I Found A Great Iphone App for Your Strokes

4.0 player · 12-28-2010, 10:45 AM

This app is called RightBrain Tennis Pro and it has really helped me visualize how to properly hit each stroke. I've been using it for a couple of weeks and have found that my timing is much better and my strokes are much more relaxed. I'm getting more effortless power on my serve and I'm hitting my backhand much earlier with good pace.

The weird thing is that the app doesn't give you any instructional tips! You just watch a short video (about 2 min.) of the stroke that's been giving you problems before you practice or play a match. The idea is that by repeatedly watching the correct demonstration of the stroke you're better able to focus on the complete motion of the stroke.

My never ending search for the "perfect" instructional tips to take my strokes to the next level was not helping me improve. In fact, I think focusing on a single tip often prevented me from seeing the "big picture" of each stroke.

Check this app out and let me know what you think.

shindemac · 12-28-2010, 11:05 AM

I'm making a tennis app too. But one to keep track of match stats.

crystal_clear · 12-28-2010, 11:11 AM

I downloaded the free Rightbrain Tennis Lite and it has only serve info.

crystal_clear · 12-28-2010, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by shindemac

I'm making a tennis app too. But one to keep track of match stats.

Cool if it is free~

4.0 player · 12-28-2010, 12:27 PM

I bought the Pro version which costs $3.99 and has videos for eight techniques.

JoelDali · 12-28-2010, 12:33 PM

The Donnay viral marketing team are at it again.

HunterST · 12-28-2010, 02:21 PM

hmmmm brand new poster hyping up a commercial iphone app. Suspicious.

The tennis app has the Bryan Bros and other players' strokes and it's free. FYB has hours and hours of pro strokes on Youtube. Just sayin.

Dreamer · 12-28-2010, 02:25 PM

oh goodness, I guess this is Tennis 2011. I'm still a pencil/paper guy.

Edit: and if only shows you a demonstration. FYB has some great youtube videos of the best players demonstrating for free

Dags · 12-28-2010, 02:26 PM

To humour the OP, I downloaded the free 'Lite' version. The front screen lists the 8 videos available in the 'pro' mode:

Serve
Second Serve
Forehand
Backhand
Two Handed Backhand
Overhead
Forehand Volley
Backhand Volley

Only the Serve is available in the Lite version.

What you get is a little video with some music in the background. Words like 'Focus' and 'Observe' appear on the screen with a voice telling you to, well, focus and observe. The video then shows a right-handed chap serving from the deuce side and hitting a flat serve down the middle of the box. It starts with the camera behind him, and replays the same stroke over and over whilst telling me my 'skills are improving' and my 'confidence is improving'. After some regular speed, there are a few in slow mo. We then change to a side angle and repeat. Then the same from the front. The word 'Remember' appear, both on the screen and through the voice.

So the premise is to learn by watching. Not a bad idea. But if I wanted to do that, then surely I'd be better off finding a video of my favourite pro and watching that? There are plenty available for free on You Tube. There would be more variety there too.

My advice to the OP: if you want this to have any chance of being successful, give away the 'Pro' version for free, get a user base, and try to come up with a better idea that is actually unique and worth paying for.

4.0 player · 12-29-2010, 09:53 AM

I didn't know 'new posters' were such a suspicious group. I posted my message for the simple reason that the app has helped my strokes. I've very analytical and tend to obsess on technique. Now when I watch the serving video I focus just on the relaxed motion and the accelerated swing into the ball. For me, less is more.

rh310 · 12-29-2010, 11:37 AM

^^^

It isn't 'new posters' that are suspicious, it's 'new posters raving about a new product' that are suspicious.

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few years, you're aware that stealth / viral marketing campaigns are all the rage in marketing circles, no?

Gone are the days when one can automatically take a post like yours at face value. It's nothing personal.

fruitytennis1 · 12-29-2010, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by HunterST

hmmmm brand new poster hyping up a commercial iphone app. Suspicious.

The tennis app has the Bryan Bros and other players' strokes and it's free. FYB has hours and hours of pro strokes on Youtube. Just sayin.

Hmm they need a like button like Facebook. Like!
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Tennisfana · 01-08-2011, 09:56 PM

I downloaded this app partly out of curiosity and partly to humor the original poster. I admit it seems highly suspicious, but nonetheless. Dags gave a summary of the content. However, just reviewing the content doesn't necessarily do justice to the app itself. So, I took it for a spin over the last week where the ball meets the court, so to speak. The pros I saw were in its conciseness because it allowed me to see a competent player hitting the same shot right before I practiced on the ball machine. Yes, you can get that on any number of videos on youtube, but it is the verbal overlay that does really help instill these muscle memories together with practice. Anyway, I won't go on and on, but that was my two cents.

Wolfdale · 01-08-2011, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Tennisfana

I downloaded this app partly out of curiosity and partly to humor the original poster. I admit it seems highly suspicious, but nonetheless. Dags gave a summary of the content. However, just reviewing the content doesn't necessarily do justice to the app itself. So, I took it for a spin over the last week where the ball meets the court, so to speak. The pros I saw were in its conciseness because it allowed me to see a competent player hitting the same shot right before I practiced on the ball machine. Yes, you can get that on any number of videos on youtube, but it is the verbal overlay that does really help instill these muscle memories together with practice. Anyway, I won't go on and on, but that was my two cents.

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phnx90 · 01-08-2011, 11:15 PM

Gah it ticks me off when people capitalise "iPhone" wrong...or just about any Apple product that start with "i" for that matter.

Iphone, IPhone, I-Phone, I-phone...gosh, when you own one, how can you not know how to capitalise properly, if you're going to capitalise at all?

12-28-2010, 10:45 AM	#1
4.0 player New User Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 4	I Found A Great Iphone App for Your Strokes This app is called RightBrain Tennis Pro and it has really helped me visualize how to properly hit each stroke. I've been using it for a couple of weeks and have found that my timing is much better and my strokes are much more relaxed. I'm getting more effortless power on my serve and I'm hitting my backhand much earlier with good pace. The weird thing is that the app doesn't give you any instructional tips! You just watch a short video (about 2 min.) of the stroke that's been giving you problems before you practice or play a match. The idea is that by repeatedly watching the correct demonstration of the stroke you're better able to focus on the complete motion of the stroke. My never ending search for the "perfect" instructional tips to take my strokes to the next level was not helping me improve. In fact, I think focusing on a single tip often prevented me from seeing the "big picture" of each stroke. Check this app out and let me know what you think.

12-28-2010, 11:11 AM	#3
crystal_clear Professional Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 848	I downloaded the free Rightbrain Tennis Lite and it has only serve info. __________________ Balolat Z-Lite w/ Luxilon ALU Power @53lbs. FH:Keep racket closed at contact

12-28-2010, 12:33 PM	#6
JoelDali Legend Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 8,949	The Donnay viral marketing team are at it again. __________________ There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.

12-29-2010, 11:37 AM	#11
rh310 Rookie Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: NY USA Posts: 310	^^^ It isn't 'new posters' that are suspicious, it's 'new posters raving about a new product' that are suspicious. Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few years, you're aware that stealth / viral marketing campaigns are all the rage in marketing circles, no? Gone are the days when one can automatically take a post like yours at face value. It's nothing personal. __________________ "It's not the will to win that makes a winner, it's the will to prepare."

01-08-2011, 11:15 PM	#15
phnx90 Professional Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Summoner's Rift Posts: 984	Gah it ticks me off when people capitalise "iPhone" wrong...or just about any Apple product that start with "i" for that matter. Iphone, IPhone, I-Phone, I-phone...gosh, when you own one, how can you not know how to capitalise properly, if you're going to capitalise at all? __________________ "Idealist: One who upon observing that a rose smells better than a cabbage concludes that it will also make better soup." - Anonymous