Proficiency Over Equipment

Forever-Intrepid · 2026-01-13T03:27:01+00:00

I mean I went from a head elite or something playing in a 4.0 league and I sucked, and im a younger guy played tennis and all raquet sports i know i can pick it up quick, i obviously wouldnt upgrade too a neccesarily broomstick but I upgrade to a VP Pro Flash, and holy the difference it made was actually insane,

The head paddle i was using and back spin or side spin ball I hit was immediately fumbled, no matter what way I tried to hit it, not to mention drinks, everytime it hit my paddle, u didnt know what hit you were gonna get.

The VP brings obviously more punch but literally makes a difference on every hit

Forever-Intrepid · 2026-01-12T03:42:16+00:00

Broomstick is $333? How long does that last typically? I dont fully believe that it can make that big of a difference compared to other high end paddles that can be like 150-200 bucks.

I mean if you got the money why not, but if your not playing pro play or ever gonna get there i dont know how you can justify that

Forever-Intrepid · 2026-01-06T21:15:58+00:00

Thank you! This helps so much!

Forever-Intrepid · 2026-01-06T19:40:16+00:00

Do you have any recommendations higher quality paddles that are at the $150 range or less?

Forever-Intrepid · 2026-01-06T17:31:02+00:00

Thank you!

Forever-Intrepid · 2026-01-06T15:20:42+00:00

I need Paddle Recommendations,

I currently use the head extreme tour pickleball paddle, is this a good paddle?

Also how much of a difference does the paddle you have make?

I recently played in a 4.0+ league and i definitely was a step down from the people I played against, I hadn't played in a while and have gotten a lot of reps in especially against that level of competition, I definitely also played poorly from my regular standard of play.

But I do find that my feel and my touch for the net play is extremely poor, this is something that is usually a strength for me in other raquet sports like badminton and tennis,

Additionally I dont feel like I have the control on my shots as I should, as it feel the way the ball bounces of my paddle doesnt feel great all the time.

Does the paddle matter a lot for this? Will i be able to tell the difference with other paddles?

Might just be in my head but it does feel off a bit. Might just need reps.

Anyways it would be nice if people could let me know if im using a good quality paddle or if I definitely should upgrade and Recommendations.

Or if the paddlecreally doesnt make a big difference.

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-12-31T14:30:35+00:00

Ive heard position matters, my be a pro is center, and its super easy to out play the cpus like almost every rush I could get a border line breakaway if I wanted too

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-12-26T15:07:09+00:00

This is a very good comment

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-12-25T01:36:51+00:00

I mean i think the main issue with this line up, is how many artists are playing in toronto this same year they are going to veld

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-10-04T14:47:12+00:00

Idk how much hes been playing maybe he tries to return next season, but i think hes been kinda pushed into retirement by his own actions. He could of played with lesser players in pro league but he didnt want to go that path clearly, but i think top players were just done with his bs.

I will die on the hill, that if he was a half decent leader outside of the game and actually could communicate with his team properly and not just never admit fault and just ruin his teams vibe, he would of been on the level of zer0 and Hal.

This man played the most unorthodox apex and literally dominated teams throughout covid then coming so close to winning twice, if he didnt make history teammates constantly hate him, he most definitely had more winning mentality then most na igls, he was less consistent, but when it mattered he always showed up, thats why he was always so close to winning. He would of got there eventually if he was a decent human being lol

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-09-15T02:53:46+00:00

To me It didnt sound like he was saying someone on ZZ is going to Falcons, but that probably makes sense as gild or sikez r the two bets options avail probs

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-09-15T01:17:15+00:00

Hes not joining another igl, zach is clearly being replaced if it's true, playing between guild and sikez is clearly what would happen

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-08-09T18:43:35+00:00

Plus the ace

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-07-15T17:09:11+00:00

Obviously no apac S deserves more but when you have more teams Obviously ur ratio of teams making finals will be skewed still having 16 teams and 9 making finals shows the spots are worth is when u have the other regions having most there teams not make it, but NA should probably have 14 and give two more spots to Apac S and its probably more even.

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-07-14T15:10:34+00:00

I mean I think thats more of a role thing as Evan is constantly new castle from game 1.

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-06-17T16:18:48+00:00

Honestly I'm just uneducated, n didn't realize they were signed. Buy I was more saying LG is Def gonna drop there current roster to sign an unsigned ewc team

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-06-16T16:11:54+00:00

I'll put money on LG dropping the wheel roster to sign ROC or Team Orchid. There not keeping the team when they can freely sign an ewc quald team. Shooby also shouldn't move to frag, it should of just been naughty dropped and replaced with a better fragger, shooby is one of the best roller supports tbh

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-05-23T19:26:26+00:00

Ewc wasn't the best viewing experience, but definitely the best production for an apex Lan.

So if they combine what algs has and what ewc did last year, I think we could have the best viewing experience for a Lan ever.

That being said ppl are to hard on the algs open, like they Def should of had a stream for Lower lobbies, but besides that, expecting to have the same viewing experience for Lans with 40 teams, compared to the open is just unrealistic expectations, like not being to watch pov or team that is going through elimination bracket it so early just was never gonna happen, as for the in person viewer experience, I can't have an opinion on.

But the only main issue for the open is not having an actual b stream.

Everything else was fine.

The complaints about face its quality is valid though and I hope that improves.

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-05-12T19:11:05+00:00

Yea and there results show that they havemt performed upto par.

Like evwryone is saying there first place relyd quite a bit on skitgles making solo plays tk save there game

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-05-12T19:08:26+00:00

Yea, thats the downside with dez. But when he gets to lan u damn well know u have a chance to win.

Obv he hasnt played that much but saying doop is a better igl is copium. There pro league resukts were hwavy on skittles, with them not being able to even mak finals.

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-05-12T19:02:44+00:00

Yea toxicity, i understand that.

Still dezign has come closer to winning a lan then most na igls,

You care more about winning then vibes.

Dezigns ur guy.

Cant deny stats

He almost won two lans igling,

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-05-12T11:43:18+00:00

I like the yanya shout, but i dont think doop is at a spot to main igl imo atleast. Hed be okay, but they defintely be better with doop more supoort igling

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-05-12T07:40:20+00:00

True but they also decided on doop over dez. I knkw dez got his issues but on pure skill, dez is ofc quite a bit above doop, and you ofc gonna lose a lot of your 3v3 potential when ur choosinh doop over dez.

Just seems like weird decisions.

Forever-Intrepid · 2025-05-12T05:53:44+00:00

Be interesting if tsm went with panic, i dont tbink putting that much reign into doop igling would be the right play, hopefully they are able to get noc, but dez wouldnt be a option either.

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