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Around the time I impregnated you mother

This was the first round of men's qualies at the US Open! Here he was unseeded in that draw

Who was the opponent he played in the video?

@@theresidetective1646 Go Soeda! The best soda on the market after Pepsi

swing vision hangs from the top of the fence

That would definitely help to better show the pace and weight of my shots, but would also make it harder to see where the ball lands on the other side. One of these days I can do a court-level recording :)

I absolutely had to leave that footage in here haha. People need to know about all the kinds of shenanigans!

Shadow swing = perfect form every time :)

Haha now I want to add a hand camera of someone controlling me on a video game controller

Working on the take back and keeping the racket closer to the neck and more inward on the drop - and trying to make it a habit. Then I'll be able to do more verticality work and higher speeds (without mistiming the contact point since the earlier parts of the motion will be figured out), but I'm just working on one thing at a time

Yeah, I'm not doing any verticality work just yet but hopefully will be soon! I still think I'm partially in the air every time before I make contact. I don't think it's ever a foot fault since I don't move or turn my foot early enough

Yup, every single player across all the collegiate matches gave at least one bad line call that I saw. These kids are cheaters lol

Different times now. Ball is a lot faster

@@onemanuniverseorr1178 and the MLB is beyond fast now and the same wood is used as 100 years ago. And the NFL QB throws much stronger and further now and the same pigskin is used now as 50 years ago. You don’t alter the equipment in a real sport as then you water the sport down and the stats are forever altered. The MLB and NFL are the worlds most difficult sports too. Add in the NBA where the basketball has not changed. When you alter the equipment it artificially inflates the performance and stats. The ability has to Come from within.

@@TimTheMusicMan okay you can’t compare tennis to basketball and football. They are wayyyyyy too different. There wasn’t a single point that was approachable by net here. If they did they would’ve gotten passed or lobbed.

@@onemanuniverseorr1178 I stand by my point.

Definitely a possibility for the future but I actually moved over on the ad side in general because: 1. You get a better angle and don't miss as much in the net on the out-wide bombs, 2. If you can hit the slider serve with good accuracy, it doesn't really make a huge difference as to how the opponent will be able to return (AKA they'll still be fully stretched or will get aced), and 3. I increase the likelihood that my first ball after the serve is a forehand by a huge percentage. Certainly if I am playing someone with a good stretch return, I'll have to move closer to the middle - but still experimenting with a lot of these things! Thanks for watching :)

Ya. Just working on one thing at a time - for now it’s just the arm motion going behind the back and contact point

Cool! How'd you calculate that one?

@@jeffcohntennis I got a hold of a formula from an now defunct website that had javascript calculations. The calculation is based on whether the video is recorded at 30 or 60 fps, then count the number of frames from when the racquet contacted the ball to when it hits the ground (I counted 27). The last number is the number of feet in the air between the two. I usually don't change the default (60 feet), I just look for T serves in general and figure it is close enough. That said at 60 feet the result is 107.23mph; at 61 feet it is 109.32. Those are both initial speeds, which is what is shown at the tournaments.

@jeffcohntennis So, I just did your very first serve. Counted 25 frames. And guessed 58.7 feet. Calculation said that it was 112.88 mph.

Haha thank you but this was around 6PM-onwards at night; I can only truly bomb the serves during the daytime when the sun is out and the ball flies through the court :) I think I'm around an 8 UTR but my serve is better than most 8s, so who knows? I haven't been playing any matches but hopefully that changes in the next few months! Stay tuned! I'm a little bit taller than Federer :)

Haha right on! And they use rollaway pickleball nets on this court. What I want to know is...why aren't the pickleball people going to the public basketball courts instead with their rollaway nets and tape?

Haha you got me, Tom! I normally don’t wear the Yonex shirt since I found my new favorite t-shirt brand…but I guess here it was meant to be

I'd say my serve speeds are 20% faster than what SwingVision says, and my groundstroke speeds are probably 15% faster. I sort of confirmed this through: 1) SwingVision's admissions about how they calculate speeds, 2) an actual radar gun measurement of my game, and 3) videos I've seen of players similar or better to my level measured by SwingVision that I imported. I think it depends on the level of the player as to how off their calculations are, too (like, I'm pretty sure they give club players, etc. more credit on all their speeds). Also, some of the SwingVision numbers are wildly wrong and complete outliers (but because I hit so many serves here, it's probably a better sample size) - it's for this reason I really don't recommend their app besides the video editing and match scoring

Which online course did you take? I'm looking at trying to improve my serve.

I think it looks worse in the video than in-person! But I had trouble seeing at the end when the sun went down 😂

Thanks man! So basically, my technique currently doesn't have an optimal "lasso whip". I get a lot of my power from a short period of racket drop lag, but it should be a little longer. And so I've been trying to fix this (which I'm able to do perfectly if I just toss a ball and shadow swing), but what happens is if I toss the ball at my preferred medium height, then I don't actually have the time to do the full whip motion and still be able to then snap down on top of the ball. So occasionally you'll see in these videos where I toss it higher to try to give myself more time to prep the enhanced swing, but because I've never tossed this high in my life it sometimes winds up being slightly too high of a toss and I then have to wait for the ball to drop. So...I need about 15-20 more videos before I figure out the solution haha

He is a tennis god

@@jeffcohntennis what’s his world rank? Or the top he’s ever been?

@@levihecho007 He was top 10 in U-18 in India when he was much younger. In the juniors, his highest ITF was 683. He more recently played D1 in the States

@@jeffcohntennis So when you say God, you mean Roger, Nadal, Novak kind of God?