Battle in The ATL - MEP vs Travler Match Thread

Who ya got?

  • MEP in 2. Youth and fitness prevail. Travler goes down in heap of racquet switching frustration.

  • MEP in 3. Epic 3-hour pusher war ends with Travler choking the overhead on match point.

  • Travler in 3. Forehand slice dropper wears down MEP’s famous wheels.

  • Travler in 2. Travler turns back the clock and S&V’s his way to victory.

  • Everybody wins!

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GSG said:
I'm not sure about this being the case anymore. I have been in a couple situations lately where I'm playing someone new, and they have seen me play on the channel, but of course I've never seen them play. On top of that I'm pretty sure the ET crew held group film study sessions of my matches in advance of my going up there to play. ;)
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Have you noticed the PM msg section here on TT?
 
sureshs said:
Yes but the speeds are low and most accidents are fender-benders. It is far more dangerous to drive on roads in the West, where a small mistake is the end of the story.
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I have seen many accidents on autobahns in Western Europe which would pretty much make it to the 'fender-benders' category
you know, simply because the maximum allowed speed on highway is pretty high, it doesn't mean that you have to crush into the car ahead of you at 130 mph, pressing the acceleration pedal to the max

and conversely, I have seen many really bad accidents in poorer parts of Europe, where autobahns don't even exist in some places, at much lower speeds, and it has several explanations:
- quality of driving styles
- quality of cars & safety measures
 
sureshs said:
What is an example where it fails? Remember, the razor does not say the simplest explanation is true - it says the simplest explanation which addresses all the facts is likely to be true.
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But using it incorrectly as is often done, means it still fails. Most don't apply it that way and I'm pretty sure Travler didn't either, lol.
 
sureshs said:
Yes but the speeds are low and most accidents are fender-benders. It is far more dangerous to drive on roads in the West, where a small mistake is the end of the story.
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That's not true and especially bikers do lose their lives when they come right under buses or lorries. Also, because the bottlenecks are so bad, the driving on any high speed stretch gets very rash. Once a guy in a SUV overtook us at a very high speed, maybe near 100 mph, from the left (we drive on the left side of the road in India as you would know but others may not), misjudged the space and got too close to us. There was a lorry to our right. Our driver parked the car, took a deep breath and drank water. Even with all his experience, he was rattled because it was a near miss.
 
Dolgopolov85 said:
You cheat. It's pretty easy to drive 65 mph on a massive interstate. Try doing that on a wet day on Pikes Peak.
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Imo this is the problem of the John Yandell "Modern Traditional model" where he focuses so heavily on adding amplitude for adding power to traditional strokes. The more you drive directly thru the ball for more linear production of power, the less spin and trajectory control achieved. With less spin and trajectory, plus more pace, the windows of success will narrow aggressively. He seems to have added the semi open aspect, but without addressing how the 'semi open' functions to help work across thru contact. I think his adoption of the semi open is more about observing this very common thread among top players in video study.

In our Congruent Tennis Model, we explain how the blend of "going thru" shots as you work across the contact for a more diagonal path thru the ball, you can adjust this ratio to control angle and shape the shot as desired. With this varying level of "Diagonal Cut" on the ball, you can better control the trajectory of shots as you expand or open the window of Success on shots, even as you add more pace to the shots. This accounts for how to hit the most powerful shots in tennis, as well as the shots that are shaped more for controlling areas of the court. Imo this is a much more Congruent explanation of how the vast array of tennis shots function.
 
Dolgopolov85 said:
I know you're joking but...

I've driven everyday on this very stretch that you see in this video and in similarly heavy traffic:


And you see how close the bikes get to the left mirror of the cars to their right? Yeah. So...we have to kind of develop a feel, a sixth sense, for where these vehicles might come from lest the bikes end up colliding into us. Because if anything happens to the biker(s), the guy driving the car gets blamed; at least that's how it is in India.

Amazingly, on most days, nothing happens. But that's because with the traffic being so intimidating, only skilled drivers dare drive in rush hour. So we make sure we keep the vehicle absolutely straight no matter. There is zero margin for letting it drift even an inch; you'd collide into another vehicle on your left or right for sure if you did.
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WOW!!! ... you now have the right to yell/type at me for an hour after every commute. Let's just say I feel pretty guilty about what I was griping about on the road yesterday. I would not do well in a car in that situation ... actually probably better on the motorcycle since I spent my share of time on off road motorcycle when I was a teenager. Of course ... you could die on the motorcycle ... so there is that.
 
sureshs said:
I have played against exactly one GSG in my life. He had a short, low, quick serve, and only slices off both wings. He had tremendous stamina and speed, as well as court sense. He covered the court in the blink of an eye. He used to beat quite a few players in singles who couldn't read him at all. He played the same way in doubles, in which it was very easy to beat him because his short dinky strokes could be just hammered away.

He said he once walked into a club when on vacation and tried to play without being a member. The guys he played with were so impressed with his "unorthodox" strokes that they fed him snacks and asked him to come every day for the rest of his vacation!

All that running ruined his knees. He started wearing braces, then making excuses for not playing due to pain, and then stopped coming altogether.
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The rise and the fall.
 
sureshs said:
I have played against exactly one GSG in my life. He had a short, low, quick serve, and only slices off both wings. He had tremendous stamina and speed, as well as court sense. He covered the court in the blink of an eye. He used to beat quite a few players in singles who couldn't read him at all. He played the same way in doubles, in which it was very easy to beat him because his short dinky strokes could be just hammered away.

He said he once walked into a club when on vacation and tried to play without being a member. The guys he played with were so impressed with his "unorthodox" strokes that they fed him snacks and asked him to come every day for the rest of his vacation!

All that running ruined his knees. He started wearing braces, then making excuses for not playing due to pain, and then stopped coming altogether.
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Sounds like he quit coming because you quit buying him snacks.
 
Dragy said:
Well, that might come from different driving experience. In my city driving the streets has nothing to do with cruise control, and speed control is least of challenges. Monitoring other cars, changing lanes and making instantaneous correct decisions with decent margins for error - that’s about driving skills. Parallel parking is mostly challenging if there’re several impatient drivers waiting for you to finish and unblock the route.
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Yes Dragy... we've all seen the Russian dashboard videos :X3:
 
ByeByePoly said:
WOW!!! ... you now have the right to yell/type at me for an hour after every commute. Let's just say I feel pretty guilty about what I was griping about on the road yesterday. I would not do well in a car in that situation ... actually probably better on the motorcycle since I spent my share of time on off road motorcycle when I was a teenager. Of course ... you could die on the motorcycle ... so there is that.
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Yeah, driving here is bad for the soul. It brings out alpha tendencies in me that I didn't know I had, like I get super aggressive with guys who are driving slow (which is not a crime at all). I don't yell at them, just get comically obsessed with overtaking them. I reflect on it and laugh at myself but I can't help get into that mode again when I am back in traffic. The positive aspect of it is driving in these conditions has made me so good at controlling the car I could absolutely gig as an Uber driver if I ever lost my cushy white collar job.
 
5263 said:
But using it incorrectly as is often done, means it still fails. Most don't apply it that way and I'm pretty sure Travler didn't either, lol.
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That is right. I forgot what he wrote, but I remember thinking at that time that it was not the way the razor has been applied in the past. I tried to locate the post by searching but could not find it.
 
5263 said:
Imo this is the problem of the John Yandell "Modern Traditional model" where he focuses so heavily on adding amplitude for adding power to traditional strokes. The more you drive directly thru the ball for more linear production of power, the less spin and trajectory control achieved. With less spin and trajectory, plus more pace, the windows of success will narrow aggressively. He seems to have added the semi open aspect, but without addressing how the 'semi open' functions to help work across thru contact. I think his adoption of the semi open is more about observing this very common thread among top players in video study.

In our Congruent Tennis Model, we explain how the blend of "going thru" shots as you work across the contact for a more diagonal path thru the ball, you can adjust this ratio to control angle and shape the shot as desired. With this varying level of "Diagonal Cut" on the ball, you can better control the trajectory of shots as you expand or open the window of Success on shots, even as you add more pace to the shots. This accounts for how to hit the most powerful shots in tennis, as well as the shots that are shaped more for controlling areas of the court. Imo this is a much more Congruent explanation of how the vast array of tennis shots function.
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Dolgopolov85 said:
That's not true and especially bikers do lose their lives when they come right under buses or lorries. Also, because the bottlenecks are so bad, the driving on any high speed stretch gets very rash. Once a guy in a SUV overtook us at a very high speed, maybe near 100 mph, from the left (we drive on the left side of the road in India as you would know but others may not), misjudged the space and got too close to us. There was a lorry to our right. Our driver parked the car, took a deep breath and drank water. Even with all his experience, he was rattled because it was a near miss.
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I was once in an auto rickshaw in Chennai when the driver turned so fast that wheels came off the ground on one side like in the movies and we just escaped toppling over (and into the path of buses in the main city artery Anna Salai).
 
Dolgopolov85 said:
Yeah, driving here is bad for the soul. It brings out alpha tendencies in me that I didn't know I had, like I get super aggressive with guys who are driving slow (which is not a crime at all). I don't yell at them, just get comically obsessed with overtaking them. I reflect on it and laugh at myself but I can't help get into that mode again when I am back in traffic. The positive aspect of it is driving in these conditions has made me so good at controlling the car I could absolutely gig as an Uber driver if I ever lost my cushy white collar job.
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I see you more as a Zomato driver
 
sureshs said:
I was once in an auto rickshaw in Chennai when the driver turned so fast that wheels came off the ground on one side like in the movies and we just escaped toppling over (and into the path of buses in the main city artery Anna Salai).
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Good grief. Likewise remember my dad suffering an injury back in the 90s when the Omni he was in collided into another vehicle. For those who haven't seen it, this dangerously light and flimsy van had no real front end to speak of. So you got the full force of the impact in case of a head on collision. Terrible vehicle; only India moving to Euro-4 finally outmoded it but the ones already plying on the roads continue to perform yeoman service for society as....school buses and ambulances. Can't. Make.This.Up.

This is what it looks like.
 
sureshs said:
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that was a lot of good info on what racket and the string tension, but I was looking more for his weight and balance. My mistake for not being more specific, but was thinking the context covered it.
 
5263 said:
that was a lot of good info on what racket and the string tension, but I was looking more for his weight and balance. My mistake for not being more specific, but was thinking the context covered it.
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When using his Head, he was at about 346g and 34.0cm balance.
 
5263 said:
that was a lot of good info on what racket and the string tension, but I was looking more for his weight and balance. My mistake for not being more specific, but was thinking the context covered it.
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