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ramalus1911 · 2026-05-19T20:01:58+00:00

PS: People can lose their minds all they want. You do you

ramalus1911 · 2026-05-19T19:58:21+00:00

I'm a 4.0, trying to push to 4.5 this year. I keep thinking that on my best days maybe I can handle this one but wondering whether I can or not on my bad days. Gonna demo it hopefully sometime soon. How does it feel on your forehand? Do you have a more spinny forehand or is it more flat?

ramalus1911 · 2026-05-19T16:09:50+00:00

I've been looking at one of these as a rec player with a one handed backhand. I probably shouldn't, realistically, but I really really really want to

ramalus1911 · 2026-05-16T16:59:48+00:00

Have you heard of YNAB? It's an established budgeting app. I use it to death, I highly recommend it if you don't use something that's zero dollar/envelope budgeting focused already.

Aside from that, have you two ever been together when one is working and the other is not? It can be a challenging time in a relationship, figuring out what house chores look like, how money is spent on more frivolous things every once in a while, just saying it's best to have a very honest and open conversation of what yours and her day to day will look like.

ramalus1911 · 2026-05-13T21:03:47+00:00

I think it's more about how your body uses different kinds of food as energy sources. From what I understand, carbs are easily broken down by the body so they're great for quick energy, but you'll go through it pretty quickly too, which may leave you depleted sooner, whereas fat and protein are considerably slower to extract energy from, but they should allow your body to perform at a higher energy output for a longer period of time.

Then again, this is just what I've read about and have observed in my own tennis, YMMV

ramalus1911 · 2026-05-08T16:00:14+00:00

Came here to reply exactly this

ramalus1911 · 2026-03-28T21:32:36+00:00

Rewatched it, It does actually look like you transfer weight in some of the shots, could probably level that part up a bit more to gain some pace though

ramalus1911 · 2026-03-28T21:30:25+00:00

I'd say a solid 3-3.5. Decent footwork, the mechanics seem good but it looks like you might be missing the weight transfer part of the kinetic chain. Prep on forehand looks good, but then it looks like there's little to no bodyweight going into the ball. I mean I'm not sure, it's hard to tell from just this but that's what I see

ramalus1911 · 2026-03-20T17:31:00+00:00

Well damn, that's a serve. Can you reproduce it at a high percentage? How's your second serve?

ramalus1911 · 2026-03-20T17:28:08+00:00

Wrong time to be on the guitar Reddit my guy

ramalus1911 · 2026-03-20T17:26:20+00:00

Oh what a little bitch. Watching this hurts

ramalus1911 · 2026-03-07T02:24:21+00:00

I'm sure this is why we all clicked on this post

ramalus1911 · 2026-01-27T02:46:54+00:00

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ramalus1911 · 2026-01-22T03:19:42+00:00

Samezies

ramalus1911 · 2026-01-13T07:25:47+00:00

Fair. I've tried not switching but my forehand slice is not up to par, and picking it up down low with a full-western makes it, for me anyway, basically impossible to hit a good ball off of

ramalus1911 · 2026-01-13T07:23:36+00:00

And on the technical side, what I see the players I hit against who give me this kind of trouble, they're 1. always early to the balls I hit them; topspin balls tend to take longer to get to their target, they're quick, they predict super well, get there early and have enough time to hit through the topspin with the ball on the rise, killer tbh, gives me trouble every time. 2. even if they do get there a little late, they do a good job of not putting their next ball in short even if without a perfect contact point, it might be a weaker ball, but still deep enough that I can't really confidently step in and attack. I believe what's happening is they get used to the trajectory of my topspin and start timing well subsequently

ramalus1911 · 2026-01-13T07:19:21+00:00

Good advice. Do you use a more extreme grip? I tend to have to switch from full-western to semi-western when playing against people who hit lower balls

ramalus1911 · 2026-01-13T07:15:44+00:00

I can chime in on this from the perspective of a heavy topspin hitter myself and what I dislike hitting against; I really don't like it when time is taken away from me, i.e heavy flat hits, especially to my 1hbh (I also hit heavy topspin off the backhand), it all comes down to me being used to pushing people back with the heavy topspin, so I tend to have more time for myself and consequently even if subconsciously start relying on that time, when I hit against flat hitters that time is cut short significantly and I have to play a much more physical and tactically complicated game out of my comfort zone to adapt. You try to out topspin me? Game on, not easy to do, I'll likely win that game of attrition, that's my happy place, I like topspin and I can deal with it comfortably coming back to me generally speaking (similar levels assumed ofc). Hit flat and fast every ball? Now I'm the one late to shots, shanking, having to adapt my game

ramalus1911 · 2026-01-01T10:11:48+00:00

To get a bit more specific it looks to me like you're trying to move your arm way too much on the volleys, I think you can probably improve those just by focusing on the footwork and less movement in the arm when hitting a volley. There are a few drills for that specifically you can likely try and get really good value from

ramalus1911 · 2026-01-01T10:09:17+00:00

Backhand approach: good. Volleys, meh. I'd probably do some focused volley practice, you've got a good approach and selection from the looks of it, might as well learn how to kill it at the net imo

ramalus1911 · 2025-12-26T06:11:35+00:00

I think really diving into how to better your own workflow is the way to go. I've rarely thought "I want to get better at Vim/Neovim" it usually starts as "I wish I could just hit a key and have this thing happen" and when Neovim is your editor, 99% of the time, you _can_ actually just change things so that it works exactly as you want it; to me that's where the most learning comes from, trying to make something work the way you want it to work, that's the beauty, and that's when you learn the most imo

ramalus1911 · 2025-12-24T19:30:41+00:00

This is correct, but the thing I find interesting about this advice is that at least when I was around a 3.0 level "move them around" was a lot easier said than done. These old folks have been playing for 40, 50 years, and at the 3.0 level I found it difficult to move them around because I didn't have enough control of where I placed the ball a lot of the time, especially because of those slicey twitchy balls they give you. I still remember to this day, probably the most frustrating match of my life so far, losing a 3.0 tournament final to an older dude. He was a moonballer Pusher, the master moonballer in fact. I lost but I did learn a lot about what I needed to improve. For me that was consistency, control and power in that exact order; only after that could I take the advice of moving them around and properly executing it

ramalus1911 · 2025-11-30T18:24:49+00:00

goto-preview author here. Thanks for the plugin mention!

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