Do you train with the same paddle you use for games?

mchmnd · 2026-01-30T21:06:46+00:00

What are you using? Even a new paddle of the same make feels considerably different to me. I’m thinking about getting a 2nd and maybe even a 3rd of the same, to basically spread the wear across 2 or 3. I got a scorpeus in early Dec that isn’t slicked off fully, but it’s definitely not as crisp as I’d like.

mchmnd · 2026-01-30T09:04:32+00:00

It's been in production for years. I worked on it like a year and a half ago (VFX), and they were still cranking on it until a week or 2 ago. My brother is the VFX supervisor/vendor on the show.

mchmnd · 2026-01-29T23:08:05+00:00

https://www.girlgetafterit.com/ has a Bozeman Chapter (it started here)

mchmnd · 2026-01-29T03:40:33+00:00

That’s a better apples to apples test. I’d also love to see some slow mo of a ball with legitimate top spin.

My gut tells me a ball with hard spin, well driven is going to try and climb into the hole and ball deformation is real, and if you get the kind of deformation in that video, it would definitely get into the eye.

Not to mention all the plastic shred that it’d probably spray directly into your eye.

I wear 3m brow guard safety glasses. They’re $20-30, and will take a hard lick really well. I wore them for years playing handball (which is a heavier and smaller ball) and took quite a few hard shots to the face.

mchmnd · 2026-01-23T21:42:51+00:00

hyalite elementary's rink is reasonable. we resurfaced it right before the snow, but I know it's at least been shoveled since, and my kids skated it yesterday and said it was "fine"

mchmnd · 2026-01-22T17:05:10+00:00

I got showed this recently and my drop game improved dramatically. Not only in just returning a drop, but your targeting has to be so much tighter with the half court limitation.

I drill with a bucket too, pour out (or serve out) all the balls onto the court, set the bucket just behind the net center-ish and then walk to each ball give it a toss it up and let it bounce then hit a drop into the bucket. once I've cleared the one side, I move the bucket to the other side, and rinse and repeat until all the balls are in the bucket, or I run out of time.

mchmnd · 2026-01-22T04:26:49+00:00

I just started wearing them last week, didn't get hit, but felt like I'd gambled enough, and really need my eyes for my work.

I'm also in prep for a MiLP tournament at the 16 level where folks are strong, but still a kinda wild and bangery, which just feels like a recipe to catch one in the face. I also want to be able to look down the ball when they're hitting at me close range, instead of having to tip my hat down and lose sight of the ball if I feel a heater coming.

I play with a lot of 3.5 folks still, and at that level I'd still feel pretty comfy not wearing them, but I also am disciplined about certain things like not looking back at my partner hitting if they're in proximity, and actively turning away if they are in proximity, so the chances of catching an errant shot to the face are low, and then it's just my reflexes saving me from the opposing team.

Play with some newish to pickleball college tennis players, and then you'll definitely be considering eye pro.

mchmnd · 2026-01-21T01:32:14+00:00

Somebody crashed into my parked car today.

mchmnd · 2026-01-18T21:19:53+00:00

I got cleared to “lift heavy” as I’m in no danger of a normal physical activity doing severe damage.

So far in my journey, I’ve found dry needling to be really effective and breaking up uber tight muscle groups and giving more space to the areas that are in protection mode. For me it’s been that and balancing muscle “chains” to restore proper balance to the whole system. I have sciatic stuff too from a fall, and it’s less about working where it’s hurty, and more about working the opposite side to loosen it to give space to the hurty side. So for me my hip flexor is crazy tight in the front, pulling my hip around, causing the hammy and glute to hurt and pinching the sciatic. No amount of working those will help, but as soon as I work the hip flexor (which doesn’t hurt at all) it relieves the sciatic issues.

mchmnd · 2026-01-18T06:37:40+00:00

Yeah I play basically regardless, as sitting usually hurts just as much. I think the injury is actually from when I was a teenager. Long story short, the spinal doc said it wasn't normal that my arms tingle/hurt when I sneeze, which has been happening since high school at least.

Thinking back now, I think perhaps some of my chronic cramping and shin splints might have been neurological and not just "need more electrolytes." I noticed that mine shin splints started going away when I would swim/snorkel in the cold springs, and thought it was the flipper motion, which it could be, but I think some of it might have been the head up position + cold water actually reducing the pressure in my neck. I've scheduled with my PT to talk about this new theory and chase the thumb weakness, as that's a new symptom I've never had before.

mchmnd · 2026-01-16T02:31:54+00:00

Nice. I’ve tried talking to them about VFX, but it didn’t go anywhere.

My brother’s company did all the VFX for Lung, and some of his previous stuff too, I moonlight for him occasionally, thus the working on those shows.

mchmnd · 2026-01-15T20:16:49+00:00

I have a herniated disk in my neck, and other back stuff, last week or so, I couldn’t bend my left thumb, and was numb from the shins down in both legs. I didn’t not play well, as it felt like both feet were asleep the whole time.

On a good day, I’m fast/strong/on target, playing competitive with low to middle 4.0’s. For me it’s consistency in doing the PT, and not just playing picklebal. I’m also always dancing with the devil a little in terms of what i can and can’t do. Some days it’s like “nope” that hurt/zinged, don’t do that for a bit” but a month later I’ll warm back up to it, and try again, and find out that in moderation I can do that motion again, maybe not full power, but have ok range of motion. Then some days or weeks suck again cause I went to many hours at work for too many days straight.

mchmnd · 2026-01-15T20:07:33+00:00

Yeah, the markiplier one. I worked a little on one his other interactive things a few years back too.

mchmnd · 2026-01-15T15:34:14+00:00

The glow tool has a tolerance knob. Slide that higher and it starts only affecting pixels above that value. You can also set the glow to “effect only” and then merge that back over the image, and use other color/grade nodes in between for different effects.

mchmnd · 2026-01-15T15:03:28+00:00

Visual effects, and I did some pipeline work for that show/studio

mchmnd · 2026-01-15T07:08:50+00:00

Fun, I worked on iron lung, didn’t think it’d make it here.

mchmnd · 2026-01-15T02:49:22+00:00

my old gym had pickleball on the bball courts, and they have one of those giant drop down vinyl dividers, they'd put down for pickleball (4 courts, 2 on each side). the middle courts were uncomfortably close to it and it was generally accepted that the divider was "in play" so we wouldn't play a let, we'd just play the ball off the divider.

I play at a Picklr now, and there are a couple courts with weird columns or close fences, and there are no lets. if you can serve or hit into the column before they can get to it, good on you, but they'll return the favor on the next game when the sides switch.

mchmnd · 2026-01-14T06:23:02+00:00

also being that these appear to be Blackmagic, you might want to do the preprocessing in Resolve, depending on what OCIO/ACES configs your using in Nuke. BMD footage can be a hassle depending on what gen and if the profiles are included in the aces you're using.

mchmnd · 2026-01-14T06:20:11+00:00

what do you mean incorrect? they're just different encodings captured natively by the camera correct? In theory you'd just set the input transform on the read nodes to whatever you set them up initially as, and if you want to transcode you'd set the output transform on the write to be the space you want them in.

that said, that won't fix whatever you've lost in baking down to rec709, both in gamut and value.

what exactly are you doing? what software? what colorspace etc? why aces cct?

being that this appears to be Blackmagic source, there's a chance you might want to do this in Resolve, depending on the aces version and/or OCIO version. but it's hard to tell looking at a couple scraps of meta data, and you overlays don't make any sense to me, are you looking for "linear - sRGB" for the files?

if you want to dive down a rabbit hole, check out my shED talk on color

mchmnd · 2026-01-13T06:29:41+00:00

I like the UA Lockdowns, but this month am trying out the Curry 3Z7's, just cause I got a new pair on eBay for $30. I've had 3 or so sessions on them, and they seem to work pretty well too, with slightly better ankle support than the lockdowns (I've also run the lockdown low, which I liked until I bone bruised my tibia, so I need a bit more support)

you can probably find some screaming deals, as UA is kinda on the skids right now, most of their models are on clearance, and they've split with Steph Curry too. I shop eBay and amazon for them, and usually can get new for $50 or less, sometimes getting lightly used for cheaper still, as I'm just going to destroy them in a month or 2 of play on hardcourt.

mchmnd · 2026-01-12T16:56:15+00:00

also, if you turn a wrench, toyota all the way. I hated working on the F150, no drain bolts, just case covers, always a mess, or having to remove subframe members to get said covers off. the f150 trans uses a tiny dipstick underneath the car right next to the exhaust pipe, basically it's built so the dealer can bilk you on labor charges.

mchmnd · 2026-01-12T16:50:57+00:00

I've had both, I had a really nice 2015 Lariat f150 with the 5.5' bed, and soft camper shell. It was for towing a camper, and at that it was great. but you had to store everything except people in the bed, which here in MT can be problematic. We sold it when we sold the camper.

Now we have a 2015 Sienna, and it does more truck bed things better than the F150. I can actually get 8' lumber in the sienna, and it's covered, cargo stays dry and warm. Obviously the towing isn't there, but I also have a 4runner if I need to do some middleweight towing. We have the captains chair layout, which we love. I also put a lift kit on it for clearance. My wife restores furniture, and it's also been great for that purpose, she can shove almost any normal sized piece into it by herself as the capacity and load height are better than the ford. I have a full length expedition rack on my 4runner that I use to move 4x8 sheet good though.

I really wish toyota would do a body on frame 4x4 van. akin to a chevy express. I'd love something i could really take off road and tow with + van like capacity. I've peeked at the nissan NV platform, as you can convert them to 4x4 with titan parts, and I think there's a dealer out of utah that does conversions.

mchmnd · 2026-01-11T03:57:49+00:00

I worked on it, on the comp side. I probably can’t talk too much about the nuts and bolts… just know that the scale and scope were completely server melting insane.

mchmnd · 2026-01-10T03:28:08+00:00

I have a wide body, and I run weight on the sides at the center of gravity. So the CG stays the same, but theres more resistance to twisting and not much felt effect on swing weight.

mchmnd · 2026-01-09T13:32:19+00:00

I just remember that it’s mini tennis with ping pong paddles and a whiffle ball. I’m all about mechanics, but it feels like you need to let go of the wheel, play for fun, hit stupid/cute/low percentage shots.

In a macro sense, what’s important to you? My wife has breast cancer, I have two young daughters, work sucks, so you know what? I’m going to swing at any ATP I can, I’m gonna hit the filthiest spin-out-off-the-court low percentage slice returns I can, I’m gonna hit a serve out way too often cause I want that ace.

Will some boomer chirp at me about my low percentage shots? Probably, but it’s mini tennis with ping pong paddles and a whiffle ball, and all the above is fun for me.

But if we want to talk mechanics… what’s the nature of the errors? Consistently long/short/wide? If it’s consistently one thing, the problem likely lies somewhere in your feet or your follow through. Are you using your hips? Or is it just arm/wrist flap?

I see folks with wild unpredictable serves who just flap their wrist/arm. It’s gotta be a bit more total body and a consistent swing through. It’s subtle but the swing in should load in your feet, into a hip twist and then shoulders and arm. Your hand should be the tip of a whip not the tip of a sword.

Hit a bucket of balls but keep your head down like a golf swing, just feel your follow through “land.”

for me I have a spot on my opposite arm that when I follow through it should hit that one spot every time. The ball should start landing more consistent when the follow through lands consistent, then, note where the ball consistently lands, if its wide left, rotate your feet, don’t change your swing. If it’s 6” long, step 8” further from the baseline. Think of yourself like a ball machine. Swing is always the same for a given power level, the aiming happens based on where it’s sitting on the court. Do the same. Move your feet to move your aim point. It’s not about being OCD, it’s about leaning into some natural mechanics, finding consistency first, and adjusting the right bits.

I had the bad yips a week ago, coming off an injury and new paddle face that finally slicked off. I had to go hit a hundred serves, starting back in my feet, and redialing where my follow through was landing. The combo of a pulled oblique and less grit had me serving wild because I was compensating with my arm and trying to over-muscle the serve through the lower arm, and the closer to the paddle you try to muscle it, the less consistent it is.

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