Standard Post With Shortcode Goodies

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With several dozen of the best looking Shortcodes around, we wanted to give you a sample of the many high-end Shortcodes built into X. We’ve grouped some together so this isn’t a super long post, however for a complete list with demos and examples of each, be sure to head over to the 01 Demos for each Stack. Remember that …

Standard Post With No Featured Image

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Sometimes you just want to type. No messing with images. Here’s what a post would look like with no featured image. Sometimes you just want to type. No messing with images. Here’s what a post would look like with no featured image. Sometimes you just want to type. No messing with images. Here’s what a post would look like with no featured …

Simona Halep Coaching Setup

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Simona Halep is rising the WTA rankings fast. Beginnning 2013 ranked 47 and reaching no.4 in the world by May 2014 it seems her well publicised timeout for surgery has not hurt her chances. It may even have helped them. I started noticing her in 2013 when a friend pointed her out as a potential champion. I liked her from the …

Margins

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How well you play has a lot to do with how well you stay within your own margins and how well you push your opponent beyond theirs. they idea is that with any shot there is a way you can play it reliably. That is your comfortable level. As you increase the difficulty through adding power, aiming to tougher targets, …

The right kind of Tennis

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This occurred to me at lunch. I write for tennis but it applies to anything we wish to master. As we face tougher opponents the natural change to occur is from exerting our game with ease to working harder and harder for an opportunity to apply our game. As we face tougher competition we naturally face more complete players willing …

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Strategy: Did you lose or were you beaten

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All top competitors hate to lose but they can accept being beaten. That’s how I see the general reaction from players like Serena, Federer, Rafa and others. If they feel they could have played better and might have won they are annoyed with themselves because they let themselves lose. If however they gave everything. That’s the best they could have …

The Tennis business model: How do lower ranked players survive financially?

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I’ve been wondering about the business model of the tour. The big problem for tennis seems to be the travelling required. I really think it is holding back the tour, not really helping it. I came across this tweet Sarah Borwell @sarahborwellAnother article about the money situation on the Tour. Its becoming a major problem. Impossible to break into the…fb.me/3vYaCUk1G30 …

Michel Roux: you don’t need a protein with every meal

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Michel said in a radio 5 live interview that you don’t need a protein in every meal. That is how I see things but you need someone of Michels reputation to nail this home.  Relates to meat feast: is it time to change the way we eat meat? come to the table describes meal times in france. A place that understands food particularly …

Stilton and onion pastryless quiche

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Cooking should be easy. Atleast if you’re going to do it when you’re busy. I was stuck in that place with some blue cheese that needed eating up but no idea what to have it with. So a friend of mine suggested I make a quiche. I said I have pastry but its frozen. He said do it without. because …

Toni Nadal Previews Roger v Rafa – 2014 Australian Open

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Just had to record this interview. I haven’t seen many interviews from Toni. I’m fascinated given how much I’ve heard because I want to form my own opinion. I find Tonis emphasis on left handed play as a weapon interesting. For decades I’ve heard of the idea that left handers have an advantage over right handers for some reason. Lots …