Portable Basketball Hoops

When do you need Portable Basketball Hoops vs. Inground Basketball Hoops?

There is a time a place to use a portable basketball hoop and when to use an inground basketball hoop. The implied uses from the product names makes a very clear distinction that one is portable and one is not. But why the choice? Hopefully we can give you some things to think about as you make your selection.

Portable Basketball Hoops Reasons to Buy

Starting off with portable basketball hoops, this design is revolutionary for the consumer basketball line since it gives people great flexibility in when and where they set up their basketball court. If for instance you had a small driveway which limited your space to play basketball and park your cars, using it for either one or the other, the portable basketball system would allow you to move the hoop out of the way to park your cars and move it back into place to play basketball. If you do not own your property on which you live, the portable system gives you the option to still have a basketball court since you would not have to put the system into the ground. Do you get bad, windy, stormy weather during a certain part of the season? A portable basketball hoop will allow you to easily put your system down to keep it from blowing over, which could have done damage to both the system and your property.

Inground Basketball Systems Reasons to Buy

Inground basketball hoops have a slightly different use than portable basketball hoops. Inground systems are perfect for when you have dedicated space to use as a basketball court such as a sport court or a larger driveway. Use an inground system when you do not foresee needing to set up and take down your system on a regular basis. An inground basketball system is also great when you do not have to worry about bad weather damaging your system or trees falling on the system due to the bad weather. Because portable basketball hoops are portable, they do have a possibility to tip over if the unit is abused during play; having an inground system largerly removes that problem since the pole is either anchored or partially emerged into ground. Related to this would be the materials and varieties available in either an inground basketball hoop or a portable basketball hoop. Inground systems have many options that provide you a glass backboard (same material as used in the NCAA and the NBA). Because glass is heavier than a comparable size backboard in acrylic or polycarbonate, nearly all portable basketball goals do not have a glass backboard because the exceeding weight that puts on the rest of the system and the increased likelihood of tipping over. So if playability is a major concern, an inground system that provides a glass backboard would be another good reason to look into an inground hoop.

With that said, there are probably a dozen other reasons to go with either an inground hoop or a portable hoop. Hopefully this has touched on some of the reasons you need to consider before making your decision. Any questions or any other advice, please comment in the comments section.

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What are some differences between Lifetime Basketball and Spalding Basketball Products?

Lifetime Basketball Products and Spalding Sports are essentially direct competitors when it comes to residential basketball systems. They go after similar target markets, i.e. home and personal sport courts, and thus have very similar products. Some of the comparisons below for their basketball line jargon should be helpful.

Lifetime Products' Quick adjust is comparable to Spalding's Exacta-Height The Exacta-Height probably has the advantage over the Quick Adjust because the Exacta-height uses a handle, whereas the Quick adjust requires a broomstick. Both are difficult to use however.

Lifetime Products' Action Grip is comparable to the Helix Lift from Spalding. Both of these are squeeze handles that are gripped and then pushed up or down. These allow height adjustments with a little less effort The Quick Adjust and Exacta-height methods.

Lifetime Products' Power Lift is comparable to the Spalding's U-Turn mechanism. Both of these allow the user to move the hoop height up and down between 7.5 ft and 10 ft with infinite increments. Lifetime's Power Lift probably has the advantage in that they use the handle method that is used the Action Grip and Helix lift, but instead of moving in 6 inch increments, it allows the user to release the handle at any point, essentially giving you infinite height selection. The U-Turn system is a turn crank located below most backboards on the Spalding system. This mechanism tends to be more awkwardly placed and a little more tedious to use since you must turn the crank many times to move the backboard up and down.

If you have further comparisons that might be helpful for customer's information in purchasing, please leave your comments below.

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Lifetime Basketball Hoop - Spalding Basketball System

Here is a quick comparison between Lifetime Basketball and Huffy / Spalding Basketball. Lifetime Basketball systems have overtaken the consumer basketball hoop industry. Because of this, Lifetime Products offers a far larger range in basketball hoops than is currently offered by Huffy. It is typically easier to find the right match with Lifetime hoops than with Huffy because of the larger selection. They offer many types of basketball backboard and rim combos to portable basketball hoops to inground basketball systems. And within each of these categories, Lifetime Basketball offers a large assortment of products from begginer level hoops to professional size glass backboard systems.

Huffy offers similar products but much fewer of them as compared with Lifetime Basketball. Huffy does offer great systems, since they have been around longer. They have major contracts with colleges and professional leagues to provide basketball equipment for stadiums. These things certainly make their line worth looking at and comparing. More on these products later.

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Competitive Edge Products, Inc. vs. The Competitive Edge

This will be a quick post hopefully to help out current and future customers. We often get customers who call in or email us and ask us about products like scales and similar fitness items. While we, Competitive Edge Products, Inc., do sell similar items there is a similar company called The Competitive Edge that these customers are actually looking for. The dead give away is when they ask for scales, which we don't carry and never have carried. At the same time, after talking to some reps from The Competitive Edge, they get customers asking them for basketball hoops, which they don't carry, who are actually looking for us. Please visit our Competitive Edge storefront site if you are looking for camping equipment, basketball hoops, Lifetime Products, folding tables, folding chairs, office equipment, and fitness equipment.

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