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Shibboleth, pickleball

May 7, 2023 |

there is a shibboleth among scientists that if an effect is true, the greater the magnitude the more likely it is to hold. nothing can be more detrimental to the market player. the intricacies of deception that the market plays are even more ingenious than those played by spiders and other animals and insects.

some pickleball thoughts: In Brooklyn, especially Brighton Beach from 1930 - 1977, a game almost identical to pickleball was played by thousands including my whole family - it was called paddle tennis and played the same in New Zealand.

the game was very popular in the 1920-1930s and was a mania played in private facilities on the rooftops of big buildings in Manhattan. It was played with a tennis ball sometimes punctured and that bail is still most appropriate and better athletically than the contrived plastic and ugly ball now in use. The game was and is completely athletic with all good players rushing to the net on the serve and return of serve. the one area that the old good players were much better than the current is that they all had topspin backhands or lefts.

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