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Month: February 2016
STATUS QUOtes — 20160214
“There is no finish line so love the journey.” — David Weekly
“The best thing to hold on to in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” — John Steinbeck
“Instant gratification takes too long.” — Carrie Fisher
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Video – Dogs through the Eyes of the Dogist
Do you know who the Dogist is? Well, you aren’t alone. I am apparently, out in the cold on this one and maybe it is because I don’t have a dog (although I do like dogs; a lot!). There are many who do know and enjoy the work of Elias Weiss Friedman aka “The Dogist.” He is doggin’ it and really having a good time!
The Dogist from E.J. McLeavey-Fisher on Vimeo.
STATUS QUOtes — 20160213
“Love the giver more than the gift.” — Brigham Young
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” — Lewis Carroll
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” — Christopher Reeve
“In New England there are three times of year… either winter has just been, or winter is coming, or it’s winter.” — Bill Bryson
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Pickleball Doubles Strategy 101 & 102 from Joe Baker
In October of last year, I blogged about Joe Baker’s video – Doubles Pickleball Strategy 101-How to Play Smart Pickleball, Ten Tips
If you haven’t watched it and you are interested in raising the level of your doubles play, I suggest you read the post and review the video. It is an excellent video and Joe Baker teaches the strategies in a very understandable and deliberate manner. Diagrams and game footage are interspersed to make the concepts clear.
You can find this blog post, including Pickleball Strategy 101, at the link below – [Video is at the Bottom of the Page]:
Pickleball Strategy – 10 Tips to Help Win the Point
For those who have already watched the 101 series of tips, here is the follow up:
Joe Baker’s Tips for Doubles Strategy in Pickleball – 102 (Below)
Joe starts out by emphasizing that smart play that often leads to winning points and not necessarily strokes or shots.
As Joe points out, most pickleball points are lost and not won. The improper use of force causes many balls to go errant. That is to say, players often hit the ball hard when they should hit it soft and hit it soft when they should hit it hard and thus lose the point.
As Joe Baker points out, power and control are opposites:
- Hitting the ball harder reduces control – increases errors
- Hitting the ball softer increases control – reduces errors
Two Rules of Thumb:
- When you must hit up on the ball, hit softly
- When you hit down on the ball, hit harder
Watch the video for complete explanations of the above ideas! I hope you learn some great points as I did!
STATUS QUOtes — 20160212
“Newspapers should have no friends.” — Joseph Pulitzer
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We try to hide our feelings, but we forget that our eyes speak.” — Unknown
“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?” — James Thurber
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STATUS QUOtes — Picture Quote — 20160211
STATUS QUOtes — 20160211
“An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.” — Albert Einstein
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“A truly rich person is one whose children run into their arms when their hands are empty.” — Unknown
“Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.” — P. J. O’Rourke
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Pickleball Video – Be a Better Banger
As I watch many of my colleagues play pickleball and a volley develops where the ball goes back and forth several times, it sometimes looks like a pool party where everyone in the pool is just trying to keep the ball from hitting the water. Players are simply patty-caking the ball back and forth. Joe Baker refers to this phenomenon in one of his videos.
If a ball is going back and forth at a moderate pace, that is an ideal time to step forward and “bang” the ball so it is harder to return.
Deb Harrison’s latest video, “Be a Better Banger,” may help you improve your power hitting technique.
STATUS QUOtes — 20160210
“There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.” — Rumi
“Life is not a tug of war. You don’t need to make someone else lose in order to win the game.” — Zoya Kazi
“Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn’t think we needed to know.” — Amy Poehler
“If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.” — Neil Simon
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