Thanks for the insight on the grips. Am I incorrect on the grip description for the top hand on the backhand of a right-handed player - count from bevel 1 clockwise so the index knuckle (looks like) on 6 for Novak and (looks like) on 7 for Andre?
As for stopping Fed during a point for pictures of his grips - yeah, that might be a tad rude - but, I thought with your fame and influence in the tennis teaching world, you could convince him and others to let you snap some shots while chilling at tournaments with them!
As a backup plan... Can you zoom-in more during filming to get these shots? A great example of this is in your "Arm Action" clips which get in closer to the player. If you take a look at Novak's regular archive FH page and at clip "NDFHInsideOutArmActionSide2", it has the view looking toward the back. At the end of the swing when the hand is turned over and slowed down in this view you can see the handle and index knuckle placement best. If you go thru this part frame by frame, you can isolate a frame that shows it on 4 1/2 about as clearly as can be seen in all clips. A few good, even more close-up zooms like this, could give us all the player's grip structures nicely.
By the way, speaking of really clear pictures, are you going to get more hi-def clips like that of Fed for Rafa, Novak and others? Those are really awesome clips!!
Thanks for all you do for tennis and for crazy engineering types like us that what to understand how everything works and make it even better if possible. Since I am a science teacher also, maybe that helps explain why I have this infatuation with tennis mechanics?!
Erland
As for stopping Fed during a point for pictures of his grips - yeah, that might be a tad rude - but, I thought with your fame and influence in the tennis teaching world, you could convince him and others to let you snap some shots while chilling at tournaments with them!
As a backup plan... Can you zoom-in more during filming to get these shots? A great example of this is in your "Arm Action" clips which get in closer to the player. If you take a look at Novak's regular archive FH page and at clip "NDFHInsideOutArmActionSide2", it has the view looking toward the back. At the end of the swing when the hand is turned over and slowed down in this view you can see the handle and index knuckle placement best. If you go thru this part frame by frame, you can isolate a frame that shows it on 4 1/2 about as clearly as can be seen in all clips. A few good, even more close-up zooms like this, could give us all the player's grip structures nicely.
By the way, speaking of really clear pictures, are you going to get more hi-def clips like that of Fed for Rafa, Novak and others? Those are really awesome clips!!
Thanks for all you do for tennis and for crazy engineering types like us that what to understand how everything works and make it even better if possible. Since I am a science teacher also, maybe that helps explain why I have this infatuation with tennis mechanics?!
Erland
Comment