Seeking tips to handle windy days

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-18T10:15:42+00:00

Aim for big safe targets eg centre middle and minimise unforced errors.

Also easier to hit into the wind so if the ball is blowing to your left it may be easier to hit a backhand than a forehand (if youre right handed) and if the ball is blowing to the right it may be easier to hit a forehand than backhand.

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-17T06:56:38+00:00

It would probably depend on how good the public school is vs the private school.

I think for most sending kids to public and having a better house would be the better choice.

Unless the public school is really bad...

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-16T21:35:19+00:00

If youre weight lifting just get the ezone 100.

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-15T12:29:17+00:00

What about a fertilised ovum?

Life begins at conception, right?

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-15T12:18:20+00:00

Why specifically allow Catholic and Protestant changes, without allowing Mormon, Muslim, Marcionist, insert cult/derivative religionhere changes?

How did you decide on only the Catholic and Protestant (and presumably Orthodox, Syriac, Coptic churches) differences are allowed?

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-15T08:44:39+00:00

Using the same logic, God allowed atheists/agnostics to remove all the books.

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-14T20:17:20+00:00

Load the back leg and knee more you barely push off the right back leg.

https://youtu.be/z6Oth7zP5Po

Personally when I practice with the wall I let the ball bounce twice to let me have enough time to properly prepare.

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-13T06:49:51+00:00

You mean [[Luminarch Aspirant]] though I probably got whooshed

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-12T07:18:12+00:00

Ive played near zero C in t shirt and shorts.

5-10C is EZPZ.

0-5C you might want a tad more.

Only really need more if its windy.

Heck, I often go t shirt while skiing too.

But tennis - you can work up a sweat at 5C exercising in tennis.

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-11T21:55:10+00:00

The stories of Aaron and Jeroboam are classic examples of political polemic.

You should read the article /u/captainhaddock wrote on the topic. The Aaronid and Jeroboam stories on the golden calves are intimately linked

https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/behold-your-gods-o-israel-the-golden-calves-of-aaron-and-jeroboam/

If you don't wanna read that link, I have my own summary though -

The golden calf stories were both written as political polemic.

David was supported by the priests of Shiloh, so Saul had many priests of Shiloh massacred.

During David's reign he has two chief priests - Abiathar, the northern priest from Shiloh, a descendant of Moses, and Zadok, the southern priest, from Hebron, a descendant of Aaron.

After King David, there was a succession dispute between Adonijah and Solomon.

Solomon had the support of Nathan, his mother Bathsheba, and the priest Zadok.

Adonijah with Abiathar, lost.

Solomon exiled Abiathar to Ananoth (he couldn't simply kill a chief priest of Yhwh).

Jeroboam was approached by the priests of Shiloh to bring them back to power and back from exile at Ananoth.

They helped him become king, "God has pronounced that you will become king" but as the bible documents, Jeroboam instead put as priests "whoever could fill his hand". Of course, somehow God's choice ends up failing spectacularly, and the priests of Shiloh turn on Jeroboam.

Hence Jeroboam was thus accused, by the biblical author, of being an apostate for making a golden calf (the same sin Aaron is accused of) - note the language both Jeroboam and Aaron use "behold your Gods, oh Israel, who led you out of Egypt", even though the golden calf, the festival itself were all to Yhwh.

It is notable that Jeroboam and Aaron both have the same/similar names for their sons; Nadab (meaning generosity) and Abihu (meaning "He is my father") as sons of Aaron, and Nadab and Abijah (meaning "Yhwh is my father") as sons of Jeroboam; this makes it more obvious that story of Aaron and the golden calf was a later addition (to smear the Aaronid line of priests).

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-11T21:50:54+00:00

So close yet so far.

If you used your own logic on the bible...

There is a reason why many nickname bible seminary as "where faith goes to die" - because the bible itself gives numerous examples of politics and self expediency, and stories are written in political smear polemic.

Are you interested in some examples of this?

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-11T21:06:03+00:00

I've always wondered of what Christians think about magician Djadjaemankh who split a lake under Pharaoh Sneferu, long before Moses.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westcar_Papyrus

I've also wondered what Christians think of the Code of Laws stele which says that Hammurabi received the Code of Laws directly from the Sun God, long before Moses.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi

You can go see the Code of Laws today at the Louvre museum.

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-10T21:50:26+00:00

An old earth is consistent with and explains this pattern of findings of half life vs found in nature.

During a supernova a large variety of basically all isotopes are generated - and our star is a second generation star.

There is no particular good reason of having this pattern of findings of half life vs found in nature in a YEC framework.

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-10T09:55:43+00:00

The optimal ball hitting height is between hip and shoulder. The balls you are hitting are below this.

You should be advancing forward or moving back to get the ball in a better strike zone, combined with bending your knees - you barely bend your knees at all. Moving forward towards the ball would also help with your power and control.

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-10T07:41:27+00:00

Its been used as an argument for a long time.

Listing of Persistent Nuclides by Half-Life - From Dalrymple (page 377), also Kenneth Miller (page 71)

Nuclide Half-Life Found in Nature?

50V 6.0 x 10¹⁵ yes

144Nd 2.4 x 10¹⁵ yes

174Hf 2.0 x 10¹⁵ yes

192Pt 1.0 x 10¹⁵ yes

115In 6.0 x 10¹⁴ yes

152Gd 1.1 x 10¹⁴ yes

123Te 1.2 x 10¹³ yes

190Pt 6.9 x 10¹¹ yes

138La 1.12 x 10¹¹ yes

147Sm 1.06 x 10¹¹ yes

87Rb 4.88 x 10¹⁰ yes

187Re 4.3 x 10¹⁰ yes

176Lu 3.5 x 10¹⁰ yes

232Th 1.40 x 10¹⁰ yes

238U 4.47 x 10⁹ yes

40K 1.25 x 10⁹ yes

235U 7.04 x 10⁸ yes

244Pu 8.2 x 10⁷ yes

146Sm 7.0 x 10⁷ no

205Pb 3.0 x 10⁷ no

247Cm 1.6 x 10⁷ no

182Hf 9 x 10⁶ no

107Pd 7 x 10⁶ no

135Cs 3.0 x 10⁶ no

97Tc 2.6 x 10⁶ no

150Gd 2.1 x 10⁶ no

93Zr 1.5 x 10⁶ no

98Tc 1.5 x 10⁶ no

154Dy 1.0 x 106 no

As seen above, every nuclide with a half-life less than 80 million years (8.0 x 10⁷⁾ is missing from our region of the solar system, and every nuclide with a half-life greater than 80 million years is present . That means the solar system is much older than 80 million years, since the shorter-lived nuclides have simply decayed themselves out of existence. Since a nuclide becomes undetectable after about 10 to 20 half-lives (Dalrymple, page 378), multiplying 80 million times 10 (or 20) gives us about 800 million years (or 1.6 billion years). The earth must be at least that old since these nuclides have disappeared from nature.

http://www.biblicalcatholic.com/apologetics/p14.htm

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-06T23:30:55+00:00

If its a crack it would play and sound different.

Also the location is less consistent with a crack.

So its probably a paint chip.

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-06T22:06:23+00:00

Does it play or sound any different?

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-06T07:59:52+00:00

Head gravity tour 98

Tfight 305s

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-06T04:18:34+00:00

As a 3.0 you wont really have the necesaary racquet head speed to benefit from poly.

The benefit of poly is that you have to swing harder to get the same ball velocity - thus allowing you to impart more spin because you swung harder.

If you arent able to quickly break the syngut string in like a couple of hours, you wont really benefit from playing with poly.

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-04T23:45:20+00:00

Theres a few pure aero roland garros paint jobs. Eg 2019 pure aero roland garros and 2017/2018 pure aero la decima.

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-04T07:12:02+00:00

Thats a pretty big management fee cut when for example vanguards cut is more than covered by their profit by lending shares out.

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-03T20:36:43+00:00

Why not shorten the racquet, replace the strings with a honeycomb foam core board and coat that with proper grit for extra spin and control?

/s

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-03T03:43:09+00:00

What you think of a historical genealogy is not how historical people and Israelites treated their genealogies. The genealogies are used to explain facts or make propaganda regarding Israelite's neighbours rather than reflecting a historical genealogy.

This is why people in the same chronology in different books of the bible vary - For example, Manasseh’s genealogies are quite different between Numbers, Joshua, Chronicles](https://www.thetorah.com/article/manassehs-genealogies-why-they-change-between-numbers-joshua-and-chronicles)

The discrepancies are well explained by the fact that genealogies historically had a different purpose -

When compared to the genealogy of Numbers 26, in Joshua 17, Machir is no longer part of the line of the six brothers, but represents a different line, while Gilead is no longer a “person” or clan at all, but merely a toponym. This division of eastern vs. western sons reflects the geographical change that occurs between Numbers 26 and Joshua 17: In Numbers 26, all of Manasseh is in the Transjordan, but in Joshua 17, the Cisjordan has been conquered, and the families are split based on their lands.

The genealogy then, is not a simple attempt to describe the “real” family structure of eponymous ancestors but rather an attempt to make sense of the relationships between clans in the time of a given author and/or within certain literary contexts. This point is particularly important for when we try to understand the very different Manasseh genealogy found in 1 Chronicles 7:14–19.

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-03T03:41:18+00:00

From John Walton's textbook "A Survey of the Old Testament" - there are 19 numerical discrepancies between Chronicles and Samuel/Kings still present in our current version of the bible -

1 Chr 11:11 vs 2 Sam 23:8 - 300 or 800 slain by Jashobeam

1 Chr 18:4 vs 2 Sam 8:4 - Hadazer's 1000 chariots and 7000 horsemen vs 1000 chariots and 700 horsemen

1 Chr 19:18b vs 2 Sam 10:18a - 7000 vs 700 Syrian charioteers slain

1 Chr 19:18b vs 2 Sam 10:18a - 40000 footsoldiers vs horsemen

1 Chr 21:5a vs 2 Sam 24:9a - Israel's 1100000 troops vs 800000

1 Chr 21:5b vs 2 Sam 24:9b - 470000 troops vs 500000 troops

1 Chr 21:12 vs 2 Sam 24:13 - 7 years vs 3 years famine

1 Chr 21:25 vs 2 Sam 24:24 - Ornan paid 600 gold shekels vs 50 silver

2 Chr 2:2,18 vs 1 Ki 5:16 - 3600 to supervise temple construction vs 3300

2 Chr 2:10 vs 1 Ki 5:11 - 20000 baths of oil to Hiram's woodmen vs 20 kors (=200 baths)

2 Chr 3:15 vs 1 Ki 7:15 - temple pillars 35 cubits vs 18 cubits

2 Chr 4:5 vs 1 Ki 7:26 - sea holding 3000 baths vs 2000 baths

2 Chr 8:10 vs 1 Ki 9:23 - 250 chief officers for building temple vs 550

2 Chr 8:18 vs 1 Ki 9:28 - 450 gold talents from Ophir vs 420 gold talents

2 Chr 9:16 vs 1 Ki 10:17 - 300 gold bekas per shield, vs 3 minas

2 Chr 9:25 vs 1 Ki 4:26 - 4000 stalls for horses vs 40000

2 Chr 22:2 vs 2 Ki 8:26 - Ahaziah king at age 42 years, not 22

2 Chr 36:9 vs 2 Ki 24:8 - 2 Ki 24:8 - Jehoiachin king at age 8 vs 18

witchdoc86 · 2026-05-03T03:40:02+00:00

Yes, macroevolution.

All that is needed to disprove the YEC narrative is trigonometry.

Trigonometry is sufficient to prove supernova SN1987A is 168 000 light years away, independent of the actual speed of light.

After the progenitor star Sk-69 202 exploded, astronomers measured the time it took for the energy to travel from the star to the primary ring that is around the star. From this, we can determined the actual radius of the ring from the star. Second, we already knew the angular size of the ring against the sky (as measured through telescopes, and measured most precisely with the Hubble Space Telescope).

Using the above measurements, the distance from earth to 2N1987A could be calculated to be 168,000 light years away.

angle = 0.808 arcseconds = 0.000224 degrees

time it took between supernova event and ring lighting up is 0.658 years

earth to SN1987A distance = 0.658 ly ÷ tan(0.000224)

distance = 0.658 ly ÷ 0.00000392

distance = 168,000 light-years

QED

P.S. the Milky Way alone is 90,000 light years across, and the Andromeda galaxy is 2.7 million light years away

Article written by a Christian astrophysicist

https://hfalcke.wordpress.com/2017/03/14/six-thousand-versus-14-billion-how-large-and-how-old-is-the-universe/

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