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The SLOTTY video really made me think about the importance of proper ball feeding. You can really learn from watching what guys like him do.
I'd really love to see some video of Ed Weiss' feeds (if he is still posting here). I saw a clip once, and said that guy is the most phenomenal basket feeder I have ever seen.
Also, maybe Landsdorf.
I imagine don_budge is high-end in this area as well - perhaps we all discuss thoughts on feeding.
It'd love to hear don_budge speak once again about that coach he encountered at a tennis conference that was the absolute boss, as I cannot find that post. It sounded like the guy was a true pro's pro.
Tennis_Chiro has some fantastic machines. It would be great to see him do a clip and talk about them. Maybe he should even do a sales spiel here for an article about them and get a commission. I can't believe the USTA doesn't have two of those things on every court. I am starting the process of building my own machines now for the spring court season. I have a couple of changes I will be making to his design (I will try and build a wall - one big machine that comes across the whole court, where the ball will come out of one of nine holes spread out over the length of the baselines and have lights indicators as well), different spins, trajectories, ECT. I like his idea of two machines, but, I will make one that is bigger than covers all points of the baseline, and can also be used perhaps as a hitting wall. Imagine this, a hitting wall that feeds out another ball to the player when it senses nothing is hitting it? A fifteen to twenty-foot wall of pain. Ball machines are so bad, and tennis_chiro's set up was so brilliant. How that inventor never took over the marketplace for ball machines in one fell swoop is beyond me because the product is so superior to anything else.
I'd really love to see some video of Ed Weiss' feeds (if he is still posting here). I saw a clip once, and said that guy is the most phenomenal basket feeder I have ever seen.
Also, maybe Landsdorf.
I imagine don_budge is high-end in this area as well - perhaps we all discuss thoughts on feeding.
It'd love to hear don_budge speak once again about that coach he encountered at a tennis conference that was the absolute boss, as I cannot find that post. It sounded like the guy was a true pro's pro.
Tennis_Chiro has some fantastic machines. It would be great to see him do a clip and talk about them. Maybe he should even do a sales spiel here for an article about them and get a commission. I can't believe the USTA doesn't have two of those things on every court. I am starting the process of building my own machines now for the spring court season. I have a couple of changes I will be making to his design (I will try and build a wall - one big machine that comes across the whole court, where the ball will come out of one of nine holes spread out over the length of the baselines and have lights indicators as well), different spins, trajectories, ECT. I like his idea of two machines, but, I will make one that is bigger than covers all points of the baseline, and can also be used perhaps as a hitting wall. Imagine this, a hitting wall that feeds out another ball to the player when it senses nothing is hitting it? A fifteen to twenty-foot wall of pain. Ball machines are so bad, and tennis_chiro's set up was so brilliant. How that inventor never took over the marketplace for ball machines in one fell swoop is beyond me because the product is so superior to anything else.