Babolat and collecting data

[julian1]

New York Times published an article last week

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/sports/tennis/turning-tennis-rackets-into-data-centers.html?_r=0

It is basically a piece about Babolat Pure Drive with an electronic device
to collect data about power,spin,etc of shots.
It has a small piece about Head as well.
There is a small remark about an ANOTHER device coming to market.

Is a Babolat device a sign of progress or regress.
The device by Babolat can be "used" to evaluate strings
Julian W.Mielniczuk
USPTA
I am NOT sure whether the link ABOVE does work.
If it does NOT please let me know.

[julian1]

Is a new Babolat device (see post #1) beneficial for coaching?

One possible scenario is like that:
a player collects data for a given data.
Next a racket is "leaded" and new data are collected and compared with old data.

Will a new device plus ONLINE teaching/coaching replace human coaches?
Probably yes.
We may need coaches to feed balls to collect data but it some
automated devices can be used as well here.
Please see post #3 below as well.

[julian1]

A review of the Babolat device

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_nkw6aTLmo

[julian1]

Kudos

Please see

http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=484439&page=8

post #141
Very interesting reveiw from a teaching point of view