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He took more than 3 years off, they make you self-rate again when you do this.

Hey, this is only tangentially related, but how difficult is it for you to predict my rating if I'm self-rated and pretty much only played self-rated players? I'm having a hard time gauging where I'm at because of this issue.

Have you stopped beating your wife?

True, I don't see it happening it tennis, however it does happen in MMA, which is an individual sport. Former UFC light heavyweight champ Junior Dos Santos was a dishwasher and didn't train in MMA until the age of 21. Journeyman Nate Quarry grew up a Jehovah's Witness and didn't train until the...

First of all, I think the 10k hours thing is complete BS. Second of all, Gladwell himself has said it doesn't apply to sports. My take on this whole thing is that late start to pro only really happens in sports that require extraordinary bodies. The best example I can think of is basketball...

After years of playing weekend warrior tennis, finally joined a 3.0 league. 4-0 in dubs. Volleys are good, strokes are ok, serve blows, and my matchplay confidence is really low (have a tendency to tighten up really badly). Hard to tell how well I'm doing because everyone I'm playing is either...

Might, but probably not. Most 4.5s have played a variety of tennis against a variety of opponents. Especially if they've worked their way up league or club tennis, they've already see and beaten crafty 3.5 players.

What level is this at and how good is his slice? You can attack the net constantly and see if he can hit a slice passing shot. You can vary your shots and try to figure out which balls he has the toughest time hitting back to you. You mentioned this already, but if you have a good top...

I just did this, so I can help. Basically to join a team, you need to first sign up for USTA and then use the self-rate guide to rate yourself. Answer no to all the questions, it'll probably give you a rating of 2.5. Then just bump it up to 3.0. Once you have your 3.0 rating, go to the league...

Grip size has nothing to do with weight. Weight and balance should be the same for the same racket with different grip sizes.

Ok I have to say something now. I have been lurking these boards for years, and this always comes up. Someone posts a video of match play and then people start claiming that it's way under whatever the NTRP is listed as. People will say a 4.5 is a 3.5 at best or whatever. It's starting to drive...

Haha, I mean I've definitely watched videos of both Pete and Kafelnikov and I've seen videos of Connors and Borg. I don't really watch anything older than that just because the video quality is usually super grainy. But I'm not used to seeing either of these two players hit from the baseline...

I'm really surprised by how much topspin they hit with in this match. I think I've spent too much time on these boards, because I've been picturing 1990's players as hitting a lot flatter than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elx3gcT1I_A

Societal costs.

You're already using a bab. Why not try out a pure drive? 4 pts headlight and heavier. It's not exactly a player's racquet, but it's much more so than what you're using now.

I'm gonna be in Charlottesville for grad school in the fall, want to get into leagues possibly, and at the very least find people to hit with. Can anyone point me in the right direction? 24 years old male. I've never done leagues, but based on my own assessment I'm low 3.5, high 3.0. My...

If your technique is not good, then lessons first before ball machine. A ball machine will help with your timing/consistency. However, if there is something wrong with your strokes, it will make it even worse. Your bad strokes will be so ingrained in your mind that it's going to take a lot of...

There will always be those people who revel in the sheer violence of a sport. They celebrate hockey fights, cheer on bone crunching tackles in football, and view MMA/combat sports as people just beating on each other. MMA is much more complex and rarely does it result in "Punching and kicking...

They better be!! That being said, it really depends. If something is horribly wrong with the fundamentals of your stroke you might need lessons. Ideally you'd do both, lessons to change your strokes, ball machine to get that muscle memory in. I think that all tennis coaches would agree...

You prob don't want to come to California to play for a few days. A storm just hit lol.

Um.... that's not a reason not to take the class. In an academic setting, when they say Chinese, that usually defaults to Mandarin. The reason for this is that all Chinese citizens are required to learn Mandarin, it's the official state language. Secondly, you're only partially right. There are...

Which flex league? If it's USTA, I have no idea. But for Ultimate Tennis it's considered a default if your opponent doesn't contact you by the Wed of the play week. It's considered a No-Show if your opponent is more than 20 minutes late. But obviously a lot of this is according to your own...

That's because the literal translation for the Chinese word for the United States is "beautiful country"

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Nobody has been saying this. It's not that the OP wants to become pro, it's all the circumstances about his wish. He is already 14, but only 3.5. He has very little match experience. He originally didn't want to even consider playing in college because he thought it was boring and there is no...

Honestly, I don't get this obsession with kids in their teens and turning pro. If you browse yahoo answers you'll see multiple young teenagers asking this very same question, something along the lines of "I'm X age, I've only been playing tennis for one year, can I go pro?" You will not go...

Ok, if the guy who posted the video is to be believed, then he is a COMPUTER RATED 5.0. He says in one of his other video comments "both my friend and I went to 4.5 Nationals and then, got bumped up"

Bud... you must be stupid. I, for one, realized the intent and purpose of this thread immediately. It's obviously a coded message of some sort. He probably didn't feel safe conveying his message through conventional means. I will be decoding this message, I hope to have it done in the next few...

I tried with a single hand on a wall yesterday. But I've never been great at volleys, so while I could do volleys in succession, I couldn't really alternate sides with each hit like she did. And obviously, I wasn't going near as fast as she was.

The difference between LeeD and BB is that BB comes from a teaching position and LeeD is using historical/anecdotal/playing evidence. There is a different between what should be TAUGHT first and what is POSSIBLE in a playing situation. Can some people use an EFH grip to slice, sure. Should it...