Tennis ball throw again....

[LeeD]

Good stuff, thanks.
I figure anyone 30 years younger, with a live arm, will make my throws look like girlie pushes. I can't serve nearly what did in the mid '70's. Heck, I can't nearly run as fast as I did then. Surprise surprise.
Thanks for going through the motions, Cheetah.

[jmnk]

@Leed. I have hard time depicting what you did. What does that part mean
"Second toss, over the fence, but NOT over the fence on the other side of that offset court, but hit the very bottom. "? What 'offset court'?

[WildVolley]

In my opinion, throwing hard is more dangerous than serving hard. There's no way I'm going to go out and see how far I can throw a tennis ball.

I have never had a great throwing arm, (throwing a baseball against radar, the fastest I can ever recall was 65mph) but I can easily bring 100mph with my serve and top 110mph on the lucky flat ones.

[LeeD]

If FOUR total throws hurt your arm, don't do it. But don't tell me I can't throw a ball.
Our RoseGarden courts are 3 aligned, then at the middle court, another court sized space is set at a T. So cannot throw over the far sidefence of the T court.
This with 2 total throws in that direction.
I'm trying to abide by FastFreddy's rules...no warmups in the real world.

[86golf]

Originally Posted by Power Player

I will say this in LeeDs defense. He has posted video of himself playing tennis.

Who's next?

Do you have a link?

[LeeD]

Sorry, I can't take credit. Some guy named Alex called me on the phone in April, told me he had a camera, and would like to vid. We met, had to wait 2 hours at 3 different courts (really crowded, first non rainy day in a month), then my g/f drove up P'd off I took so long, then we got to hit.
I served wide serves duece court, the first hitting the bottom of the camera on a 36" tripod placed at the back fence 21' behind the baseline. The other's went wild, maybe one other going IN.
Bear in mind, I was limping badly even walking, bad ankle, bad knee. Hard to hit your best serves with leg injury.

[LeeD]

Oh, most of you just laughed at the old fart trying to hit serves.
Alex is 6' tall, about 180, had been playing 4.0 league tennis. He said my serve was fast, and wanted to vid it. He showed some serves, for me, easily caught with one hand.
No, very few people can catch my first serves with bare hands, one or two.

[KineticChain]

[treblings]

Originally Posted by LeeD

very few people can catch my first serves with bare hands, one or two.

and those who tried probably regretted it
i say this for you Lee, you´re not boring.

[jmnk]

Originally Posted by Power Player

I will say this in LeeDs defense. He has posted video of himself playing tennis.

Who's next?

Originally Posted by 86golf

Do you have a link?

really, you don't want to go there. It will be like the day you found out there's no Santa..

[BMC9670]

Originally Posted by dman72

Mandlebaum!!!! Mandlebaum!!! Mandlebaum!!!

Oh, man! I haven't laughed at post so hard in long time!

[BMC9670]

What we really need is a video of LeeD throwing...(tennis balls or his arm out, whichever comes first).

[jmnk]

Originally Posted by LeeD

If FOUR total throws hurt your arm, don't do it. But don't tell me I can't throw a ball.
Our RoseGarden courts are 3 aligned, then at the middle court, another court sized space is set at a T. So cannot throw over the far sidefence of the T court.
This with 2 total throws in that direction.
I'm trying to abide by FastFreddy's rules...no warmups in the real world.

@LeeD - sorry to be bugging you again, I just wanted to try myself so i want to make sure what the setup is.

here's a picture of those courts at roseGarden.

Let's say we label the courts 1 through 4 starting from left, and the space north of halfcourt 2 and court 3 is labeled 5. the bottom of the picture is south.
So which direction, and from where, were you throwing?

[LeeD]

Second court from the right, throw from behind the lower baseline, over the fence, hit bottom of the upper most fence where the lined up green trees are

[r2473]

Our RoseGarden courts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4wcNVbYOQ