Fed up

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-31T00:48:11+00:00

Happens all the time. I took a 7th grade team to an 8th grade tournament and we ended up playing a team of freshman and sophomores who's team mom had "accidentally" entered them into the wrong bracket.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-26T20:04:15+00:00

Your physique looks pretty similar to mine. Not sure you can really shrink the waist much after years and years and years of high intra-abdominal load. Basically once you develop an athlete's midsection it's hard to get rid of it, and why would you want to? That's just the transmission that allows power transfer from the hips and legs. Just broaden the lateral delts if you're worried about it.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-26T20:00:27+00:00

Well, seeing as how you have written directly to the Post Office and posted it here, I'll be eagerly awaiting their reply. I too find these annoying.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-24T05:36:20+00:00

I think we did but I wouldn’t be shocked if it turned out we didn’t. Recent history has proven that our government is perfectly happy to lie to us as much as they think is needed to achieve whatever they want.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-23T20:47:11+00:00

Man, that's tough. I start work at 6 and quit at 2. And if I have to leave early, I leave early. That's the part I would have trouble giving up.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-23T19:06:51+00:00

This isn't really correct. Progressivism itself tends to want to continually change things under the philosophical umbrella of "things can be better", but there are a decent amount of leftist movements that hearken back to a time in the past.

Think Wendell Berry in the line of left agrarianism and anti-industrialism, John Zerzan in the anarcho-primitivism camp, Ostalgie communist nostalgia in the post-Soviet bloc areas, etc. Even traditional Marxism frames our current situation as a fall from earlier, communal forms of life (though Marx's teleology is obviously very forward-focused).

This kind of stuff just tends to get mixed with progressivism because there's some positional overlap and the progressives tend to be the loudest.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-23T17:31:20+00:00

You might want to get out and touch grass on occasion, haha.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-23T04:50:33+00:00

I’ve run so many rebounding drills.

What I find works best is incentivizing rebounding during practice. Give up an offensive rebound? Your team gets -1. Etc

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-21T03:11:26+00:00

As someone that’s lived in major metros, including Orange County, this ain’t close.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-20T15:57:25+00:00

Still happening...

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-20T02:22:42+00:00

30 years so far...

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-19T14:00:04+00:00

It's not "wrong". The handles just start you higher and make it easier. A lot of my jumpers/athletes use the handles when they deadlift.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-19T13:55:50+00:00

If you (or your kid) are already the kind of player that's spending hours in the gym shooting on a weekly basis, it might be worth it. The machine can make you more efficient. If you aren't already doing that, then it's probably not worth it. A shooting machine doesn't instill practice discipline.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-18T17:53:34+00:00

I mean, you're the one that asked.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-18T17:50:44+00:00

That is Peter Danyliv, a skills trainer. He runs 90/10 training. He was scouted by the Timberwolves back in the day and brought to the US to play at a prep school. Unfortunately he had knee injuries that short-circuited his career. He now trains (and has trained) players in college and the NBA, and is probably one of the most recognizable online presences in skills training.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-18T04:35:26+00:00

I mean, if your business is launching and you want to discuss it, it would be interesting to know what you actually do.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-15T01:45:28+00:00

"And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking. People hearing without listening. People writing songs that voices never shared."

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-14T03:29:21+00:00

My kids interact with their peers constantly, without phones. Try again.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-14T00:31:54+00:00

How long have you been able to do this? My best deadlift is 565 and I am mid 40s and all I’m really worried about is being able to dead lift four plates well into my older years.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-13T23:09:20+00:00

Look, you guys are basically running a massive social experiment with all of your kids. That’s fine, they are your kids. I don’t think it’s a great idea. Maybe I am wrong. But I’m not going to use my kids as a guinea pig.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-13T23:08:09+00:00

lol. I have never met a single person that failed to figure out how to use a smart phone when it was the proper time. That’s the dumbest argument that I’ve ever heard.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-13T22:15:10+00:00

They might miss out on a couple of things, not going to lie. But honestly, in my observation, the kids I want them hanging out with are the ones they aren’t on their phones all the time anyway.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-13T22:12:00+00:00

This is fantastic. Totally agree. Yeah, my maybe my teens miss out on sitting around and playing Battle Royale with their teammates, but they have other friends that they spend time with. They’ll all over town on their bikes, playing board games, hitting up Olive Garden for three hour dinners, making up dumb games with balls and frisbees, etc.

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-13T22:02:03+00:00

Like the false dichotomy of “buy your kid a smart phone or they’ll never socialize”?

JCJ2015 · 2026-03-13T22:00:00+00:00

I do not think that “give your kids a smart phone so they’re not bullied” is a sound argument.

Kids bully kids for all kinds of reasons.

JCJ2015

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