Progression
In a quest for satisfaction if not perfection, one might explore every possible avenue, having taught oneself a fair approximation of what satisfaction feels like.
A coach in a certain professional position said that one must have the grace and humility to recognize actual breakthrough in technique when it occurs.
Ironically, he fooled himself into thinking he had achieved it when he hadn't, and both the coach who preceded him and all the coaches who held his position afterward taught their people technique more effective than his.
The quest goes on in all sports where people are benign enough to know that, in true science, there will always be something new under the sun.
A radical way to use high-speed video is to count clicks:
Thus, Nadal takes 55 clicks to get second head above his head, 15 to lower elbow with outside knee still bent, 7 to straighten arm, 7 to body-whirl straight arm, and 6 to get off ball, during which time leg is almost straight . Finally, he takes 25 clicks to finish around opposite shoulder during which time leg becomes completely straight.
Does not such analysis, for the open-minded observer, at least give up the rough proportion of a single stroke in time?
Additionally, the microscoping attention of such counting can help one make oblique discovery or ask some new question.
Is the way Nadal's racket turns over at contact, i.e., the way it closes, the result of a hit on the lower half of the strings or rather deliberate delicacy as in a drop-shot where the player tries to hit two sides of the ball?
In a quest for satisfaction if not perfection, one might explore every possible avenue, having taught oneself a fair approximation of what satisfaction feels like.
A coach in a certain professional position said that one must have the grace and humility to recognize actual breakthrough in technique when it occurs.
Ironically, he fooled himself into thinking he had achieved it when he hadn't, and both the coach who preceded him and all the coaches who held his position afterward taught their people technique more effective than his.
The quest goes on in all sports where people are benign enough to know that, in true science, there will always be something new under the sun.
A radical way to use high-speed video is to count clicks:
Thus, Nadal takes 55 clicks to get second head above his head, 15 to lower elbow with outside knee still bent, 7 to straighten arm, 7 to body-whirl straight arm, and 6 to get off ball, during which time leg is almost straight . Finally, he takes 25 clicks to finish around opposite shoulder during which time leg becomes completely straight.
Does not such analysis, for the open-minded observer, at least give up the rough proportion of a single stroke in time?
Additionally, the microscoping attention of such counting can help one make oblique discovery or ask some new question.
Is the way Nadal's racket turns over at contact, i.e., the way it closes, the result of a hit on the lower half of the strings or rather deliberate delicacy as in a drop-shot where the player tries to hit two sides of the ball?
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