Monday, April 24, 2017
I found my limit. Playing pickleball four times in five days was it. I woke up this morning with no burning desire to go out and play. As I type this, about 9:30 p.m., that feeling is slightly coming back. I suspect it’ll be back in time for Wednesday morning.
Live and In Person!
I’m sure, however, you have a burning desire to throw away 14 minutes of your life and watch one of my pickleball games. The video starts out a little shaky due to the wind, but it stabilizes, don’t worry.
(I’m the guy in the tan cap and tan shorts.) It’s less interesting game, not a lot of rallies. If you watch the game, you can see the things I was talking about in yesterday’s blog. The point that starts at 2:20 is so indicative of a consistent error—a failed drop shot, not always from the baseline, sometimes while in motion to the kitchen. (I can occasionally make them, like the point starting at 7:19. And I make a really nice crosscourt drop shot at 7:40.) I could go on about mistakes, there are plenty there to critique. All of four of us have had better games. The wind didn’t help either!
New Toy
I ordered a factory-refurbished AKASO EK7000 4K WIFI Sports Action Camera for $51.95 off of eBay. Buying a refurbished one saved about 40% off the regular price. It’s supposed to be here next week on Tuesday.
[… minutes pass …]
Ok. I just ordered a 32GB memory stick for it ($17). I realized that they likely weren’t going to include memory for it and I was right! It should be here before the camera gets here. I’m curious to see the difference in the video quality. It also comes with a remote to turn it off and on, that could be very handy!
Pickleball Can Save Your Life
I watched a video last night featuring a guy who lives about about an hour and a half north of here. He says that pickleball saved his life. It looks from my poking around the interwebs that his teenage son got hooked on the game as well.
As an aside, it’s stories that like that that make me very wary of riding bicycles around in high traffic areas. It’s been a while since I’ve ridden my bike to work . . . of course, that’s why my wife encouraged me to try out pickleball with our friend John!
Number of days on a court: 19 (still)
Number of total hours: 55 (still)
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