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[saintvaidhya]

download problem

hi john can you tell me how i can download web pages of your site and view it when i am travelling,when i tried the video clippings are blank except few pages where the videos are downloaded.my question is it possible to view the pages,when i am offline.thanks for the reply.
keep up the good work.john.

[johnyandell]

I think it is a sleight difference in the path of the racket. With more topspin, the racket tip will be inclined more back to the left at contact. If the racket is straight up and down, that is zero topspin, all slice. Some of the women are close to that. Every increment of incline is an increment of topspin. but it's impossible with the ball too far right.

Yeah and your friend is not perceiving correctly Could be an inch lower measured from the ground, but the arm is still extended.

[shootermcmarc0]

What are the key differences between them?

[johnyandell]

Yeah that's the first edition. Out of print for several years. The second edition is the one with the purple cover you saw.

[shootermcmarc0]

Hey John, I just rented your book from the local library today. Didn't get started on it yet because I've been swamped by school I have the one with the green cover, is there a revised edition or anything out there? The book they showed on amazon had a different cover.

[shootermcmarc0]

If you like that book, check out the CD titled Fearless Tennis by Jeff Greenwald. It's basically a modern extension of the same ideas. Because it's a CD, you can listen to it over and over on your way to matches and the ideas really start to sink in.

Vin, I read the reviews on amazon and they look good. Thanks for the suggestion

[vmiller]

I just finished reading The Inner Game of Tennis, and it completely changed the way I approached the game.

If you like that book, check out the CD titled Fearless Tennis by Jeff Greenwald. It's basically a modern extension of the same ideas. Because it's a CD, you can listen to it over and over on your way to matches and the ideas really start to sink in.

[shootermcmarc0]

Inner game and Visual tennis

I just finished reading The Inner Game of Tennis, and it completely changed the way I approached the game. I plan on purchasing your book as well (is it available here?). So I was curious, how do you feel about the ideas in the book? I read a few excerpts of your book from Amazon and it seems like similar ideas, using visualization and not trying too hard. I really look forward to reading it.

[johnyandell]

eventually yes. there will be a great new one-handed bh article in Nov from none other than Bungalo Bill...

[shootermcmarc0]

so when can we expect articles on the one hander in the advanced tennis section? what you did with the "building the modern forehand" section was just awesome.

[johnyandell]

OK yeah. To tell you the truth I never look at the relative level of the shoulders. The reason is I think that happens automatically. It's the consequence versus cause thing again. Seen a lot of people mess up their motions trying to artificially create shoulder tilt, or whatever you want to call it.

On the injury issue, I am not qualified to have an expert opinion. Pete made it thru 20 years plus with that serve. But it would take someone with a knowledge of the differences in the motions and how that affects the internal structures--and someone not predisposed to one answer or another--to give us a framework.

[gzhpcu]

That when you throw the ball more to the left, you lean more to the left, your right shoulder is higher, your left shoulder lower....

[johnyandell]

What was the point--it was a long post...

[gzhpcu]

BTW: Referring to Plagenhof's book again:

He has a table entitled: "Height of throw above the contact point among some top tennis players"

0-1" Newcombe, Graebner, Talbert
1-3" Seixas, Savitt, Palafox, Emerson, Osuna, Pilic
3-5" Ashe
6-9" Gonzales, Sedgeman, Hoad, Laver, Roche
9-12" Kramer, Mulloy, Richardson, Rosewall (1969)
12-15" Stolle, Ralston, Smith, Santana, Connolly
15-20" Smith, McKay, Rosewall (1952)
20-24" Lutz, Santana, Garcia, Drysdale, Barthe, Brough
24-30" Chaffee

P.S. John, Your article on the Sampras Serve, entitled the "left launch": doesn't this also illustrate Vin's point?

[vmiller]

Are you in med school at night Vin?

No, far from it. I guess I'm almost as much of a health and fitness nut as I am a tennis nut.

I hesitate to make posts like that since I lack the background, but I wanted to get some discussion going.

There's some mention of what I said on easitennis.com. For anyone who is a member, there is brief mention of it here:

http://www.easitennis2.com/members/ServeTilt.htm

They don't say why, but I figure it's because the arm being higher stretches the rotator cuff further and it's doing it's work to slow the arm down in a vulnerable state.