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[don_budge]

Hi John...I can only view my last 5,000 posts. Can you open up my window so that I can see the rest?

[johnyandell]

Thanks for the input. PS glad the Henin model worked out!

[arturohernandez]

Arturo,
You are the only complaintent. I just think depending on the article one format or the other works better.

Okay. Then please keep the text/video combination as much as possible. It is infinitely better. I never watch the pure videos that are put up. But I consistently reread the written ones with the embedded videos.

As always, thanks for the great content. I just made a tweak to my daughter's serve based on your women's serve article. Basically, like Henin, just turned her a bit more by taking the left leg back more. Now the early entry is gone and her serve is much heavier and reliable.

The articles gives me something to think about almost every month!

[johnyandell]

Arturo,
You are the only complaintent. I just think depending on the article one format or the other works better.

[arturohernandez]

Did you purposefully switch back to real articles? I HATED the videos and complained a lot about them. I love the articles with embedded videos and want to thank you for putting them in this format. It makes it much easier to skim and to go back to them later.

In any case, just curious if others complained or what might have led to this GREAT change back to what works really well.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!

[johnyandell]

Got it! Responded!

[dimbleby69]

Just tried sending another mail to the metricmail address. It's from a yahoo address, so shouldn't be triggering spam filters...

[johnyandell]

Huh. Try videotennis@metricmail.com What email did it come from?

[dimbleby69]

Hi John,

sent an email a couple of weeks ago (to jyandell@tennisplayer.net) but it seems to have gone missing. What do I need to do to get a video into a post? Clicking 'insert video' requires a url link but you mentioned in the Tsitsipas thread you preferred just to have iphone files and could let me know what to do with them, and also the possibility of uploading using Drop Box was mentioned above.

regards
Rob

[johnyandell]

Keep us posted. You could also upload them to a drop box we could give you.

[dimbleby69]

You should be able to import those .movs directly into imovie. You can then edit them down to post. If you send me an email I can have someone help you with the post if you need it. jyandell@tennsplayer.net

Thanks John.

I'll have another go when I get access to a machine with imovie on it.

regards
Rob

[johnyandell]

You should be able to import those .movs directly into imovie. You can then edit them down to post. If you send me an email I can have someone help you with the post if you need it. jyandell@tennsplayer.net

[dimbleby69]

Hi John

I may finally have usable footage for the 'Tsitsipas forehand' thread. Shot on an iPhone 6, they appear to have .MOV extensions.

My ancient hardware can`t edit them, but I did a Wetransfer to a machine that had iMovie. I'm new to video editing and ran out of time to produce anything. At one point you were recommending the upgrade to Quick Time, but my graphics card is...256MB. Is enhanced Q-Time still available and would it work on a machine as old as mine?

There are 2 files, each about 450MB, quite a few forehands in each. I'm guessing this is too big to post in their entirety.

regards
Rob

(A version of this message was sent via a DM, but I don't know if you read those. In any case I'm guessing you have been very busy - it being that time of the month).

[johnyandell]

Not really, Ideal would be bent straight or maybe straight straight. I just try to get the grips right and the turn and the extension and then see on video what the arm structure is and tweak if necessary. Brian Gordon would go for bent straight from the beginning. though.

[ralph]

Have been rereading your article on the four variations on the two handed backhand. Has one variation become the most dominant? Is there one you would now emphasize in your present teaching thinking?