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Originally posted by uspta146749877 View PostJohn,
any opinion on the post at tennis-warehose quoted below?
One of my students asked the same question-my reaction was very negative.
Was I very wrong ?
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I use the same grip from my forehand and 1hbh. Is this "bad"?
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I never consciously thought about it until my coach asked to see which grips I use. I was shocked to see that I use a semi-western grip for both strokes. He said that a SW grip for a 1hbh is better for high balls, that such an extreme grip might be difficult to use on low balls. However, he said that some players can make it work for them. So I'm going with this route; it works for me.
But really, is this a bad habit?
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John:
I'm having a great time in the forum posting and learning from other coaches.
For some reason I can't seem to upload video clips to get a kind of 'work-in-progress workshop' going with other coaches. I'm having to upload to youtube then post the link in the forum for coaches to view my clips.
I must be doing something fundamentally wrong when I try to upload to tennisplayer directly. My clips are small file sizes and in an acceptable format but somehow won't upload to the forum. I've tried at least ten times.
Can you post step-by-step instructions on how to upload clips to the forum?
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Another point of view
John, just a thought. I don't think we should focus any less on technique than we are focusing in general on tennisplayer.net, but I do think we could focus a little more on the result and the positioning and footwork. That is, how high are the players actually hitting the ball over the net. Do they really move in a "V" as in Emilio Sanchez's drill this week on the USPTA site? Or do they in actuality start a little further back and move forward? How much arc is there in the shots of women vs men? Of top 10 players vs 2nd 50 players? Where are the shoulders/hips or feet relative to the intended line of the ball? What percentage of different shots are hit open stanced/square stanced/closed stanced. There are almost enough nuts on this site that if we did a cooperative effort to analyze 20 to 50 matches for each and every ball hit identifying it as a open/closed/square stance, where it was hit, the outcome (weaker, even or stronger in the development of the point), we might be able to do some interesting work. I would be willing to do one match and I imagine that would take me a number of hours to make it all the way through the match stroke by stroke (with some sort of agreed upon guidelines for doing the charting).
As I said just a thought.
don
PS What about my posting privileges? I have some amazing video for you from LA!
I think you mentioned you had some of the data from "Shotspot" or whatever it's called in this incarnation. Occasionally they show footwork and ball paths, ...but only rarely. I'd love to see a lot more of that data. Everything we base our strategies on seems to be anecdotal.
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good questions. we are going to start relatively soon with the wide shots.
i'm fascinated with the trajectory/speed/spin thing but we are in the middle of negogiating on the shot spot stuff.
on the stances, since we put up virtually every successful stroke in a match in the stroke archives, you could simply count there by player and have a very accurate estimate by stance. you have probably 20,000 forehands spread over 65 players. It would be nice if people in the forum would team up and do this over time.
posting issue has to wait again. cincy thing was a killer. my girls' high school team is sucking every ounce of my emotional energy (again...) and then there is the small matter of the sept issue.
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Who is dan wilson?
Originally posted by johnyandell View Postjulian,
i don't know the answer. why don't you do some investigation for us--it must have something to do with the way you have to log on thru the uspta server. email dan wilson and see what he says.
John Yandell
Sorry for a silly question
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