Jump to content

Xminus6

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    545
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Xminus6

  1. Yeah. Watching good float serves from the general perspective of the receiver is crazy. The ball shifts around in the air in an unpredictable way.
  2. Not Texas Volleyball related but we seem to have some very knowledgeable folks on here about the game. What would you say is the most effective serve for a player to learn? My daughter is playing 14U this year. Her serve has developed a lot over the last two years. 2 years ago she could get the ball over the net about 5% of the time from the service line and those would be dribblers that tape. Now she can consistently get hard serves crossing the net within 24” from the top of the net and landing deep (25’ or so). She’s been working on spot serving and trying to learn both Float and Topspin. Her placement right now is pretty darn good. She can hit corners and lines within 18” or so with some velocity. But Float has been challenging for her to learn and frankly I don’t know that she jumps high enough for Topspin to be really beneficial. But what skills do you guys see as most beneficial at this level? Jump? Float? Topspin? Short? Placement? Low to the net? I know they’re not mutually exclusive but just factors that she’s been working on.
  3. As an Advertising Creative, it's terrible. But I love seeing it for them. Hope they got paid well.
  4. Why are their passes the some of the loudest hits? The serves didn't seem that fast and they're playing off their platform.
  5. What world do we live in now that the Sparty coach is getting paid a $31mm buyout? That's nuts.
  6. Some smart kids are going to graduate from Texas with OU never having scored a TD during their tenure.
  7. I don’t understand why Molly Phillips isn’t in contention.
  8. Finally got to catch a home game today before flying back to California. Who is the other tall blonde OH I saw warming up? She’s got a heavy arm and a pretty nice serve too. Found her on the roster. Abby Gaido. Another Frosh.
  9. Wow. On3 certainly made a choice with that photo post processing. They cranked up the Clarity setting in Lightroom. He looks diseased and beat dead in this photo.
  10. Trevor Knight transferred to (or from?) OU and played us once there I think. He was also the cousin of someone either one Shaggy or OB. I remember his cousins getting a lot of shit when he went to a rival school. He wasn’t that great any way.
  11. Elder daughter's high school team played Mater Dei during their Freshman year. Her boyfriend at the time was a center on our high school Frosh team. Not a big kid. I think he was around 5'6" 170# or something like that in his Freshman year. The Nose for Mater Dei's Freshman team was about 6'3" and probably pushing 300#. He would pick our player up by the neck and throw him into the ground and choke him. Our school, lost something like 42-0.
  12. Yeah. Sorry I misworded it. I still think it would be a great trip but I did want and wanted my kids to see the glaciers before they were much less grand. Alaska itself was pretty amazing overall. We also have a house in Tahoe, which is not comparable at all but we have a place for mountains and snow to go to regularly.
  13. I'm not sure. When we were in Seward we were planning on making a trip to the Exit Glacier as its own activity. We got to the RV Park early enough and close enough that we just went that same day/night. They've built a whole state park around the Exit Glacier as an attraction and it was completely underwhelming. It basically just looks like some snow on a hill. It was obviously much larger and grander years ago according to the maps they have along the trail. So we just ended up seeing a small glacier, getting rained on and being bitten by bugs. I don't regret seeing it but I am also happy we didn't make it a "trip" unto itself. It was very uninteresting. Contrasted with the amazing Glacier viewing we had later it made it pale in comparison even worse than our initial impression of it.
  14. We just got back from an amazing RV and cruise trip to Alaska before the kids started school. I kept telling my family that I’ve always wanted to do it and frankly, I’m not sure how much longer it’ll be worth doing for the kids before the glaciers are diminished or gone. I have video of some of the most amazing glacier calving out there. A couple huge chunks that were several hundred tons breaking off.
  15. Yes. You should come up. Good times.
  16. So my younger daughter just finished her first season of club volleyball. Some genius at the Northern California Volleyball Association books a tournament at the San Jose Convention Center each season concurrently with Furrycon. I guess it must be the cheapest weekend you can book the venue since most others wouldn’t want to be exposed to it. Having a bunch of teen and pre-teen girls intentionally intermingling with furries makes sense in some world. This year we were PM wave for the tournament on the first day. I was texting with a friend whose kid was playing AM wave and he was talking about how freaky Furrycon was. I laughed it off because it’s so absurd. But when we got there in the afternoon I understood what he meant. It’s somehow funny in theory, but when there are enough of those weird sweaty nerds in one place to easily overpower and kill you it becomes less entertaining. My kid needed to find a bathroom when we left that first night at 11pm (fucking volleyball tournament scheduling). It gets creepier at night when they’re making “night clubs” in the halls and they’re at the point where they’re removing their heads and just loitering around.
  17. Jeez. It looks like one of those highlight tapes that’s been sped up in post but everyone else is still going 1x speed.
  18. I think what we need is some sort of still photography version of The Volume. A huge video wall with side walls and a ceiling. Give the recruits the choice of what amazing background they want their visit photo to be. For Photograph it's infinitely easier since it doesn't have to camera track or even animate.
  19. Fun fact, kiddo was doing a camp today and one of the guest coaches was Bella Bergmark. Unfortunately today was the only day of the camp that I didn’t drive them.
  20. I like that he has normal hair.
  21. Or they were all otherwise occupied at the moment.
  22. Those are going to be some taaaaallll kids.
  23. So would you guys recommend the “classic” environment at Gregory or the new experience at Moody? She has only been to a couple NCAA games at Stanford (vs. Texas) and a couple at St. Mary’s in the town where we live and maybe a game at Cal she might have gone with a friend.
×
×
  • Create New...