


When you’re scrambling to retrieve a good, angled shot by your opponent you can swipe the ball back with a slice and buy yourself a little time to get back into position. It is also the most commonly used shot when you are in a defensive position. This leaves it tough for the opponent to hit it back with much pace.Īnother instance when you are using a slice is if you want to surprise your opponent with a drop shot. When you’re moving forward toward the net and you want to drive a low-bouncing ball into the corner of your opponent’s court. The same can be set for other net approaches. Topspin shots are also used to come towards the net as previously mentioned it pushes the opponent back, which gives you time to advance to the net.Ī slice is often used when you return a serve and then come straight to the net (known as “Chip and Charge”) because it gives you time to do so. Good topspin shots will land just in front of the line and bounce towards the opponent so he has a tough time generating power and needs to have good footwork to cope with it. Micah Walker is the Dispatch trending reporter. Reach her at or 74.Topspin shots are used by most tennis players as their general groundstroke because it forces opponents to go backward. Hirin: Restaurants are still having hiring problems, even with enhanced benefits gone Slices of "Fiery Death" will be available for $5 and an entire pizza costs $27.įor customers who like their pizza on the less spicy side, Mikey's is offering "The Haunted Pizza" this week, which features ham and sausage with tomato and red pepper flakes.Ĭrust Fund Columbus: Charities get a slice of the pie from Upper Arlington woman's homemade pizzas "We just don't have the manpower to do a lot of the things that we're doing right now and I just didn't have time to organize it," he said. Biundo said this is due to COVID-19 concerns and his limited availability. However, for the second year in a row, the contest is canceled.

The contest rules also required them to stay seated for five minutes afterwards, with no additional food or drink. In previous years, the pizza joint held a Fiery Punishment contest where the first eight contestants who signed up had to eat three slices of “Fiery Death” and a raw Carolina reaper pepper. "Made enough for about 10 pies, figured no one would want it. and its yummy Follow a girl and her talking hamster in this hilarious side-scroller action game. "At the time, the ghost pepper was the hottest pepper in the world and I went ahead and got some ghost peppers and created a pizza," he said. SLICE BACK Alien sushi Yeah, theres life out there. The hottest peppers are used on the "Fiery Death" pizzaīiundo said the idea for the spicy pizza came in 2011 from a man on Facebook who kept asking Mikey's to make a ghost pepper pizza. "I created it and I can barely eat it, but there's fire eaters out there."īesides the sausage, "Fiery Death" is made up of a trio of extremely hot peppers -Carolina reaper, Trinidad scorpion and bhut jolokia ghost pepper. "We get all these messages from people that drive from Cleveland or Indiana or further asking when it's coming back," co-owner Jason Biundo said. Slices and whole pizzas will only be available Friday through Sunday at Mikey's Downtown location at 268 S. Fourth Street. The Columbus-based pizza chain is bringing back its "Fiery Death w/ Hate Sausage" pie, which is unofficially dubbed the hottest pizza in the world. For those who like their food spicy, Mikey's Late Night Slice is turning up the heat just in time for Halloween.
