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drakulie said:You could at minimum estimate. Let's be honest, the guy you are playing with has horrible reaction time. Seeing the kick serve video (you have a nice kicker by the way), he swings the racquet about the same time the ball is passing him. I would hardly think that kicker was going 125.
First of all, I never claimed my kick serve goes 125. Also, I never volunteered how fast I served. To set the record straight, I was asked in my original thread so i answered.
You also just proved my point. You can't analyze a tennis game by a youtube video.
That guy who you think is a 3.5 player with the horrible reaction time is my dad, a National Champion.......
He's the winner of the doubles national tennis championship for the 45's.
I'll ask him for the names again, but the team they beat were former Wimbledon Champions. I'm sure your thinking, yeah right, but I can take a picture of the plaque and title if I wanted to but its really not worth the effort. Granted it was exactly 20 years ago, hes still a good tennis player for not having played much lately. Give him a break, hes 65 and he hates my kick serve. But hes accomplished quite a bit in his years of a tennis player.
I had also been serving all slice hops so the kickers came as a suprise. His racquet was there, but he just happened to get lazy with his footwork and misjudged the side hop on the kick. The video doesn't even do the kick serve justice. Given the comments that you've written to me, I doubt you could even return it.
drakulie said:Now, on the second flat serve you hit, which is about the same speed you hit the first one, not only does he get the racquet on it he is actually ahead of it (a serve going 125mph). I don't think so. You are going to say a 3.5 (?) player (with horrible movement/reaction) you are hitting with has time to move to his right, got his racquet on your 125 mph serve and actually "pulled it". I don't think so.
Its totally obvious that the second flat serve I hit, made contact with the inside portion of his frame of the racquet causing a mishit to ricocet off to his left. And that was off of his forehand, who I rallied those forehands with. A 3.5 player cannot handle my forehand well enough to rally back consistently. He only moved about 1 step before he made contact with the ball because he didnt move quick enough to totally get to that serve. which is why it was mishit.
Heres the link to what your referring to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5gLYogcZIE
I mean my god, can't you hear the frame being struck? wow... drakulie. after that one you've lost total credibility in my eyes. So what makes you think you can analyze a service speed?
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boojay :
I would say its over 100, but exactly how fast its going is really impossible for me to tell. There are so many frames lost in the video. I tried freezing your service motion to see its exact path but the quality of the video is just too low. Its a pretty decent looking serve though. Might want to push off a little more with your legs during contact. I wish I could see it clearer. Its being taped from a little too far away to really get a decent look at.