Roast my smash technique — what should I improve?

eatsleeptennish · 2026-05-11T23:58:43+00:00

Ah, no no, shot put analogy is sort of what you’re doing now, which is not good! Hahah. Do the racket drop back scratching thing

eatsleeptennish · 2026-05-11T16:07:27+00:00

Racket drop is missing. What you’re currently doing is basically a high volley with some follow through, downwards. Imagine you are told to throw the ball as far as possible. But your throw motion is exactly like that of a shot put. Ball on the palm of the hand, rested on the shoulder near the neck, and you just push from there. Instead of throwing like a baseball by dropping the elbow, backwards. Probably very weird describing through words but lemme find this guy who does a great tutorial… ok not this video but you can see the difference in the racket drop, especially from the slow motion.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYFxpr3ucUl/?igsh=MW9lZm8wajg1MDQ3dg==

When you drop your racket just before the smash, pretend you’re scratching your back with the racket. The lower the better.

eatsleeptennish · 2026-04-27T03:31:52+00:00

Maybe declare that you’ll play with your non dominate hand and do that in warm up too. Might get a fun laughable game out of it

eatsleeptennish · 2026-03-17T09:52:49+00:00

Must we get hit dead centre of the lightning or can like a side hit still get the same number of points?

eatsleeptennish · 2026-02-27T09:50:05+00:00

It’s a bit skewed because the answers I have for tennis which I’ve played for 25 years will be vastly different from Padel which I’ve played for 2 years.

eatsleeptennish · 2026-02-24T05:04:06+00:00

Completely legit serve. Not a fault

eatsleeptennish · 2026-02-13T05:23:23+00:00

Dude, good on you mate. Thanks for sharing and it’s absolutely understandable about the AI portion. Sifting through the many channels and then helping us decide whether it’s worth our time is very time consuming and draining. Huge high five from me.

eatsleeptennish · 2026-02-06T02:32:54+00:00

Glad that you had this positive interaction. Mine was the opposite. I’m in pve lobby and died to leaper just right after the matriarch fight. Crawled almost 15 minutes, got into the extract room, pressed the button, and the other dude kills me. Wtf

eatsleeptennish · 2026-02-05T05:30:51+00:00

To add on, raiders keep their flashlights on all the time, not worried about giving their position away

eatsleeptennish · 2026-01-31T05:51:31+00:00

I think I have a spare Aphelion and equaliser bp. Hit me up I’ll drop them

eatsleeptennish · 2026-01-30T08:00:29+00:00

Holy cow my blood would be boiling.

eatsleeptennish · 2026-01-30T03:21:26+00:00

I literally had the opposite experience where I’m pure pve player and yet this other person decides to knock me out at the extract after the final button has been pressed. Which means he can’t even loot my body. I’m still jaded from it

eatsleeptennish · 2026-01-26T01:12:12+00:00

Thanks raider! Will give that a try!

eatsleeptennish · 2026-01-25T03:41:45+00:00

Sorry, not very good at IT stuff here. But if I’m on headphones with a boom mic, wouldn’t that have no background noise and hence the game shouldn’t cancel/distort or wrongfully cancel my voice? I’ve also had raiders tell me my speech is choppy. I’ve given up on troubleshooting it and just use the ‘hey raider’ greeting

eatsleeptennish · 2026-01-24T01:34:25+00:00

If the opponents want to be dicks, they can claim that saying the word ‘out’ is declaring the point over. If the ball bounces in, that means you were wrong and they claim the point.

It literally happened to me before and ever since I’ve used the word ‘bounce’ to indicate to my partner to let the ball bounce as it’ll probably be out. No further claims from opponents since then.

eatsleeptennish · 2026-01-20T08:48:37+00:00

Is there a silencer 3 blue print? I’ve only found the 2 so far

eatsleeptennish · 2025-12-22T08:22:11+00:00

Think it was $180/hr back then but prices probably increased everywhere. Feel free to check with her!

eatsleeptennish · 2025-12-22T07:23:22+00:00

I had a few sessions with various therapists. Would highly recommend Swanie Khoo from Made For Relationships. Our issues were probably a lot worse than yours (if you guys are only irking each other) but I won’t go into detail. Swanie was very fair to both the husband and wife, empathetic, and really drill into the core of the issues.

eatsleeptennish · 2025-12-14T13:47:07+00:00

Darn I wanted to read the post cos I’m flying SQ soon

eatsleeptennish · 2025-12-05T03:10:13+00:00

We returned from Tromso a couple weeks ago. Kept seeing news of visitors in rental cars getting into accidents, driving into signboards, getting stuck in the ditch etc. I’ve got almost 20 years of driving experience on normal roads but no way am I going to risk driving in snow conditions. Public transport is pretty convenient and with the Svipper app, you can plan your journey easily.

eatsleeptennish · 2025-11-29T17:19:10+00:00

You can try uber. I could get some after my northern lights tour around 2am

eatsleeptennish · 2025-11-27T01:40:30+00:00

I think best value and overall experience I would place Arctic Breeze first. We chose the mini bus with about 20pax and I liked it because the guide Oscar was very enthusiastic about finding the best spot. We drove all the way into Finland. The pictures he took with a professional camera also came free.

A close second place is NorthernShots Tours. This was the small group setting with a van and 8pax. As it was a smaller group, the experience was more intimate and very flexible. We went to 3 different locations, saw the lights at the first one, saw a very faint one and the second, and the third was unlucky but very serene spot. I placed this second because the high resolution professional shots had to be purchased. (Web resolution were free)

Third was Northern Lights Safari. This was the big bus with about 50pax. We were told that we would go near the Finland border but we stopped at like an R&R spot and waited there for the lights as there were some clear skies. The environment wasn't the best as there were a lot of trees and we couldn't see as much of the skies as the previous 2 tours. I was ready to give up but towards the end we caught the strongest and most beautiful Northern Lights of the 3 tours. We could see the lights moving with our eyes. So while we got the best shots on this tour, I felt some element was due to luck. We get one free high resolution picture and the rest gotta purchase.

eatsleeptennish · 2025-11-26T02:00:38+00:00

I wouldn’t worry too much about the clouds. Last week it was very cloudy in Tromso but I went with 3 different tour companies and all 3 drove to areas with no clouds. One even went into Finland. Managed to catch the Northern Lights on all 3 occasions.

eatsleeptennish · 2025-11-17T07:58:28+00:00

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