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Tennis / Re: Ball Machines
« on: November 02, 2015, 03:53:44 pm »
Lobster Elite 3 vs Spinfire Pro 2
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiD5fSjscv8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiD5fSjscv8</a>
don't like teh lobster.. loving the spinfire so far.
don't like teh lobster.. loving the spinfire so far.
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Tennis / Re: Ball Machines
« on: November 02, 2015, 03:53:12 pm »go talk to andre agassi. his dad invented a machine that would spit a ludicrous number of balls at his kids, at high speed. little andre, at like 6 years old, would have to hit the balls as soon as they bounced off the ground or they'd go over his reach. and that is why he was the greatest off-the-rise returner ever.
if you're looking for a book to read, his autobiography is great.
dope.. any footage of that? just searched, couldn't find any. probably a good chance that there's no footage, would be cool to see though.
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Tennis / Re: Ball Machines
« on: November 02, 2015, 03:37:10 pm »
I'm thinking about getting this, Spinfire Pro 2 ball machine:
http://www.mambatennis.com/spinfire-pro-2/
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojkzKx7AWKU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojkzKx7AWKU</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwzURDFo02o" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwzURDFo02o</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA2CPY8DGU8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA2CPY8DGU8</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af_HwU4yAuA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af_HwU4yAuA</a>
LOOKS DOPE@!@$
these balls are recommended:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxkMFX9CuII" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxkMFX9CuII</a>
setup/configuration:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUDwndaTzwA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUDwndaTzwA</a>
Anyone have any recommendations for any ball machines?
some good feedback from this consumer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYPng-13BMI
some reviews:
- http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/ball-machine-go-high-end-or-are-the-features-not-worth-it.498433/page-3
http://www.mambatennis.com/spinfire-pro-2/
LOOKS DOPE@!@$
these balls are recommended:
setup/configuration:
Anyone have any recommendations for any ball machines?
some good feedback from this consumer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYPng-13BMI
some reviews:
- http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/ball-machine-go-high-end-or-are-the-features-not-worth-it.498433/page-3
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 02, 2015, 03:33:29 pm »on the jump rope are you just doing simple turns or are you doing any tricks or side-to-sides?
just simple turns. the only thing I change up is the pace of the turns and what I do with my feet:
- two foot hop
- left-right ...
- left-left-right-right ..
- etc
yesterday, each round of 500 i'd do these in a row, changing footwork each time I hit 100:
- two foot hop x 100
- left-left-right-right x 100
- two-foot hop x 100
- left-left-right-right x 100
- two-foot hop x 100
eventually i'll add in:
- high knees
- single leg side to side or front to back hops
- possibly some double unders
pc!
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 01, 2015, 11:42:01 pm »
11/01/2015
sleep = 8 hours
bw = 168
soreness = upper back, traps, neck, glutes, forearms
aches = none
injuries = none
felt pretty good but sore.. i think alot of this soreness is from jump rope, eh!
Food
- orange juice
Session: Afternoon
- 1 hour run
- not sure of the distance
- ran slow on purpose.. long sleeve shirt
- lost 7 lb. of water weight
Food
- 6 eggs with gorgonzola mixed in
- some of those eggs in an egg sandwich
- a few brookside chocolates
Session: Evening
- jump rope: 8 x 500 turns, 1 x 1000 turns
- ~3min rest between sets
- much better than yesterday, made far fewer mistakes
Food
- gatoraid
- 2 bananas
- rice
- 3 egg rolls
- cookies & cream ice cream (sucked.. this brand sucked)
Food
- 2 glasses of chocolate soy milk
- greek yogurt
sleep = 8 hours
bw = 168
soreness = upper back, traps, neck, glutes, forearms
aches = none
injuries = none
felt pretty good but sore.. i think alot of this soreness is from jump rope, eh!
Food
- orange juice
Session: Afternoon
- 1 hour run
- not sure of the distance
- ran slow on purpose.. long sleeve shirt
- lost 7 lb. of water weight
Food
- 6 eggs with gorgonzola mixed in
- some of those eggs in an egg sandwich
- a few brookside chocolates
Session: Evening
- jump rope: 8 x 500 turns, 1 x 1000 turns
- ~3min rest between sets
- much better than yesterday, made far fewer mistakes
Food
- gatoraid
- 2 bananas
- rice
- 3 egg rolls
- cookies & cream ice cream (sucked.. this brand sucked)
Food
- 2 glasses of chocolate soy milk
- greek yogurt
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: November 01, 2015, 11:34:49 pm »13059
Football / Re: A whole bunch of college football plays and sh*t
« on: November 01, 2015, 11:14:47 pm »13060
Football / A whole bunch of college football plays and sh*t
« on: November 01, 2015, 11:14:21 pm »
similar to the dunks thread.. ;f
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: November 01, 2015, 10:39:40 pm »in non-fitness news: i read a lot -- at least 20 books a year since college and usually more than 25 -- but i counted up last august and realized that only 25% or so of the books i'd read over the previous 4+ years were by women. no good excuse for that, so i decided to read nothing but women for the rest of the year and afterward try to keep the balance 50/50. i've read 47 books since then (35 in 2015 so far) and 28.5 of them are by women. just picked up 48 and 49, both by women. good job, me.
never even thought of that (men vs women authors). I mostly read computer programming, operating system internals books, or papers; hardly any women authors in computer science.
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Football / Re: miami vs duke - crazy ending
« on: November 01, 2015, 10:29:29 am »They were throwing the ball around like it was rugby!
ya, crazy stuff.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 01, 2015, 10:29:00 am »Good job with the tournament.
thanks!
Quote
is it free entry for anyone or is there requirements to join?
nah not free.. each tournament has a fee of ~$25-$40. Other than that, no requirements; you can just sign up, pay, and play.
pc!
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: November 01, 2015, 01:01:03 am »
10/31/2015
sleep = 7.5 hours
bw = 172
soreness = none
aches = right hip slightly, back slightly, right hand slightly
injuries = none
felt really good today.
Food
- orange juice
- greek yogurt
Tennis match: ~10 AM ET
- lost 6-0, 6-0
- HEH! got wrecked.
- match lasted ~1.5 hours (edit: including ~10-15min warmup)
- played very safe..
- lots of safe rallies until i'd hit it to short, guy would hit it back then go to the net, i'd hit it back weak and he'd put it away
- several games went to deuce, lots went to 40-30 then i'd lose it.
- served pretty good, a few aces, but also had some critical double faults
- when i'd hit a wimpy second serve, i'd get wrecked.. i did that because I worried too much about getting it in
- had some really good gets when the opp basically thought he hit a winner
Food
- fruit
- greek yogurt
- orange juice
Tennis: 1 PM ET
- lost 6-1, 6-2
- match lasted 1 hour 45 minutes (edit: including ~10-15 minute warmup)
- tons of games went to deuce
- all of my points came on breaking the opponent's serve
- this match should have been alot closer
- guy had a very powerful / flat serve but it rarely went in, then he'd hit a weak second serve.. when his first serve went in, was very hard to get it back
- aced him a few times
- he aced me once
- had some really good gets when the opp basically thought he hit a winner
- opp had a crazy slice, put some serious spin on it, sometimes i'd stop dead in it's tracks.. but that's because he was slicing my weak safe shots, so he could slice the hell out of it
- i wanted to hit with way more power in this match but i just couldn't.. safe weak shots. not high over the net but just weak.
had fun, that's for sure.
a few issues I need to improve:
- I sweat like a faucet.. makes the racquet more slippery.. how to fix? heh.. i wear a wrist band but that doesn't help too much.. I changed racquets, that helped temporarily.
- Serving! This is by far my biggest issue. I need a more accurate first serve and a much better second serve. I'm serving way better than I was a month ago, i'm getting much more of them in.. but not enough.. and when I worry about double faulting, my second serve is way too weak.. opponent can just destroy it if they want.
- Not hitting my strokes with speed/power.. I need to get back to hitting most every shot with a fast stroke. This has almost become an issue in my head now, very psychological. I worry too much about getting it in, in a match, than just crushing it. In practice hitting I can crush it. No reason I shouldn't be able to crush alot of these shots in the rallies.. I really need to remove this barrier and hit my shots properly in matches.
weird things in the tournament:
- usually forehands are my most trustworthy shot, but, during this tourney, my backhands were actually much more trustworthy. I was getting most of them in, and not even worrying about it.. I was second guessing myself on every forehand, sucked.
- the clay courts had crappy lines.. was really bad in my first match.. when a ball clips those lines, it can go anywhere.. some of them just launched straight up, some went off to the side etc.. surprised me initially; was expecting a ball to bounce normal and instead it bounce like 15 feet in the air (on a serve).. was funny.
- everyone was sweating profusely even after the first game.. was HOT AS FUQ.. I was like a faucet by the end of the matches.. taking a ball out of my pocket, bouncing it once before the serve, it'd pick up tons of clay because it was soaked.. (second match).. lol.
Food
- big thing of popcorn chicken
- chocolate soy milk
- some chocolates
Food
- some halloween chocolates
Session: Late Evening
jump rope:
- 6 x 500
- wanted to do more but a police helicopter was hovering around with a spotlight
- jump rope was surprisingly shitty.. lots of mess ups
- need to do this somewhat frequently; it's also good for my wrist/rhythm/fat loss.
- forearms/shoulders and glutes were getting way too tired.. probably just burnt from my matches today.
Food
- greek yogurt
- fruit
pc!
sleep = 7.5 hours
bw = 172
soreness = none
aches = right hip slightly, back slightly, right hand slightly
injuries = none
felt really good today.
Food
- orange juice
- greek yogurt
Tennis match: ~10 AM ET
- lost 6-0, 6-0
- HEH! got wrecked.
- match lasted ~1.5 hours (edit: including ~10-15min warmup)
- played very safe..
- lots of safe rallies until i'd hit it to short, guy would hit it back then go to the net, i'd hit it back weak and he'd put it away
- several games went to deuce, lots went to 40-30 then i'd lose it.
- served pretty good, a few aces, but also had some critical double faults
- when i'd hit a wimpy second serve, i'd get wrecked.. i did that because I worried too much about getting it in
- had some really good gets when the opp basically thought he hit a winner
Food
- fruit
- greek yogurt
- orange juice
Tennis: 1 PM ET
- lost 6-1, 6-2
- match lasted 1 hour 45 minutes (edit: including ~10-15 minute warmup)
- tons of games went to deuce
- all of my points came on breaking the opponent's serve
- this match should have been alot closer
- guy had a very powerful / flat serve but it rarely went in, then he'd hit a weak second serve.. when his first serve went in, was very hard to get it back
- aced him a few times
- he aced me once
- had some really good gets when the opp basically thought he hit a winner
- opp had a crazy slice, put some serious spin on it, sometimes i'd stop dead in it's tracks.. but that's because he was slicing my weak safe shots, so he could slice the hell out of it
- i wanted to hit with way more power in this match but i just couldn't.. safe weak shots. not high over the net but just weak.
had fun, that's for sure.
a few issues I need to improve:
- I sweat like a faucet.. makes the racquet more slippery.. how to fix? heh.. i wear a wrist band but that doesn't help too much.. I changed racquets, that helped temporarily.
- Serving! This is by far my biggest issue. I need a more accurate first serve and a much better second serve. I'm serving way better than I was a month ago, i'm getting much more of them in.. but not enough.. and when I worry about double faulting, my second serve is way too weak.. opponent can just destroy it if they want.
- Not hitting my strokes with speed/power.. I need to get back to hitting most every shot with a fast stroke. This has almost become an issue in my head now, very psychological. I worry too much about getting it in, in a match, than just crushing it. In practice hitting I can crush it. No reason I shouldn't be able to crush alot of these shots in the rallies.. I really need to remove this barrier and hit my shots properly in matches.
weird things in the tournament:
- usually forehands are my most trustworthy shot, but, during this tourney, my backhands were actually much more trustworthy. I was getting most of them in, and not even worrying about it.. I was second guessing myself on every forehand, sucked.
- the clay courts had crappy lines.. was really bad in my first match.. when a ball clips those lines, it can go anywhere.. some of them just launched straight up, some went off to the side etc.. surprised me initially; was expecting a ball to bounce normal and instead it bounce like 15 feet in the air (on a serve).. was funny.
- everyone was sweating profusely even after the first game.. was HOT AS FUQ.. I was like a faucet by the end of the matches.. taking a ball out of my pocket, bouncing it once before the serve, it'd pick up tons of clay because it was soaked.. (second match).. lol.
Food
- big thing of popcorn chicken
- chocolate soy milk
- some chocolates
Food
- some halloween chocolates
Session: Late Evening
jump rope:
- 6 x 500
- wanted to do more but a police helicopter was hovering around with a spotlight
- jump rope was surprisingly shitty.. lots of mess ups
- need to do this somewhat frequently; it's also good for my wrist/rhythm/fat loss.
- forearms/shoulders and glutes were getting way too tired.. probably just burnt from my matches today.
Food
- greek yogurt
- fruit
pc!
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: J_Mckinney08's Powerlifting Journal
« on: November 01, 2015, 12:29:56 am »
hey j_mckinney, on your last post, if you see 'modified by adarqui', that was me trying to fix your youtube link but it's still invalid..
like lbss said, sick pressing.
love your home gym too, sick.
like lbss said, sick pressing.
love your home gym too, sick.