Tennis Warehouse-Mid Atlantic Chapter

zapvor said:

ps100<juice100<steam 100<tfight 325s< RQiS 1 tour xl baby!

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hollywood9826 said:

Please enlighten me here. What is so bad about the 7-9 skip? And why are the other ones faster? Is it becuase if you only skip one hole you dont have to go worry about string blocking holes?

My 325's skip 7T 9T and 8H and I havent strung anythign else in a while. So I really dont have a clue.

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zapvor said:

ps100<juice100<steam 100<tfight 325s< RQiS 1 tour xl baby!

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Sup2Dresq said:

I'm no jolly. I don't even play much. Been a month of sitting on a beach and hanging by pools. But to answer your question : I saw the balls three times. While serving, receiving and picking them up. Sad

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TheJRK said:

So... potty training is fun.

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JRstriker12 said:

Well at least she has the initiative and the concept down. Just have to work on location. Sounds like you'll be cruising through potty training in no time.

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datsveryinterestin said:

so... the Dats is totally out of shape and needs to get some other kind of exercise.
~~~~start long story of yadayada...sorry!~~~~
the Dats gets a call from a neighbor to show up at the basketball courts so i pull my socks up way high... strap on some Yonex shoes.. and head out.
I was terrible. Couldn't shoot at all... you know the guy thats so bad they don't even bother guarding you anymore. Yep, that was me.
I of course was given the 6'4" legit jumping young guy to guard and I did a decent job on him until somebody would shoot and he would jump and tip it in before i even left the court. But he didnt score too much when i just guarded him and i knocked the ball away a lot.
So... it was fun full court ballin and I was gettin an incredible workout.
Then, the guy I showed up with (who is 6ft and 225lbs and very awkward on the court... he is all elbows and shoves and half the time picked me while im trying to guard my guy or would just leave his man all alone under the basket to come double team somebody out top) gets in an argument with one of our opponents. We had a mixture of chinese gangsters (all kind of chubby and smoking cigarettes between games but despite their height disadvantage they were pretty good at getting buckets even down low...)
and some black guys that were younger and taller than everyone else.
Well my neighbor gets into it with this chinese guy who said he kept fouling him and i actually thought they might start punchin any moment.
All of a sudden, another chinese dood comes runnin across the court with a cigarette in his left hand and ran up behind my neighbor and tried to sucker punch him in the side of the head. Dunno when I actually did it, but at the last second i saw him and just shoved him as he was in full on "Kermit Washington vs Rudy Tomjonavich" mode.
He still got off a decent punch but i threw him off balance and messed up his tko. Then there was a bunch of yelling and people holding people back... etc. Meanwhile the black doods were just ready to keep playing.
A couple guys looked like they wanted to fight me and told them I wasn't going to let anyone suckerpunch anybody and basically called that dood a biyatch. He then tried to say he was coming at my neighbor straight on which even if it was true is bizarre cuz he wasn't involved at all.
~~~~ end long story of yadayada~~~~~
anyway i was hoping to come out there every Monday but i don't think its worth it to deal with that kind of stuff.

one of the only shots i made was a bizarre hook shot from the foul line and its never good when the other team spends 5 minutes joking and calling me Dan Majerle. But I wish I played like Thunder Dan. But I used to be able to play. I thought they were gonna say Kurt Rambis though... so I guess Ill take it as a compliment even though they were totally mocking me.

Im wiped now though...

p.s. - yall gotta try this:
http://ramenrater.wordpress.com/201...ufacturer-paldo-kokomen-spicy-chicken-flavor/
i tried to get more today but gran mart was out. dang.
i shoulda told the asian gangsters about it!

ok, Thunder Dats signing off

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hollywood9826 said:

Please take the 325 out of that list. It doesnt belong along with those lightweights. Unless you are talking about the V02 Max junk they are trying to sell now.

Ans which RQis 1 tour XL are you talkign about. Didnt they make a 95 and a 100?

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coolblue123 said:

the rqis is nice. amazingly stable racquet for its weight. found out that I needed higher skills before I can graduate to that stick. played with it after my rds003. actually haven't played with a yonex that I didn't like. still baffles me why they are not more popular.

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zapvor said:

i won my set 6-1 today with it so i am delaying switch to london

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datsveryinterestin said:

so... the Dats is totally out of shape and needs to get some other kind of exercise.
~~~~start long story of yadayada...sorry!~~~~
the Dats gets a call from a neighbor to show up at the basketball courts so i pull my socks up way high... strap on some Yonex shoes.. and head out.
I was terrible. Couldn't shoot at all... you know the guy thats so bad they don't even bother guarding you anymore. Yep, that was me.
I of course was given the 6'4" legit jumping young guy to guard and I did a decent job on him until somebody would shoot and he would jump and tip it in before i even left the court. But he didnt score too much when i just guarded him and i knocked the ball away a lot.
So... it was fun full court ballin and I was gettin an incredible workout.
Then, the guy I showed up with (who is 6ft and 225lbs and very awkward on the court... he is all elbows and shoves and half the time picked me while im trying to guard my guy or would just leave his man all alone under the basket to come double team somebody out top) gets in an argument with one of our opponents. We had a mixture of chinese gangsters (all kind of chubby and smoking cigarettes between games but despite their height disadvantage they were pretty good at getting buckets even down low...)
and some black guys that were younger and taller than everyone else.
Well my neighbor gets into it with this chinese guy who said he kept fouling him and i actually thought they might start punchin any moment.
All of a sudden, another chinese dood comes runnin across the court with a cigarette in his left hand and ran up behind my neighbor and tried to sucker punch him in the side of the head. Dunno when I actually did it, but at the last second i saw him and just shoved him as he was in full on "Kermit Washington vs Rudy Tomjonavich" mode.
He still got off a decent punch but i threw him off balance and messed up his tko. Then there was a bunch of yelling and people holding people back... etc. Meanwhile the black doods were just ready to keep playing.
A couple guys looked like they wanted to fight me and told them I wasn't going to let anyone suckerpunch anybody and basically called that dood a biyatch. He then tried to say he was coming at my neighbor straight on which even if it was true is bizarre cuz he wasn't involved at all.
~~~~ end long story of yadayada~~~~~
anyway i was hoping to come out there every Monday but i don't think its worth it to deal with that kind of stuff.

one of the only shots i made was a bizarre hook shot from the foul line and its never good when the other team spends 5 minutes joking and calling me Dan Majerle. But I wish I played like Thunder Dan. But I used to be able to play. I thought they were gonna say Kurt Rambis though... so I guess Ill take it as a compliment even though they were totally mocking me.

Im wiped now though...

p.s. - yall gotta try this:
http://ramenrater.wordpress.com/201...ufacturer-paldo-kokomen-spicy-chicken-flavor/
i tried to get more today but gran mart was out. dang.
i shoulda told the asian gangsters about it!

ok, Thunder Dats signing off

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downs_chris said:

Has anyone eaten baby food on the tennis court? It's my new thing. Helped me play 5 singles matches at sectionals in 3 days! Team was one match away from nationals. Soo close!

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zapvor said:

gangsta!!!! thats crazy. basketball was my firsst sport and i played in the streets but nothing this crazy happened. at least not on court

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datsveryinterestin said:

so... the Dats is totally out of shape and needs to get some other kind of exercise.
~~~~start long story of yadayada...sorry!~~~~
the Dats gets a call from a neighbor to show up at the basketball courts so i pull my socks up way high... strap on some Yonex shoes.. and head out.
I was terrible. Couldn't shoot at all... you know the guy thats so bad they don't even bother guarding you anymore. Yep, that was me.
I of course was given the 6'4" legit jumping young guy to guard and I did a decent job on him until somebody would shoot and he would jump and tip it in before i even left the court. But he didnt score too much when i just guarded him and i knocked the ball away a lot.
So... it was fun full court ballin and I was gettin an incredible workout.
Then, the guy I showed up with (who is 6ft and 225lbs and very awkward on the court... he is all elbows and shoves and half the time picked me while im trying to guard my guy or would just leave his man all alone under the basket to come double team somebody out top) gets in an argument with one of our opponents. We had a mixture of chinese gangsters (all kind of chubby and smoking cigarettes between games but despite their height disadvantage they were pretty good at getting buckets even down low...)
and some black guys that were younger and taller than everyone else.
Well my neighbor gets into it with this chinese guy who said he kept fouling him and i actually thought they might start punchin any moment.
All of a sudden, another chinese dood comes runnin across the court with a cigarette in his left hand and ran up behind my neighbor and tried to sucker punch him in the side of the head. Dunno when I actually did it, but at the last second i saw him and just shoved him as he was in full on "Kermit Washington vs Rudy Tomjonavich" mode.
He still got off a decent punch but i threw him off balance and messed up his tko. Then there was a bunch of yelling and people holding people back... etc. Meanwhile the black doods were just ready to keep playing.
A couple guys looked like they wanted to fight me and told them I wasn't going to let anyone suckerpunch anybody and basically called that dood a biyatch. He then tried to say he was coming at my neighbor straight on which even if it was true is bizarre cuz he wasn't involved at all.
~~~~ end long story of yadayada~~~~~
anyway i was hoping to come out there every Monday but i don't think its worth it to deal with that kind of stuff.

one of the only shots i made was a bizarre hook shot from the foul line and its never good when the other team spends 5 minutes joking and calling me Dan Majerle. But I wish I played like Thunder Dan. But I used to be able to play. I thought they were gonna say Kurt Rambis though... so I guess Ill take it as a compliment even though they were totally mocking me.

Im wiped now though...

p.s. - yall gotta try this:
http://ramenrater.wordpress.com/201...ufacturer-paldo-kokomen-spicy-chicken-flavor/
i tried to get more today but gran mart was out. dang.
i shoulda told the asian gangsters about it!

ok, Thunder Dats signing off

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datsveryinterestin said:

p.s. - i have a secret Salvadoran-mexican restaurant.. its mainly tacos and enchiladas but they have some other stuff too. but why bother.... the freekin chicken tacos and beef enchiladas are CRAZY good. but i've never told anybody about it and the only non-latino i saw in there today just ordered a cup of ice and left. it is highly authentic as judged by the clientele and they pretty much demand you order corona with your food.

i will NEVER divulge where it is, but if we do a TWMAC meet around here sometime... i MIGHT be willing to take the participants for the ultimate food-fest.
tacos are like $1.65 too and enchiladas are $3.50 for 2!
and for some reason the Coke i had here was the best EVER. they use
crushed ice...dunno.. but it was awesome. refills are a $1 tho.. grrrrr
ok... im not telling u where this joint is... its all mine. mUHAHAHAHA

--- just watched D,D,&D
and it looks like we should head up to HW-land and hit up the R&R taqueria off i95 in elkridge! looks good!
http://www.yelp.com/biz/r-and-r-taqueria-elkridge-2

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downs_chris said:

Has anyone eaten baby food on the tennis court? It's my new thing. Helped me play 5 singles matches at sectionals in 3 days! Team was one match away from nationals. Soo close!

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sapient007 said:

like human breast milk?

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coolblue123 said:

As the official bottle cleaner in the house, I am still alittle distraught everytime I see it in my fridge and refills it in the bottles.

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sapient007 said:

it makes fantastic cheese

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tennismonkey said:

am i at basketballwarehouse.com? baby food and enchiladas?

is that what's for lunch because i don't like my latin food in baby form.

bought a brand new prostaff 100. wanna do an extended demo session and lead this sucker up. see if it lasts beyond honeymoon or if i need the marriage annulled.

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downs_chris said:

Has anyone eaten baby food on the tennis court? It's my new thing. Helped me play 5 singles matches at sectionals in 3 days! Team was one match away from nationals. Soo close!

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Topaz said:

I saw you run out of water but not eat baby food. Did you actually do the jarred stuff or something like pedialyte?

I kept mixing up the MD and nova teams.

Ironically I was using my MD championship towel in my match against the Baltimore team (the MD champions!).

And, I'd like to announce, I broke a string! It was a Fh in my fourth match. Must be the massive topspin I was hitting.

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tennischemist said:

stringers of twmac -

i'm getting a 15 pound discrepancy between what my drop-weight machine says and what a pitch-based tension tester says

i strung at 60 and i'm getting 44.8 or something based on the tension tester.

wtf?

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tennismonkey said:

i prefer baja fresh to chipotle. but i think most people prefer chipotle. does anyone have the definitive answer to which is better and why?

downs -- which baby food is best? gerber or happybaby? i have leftover formula if you wanna start making your own sports drink too.

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tennischemist said:

stringers of twmac -

i'm getting a 15 pound discrepancy between what my drop-weight machine says and what a pitch-based tension tester says

i strung at 60 and i'm getting 44.8 or something based on the tension tester.

wtf?

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downs_chris said:

I had baby food in a squeezable pouch. It definitely helped!

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coolblue123 said:

perplexing chipotle vs chik fila. please discuss....

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tennischemist said:

stringers of twmac -

i'm getting a 15 pound discrepancy between what my drop-weight machine says and what a pitch-based tension tester says

i strung at 60 and i'm getting 44.8 or something based on the tension tester.

wtf?

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tennischemist said:

I normally tie Parnell but I did double HH this time. I have read to pull extra tension on the strings just before the knots, is this BS? I don't remember if I did that or not when I would string back in high school.

I'm not sure how you intend "do you use a clamp to tie" to mean.. I clamp off the string at the inside of the frame and then tie w/ the slack part as the bitter end and the string as the standing end.. I use a starting clamp to start crosses but I don't use it in my mains at all.

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hollywood9826 said:

Do you use the clamp to hold the string to tighten the knots? Thats what I do the 8 dollar Eagnas starting clamp is perfect for tying knots. I use the super wide Alpha one to start crosses. I also Tie Parnell for everything. I odnt even remeber how to tie the other knots. I guess YULitle vids are astill out there if I need refresher

I dont pull the last pull at extra tension. The main is the do the same thing for every string job. If you set 2lbs extra on the last pulls before knots, then do it everytime. I dont go though the hassle of changing tension for 4 pulls. I just make my knot tight and snug and go with it. Am I losing some tension? maybe, but as I honetly dont think it is going to affect the stringbed one way or another.

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tennischemist said:

Do you mean you use the clamp to pull the knot tight?

now i'm also perplexed as to why this fresh job just snapped within 30 minutes not having been used at all.

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tennischemist said:

Do you mean you use the clamp to pull the knot tight?

now i'm also perplexed as to why this fresh job just snapped within 30 minutes not having been used at all.

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coolblue123 said:

try and prestretch as well. especially if you are using a multi. You'll get some additional tension lost if you don't. Sometimes, when I do a more flexier multi, I usually leave it unwound for an hour for the string to relax. Otherwise, look at your gripper and clamps as well. When was the last time you've cleaned it? Could be slipping. With my dropweight, I clean every 4th job.

Some of that grain alochol lying in your cabinet or rubbing on a shoe lace does a great job. Then I used gun oil to lube the bottom of my fixed clamps.

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hollywood9826 said:

Gun Oil good idea. Just dont google it, becuiase apprently there is some stuff called gun oil that is used for other types of "guns". Unless of course you need osme lube for something.

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hollywood9826 said:

Yea I use the clamp as a pair of pliers more or less. With Parnell (I cant cooment on other knots) yo have to pull both of the loops or it wont get tight and snug. I just feel like I can get the knot tighter by using the clamp tighten the knot.

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