Search results

Dragon whips his tail. Big cat parries. To no avail.

Dictator's gonna dictate.

There used to be hordes of ZJK fans, so many that they’d drown out all others. If that mass went for Harimoto with the same zeal, that might just form a massive DDoS attack on the streaming infrastructure. A joke, of course.

ZJK fanbase breaking rank and swapping loyalty?

Mmm. I think the age where that naïvity was maintainable has long since past. You might really not realize, but you’re playing instruments resounding race and nation here. Again. These tones never were innocent, and that has been overtly and painfully established over the course of history...

Yes, and I notice that Tenergy is now in the bargain basement at a mere €67!

All are important, but one thing I'm learning and relearning and relearning that safety in serve reception is a treaturous, counter-intuitive thing. When holding back and hit cautiously, things tend to go haywire. A cautious push or block is no match for a strong server. So I'm inclining more...

Aye aye cap'n, "get some rest". He looks like a young parent -- that translucent, worn-down look, it does not bode well.

Goat milk and goat cheese are readily available. It goes with stables scent and taste, as does farmer’s cheese made from raw milk at the farm (to a lesser extent). Some like that, some don’t. Pretty much like some develop a taste for almond or soy “milk”, and some don’t.

Oh how I wish so.

What happened to Ando Minami in that last game against Mimo Ito? Leading 8-5 in the 6th game, then I blinked, and suddenly 8-11, all done and over with.

I don't think I get what you're saying here. If I incorporate the backswing in my movement, I'm already committed to a particular hitting wing, at least, that's what I think. And that's why I (hauling about a degenerate near-corpse) have been focusing on a fluid movement, in which taking...

Well, some like stiff blades and they can not lie You other brothers can't deny That when a blade comes by with a zesty stiffish bite And a low flex for your wrist You get sprung That being said, the YEO might be a bit much indeed. I happen to like Yasaka's Sweden Extra a lot; still a nice...

There’s no such thing as a LARC equivalent for blades. And fairly limited requirement, other than having to be mostly wooden. Beyond that, all shapes and sizes go.

TT mercilessly reveals my limits, my flaws, and forces me to reassess myself and makes me both move my limitations and come to terms with them. It teaches me humility as well as respect for self and others. It challenges that humility too in moments of glory. TT sharpens my mind, makes me...

Rubbers don’t beat rubbers. Players beat players, be it themselves (‘I have seen the enemy, and it’s us’) or other players.

Which, to lift out that part, states that the top women get to meet the top men incidentally. Meaning, the women train with women all the time, are coached "like women are supposed to", with talk permeating the premises in which men players that fail to meet some arbitrary bar are threatened...

Assuming the same distribution and level, yes. But these are also assumptions. There's this strange phenomenon observed in studies in extreme sports, that strangely suggest the male population has extremer outliers in both directions. Average skill levels, then, may be close, but...

After a period of injury my level of play and fitness fell, and I replaced T05 by Rozena when it was spent. Before injury I had set my eyes on Gold Arc 8 (at 50º), and had even bought a slab of that. Since that I've been surprised to see an onslaught of relatively hard rubbers hit the streets...

Don't strawman me. :-) And I do think this is all assumptions here, and assumptions based on simplification to boot. Yes, there are physiological differences, but they're averages in a spectrum. Women are usually lighter and more nimble, but some men are smaller, lighther and quicker on their...