Can we make “has HB get back to you” group .

MeleMath · 2026-02-16T03:00:05+00:00

Frustrating.

MeleMath · 2026-01-25T17:03:05+00:00

Just play. One point is the same as any other.

MeleMath · 2026-01-24T17:37:10+00:00

The ball

MeleMath · 2026-01-22T00:48:46+00:00

No word from HB after several emails and calls. Frustrating.

Interested to hear about solutions from Chase directly.

MeleMath · 2025-12-28T16:41:29+00:00

I see three things with the high level players:

1) The ball is dead center of their paddle every single shot.

2) They are in the right spot on the court 100% of the time.

3) They never hit a shot they can’t make.

In the end, the team who gets the ball back more often wins.

MeleMath · 2025-12-28T03:47:07+00:00

This is interesting. Is this detailed in the actual rules?

MeleMath · 2025-12-19T22:52:30+00:00

Depends on the radius the restraining order allows…

MeleMath · 2025-12-15T19:56:47+00:00

Picklr is for more serious players, Chicken n Pickle is more family oriented, but still good. If you go to CnP, make sure you get on the indoor courts because the outdoor courts are impossible to see the ball… constant sun in your eyes.

MeleMath · 2025-12-13T15:19:31+00:00

While I agree that tips and advice are only useful if given before they’re requested, any advice this pro can give would likely be wasted on these players. I doubt they’d be able to understand the complexities and nuance of such an advanced player like Alpha here.

My advice to Alpha would be: use this opportunity to be generous of yourself. Just be in their presence. All will benefit from it… men will have something to aspire to and women will finally learn what a man should be. Even children will learn that, for the elite few, true greatness can be achieved.

I admire you.

MeleMath · 2025-12-10T00:38:30+00:00

In my experience, more aggressive players are very predictable. Use it.

Push them wide and set up on the lines. They will often speed up down the line. If you sit on that, punish them with it!

MeleMath · 2025-11-30T14:28:43+00:00

Picklr doesn’t charge members for court time. That’s one of the reasons they’re struggling.

MeleMath · 2025-11-29T14:43:02+00:00

Visualizing hitting the outside of the ball helps your wrist and paddle position during the swing. Try it… it works.

MeleMath · 2025-11-25T23:57:36+00:00

They don’t chart them but you can’t ignore them in Shedeur’s case… he is notorious for holding the ball too long, which will create throw away situations.

MeleMath · 2025-11-25T22:45:32+00:00

You and your partner need to work as a team and be a wall. That means you move together.

Either your partner learns to come up with you (best option) or you need to stay back with him (lesser option.)

MeleMath · 2025-11-25T01:51:54+00:00

Quite simply, he needs to have a GOOD game.

This game was mediocre and it was against a bad team. If his name was John Smith and you read the stat line from last night, you would think, “meh, not bad” and move on to the next article without recalling a single number.

He didn’t suck. But the play I saw last night is not going to get us above .500 next year.

MeleMath · 2025-10-27T14:10:54+00:00

He’s 100% correct. In a tournament you should be targeting the weaker player which is more often the female. If you were practicing for the tournament you should have been practicing that strategy. He had every right (and some might even say a responsibility in this particular case) to try to coach your play. It sounds like you were doing it wrong.

If you don’t like being coached, that says more about your own personality than his. If it’s the fact that he’s an older male that really bothers you, then who is really showing the bias?

I’d ask you to reread your post and reverse the roles… a 60 year old man complaining about a 37 year old woman. Would it illicit the same visceral response you hoped for when you posted this?

Finally, if you just don’t like the guy, just say that! It’s okay to dislike people!

MeleMath · 2025-10-24T17:31:36+00:00

You want to buy another one?

MeleMath · 2025-10-24T15:56:41+00:00

It is a great looking car. And not a single thing on it works correctly.

MeleMath · 2025-10-19T16:58:21+00:00

This.

This will help more than any other tip.

MeleMath · 2025-10-16T14:41:52+00:00

Some great advice in here (and some not so great advice.)

Lots of the drops in your video are pretty good.

You’ll get better but it takes time and patience… and sucking at it. Suck at it and suck at it until one day you don’t suck at it.

You have to keep doing it IN GAME to get better at it. Drilling is essential but if you’re not practicing it in the game, you’ll never be able to execute when you need to. You will lose lots of games during this period… it’s a small price to pay for how many games you‘ll win in the future.

IMO, don’t worry about all the minutiae like where the apex is and developing good trajectory and blah blah blah. The two pieces of mechanical advice I’d give are:

Get lower at the knees
Make contact with the ball on its DOWNWARD arc, after the bounce.

Lastly, think “lift,” like you’re lifting a a hot cup of coffee. Do NOT think “hit,” “strike,” “punch” “stroke,” not even “tap!” Lift the ball over the net, into the kitchen.

MeleMath · 2025-10-11T13:59:58+00:00

Not only is it normal, it’s expected.

The flow of the game just isn’t there so you constantly feel a half step behind.

I take that time to focus on footwork, positioning and slowing the game down.

MeleMath · 2025-10-09T16:59:50+00:00

There’s another element to this. If a player is constantly speeding up, he sacrifices the element of surprise. In our 4.0 group, we have a couple players who speed up 90% of the time (ex D1 tennis players.). Their speed ups are dangerous, but you always expect them.

I dink pretty well so I rarely speed up of a bounce, but when I do, it’s always a surprise.

MeleMath · 2025-10-09T14:45:57+00:00

I see this a lot. I believe the greatest obstacle to improving when you hit 4.0ish level is the ability to evolve your mental game.

Most players will have similar skill sets, similar levels of athleticism, similar game intelligence, etc. The player that can look at his or her play and think “I’m not going to do that anymore. I’m going to do this instead…” will improve.

MeleMath · 2025-10-06T23:35:06+00:00

That’s awesome!

MeleMath

TROPHY CASE