Friend_Lord

Hello friendos.

It's time for a wacky post

I'm here to proselytize my favorite religion:

BLACK HOLE WORSHIP

Just kidding.

Kinda.

But for real though you know how fucking small you really are? Do you also know how not-small you really are? Do you also know how immeasurably immeasurable you are?

Check these out...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNDGgL73ihY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNDao7m41M

http://twistedsifter.com/2012/10/putting-the-size-of-the-observable-universe-in-perspective/

Do you feel it?

For me it's a lot like that one red hot iron ball we all know and love.

I've got a pet idea to share with ya'll:

I think at the end of the day, Zen dudes were livin

Cmon, President u/NixonTheCrook

Step up.

Edit: many == all

I was on the tennis court yesterday teaching my usual group lesson. One of the kids (age 9) had a caffeinated energy bar before the class-- she was straight up off the rails. Literally collapsing to the ground when she made mistakes, screaming at her partners when they made mistakes. Not a cool situation.

Being that my program is not that serious, it's just at a tiny community park, I'm not one to come down too hard on kids when it comes to discipline.

So we took a little break, I talked to her a bit about how things don't always go how you want them to and how you gotta just roll with that as a fact of life. Basic stuff. She cooled off and we got back to the tennis.

There is a lot of contention about what zen actually is, what do you feel it is ?

Honestly I still don't even know. For me, 'Zen' is what I find after I relentlessly question a thought and trace it to its root, cutting it off at the source. Zen is the boulder buried underneath the garden.

How long have you been involved in zen and in what ways ? How has it affected your life ?

I don't think I'm really 'involved' in Zen. I just read about it casually and think about how the stuff I'm reading applies to my life. I've been reading Huangbo and Joshu semi-frequently for the past few months. Hard to say how it's affected me, my friends have commented that I seem much more comfortable a

The Inner Game of Tennis is one of the most influential mental performance guides ever written. The author, Timothy Gallwey, was heavily influenced D.T. Suzuki and other eastern thinkers, so many of the concepts within the book ring very close to the tune of Zen.

Every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game. The outer game is played against an external opponent to overcome external obstacles, and to reach an external goal. Mastering this game is the subject of many books offering instructions on how to swing a racket, club or bat, and how to position arms, legs or torso to achieve the best results. But for some reason most of us find these instructions easier

Hi friends.

I've been lurking this subreddit and playing the 'read a book' game for a little while now, I still have a very muddy picture when it comes to talk of 'gates'

Would anyone like to elaborate on 'gates' to maybe help clear this up?

I still haven't read Gateless Gate... thinking I should probably read that before asking... either way... too late!

Had an interesting experience on the tennis court a few months back that you guys might find intriguing. I was practicing serve returns while focusing on objects in the peripheral vision to improve my reflexes. It was something that I had seen described by some questionably reliable martial arts teachers as 'mushin'

http://timrosanelli.blogspot.com/2011/09/two-easy-steps-to-achieve-mushin-state.html

I'm not sure if it's actually 'mushin' but it did yield some interesting results.

Before returning every serve, I did the practice as described in the article, and discovered that my serve returns had improved dramatically. I was hitting killer shots on serves that normally would have flown r

"Everything that is born out of thought is destructive. Anything that we discover, the laws of nature or whatever you call it, are used by us only for destructive purposes. And it is true that we have discovered quite a few of nature's laws, and the theories are constantly changing....

Q: Can we not at least attempt to refine this thought process to make it constructive and positive?

A: Thought is not the instrument for achieving anything other than the goals set before us by our culture or society, or whatever you want to call it. The basic problem we have to face today is this: the cultural input, or what society has placed before us as the goal for all of us to reach and attain, is the

Anything from meditation groups to yoga centers, I'm just looking for a place to relate with other mindful people. Google results haven't yielded much.

Any suggestions?

Edit: I should have put this in the title, but we're talking about the forehand here primarily.

First things first.

What is open stance?

I'll let Federer answer that question

Open stance is when you load on your outside leg (Right leg for a righty FH) and shift to your inside leg as you hit. There are two main ways that the open stance generates power. Hip rotation (which gets multiplied greatly as explained here) and pendulum acceleration. We understand how hip rotation, works, but how does 'pendulum acceleration' work?

[It has to do with pendulum physics.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqSaQkNjyWk

1.) Swing across. This is how they are able to generate so much spin and power so effortlessly. You never see a pro swing 'into the court'. They always swing across their body.

2.) Finish. The majority of their shots are finished around the body, with the others being finished above the head Nadal style. It's very rare to see a pro choke their shot halfway. Always finish.

3.) Wait for the ball. Notice how both Stan and Djoko usually don't take their left hand off the racquet for the FH until right before the ball bounces. That is not an accident! Do NOT get ready early! Wait for the ball!