Impact - Looking Through the Strings - ATP Players?

[Chas Tennis]

Do ATP players look through the back of the racket head - through the strings - at ball impact for ground strokes?

Do rec players?

Do you?

This video has a camera angle that very likely shows the answer for Federer.

To single frame on Youtube, stop video and use the period & comma keys.

An ever better camera angle for this question would be camera behind and viewing the racket head just to the right or left side of either ear. (camera viewing angle closest to the eye viewing angle) In other words - ear, racket head and ball would appear nearly in line at impact. If you find that better camera angle for any ATP player's impacts please post all those videos regardless of what they show. Give video times of impacts. It must be a high speed video to confirm that the impact frame is very close to impact. We could answer this question once and for all.

Post your own impact viewing videos with the camera behind and showing your view of impact.

(The ultimate camera angle might be looking through the net at impact. But then the camera and tripod have to be protected from being hit by the balls of the returning player or ball machine. The prize will go to the high speed video that catches the ball appearing between the eyes of the player with the ball squished into the strings.)

GoPro type cameras with a head mount can video what the eyes see directly.

If this question has been answered please post the links.

 

[yossarian]

If looking equals “seeing”

No

no

no

Please just shadow swing your racquet at normal racquet head speed and tell me if you can even clearly perceive the strings, let alone see through the string bed

 

[Chas Tennis]

This thread only involves a simple question -

1) Does light from the ball at impact go through the racket strings to the eye? Or
2) Does light from the ball at impact go directly to the eye?

To think about it, you only imagine straight lines from the ball to the eyes and need the racket head position from videos.

 

[yossarian]

This thread only involves a simple question -

1) Does light from the ball at impact go through the racket strings to the eye? Or
2) Does light from the ball at impact go directly to the eye?

To think about it, you only imagine straight lines from the ball to the eyes and need the racket head position from videos.

This thread involves the topic of sensation versus perception.

Answer this simple question:

When you swing your racquet at normal racquet head speed, can you clearly perceive the stringbed?

Please respond with either yes or no.