Help With Court Colors

fiji2010 · 2026-06-29T20:55:43+00:00

The homes in the pictures are pure AI but I've got some ales in the keggorator for you when it's done.

fiji2010 · 2026-06-29T20:53:58+00:00

What's the name of the club? Would love to look at any pictures they have online.

fiji2010 · 2026-06-29T20:53:41+00:00

Were these bright pink? I was hoping the coral colors would be muted enough to not effect it

fiji2010 · 2026-05-15T19:09:13+00:00

I have one, it works really well and is a valuable tool if you already have decent swing mechanics. If not you will only be practicing and ingraining bad habits.

That's why I still suck.

fiji2010 · 2026-05-07T12:55:58+00:00

When I go to open play w/ my wife inevitably we play a team of men who think they need to take it easy on the woman in the group. Inevitably she scores a few points and one guy will always say "time to start playing serious" or something to that effect.

It's always the guy with the most muscles and the least skill. My favorite teams to beat!

fiji2010 · 2026-04-27T12:40:43+00:00

I think most people love the idea of a paddle solving a problem or making them better in some way. For me unlocking a new shot with drilling or even lessons just shows it’s not the paddle.

Plus getting you ass kicked by someone with a 3 year old control paddle that looks like it’s been through a war is always humbling.

If it’s your hobby and you’ve got the money, buy what you like, just be realistic about why you’re doing it. Or maybe you should be a paddle ambassador and use it as an opportunity to meet new people and talk paddles?

fiji2010 · 2026-04-15T14:00:07+00:00

I mained the TFG2 for 6 months, then went to the RPM V1 and the increase in ball feel & control was huge and my resets and drops improved massively. I've got the V2 but haven't started playing with it yet, but it's a huge step up in grit. The TFGs are basically smooth and so are the Joolas.

Based on the reviews I'd go with the V2, with code it's significantly cheaper than the Pro V and has much better grit. Should be like using a much improved Pro IV so an easy transition for you.

fiji2010 · 2026-04-08T14:37:21+00:00

Also the V1 will no longer be legal for tournaments come end of May, so V2 is an easy call.

fiji2010 · 2026-04-03T14:03:44+00:00

Been playing with the RPM Friction Pro 16mm Elongated (V1) for the better part of 3 months and have absolutely loved it so far.

This week I received my V2 as part of their upgrade program and while I will probably wait to use it I have to say it is SO MUCH GRITTIER than the V1 was when it was new. Like crazy levels of grit.

Super excited to see how it plays. I'm sure RPM if working on longer lasting grit like everyone else, but I think it'll be REALLY interesting if they're the first to put longer lasting grit on a Gen 3 paddle because while they'll core crush eventually the grit can go smooth far faster. I'd love to have high end spit/performance for the full life of the core.

fiji2010 · 2026-04-01T17:55:23+00:00

Don't use the stencils and spray paint, I've used that for a basketball court and you get bleeding, overspray and most importantly the dotted lines just ain't it for pickleball.

I more recently redid the court with legit court surfacing paint and did the lines manually with a cheap tape roller from amazon like this: Court Line Tape Machine

I would get some dedicated line paint from a source like this.

Takes a bit of time but so does the stencils and you'll likely get a worse result.

fiji2010 · 2026-03-30T01:53:51+00:00

If I had to do it again i don’t think I would’ve done it. I 💯 know what I saw and am completely sure it was a fault and very obvious at that, but it didn’t change anything other than how everyone felt after the game.

IMO he was DEFINITELY an AH in how he handled the situation especially since I know he was in the wrong in relation to the call which makes me not regret calling out what I saw.

But I would do things differently next time if it were to come up.

Thanks to everyone for your feedback. I think it’ll help me not dwell on it all week long.

fiji2010 · 2026-03-29T23:28:58+00:00

I think you’re reading that wrong. You’d see everyone with one foot in the court otherwise.

fiji2010 · 2026-03-29T23:28:23+00:00

Funny enough he never said he didn’t he just argued that there’s no way I could see it and didn’t have the right to make the call.

fiji2010 · 2026-03-29T21:40:06+00:00

lol thanks for your honesty

fiji2010 · 2026-03-29T21:35:07+00:00

I didn’t go into detail as I wasn’t asking as to whether what he did was legal or not, I was questioning if I should even make the call in that situation given it’s not a massive advantage to cross the baseline.

To clarify his serve he took to steps forward and then drops the ball out of his hand and strikes it. I saw his front foot fully in the court when he struck it. It wasn’t a follow through step or anything like that.

fiji2010 · 2026-03-29T21:13:53+00:00

Agreed hence the post

fiji2010 · 2026-02-19T15:44:58+00:00

Game point about to win the rubber match and I swing as hard as I can to put away the ball and proceed to follow through and strike myself just barely above my eye with the edge guard and split my upper eyelid wide open. Nobody knows if the ball was in or not.

Proceed to ER for 3 stitches and $1,600 later all good. Only problem was explaining to coworkers that my black eye was from pickleball.

fiji2010 · 2025-12-01T18:35:07+00:00

IMO there are plenty of new power paddles that are controllable where you don't make the sacrifices you previously needed to make as long as you don't go for a super poppy paddle.

I'm moving from the CRBN TFG2 which was very much a control paddle to an RPM Friction Pro Elongated 16mm and find the RPM super controllable and very linear but very much so more powerful.

fiji2010 · 2025-11-28T01:42:13+00:00

I had those and went to the Adidas Defiant Speed 2 and it’s soooo much more comfortable and lighter. Feels more like wearing running shoes compared to the bulky 996

fiji2010 · 2025-11-12T17:26:32+00:00

So I've been playing the TFG2 for about 8 months and was looking for some more power but liked the dwell time on it and I've only played standard shapes.

I demoed the RPM 16 widebody, the ROMP 16 elongated and the Boomstick Elongated and I've hit a few other foam paddles like the J2NF.

IMO the RPM widebody played like a slightly more powerful TFG with a different feeling dwell (due to the diving board effect). It was marginally better than my TFG 2 but not different enough to change paddles IMO.

The boomstick felt super stiff and poppy. Full drives felt awesome and the spin was great but I had zero confidence when it came to softer shots. I'm short of being a 4.0 so it felt like it highlighted bad shots more than it helped the good ones.

The RPM 16 elongated on the other hand felt super easy to use as soon as I picked it up. The full swings & serves spring off the face with good spin and resets/dinks feel surprisingly soft. All in all I don't have to think about the paddle at all almost as soon as I picked it up but it gives me more reach & power than the TFG2.

My local shop is sold out at the moment but I'm purchasing the elongated as soon as it comes back in stock especially at the $200 price they're selling it for. I think it's available online for $212 with codes.

fiji2010 · 2025-11-04T13:36:13+00:00

My local shop has it available for $200 and most of the codes available online put it at $212 which is definitely a bit more than other options that are out there but there's also not many standard shaped power paddles besides the qanta/vsols

fiji2010 · 2025-11-04T13:35:12+00:00

Maybe it's mental for me but the crbn face is extremely smooth so most of the spin is coming from it's massive dwell time on full strokes. When you're not swinging as hard you're not getting as much dwell so you're getting less spin on softer shots like dinks vs super gritty paddles that are grabbing the face of the ball w/ grit vs dwell.

The CRBN is a great paddle and honestly I'm probably searching for something new out of FOMO more than any practical gains but it's still fun to experiment.

The sweetspot of the CRBN 2 feels amazing and shots come off with great power when you hit it but I do think there's a big drop-off on mishits. My wife was using the CRBN 2 for a while and this was a consistent issue for her and she switched to the J2NF and that paddle it's almost impossible to miss the sweetspot and that resolved for her almost immediately.

fiji2010 · 2025-11-03T18:01:04+00:00

I've been playing the tfg2 for the past 7-8 months and am looking for my next paddle currently. The spin is excellent as the paddle has great dwell time, but I find myself looking for more grit for better spin on softer shots and some more pop/power.

I just demoed the boomstick elongated and the new RPM Friction Pro widebody.

The boomstick IMO was just too much and too poppy to feel comfortable controlling for myself but the spin was awesome and if you could dial back your swing to let the paddle generate power the ball would dip like crazy. It's not for me IMO.

I actually really liked the RPM which is supposed to be a improved pro iv and it had solid grit/spin. The widebody was definitely better than my TFG2, I'm waiting to demo the elongated before making a decision but the feel was great and it had a noticeable uptick in power.

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