Pickleball – You Make the Call – 20160121

A pickleball player is standing at the Non-Volley Zone (NVZ) and the front of his shoes curl up in such a fashion that they are actually beyond the NVZ line, but because of the curl, they are not touching the line.

A ball is hit to that player and he makes a return volley back to the opposing team. If an imaginary line was extended downward from the tip of his shoe to NVZ line his foot would have been over that line; is this a fault?

Leave your answer in the comment section! The answer will be presented next week in a follow-up post.

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160121

“The best angle from which to approach a problem is the Try-angle.” — Unknown

“‘I am’ … two of the most powerful words, for what you put after them shapes your reality.” — Bevan Lee

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.” — Billy Graham

“On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.” — Lou Holtz; coach

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160120

“It does not take a brave dog to bark at the bones of a lion.” — African Proverb

“The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.” — L. Ron Hubbard

“We never know the quality of someone else’s life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.” — Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

“You have to milk the cow quite a lot and get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.” — Henri Cartier Bresson

 

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Pickleball: Don’t Stink at the Dink!

There are a number of pickleballers who don’t like the soft game. They do everything they can to avoid it. Unfortunately, as most experts will point out, it is hard to achieve pickleball excellence without a good soft game, i.e. the dink.

 

Five Elements of Dinking

This brief video explains all of the elements of a good dinking game. Watch the video to improve your dinking skills.

As quoted from the YouTube video:

Do you know one of the secrets to taking your game to the next level? It’s mastering the soft game using the dink! Many players love to smash the ball hard, but everyone knows top players use dinking to control the game and ultimately win. In this episode of Pickleball 411, we are fortunate enough to hear from pickleball ambassador Tom Early from Canton, Georgia as he demonstrates a key reason why you must have the dink as part of your game plus five steps to get started! [emphasis is mine ]

If you think dinking isn’t a serious aspect of the sport, you can watch Deb Harrison explain her “all day dink” technique. If so many people are talking about it, it must be important; right? I mean after all…Can millions of Elvis fans be wrong?

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160119

“That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.” — P.C. Hodgell

“A relationship that is right will enhance your life, not complicate your life.” — Unknown

“We are all strangers to our hidden potential until we confront problems that reveal our capabilities.” — Apoorve Dubey

“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.” — Mark Twain

 

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UP-itty

It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?

Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends.

And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.

We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.

At other times the little word has real special meaning:

People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.

A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.

We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary.

In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used.

It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don’t give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.

When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.

When it doesn’t rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I’ll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP,
so…….it is time to shut UP!

Now it’s UP to you what you do with this email.

STATUS QUOtes — 20160118

“I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Passion is an inch wide, and a mile deep.” — Aaron Holloway

“Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.” — Alain de Botton

“Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what’s wrong with it.” — Rex Harrison

 

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STATUS QUOtes — Picture Quote — 20160117

 

If You Want to Know The Value of Time...

“To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.”

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160117

“When anger rises, think of the consequences.” — Confucius

“A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.” — James Clarke

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” — Oscar Wilde

“Democracy is like a tambourine – not everyone can be trusted with it.” — John Oliver

 

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