are euchered, but you may have other clientelle, eg businesses appointed to each court Ford, Holden, Subaru, etc. and I guess it depends on the cause etc. too....

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You may have missed my earlier point....... There was one guy who was on court nearly all the time and others on court for most of the 48 hours. Keep in mind that this included kids as young as 8 (and ours was in fancy dress with the longest guy dressed as a polar-bear!).

If this is a competition to see who falters first then I can understand where you're coming from about the rests, but most "squashathons" I've ever heard about were for charity, and the idea wasn't to try to kill the people taking part through exhaustion, dehydration and fatigue (although the idea certainly sounds like it could be fun! )

 

As for tactics:

Charity: JUST HAVE FUN!

Competition: Try to run as little as possible and make your opponents run round in circles for as long as you can. Rest when you get the chance. Keep hydrated. Keep the glucose levels up. As well as eating quick sources of glucose eat slow sources that will kick in later in the competition.

Hope that helps explain why people were allowed off court in my squashathon (without getting whipped or anything!).

Cheers

Adz

 

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"operated on a round robin basis where people could go off for a rest as and when they needed to"...

 

To me, That is not really a squash-a-thon seeming as you can go off for a break aslong as you want to when you need to...?

 

Also, What Are some tactics for squashathons?

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Lucky for us Welshies that Chris decided to stay!

I've played in a Squashathon for 48hrs before now. There were 4 courts and each court was kind of different. One court contained a guy who stayed on there virtually non-stop (toilet breaks and small rest breaks allowed for safety!). Other courts (which I was on) operated on a round robin basis where people could go off for a rest as and when they needed to. The others participated in a 3-quarter game or routines. The first 36 hours were easy, but the last 12 seemed to last a week!

Get plenty of sleep in the days leading up to the event and make sure to keep yourself well watered during it!



Adz

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Thanks Rita, I though of some of that stuff, but youu mentioned some other great stuff in there which I forgot aswell,

 

But, my main question(I probably rambled on a bit) is what is the playing format, Is it One on One for  Like 12 hours straight and as many points as you can get or, Is it like a continuos round robin system?

 

There are many ways, But I'm not quite sure which is the best/most sensible way...

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Adam - do it how you reckon and it will depend on a few things.  Years ago when I had a great Committee we organised a Squas-a-thon for Chris Robertson to fund his first overseas trip. It went something like this, from memory:

• We started on the Saturday afternoon and went till 7am the next morning.
• We got a bit of sponsorships for orange juice, bread, prizes (for raffles), sold sandwiches to the spectators, got each junior club to provide a King of the Court (usually their top junior), allocated one court to each club, that club was responsible for that court and players to keep their King of Court going.
• Basically any junior who wanted to join was welcome.
• Each junior club raised money with raffles,eg  sports towels, rackets, bags..
• In return for the effort of the junior club I then took Chris to each of those junior clubs and he spent an afternoon playing there with the members.
• His parents and others made the sandwiches, and at each court there was drink and a plate as the players came off court.
  

We raised over $1000 and that was worth a bit more than it is today of course - enough to provide his return airfare.

I see no reason why something along those lines would not work.
Set up a committee and away you go.
Good luck.

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