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Yep...the best thing about Sampras, Borg and Federer is they just got/get on with it. I have a strong preference for fast tempo service preparation. McEnroe and Connors took forever, and I only forgave them because they were so darned good...as is Nadal. I can't remember if was Stockton or Brian Teacher who took an age to serve (or both) but I had to switch off when lesser players took the full 30 seconds (as it was back then) to serve.Originally posted by tennis_chiro View PostLast edited by stotty; 08-26-2013, 02:24 PM.Leave a comment:
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You know what is really amazing?! The time between points. Sampras and Becker both serve within about 5 seconds. Never see that anymore!Originally posted by licensedcoach View Post
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This is a far clearer clip from a similar vantage point: http://www.tennisplayer.net/members/...ationSide2.movLeave a comment:
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Film it with your iphone and load it onto your computer dcim.Originally posted by licensedcoach View PostLeave a comment:
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Remarkable clip...what a find, sejsel.Originally posted by sejsel View Post
How does he do that, yet the action remains so smooth? His left knee is pointing something like 45 degrees away from the baseline...towards the back fence at one point. You can use the arrow keys to pause then toggle through the phases to see what I mean.
Does anyone know how to download such a clip from Youtube on to a laptop?Leave a comment:
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I had an overhead view on vhs that I studied from 1989 Philly vs. Lendl. His contact is so far out front. He somehow coils very easily and holds that huge coil until leg drive begins, yet his frame has not even dropped at all when the leg drive first starts, causing a large lag that he smoothly accelerates into. His left hip bows way out over the baseline and every time I try that it hurts my hip. HIs chest faces the rear fence simply by externally rotating his shoulder very far backwards towards the net, and holds the toss arm up for a very long time, and it falls like a tree or a log, a lag_/log.
The contact is so far out front partly due to the 11 o'clock toss position and the arced far forward toss on the first serve, with the J toss. The shoulders "jam" themselves forward like into a parking meter slot, vertically 90 degrees straight/up/down, allowing the farthest forward contact point possible, and a farther kinetic pathway, yet smooth and relaxed, yet super fast. Even though the contact is 3-4 feet in front of the baseline, it's still almost straight/up/down due to the jammed shoulder/slot.
It's a farther forward contact point than any other server.Last edited by GeoffWilliams; 08-24-2013, 10:10 PM.Leave a comment:
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Right, changed the file in the original post...
Other than that I really don't know what to do - but hey, there's an existing younube link for this video sequence - starting at 0:41:17 (as in h:mm:ss)
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Both Quicktime and VLC open the file without problems on my Macbook Pro.Originally posted by GeoffWilliams View Post
Haven't checked on Iphone, but the conversion was made (of the original file) specifically for the Iphone 4 .mov format... So the converter app says (at least)...
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Try this and let me know if it works. It should be fine, although the resolution seems to be sligthly worse than (already somewhat poor) original.Originally posted by GeoffWilliams View Post
I guess that it should be sufficient quality, though (for purposes of the stroke analysis...
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