tennis_ocd
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? The OP's vid? It's a very nice looking serve. wild vid estimate - 90. I haven't seen anything here with "radar verification" save the blog with the guy's posted first serve speeds of D1 players barely breaking 100. (edit: I did see the arcade like stuff - if that's the "verification" we should just stop discussing....)ocd still hasn't looked at the video and given an estimate of speed.
Until he does, I'm just going to assume that he's incompetent at judging serve speed which is why he thinks it is unbelievable that a few of the rec players on this thread can hit 100+ mph first serves, even when we have radar verification.
Also, I do not believe there is a radar gun manufacturer conspiracy to juice the guns so that they read fast. I can see police radars perhaps being designed that way so they can bring in more revenue, but I don't believe the guns sold to baseball and tennis players are designed to do that.
Again, no doubt 100+ is possible and done by a small percentage of rec players. The challenge of impossibility was 120+.
As far as competency, I'm no leed. I do have a gun. Playing around with it and it's easy to get a feel for *real* speeds. (And rec players by and large are coming nowhere near 100; small college guys I hit with do get in mid 90s.) Watching a vid and guessing is much more inaccurate.