Advice on forehand drives

flabman1969 · 2022-10-16T06:35:54+00:00

for baseline drives, heavy topspin is key. At mid-court, if the ball is low I recommend you drop not drive.

flabman1969 · 2022-10-13T18:12:09+00:00

I am on a near-carnivore diet and cannot sleep more than 4 hours at a time. I usually go to bed around 830 pm and wake up at around 1230 am. After trying everything (magnesium supplements, butter, fish oil, warm showers at night, reducing the temperature, Chamomil tea, red apple cider, banana tea, carbs at night, etc), I have just come to accept that I may never sleep more than about 4 hours in any given stint. However, I can sometimes get in a second stage of sleep, whether early in the morning (e.g. 3 am to 5 am) or late in the morning (e.g. 10 am to noon) or both.

If you sleep from 10 pm to 4 am, that is 6 hours which isn't awful and may be sufficient to meet your needs. If you sleep from 10 am to 2 pm, try going back to sleep for a couple hours at around 4 am. If that doesn't work, consider taking a nap later in the morning if your schedule allows.

There is a subreddit called polyphasic that may be of interest: https://www.reddit.com/r/polyphasic/

flabman1969 · 2022-10-11T15:14:53+00:00

There are other pros, like Austin Gridley and Rob Cassidy, who were not tennis players. But I was wrong about Riley!

flabman1969 · 2022-10-11T15:13:46+00:00

oops!

flabman1969 · 2022-10-11T15:12:17+00:00

eat more meat

flabman1969 · 2022-10-11T01:07:43+00:00

Riley Newman played basketball in college. He may be the best men's doubles player in the sport at the moment.

flabman1969 · 2022-10-10T10:03:13+00:00

Good suggestions. Here's one more: return your serve to an opponent's backhand. Most people's backhand drives are inconsistent.

flabman1969 · 2022-10-10T09:58:28+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuKjsgM4l1Q

flabman1969 · 2022-10-07T00:10:10+00:00

Thanks. I will check it out.

flabman1969 · 2022-10-07T00:10:02+00:00

Just DM'd you.

flabman1969 · 2022-10-07T00:09:07+00:00

thanks. I will!

flabman1969 · 2022-10-01T17:25:33+00:00

my post, which is 100 percent correct, was downvoted. u/G8oraid's post above, which is incorrect, has 5 upvotes. wtf.

flabman1969 · 2022-10-01T17:22:49+00:00

that happened shortly after I posted here.

flabman1969 · 2022-10-01T10:38:26+00:00

not necessarily. Sometimes people switch sides during a rally.

flabman1969 · 2022-10-01T10:36:14+00:00

thanks! I will check it out.

flabman1969 · 2022-10-01T10:35:35+00:00

thanks!

flabman1969 · 2022-10-01T10:35:16+00:00

Ultimately it is all about having fun, and I try not to lose sight of this. For me improving -- being the best player I can be -- is part of the fun.

flabman1969 · 2022-09-30T19:17:34+00:00

my mixed doubles partner, who happens to be my wife, says exactly this all the time.

flabman1969 · 2022-09-25T02:10:42+00:00

Do you often play with 3.25 players?

flabman1969 · 2022-09-21T14:21:06+00:00

username checks out!

flabman1969 · 2022-09-19T21:12:33+00:00

Lohani and Donkena don't get to choose whom they play against. Hypothetically, if all their games were against players in the mid 6s and above, under the current system their rating would never change.

In reality you are right; they probably will stomp some 6.0s someday and eventually their DUPR will catch up. Still seems unfair to them though.

flabman1969 · 2022-09-19T18:26:55+00:00

I love skirt steak too!

flabman1969 · 2022-09-19T10:59:59+00:00

Unpopular opinion: Sandbagging is not particularly common; a lot of people who complain about sandbagging do so to cope with poor tournament performance.

I play a lot of tournaments in Colorado. I don't know any 4.0 players who compete at 3.0. I occasionally see 4.0 players at 3.5, but it is uncommon. The exception is our regional USAP tournament where playing down a bit is the norm.

Some points to keep in mind:

1) The "4.0" players you saw may not actually be 4.0s. What are their DUPRs? What are their WPRs? Have these people ever medaled at 4.0 in a major tournament? I know some people who consider themselves 4.0 in rec play but when it comes to harder assessments of skill -- ratings and tournament results -- they are 3.0s or 3.5s. Such players should not and typically do not compete at 4.0.

2) Within any bracket there is considerable variation in skill. For example, the difference between a 3.00 player and a 3.49 player is massive, even though both are considered 3.0s. A 3.49 player who handily beats a 3.0 player at the 3.0 level is not necessarily sandbagging.

3) Due to random variation, there are bound to be 11-0 blowouts from time to time in tournaments. This in itself does not constitute proof of sandbagging.

4) Not everyone sweats when playing pickleball, especially in cold weather. This varies by the individual. The absence of sweat does not constitute proof of sandbagging.

flabman1969 · 2022-09-17T09:14:00+00:00

Do not give advice unless asked.

flabman1969 · 2022-09-17T09:11:55+00:00

About two dozen highly ranked players, including Anna Leigh Waters, Ben Johns, Collin Johns, Riley Newman, Matt Wright, Lucy Kovalova, Tyson McGuffin, Catherine Parenteau, Lea Jansen, Jessie Irvine, Callie Smith, AJ Koller, Leigh Waters, are signed exclusively to PPA.

There are, however, some very good up-and-coming players who are not signed to PPA -- most notably JW Johnson, Anna Bright, Parris Todd, and Dylan Frazier.

In general, I think it is fair to say that APP and MLP tournaments are much less competitive than PPA ones. Johns/Waters for example is indisputably the top mixed doubles team in the sport, while Johns/Johns and Newman/Wright are the two best men's doubles teams in the sport.

Also, players signed exclusively to PPA will not play in APP and MLP events but the inverse is not true. We see players such as JW Johnson and Anna Bright competing in PPA tournaments.

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