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[10splayer]

Not AN article, a massive opus series... the pain of producing said opus is probably what is holding us both back...but it will emerge at the right moment in the course of human history...

Sounds good, I'll be in the front row for that show.

[uspta2712824457]

John,
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 ?
---> quote from the post
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?

Sounds like we kinda have an Alberto Berasategui on our hands! 1994 French open finalist. Whatever happened to him. Poor Guy

[tcuk]

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?

[uspta146749877]

Open stance for double handed backhand

Subject:Open stance backhand
John,
could you have a brief look at the thread

http://www.tennisplayer.net/bulletin/showthread.php?p=9133&posted=1#post9133

Thank you

[John Yandell]

can't now too much going on in cincy.

[uspta990770809]

Posting videos

John, I tried to post some updates on Amber's forehand, all under 5MB, but I couldn't post it. Under this account
don brosseau

[John Yandell]

yeah i know and have no clue what to do...and may not figure it out for a while...but i will. if you can post to another site, post the link.

[uspta146749877]

Problems with seeing attached files

John,
could you be kind enough to see
my question/problem
in

http://www.tennisplayer.net/bulletin/showthread.php?p=9273&posted=1#post9273

post #6.
Thank you

[uspta990770809]

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.

[John Yandell]

julian,

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

[John Yandell]

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.

[uspta146749877]

Who is dan wilson?

julian,

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

Is Dan Wilson a person Inside USPTA?
Sorry for a silly question

[John Yandell]

tech guy who did the logins you can find his email on the uspta site I think

[stickman]

I think its kind of lame that it takes a month and a half for new information, don't get me wrong i think its great, the best site there is, its just slow.

[John Yandell]

maybe you didn't read the email.