{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "PointCast · Court", "home_page_url": "https://pointcast.xyz/c/court", "feed_url": "https://pointcast.xyz/c/court.json", "description": "Pickleball — matches, paddles, drills.", "language": "en-US", "authors": [ { "name": "Mike Hoydich × Claude", "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/about" } ], "items": [ { "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0416", "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0416", "title": "A future room: paddle exchange + library", "summary": "Local-radius paddle exchange. Profile-based, optional DUPR linkage, what-you-play and what-you'd-trade. 25-mile radius from El Segundo to start. Idea captured before it vanishes — not a commitment.", "content_text": "Mike, paste-into-terminal brainstorm at 19:38 PT 2026-04-30:\n\n_\"new pointcast areas, local pickleball paddle exchange and library, people register thier profile, maybe dupr login and the paddle they use and ones they'd be open to trading, a neat system, easy to use, use some nouns creative and ocean southern california, go with a twenty five mile radius to start, unless makes sense to think differently\"_\n\n## What this could be\n\n**A room on PointCast where people register a tiny public profile** — name, photo, current paddle, paddles they'd be open to swapping or loaning. DUPR login as the optional auth so the rating travels with you. The trade isn't formal; it's the kind of \"I have an extra Joola, you have a Selkirk you're not playing — coffee and switch\" arrangement that already happens on courts but doesn't have a hub.\n\n**25-mile radius from El Segundo to start.** Tight enough that the paddles can actually move; loose enough to cover the South Bay + Hawthorne + the rest of the Squeeze ecosystem. Expand if the math says so.\n\n**Visual treatment:** Nouns creative + ocean Southern California. Sand, salt, neon. Pixel paddles with Noun heads. Not a SaaS dashboard.\n\n## Why this is a CRT-channel block, not a feature spec\n\nIt's an idea Mike said out loud while doing other things tonight. Captured here so it has a home and an ID before the terminal scrollback rolls over. Whether it ships, what shape it ships in, who builds it — open. The PointCast pattern: ideas live as blocks first, decide-or-archive later.\n\n— mh + cc, El Segundo, 2026-04-30 night", "date_published": "2026-05-01T05:30:00.000Z", "_pointcast": { "blockId": "0416", "channel": "CRT", "type": "NOTE" } }, { "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0340", "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0340", "title": "One hundred rotating Buddha heads", "summary": "A monochrome image-model cue deck: postal skate-zine Buddhas, ocean Buddhas, city Buddhas, mountain Buddhas, stamp sheets, meditating heads, and empty-business-room apparitions with meditative audio options.", "content_text": "A rotating visual block for PointCast: one hundred Buddha-head directions arranged as a living image-model deck. The first run starts in a skate-magazine paste-up register near post offices and mailboxes, then moves through monochrome 80s, 70s, 60s, ancient, ocean, De Stijl grid, silkscreen pop, stamp-sheet, meditating, midcentury art-deco business interiors, New York City subway, Tokyo rain, mountain sculpture, and ten more environment families. Each direction carries digital tinting, audio modes, and the signature line: Michael Hoydich.", "date_published": "2026-04-24T18:45:00.000Z", "_pointcast": { "blockId": "0340", "channel": "CRT", "type": "WATCH" } }, { "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0270", "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0270", "title": "Note to self · move the feet — kitchen and in general", "summary": "From yesterday's pre-tournament warm-up with Lyndon, Nick, Alex. Thing to keep working on: move my feet in the kitchen, and just in general. Static feet at the NVZ is the leak.", "content_text": "From yesterday's pre-tournament warm-up with Lyndon, Nick, Alex. Thing to keep working on: move my feet in the kitchen, and just in general. Static feet at the NVZ is the leak.", "date_published": "2026-04-18T16:30:00.000Z", "_pointcast": { "blockId": "0270", "channel": "CRT", "type": "NOTE" } }, { "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0257", "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0257", "title": "The 4-corners dink drill — why depth control is the lever", "summary": "A standard 15-minute, 2-person drill that targets the variable most amateurs never explicitly train. Editorial summary by cc — not a record of a personal practice session.", "content_text": "Author: cc. This is a writeup of a drill widely taught at the 4.0 level, not a personal practice log. Mike + crew may or may not run it; this is the textbook version.\n\nSetup. Both players at the non-volley line, diagonally opposite. Pick one corner of the kitchen on each side — say the near-post. For sixty seconds, hit every dink into exactly that corner. Not at feet. Not at body. At the corner. Paddle angle, swing length, and contact point all adjust to the target rather than the opponent.\n\nRotate every minute. Four corners, four minutes per corner, eight minutes per side of the court. Then switch sides. Fifteen minutes total.\n\nWhy it works. Dink depth is the variable most rec-level players never explicitly drill. Width gets worked in any rally. Height is felt — too high and the rally ends. Depth is binary: deep enough that the opponent can't speed up, or not. Forcing the same target from four different angles exposes a different technique gap each rotation. One corner reveals the lazy backhand; another, drop height; another, cross-court angle; another, body turn.\n\nMeasured pace, fixed target — meditative in the same way the chakra tune-up at /b/0236 is meditative. Fifteen minutes of disciplined input. The carry-over to live play is reduced pop-ups and longer rallies before the speed-up.", "date_published": "2026-04-18T12:05:00.000Z", "_pointcast": { "blockId": "0257", "channel": "CRT", "type": "READ" } }, { "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0237", "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0237", "title": "Third shot roll — stop flaring the paddle", "summary": "Watched myself on slow-mo. Every overcooked third shot comes from the paddle face opening at contact. Keep the knuckles down, let the ball climb the strings. Gen 4 doesn't need the help.", "content_text": "Watched myself on slow-mo. Every overcooked third shot comes from the paddle face opening at contact. Keep the knuckles down, let the ball climb the strings. Gen 4 doesn't need the help.", "date_published": "2026-04-18T01:15:00.000Z", "_pointcast": { "blockId": "0237", "channel": "CRT", "type": "NOTE" } }, { "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0223", "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0223", "title": "Single-Breasted Jacket by Noah", "summary": "A patient cut from Noah NY. The kind of jacket that lets everything underneath it do the talking.", "content_text": "A patient cut from Noah NY. The kind of jacket that lets everything underneath it do the talking.", "date_published": "2026-04-17T09:30:00.000Z", "_pointcast": { "blockId": "0223", "channel": "CRT", "type": "LINK" } }, { "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0209", "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0209", "title": "The paddle I play — 11SIX24 Vapor Power 2", "summary": "Gen 4 full-foam floating core, carbon fiber face, 2,335 RPM spin — 4th highest across 440+ paddles tested. $209.99 vs $289+ for comparable builds. My daily driver.", "content_text": "Real hero shot from 11SIX24's product page, not an editorial study this time. 98% grit retention, tuned for intermediate-to-advanced players who want controlled power and consistent spin.", "date_published": "2026-04-16T21:00:00.000Z", "_pointcast": { "blockId": "0209", "channel": "CRT", "type": "LINK" } } ] }