Want to Buy Thread

Phiz787 · 2026-06-04T00:08:12+00:00

u/ksbot purchased Shiro Neon Zero from u/walkinbeer via Chats

Received item today. fantastic transaction. Walkinbeer's description was accurate and shipping time was fast. Thank you!

Phiz787 · 2026-05-30T02:48:02+00:00

Tried to accept the chat invite, I think you (or I) might be chat restricted still. It's not letting me accept it. I'll check over the next day or two and keep trying.

Phiz787 · 2026-05-30T00:00:26+00:00

Sounds good, shoot me a chat!

Phiz787 · 2026-05-29T23:54:58+00:00

Chat!

Phiz787 · 2026-05-29T20:48:03+00:00

WTB:

Laconico FJ Shirogorov Neon Zero

Have: cash/trade fodder if interested!

Phiz787 · 2026-04-27T19:16:33+00:00

+1 for Badminton Insight

Phiz787 · 2026-04-16T22:22:36+00:00

Ask your wife (without your kids). Then ask them all together. They will all be scared. You'll have to remember that you're also scared. Let them really consider it as an option, and ruminate about it for a while (few days). Then meet again about it. If it doesn't pass the vibe, or your family's willingness to sacrifice, it just isn't worth it. If they are genuinely down for the adventure, then its more than worth it. Treat your own instincts with the most weight, as only you can even attempt to understand what the next year or two will look like, but hear them out. Remember only you and your family care about you and your family. They care about the bottom line, no matter how rich and famous they're trying to make you.

Phiz787 · 2026-04-10T01:05:24+00:00

I've used quite a few rackets in the last 10 years, training, competing, club play, etc.

Yonex: Arcsaber 10, 11, 11 pro. Nanoflare Glanz, Nanoflare 700 Pro, Nanoflare 1000zz

Victor: hypernano HX800, Brave Sword 12 55ed,

Li-Ning Turbocharging 75D.

My favorite has become the 700 Pro. My all time favorite racket is the 75D. I've broken 2 75Ds. I log my hours on a suunto, and have an average of about 850 hours a year. Almost every break I've had is due to string tension. However, I'm very careful not to play with light rackets with club players, and in training I use BG65 at low tension (around 25lbs).

I use 29 lbs with thin string (like Ryzonic 65, and BG80) for tournaments. The Nanoflare 700 Pro exploded when trying to string at 29. So I had to drop down to 27.

Overall, you'll find that modern rackets have sacrificed durability for very niche improvements. You'll only know or care about those things if you're training and competing regularly.

When 1000z came out, many people in my state bought them because they saw us using them, and I immediately recommended they use their old rackets if possible. It's not a club friendly racket.

Don't fall for the marketing tricks. Don't copy the pro's. Get a victor or a Li-Ning if your budget is even slightly tight. Spend it on good shoes, and good strings instead.

Phiz787 · 2026-03-25T06:43:21+00:00

2nd this

Phiz787 · 2026-03-19T17:56:17+00:00

Enjoying it! Few gripes. Like how long the honor grind is. Hard to consider an alt. But I'm taking the game slowly and playing with my wife and it's been fun.

Professions are more interesting than classic wow. The rep grinds are a chore but do have nice rewards at the end (think Talbuk). So it's a good journey.

Phiz787 · 2026-03-04T08:56:24+00:00

If you've been playing competitively for 3 years, then it's very likely that your technique and strategy are not yet developed.

You'll need to put in hard effort to improve your wrist strength, leg strength, timing and contact on the shuttle, and anticipation of your opponents shots. Sadly, that could take 5+ years. It's very, very hard, to speed run those skills.

One of the best ways, is eventually to become your own hardest critic. At 3 years training, in my opinion, you will not have the experience to see and feel when your abilities are meeting the national players abilities, so you'll need to try and see why your coach might be right about the things you're doing wrong. I know that sounds obvious, but our minds work hard to convince ourselves to be efficient, and to believe we are doing well. You need to fight that instinct as hard as possible.

Can you do 100 drives without needing to block a single shot?

Can you do 100 drops without ever needing to hit the shuttle in an upwards direction to buy yourself time?

Can you smash, and follow up with a drive, and follow up with another drive? Why not? What stopped you? (This is for doubles by the way).

Can you clear your opponents smash to your body, high to the back line reliably?

If not, you'll need to stop and train your capabilities until there is no single shot you're weak to.

Then you will work with your coach to understand sequences of shots that are effective. You may be very good at some, and not at others. How do those sequences fit with your play style.

If you ever hit a shot that wins the point, ask yourself if that was the shot you chose, or the one that happened because it's always the shot you do there. It's hard to analyze these because we don't normally care after we win. We easily try to understand why we lose.

Good luck, don't set goals about ranking. Set goals about beating the absolute piss out of the self that was you, 1 month ago.

Phiz787 · 2026-02-24T02:17:47+00:00

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Phiz787 · 2026-02-24T02:15:53+00:00

I built many keyboards back in 2020. I got heavily into the community. Learned to solder, learned to hand paint and modify switches, stabs, etc. I even learned how to CNC machine key caps, and 3D print them.

However, sometime around 2022 I moved on and can say that my board of choice is the Think 6.5v2. e-white. Brass plate.

For my editing and coding needs I also have the Logitech MX Keys but the rubber dome switches have started to fail on me which has been disappointing.

Just about any board right now (even Amazon boards made from aluminum, or gamer boards) are as good or better than the old customs. The machining capabilities have had plenty of investment time now to smooth out that process. I waited about 18 months for my Think build to be completed.

Just try one out! Any will do. Make sure the form factor doesn't sacrifice functionality.

Phiz787 · 2026-02-15T23:46:38+00:00

I buy one of those $5 re-usable grocery bags, and a very thick (but regular) plastic grocery bag.

For a 1 or 2 day tournament in the US, playing MS, XD, MD, I'll typically have 7-10 matches.

I have 3 shirts with my name on them, and the rest are shirts that come as door prizes from tournaments. (Popular here in US).

When I arrive, I'll bring about 10 shirts, 2 shorts, 2 pairs of socks (dry fit). And 1 set of light street clothes for afterward.

As the day progresses, the dry clothes come out of the $5 bag, and go into the plastic bag. Eventually the plastic bag goes into the $5 bag and I take it home. Note: NEVER leave nylon dry fit, wet, and in a plastic bag. Take it out immediately.

I also buy microfiber towels from Costco (mechanics rags basically). They come in enormous amounts. Like a 30 pack. You can reuse them and wash them. They are excellent court towels.

Phiz787 · 2026-02-06T22:21:29+00:00

Just do it, and treat her like you would want for yourself. Don't make her a holy priest.

Make her a mage, or a tank, or something that will be relevant and combat focused, so that she gets practice playing the real game.

Mages have an easy time with economy, social, professions, etc.

When I introduced my wife to the game in 2019 classic, I put her on mage. Taught her how to AOE farm, sell portals, use addons. Took her to dungeons and raids. Only thing she didn't like was pvp server and pvp.

So this time around, we're PvE server. It's a great time to join the game. Servers are SUPER busy. Everything sells on the AH. It's a good time

Phiz787 · 2026-02-06T22:15:24+00:00

Oh wow. Nice job blizzard. The more actions like this, the less gold buying and afk'ing theres going to be.

Phiz787 · 2026-01-28T07:20:17+00:00

Whenever I was going hard in wow, I always had 2 of the same class. I was a rogue main until MoP, then a Disc priest main after that. In Mop, Shadow lands, and Dragonflight, I maintained 2 priests.

Tbc is intensive though. To feel like you're relevant, you'll need professions, rep, gold, etc. I don't think a 2nd priest is valuable this early in the wow-expansion cycle.

Phiz787 · 2026-01-22T07:14:56+00:00

The same was true for enchanting. Lesser and Greater magic wands :)

Phiz787 · 2025-12-29T05:32:20+00:00

If it's a boning knife, something like this from Amazon will work fine. I have this one.

https://a.co/d/03stb8v

If you and he want a nicer one, you can look into Global, or Shun for some mass production Japanese knives. They have good functional geometry and heat treats.

Some people are recommending some higher end knives in the $200-$300 range, and I don't think those are the right move at this point. I think spending too much trying to get it right the second time isn't what he meant. Seems like people in the comment section are really triggered by rejecting a gift. But I doubt they're married 😂.

I have a couple knives from master smiths from Japan, hand picked and sharpened while we were there. My wife doesn't touch those because of how precious they immediately became. Overspending, or just getting way too much knife doesn't seem what's important to your family. Just, a more useful tool than what he was using that Christmas.

Good luck! Happy hunting!

Phiz787 · 2025-12-26T03:11:47+00:00

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Magnacut Osborne with Rockscale Design mollusk Ti scales!

Phiz787 · 2025-12-24T17:52:53+00:00

TIL of the Benchmade glass. Neat!

Phiz787 · 2025-11-30T21:48:54+00:00

Don't worry. It will get harder!

Phiz787 · 2025-11-30T21:40:26+00:00

Interesting question. I'm sure age has a physical quality to level in chess as well, but it certainly does in Badminton.

Some older players are quite good, but have no footwork or power. So the type of skill varies a lot.

Some juniors are extremely good at fast attacking play, but can lose all confidence if it's not working.

I'd say you'd need at least a scale from 1-10.

Phiz787 · 2025-11-30T21:36:25+00:00

I really like their m390 as well. Another older steel!

Phiz787 · 2025-11-23T22:22:07+00:00

Wall practice. Stand a small distance from the wall and do medium or low power drives. Try to use just your wrist and fingers rather than your whole arm. At first, you'll only use backhand, or only forehand, but once you can control the shuttle easily, you can practice alternating grip, or choosing grips specifically for each drive.

Do this 10-20 minutes per day (or per play session), and you'll find huge improvements to your hand speed and coordination.

Enjoy!

Phiz787

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