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In all seriousness, once on a trip in Japan I discovered very ancient styles of pillows that are filled with buckwheat or millet (I prefer millet). There is nothing better. It stays cool and, with the right amount of grains in them, which you can adjust, quickly takes on the optimal shape...

With that in mind, I made the most improvement where my practice consisted of structured drills where I ALWAYS had to move to get to the ball and then execute a specific shot or pattern. Sometimes the drill was random, sometimes it was fixed. Then I'd play a few matches and then work in my...

Be happy you can play.

Sometimes it is a sign your are a little late getting to the ball and not quite as well balanced as when the ball goes more precisely where you want it. A lot of problems people think are in their arms/hands/paddle are actually in their feet. Not saying it's the case with the OP because I...

It just takes time and disciplined practice. It sounds like you are doing pretty well for someone after just two years. I wish there was some other secret but there isn't. I second the suggestion to video yourself. Nothing helps me work through problems more than that.

Only three days into the Major League Baseball season in the US 14 members of the Miami Marlins team, including 2 players, have tested positive for the coronavirus. MLB players are tested every other day. Baseball is probably a relatively safe sport on the field in terms of virus transmission...

On a lighter note, let it never be said that Texans are not adaptable. Here in Houston, one of the global centers of the Covid-19 pandemic, bars are now closed by order of the governor. That hasn't deterred the geniuses who run the Vivid Gentleman's Club, who have set up a drive through strip...

Not at all. The virus is a particle of a few macromolecules that spreads by airborne movement from one person to another. That's all. The problem is that people are not always smart, many are quite stupid, and for many different reasons do things that cause it to spread, and fail to do...

My reply is based on an incomplete knowledge of the literature but for what it's worth, the consensus that seems to be emerging is that preventing spread through the air is crucial and that unexpected things can happen indoors because of how air flows. With that in mind, surface cleaning of...

I need to back and review some of what he is citing. I have definitely not read all of it. Again, the scientific rationale -- how it is supposed to produce an anti-viral effect -- is weaker than it was before. There was a double blind placebo controlled study of HQ as a preventative treatment...

A paper came out in Nature showing WHY hydroxychloroquine (HQ) doesn't work against Covid-19. The original cell culture study showing an anti- viral effect was done in a non-human cell line called Vero (from a monkey kidney originally). Its convenient to work with and widely used. The...

People who want an easy to understand summary of immunology sufficient to understand a lot of the issues in Covid-19 should see this extensive thread from an actual (and quite famous) immunologist, Dr. Akiko Iwasaki from Yale University. It is really well done, a whole lot better than I could...

Another paper I saw amazed me and underscored how unpredictable Covid-19 is. 41 kidney transplant outpatients with known or suspected COVID-19 were treated at Columbia University Medical Center in NYC, and only 13 of them required hospitalization. They were hospitalized a median of 8 days from...

There is a lot of news and to start with I need to some of the studies on the the duration of antibody responses (either in people who get the disease or people who get the vaccine). Bottom line, that tells very little about the duration of immunity. Antibody responses always go down at some...

No no no! Clearly my attempts to teach you mortals have been in vain. It's in The Rules! To whit: There is no alternative to Tenergy. Stop asking. Now I know how Moses felt when he came down from the mountain to find his people worshiping a giant golden bull.

And what is your favorite alternative to Tenergy? (This is a trick question). I await the cognicenti providing the correct answer.

It will help your anticipation, help you control angles, help you put pressure on your opponent. It will also help you develop power from compact strokes. Stick with it. Your comment about footwork suggests you back up to compensate for that (I'd need to see you play to know for sure)...

I think that the racket choice is not one that needs to be dictated by total physical strength of a player, especially in adults. (It's not tennis). The best female player I've ever known uses a 90 g blade with typical rubbers for high level Chinese players. Maybe little kids would need a...

Meanwhile the Regeneron antibody cocktail has started a full scale phase 3 clinical trial. 1. Sick people in hospital, 2. Healthy people exposed but not yet positive. This means they are satisfied about safety and have tested a few people that it seemed to help

Without being political, I can say that the final decisions in Texas lie with the governor. Cities and counties (mayors and county commissioners) of places with high population densities are begging him to give them the power to basically institute lock-downs, but he has not yet agreed to give...