Your Chance to Help Improve Tennisplayer

[johnyandell]

Good catch! We'll correct!

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The Pro Return:
Part 2: Extreme Grips
is the title on the artical
Your Strokes: "Modern" Club Play: Fully Open Stance

[johnyandell]

I don't think the software has that capability. It's basically for messages. I had the same problem myself. Why don't you do a spread sheet or format it in some other program and then attach it?

[don_budge]

columns???

Is there any way to format the forum entries to enable one to make columns...for instance if one wanted to make a column for the name and a column for the age and a column for the mph of the serve. I have wanted to use columns a number of times...I make the appropriate spaces in the forum entry then when I submit reply it left justifies everything.

[johnyandell]

Yeah it's a fascinating question. What is that margin? For fun we've had our writers and editors look at two high speed pro clips, say of a serve or a forehand and try to guess which was in and which was out. You know what? The success rate was 50%.

I mean unless the ball hits the side of the frame or something.

And then there is the mental dimension and how that plays havoc with your muscles. If you think you are going to miss you do. If you think you'll make the shot, you likely will.

What I learned to do in coaching was not to let myself get pinned down by that question and have literally said to many players--if anyone can look at one miss and tell exactly what went wrong on that one ball, they are lying.

So I think it's a question of swing shapes--including what the whole body is doing--staying as close to good technique as possible, and understanding the mental dimension. The truth is the player is only one really in a position to say for sure why he missed...

[bman]

I know this sounds odd, but I always thought it would be cool to have a section titled "Why you're missing" with the following brief articles: "Why your serve goes into the net" --Show a relatively decent player whose serve goes into the net, then analyze exactly why it went in the net. "Why your serve goes long"..same thing. Maybe the same with forehand and backhand. I'm not talking about some beginner who doesn't have continental grip. As tennis coaches, often somebody misses a serve (who has pretty good fundamentals) and looks for immediate feedback on why it missed. Its not always that easy. It would be a tricky thing to write, but very interesting and rewarding for subscribers, I feel.

[stotty]

Have you considered having a tennis terminology page, explaining internal rotation, external rotation, pronation, linear momentum, angular linear momentum, etc. etc? Maybe with diagrams and video examples. I realise such information are dotted around all over the website, but having a page dedicated to this kind of stuff might be useful, not to mention helpful in educating folk.

I realise it's not the sort of thing you could put together in your coffee break…but maybe an idea for the future.

Love your website, John…it's become part of my daily life as a tennis coach. If you were a UK citizen, I'd nominate you to be knighted by the Queen.

[tennis_chiro]

Put a sock in it, Don!

We reset to 2 hours--Don if you start writing 3 hour posts let me know...

I'd probably be better off if I was limited individually to 30 minutes. Spending too much time on the site as it is. But thanks for the thought anyway, John.

don

[johnyandell]

We reset to 2 hours--Don if you start writing 3 hour posts let me know...

[don_budge]

Good Man!

So the answer is the time out is 15 minutes and is set on our end. What do guys think? 1 hour 2 hours indefinite??? Cast your vote please.

The timeout seems to be changed...thank you, sir!

[tennis_chiro]

Timeout

So the answer is the time out is 15 minutes and is set on our end. What do guys think? 1 hour 2 hours indefinite??? Cast your vote please.

It's not unusual for me to be on for a full hour when I am writing a long post. I understand there are limitations on leaving it indefinite. 15 minutes is too short.

don

[don_budge]

Thanks again...JohnY

I can't see any reason to not be indefinite...indefinite gets my vote.

[johnyandell]

So the answer is the time out is 15 minutes and is set on our end. What do guys think? 1 hour 2 hours indefinite??? Cast your vote please.

[johnyandell]

Programmer will be looking into it Monday!

[don_budge]

Timeout...

Now I get this message when I am timed out...after only some minutes.

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Before I used to be able to keep the website open for an indefinite period of time and if I was away for an extended period of time I would get a chance to refresh the page with a small box for my username and password in the upper right hand corner of the page.

Anybody else have the same issue?