Reddit mentions: The best volleyball court equipment

As someone who lives in south mission beach, and plays frequently, Ill break it down for you. If you're all the way south at the jetty, those are "challenge courts" and they have rules posted on the posts. Weekday daytime shouldnt be an issue at all, but once 5 oclock hits those courts will generally be mobbed with people trying to play. Challenge court means that even if you're there first, someone can call "next" and youd have to honor it, and most likely, if you're beginner level and in a group, youd have to plays 2s, probably lose the game, and the court as its now the winners court. The more northern row of the jetty courts tends to be friendlier to groups while the row of courts nearest the lot tends to be the big boys. You're also probably less likely to get kicked off a womens net as those seem to lend themselves to womens games and coed group games. On the weekend, those courts can be used for closed games (no challenges allowed) until 10am, but then revert to challenge courts again at 10. If you move slightly north to Cohasset and Dover courts, those arent technically challenge courts, but there will be some advanced players on the Cohasset red courts tuesday, wednesday, thursday evening and weekends at 8 that will claim rights. The purple, green, yellow and blue courts on Dover are very coed/group friendly, non challenge courts that can be found open more than the red cohasset courts on the weekdays, and weekends theyll generally be taken by 8 or 9, and open back up by 1 depending on the crowds. Anything north of that are usually just posts and youd need your own net and lines to set up (same with the Pit across from Belmont park). If youre really trying to get into volleyball, and foresee many games with your friends and dont want to deal with the hassle of challenge courts, and avoid the dread of going to play only to find there are no courts open and dont want to assert yourself on challenge courts, you and the gang can always get your own net to set up for fairly cheap and never have to worry about public courts and getting the boot! I know thats a lot to take in, but it can be a little confusing and intimidating out there, and just wanna set you up for success and awesome volleyball!

Spectrum Classic Volleyball Net - Amazon

Hey! I also live in Chicago and have an entire beach set up for this summer. I got my net from Amazon, but mines a little heavy duty and honestly is kind of a pain to set up (it has steel cables and I use ratchet straps), but once it’s set up it’s beautiful.

If you want a simple tie down net, I’d recommend the HD2 from here:

https://www.volleyballusa.com/volleyball-nets/beach-volleyball-nets/

Here’s the net that I bought. I love it because the top and bottom of the net get super tight with the ratchet straps, so the ball rolls off the net beautifully. But like I said it’s kind of a pain to set up because it’s heavy and the steel cables are longer than the width of the poles, so you have to wrap one end around a couple times.


Park & Sun Sports Regulation Size Indoor/Outdoor Professional Volleyball Net with Steel Cable Top and Bottom, Blue https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009PVUR8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_-iQmDb5YRQHK6

You can’t go wrong with either of those though.

I've got Ortlieb Panniers. Somewhat pricey but have had them 3 yrs now and still going strong. A few minor repairs needed. But still 100% waterproof which is a must for london. I have no concern when it comes to rain with these.

Rack wise it's pretty basic. Topeak Explorer Tubular Rack Disc Brake version with spring flap. Pretty close to that. Not sure I have the spring flap. I have bungy cords instead

If you're looking for something for grass and portable, I bought a Park and Sun Classic net and it's pretty good. It's relatively easy to set up once you get the instructions right and hasn't seemed to sag at all. I use it mainly to practice spikes on so it gets banged on and holds up well. I will eventually start a meetup group for grass using it. I only wish it the bottom was more taught - you won't recover any balls that hit/roll off the net with this one.

I played on this net yesterday and it was actually really great. I have the Spectrum Classic by Park and Sun. Then net at Costco is Not as good as the Spectrum classic. (but it's also $190 cheaper).

If you want a quality net, and aren't going to be shelling out over $230 any time soon, I highly recommend this net. I can't believe it's only $70 after the discount. (It comes with a shitty ball, and you might want to go to Home Depot and buy a few flat head nails so you can hammer the net into the ground. Other than that I was very impressed by everything in the bag. Note: the poles are steel instead of aluminum, thus it is heavier the the Spectrum Classic

edit: Sorry, reread and noticed you probably were asking about a net system, not a net. We have an old Senoh (Sports Imports) as that was the top of the line at the time. Not sure about now.

We ordered two nets last year from a no-name brand. The top cable snapped the first time we put it up.

I looked earlier this season for nets on Amazon. The only one I could find was this one from Champion Sports:

https://www.amazon.com/Champion-Sports-Official-Olympic-Volleyball/dp/B000LY0NLG/ref=sr_1_8?s=sports-and-fitness&ie=UTF8&qid=1473186910&sr=1-8&keywords=volleyball+nets

Note that it ships in 1-3 months.

We wound up ordering Senoh net for $400. Yeah, ouch.

Within your price range, Park & Sun SPORT nets are the best IMO for quick, easy, and sturdy setup in grass (I think they have sand kits too). The nets are high quality and you can make them very tight so the ball plays well out of the net.

Slightly more expensive than your 100 dollar mark, but they've got other nets to chose from that are more entry level

https://www.amazon.com/Park-Sun-Sports-Regulation-Professional/dp/B0009PVUR8/ref=sr_1_1?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1512756979&sr=1-1&keywords=park+and+sun+bc-400

If you have more to spend though the Park & Sun SPECTRUM nets can't be beat. I've got 2 of them

You could possible pick up something like this and some U-bolts. You would probably require an intermediate plate as the pole looks like it is quite a large diameter.

The problem you might have is better clamps run about the same price as entire stands.

Out of the price range but you can't go wrong with this

If you want one level up (better for the beach), get this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004EFZ7GY?psc=1

This ticks all your boxes

I used one when I was commuting with a 17 inch laptop, never let me down. It attaches to your rack at an angle to prevent heel strike with a bag that big.

How about a few of these lashed together? Not the prettiest, but it'd work, dagnabbit!