u/LeggiwS

I noticed Costco Canada has started to sell 12-can packs of Wilson Champs Extra Duty for a pretty good deal.

Has anyone bought and played with the Costco Wilson Championship balls? Are they the same quality as non-costco versions? I know the Costco Penns are crap but I've enjoyed playing with Wilson Champs before so wondering if these Costco ones are worth it and play the same?

On another note, what is your opinion on Wilson Champs in general?

I have recently bought a used 6-point mount crank machine for stringing tennis racquets. Use case is to string just for my friends/family. Not really looking to do a stringing business anytime soon.

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I've done some research on calibrating the crank, and I've seen advice to calibrate it using a luggage scale testing at 40-50-60 pounds.

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My question is, if I only really plan to string racquets between 48-55 pounds, should I only calibrate for those tensions I'm most likely going to use? For example only for 45-50-55, or even my most common at 52 pounds?

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My friend was arguing that this would be better since from his logic, if we never go as low as 40 pounds, it makes no sense to calibrate at that tension. And thus, calibrating at exactly 52 pounds would yield better results for our use cases. He has never strung before but that is his assumption, which does make some sense to me.

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What would be your advice? Calibrate at 40-50-60, or "localize" the calibration at 48-50-52-54?

I (27m) have been unemployed and applying for positions for the past 9 months since my last position, a 1- year contract at a utility company ended.

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I just received an offer from the same utility company for another 1 year contract, ~70k (position 1) with the same team I worked with before, however I am in the final rounds for 2 other companies.

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For position 2, it is another utility company, permanent role ~90k salary. I just completed the director interview last week. They let me know I would hear back in a week or 2. There are 2 openings.

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For position 3, it is with the city, potential of either 2-year contract/permanent~90k salary, 6 openings. Completed the interview, they asked for and have gone through the process of contacting my references a month ago. I have heard no update yet and just followed up last week. I heard that the city does take it's time through the process.

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I have remained in good terms with the team at position 1, thus the hiring/interview -> offer process was really quick. However, I must let them know my decision soon. The team at position 1 know I am in the final rounds with the other companies.

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I am conflicted on what to do. My time at position 1 was great, however, I am not as excited to do the same thing/be in same position as I was, and I find the opportunity of position 2/3 more exciting as it would be a change. Taking position 1 was supposed to be my backup option. My preference would be position 2, as it is permanent. However, I have not received offers yet for position 2/3 and nothing is guaranteed. Position 1 is the only concrete offer so far. I do not want to burn any bridges, and I am afraid if I reject position 1, and somehow position 2 and 3 also don't pan out, I would be screwed. Any advice?

I'm about a 3.5-4.0 level, and have a group of 4-6 friends that I regularly hit with. When we play sets or practice matches, I would usually win 6-3, 6-2 or 6-1, essentially a comfortable win.

However, when we play tiebreaks instead of full or even partial sets, I noticed the scores are much closer, such as going deuce and I often struggle finding a rhythm and even lose tiebreaks to them sometimes as bad as 5-10; just a string of loose points and a mental lapse.

I understand dropping tiebreaks to them isn't the end of the world, but I'm looking for some advice on the reason why I don't perform as well in tiebreaks and what I can do to improve?

My hypothesis is obviously it's mental and the tiebreak structure makes it so every point matters and the opponent is always within reach of a comeback thus there is just that much more pressure per point.

I'm also curious if anyone else struggles mentally in tiebreaks/points as opposed to games/sets/matches? For example having a bad tiebreak record. (When I say tiebreaks, it could be actual tiebreaks to decide a set or just casual first-to-10 scenarios)