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Well, you have a point. I'm not self centered or insecure enough to start denying inherent traits that come with lack of life experience and a shitty upbringing, nor do I fail to see the reality of what level I play the game at. I can laugh it off, because I know that people who try to bring...

Hello. Because some people have an issue with me, I would like to start a thread where people let out their emotional trauma. Answer the poll and give feedback. Not a single positive, constructive or friendly comment allowed. Thank you. :p

This is a good one. When I use mental imagery to think of a play I want to perform, most often against weaker players it goes exactly like I want, and because I visualized myself playing it properly, I'll probably play it like that because it's more work to go against the plan, if you know what...

There's a difference between calling someone's consistency shit, and commenting on the consistency of ball placement in a non-serious video where the whole point is to show the inconsistent placement. The people in the video know it's inconsistent. We know it's inconsistent. It's not the end of...

Shuki, haven't I stopped the un-constructive criticism, and the only negative energy that has been going around is hateful comments directed at me? I'm telling you to stop beating the dead horse, because everyone else has already. I don't need to conform to what you believe is correct...

If you can't see the extreme non-seriousness in that bland jab, then I don't know what to say.

I didn't know you're still in middle school. :rolleyes:

Oohh, It's Matt. I've read through your blog. ;) Thanks for the thoughts. They seem reasonable. I don't care so much about winning and having success vs lower players, but more so what my performance is like. It's not that I have problems playing lower players: I just generally don't like my...

If I say something stupid, or you say something stupid, it's still stupid no matter who's mouth it came from. We're all idiots some times. You're very well free to call me out for my BS: please post a thread about it calling me out, if you really want to help. If you're posting in my thread...

Carl, do you always start drinking at this time or what? During the rest of the day, your feedback is helpful and I appreciate it, but during this time of the day, you don't add any kind of value. Do like Shuki is doing now, or start your own thread titled "Archosaurus is an immature, egoistic...

Vertical filming, and the balls going everywhere. I'm trying to hold my cringe back. :rolleyes: I get the point. That's why I'm gonna work him up slowly. He's more consistent than that, though. I can give him one or two big ones and he'll return them in the same wing in nearly the same spot...

This is at the end of the day when we just said "Eh whatever, just serve long and smack it". Usually he'd be doing some smacking too, but he was reeeaallyyy out of shape that day, worse than me or not. :rolleyes: Earlier, I wasn't hitting as hard and had a spinnier contact, and we were...

I pretty much always serve short against good opponents, exactly because of that. One or two free pop ups or bad returns from them are huge. Keep in mind this is entirely relative, of course. My short game against a person of similar or slightly greater ability would probably be a little bit...

Well, it is. Pretty much the ideal and basically a free point for me. When it's hard is if I'm not expecting it in the slightest. I didn't mention in this thread, but our net is a bit busted. So balls that clip the net just plummet. That probably has something to do with it.

Sounds about right. When I said I can't do anything to the ball, I mostly meant with my current ability and how I usually play. If I'm really on fire, I can get to it early enough and either flip it with my forehand for a winner, if the stars align, or start a rally with my backhand flick...

My push most likely doesn't have as much backspin as I think it does, and our rubber is most definitely not that spinny compared to pro grade commercial rubber. I still fail to see why it's seemingly physically impossible to kill the spin from a loaded shot and return it short. We are talking...

I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. Why can't you push a heavy spin serve short? What's preventing it? Ideally, the way I'd respond to a really loaded serve is to give them a really loaded push deep into their backhand, step back and get into a topspin rally, just what I like...

I've never used a Palio blade/rubber, but I've heard great things about them.

I've noticed the same effect, but only because if I back off the aggression, I also stop caring about small details like, you know, footwork, anticipation, actually looking at the other player's contact etc.