pro tennis realistic goal? please set me straight

[tennishotdog]

Originally Posted by aimr75

Option 1: Make up some elaborate thread about going pro and create two accounts to prop yourself up at how great your strokes are and dig yourself into a hole in the process

Option 2: Just ask for some feedback on your strokes

well, i learned my lesson . next time i'll resist my strong inner urge to troll, the narcissist in me just yearns for it.

[tennishotdog]

Originally Posted by Bobby Jr

You hit a nice ball by club player standards but the foibles in your strokes show through heavily. Your forehand is heavily inspired by how you think Federer hits his. The risk when attempting to mimic like that is you miss the finer details of the stroke and what makes it what it is. Being able to objectively view how someone hits a stroke and then come up with a specific set of improvements to practice to move in that direction is a rare skill. You should be able to watch the video and see what you need to improve on but I dare say you don't have that level of self analysis. Most people never develop it to a high enough level.

yes you're right, i've made this mistake many times and still do. i watch the videos and then go try to force it to look a certain way as i remembered seeing. this has caused some very bad habits and messed up the sound techniques that i'd learned.

lately I've stopped watching them and just hit what feels natural to me and been getting better results. before i was constantly obsessing over minute details that i forget the basics of a sound stroke and so everything just breaks down from there. fortunately I do have some fundamentals that i can coming back to whenever I mess up trying different things to get that forehand to look right.

[tennishotdog]

Originally Posted by RoddickAce

I think his followthrough end position from the side video looks like Federer's.

thanks, thats probably the only part that looks somewhat similar, im still working on other parts like the takeback loop, the wrist, and the swingpath.

Originally Posted by Mick

haha, i thought i was the only one here who didn't see the similarity.
sorry, tennishotdog but at least you are trying and one day it might end up looking like federer's fh

thanks, i know the similarities are not all there yet but yeh at least im trying. hopefully one day it'll end up with a fh that looks and hits like feds and post another video when I do.

[hawk eye]

Gotta love those troll convertion threads.

[JW10S]

The OP has a 100 times better chance of being hit by lightening or winning the lotto than turning pro. I've seen too many players who spend hours hitting against a wall mistakenly thinking it's the same as playing real tennis. They daydream they're playing a real match and wrongly convince themselves they are good--they're not. Hitting against a wall is nothing like playing a match and tells very little about what kind of player you really are. It's easy to convince yourself you're better than you really are hitting against a wall. From watching the videos it's scary that this guy actually believes he has any chance to play professionally. The serve alone is hillarious...

[pushing_wins]

hey OP, how are you handling all the negative feedback? what is your opinion now?