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I figured from tne start ERT had a decent level. As much as I could watch it was all reasonable enough. I very much did not like the whole "Chinese secrsts" schtick. Really my main complaint. He doesnt need that to get viewers. But even ERT says that was a bit overdone.

Very good point.

Perry uses SP on his BH. Old Stiga Alser blade. Some sort of modern inverted on his FH. And yes, a really really smart player. He will never beat himself. Puts the ball in an uncomfortable place for the opponent. Stays in balance. Amazing anticipation. And his serves are incredibly...

It's a good thing nobody ever tried to "fix" Eric Bogan!

Actually one of the two best coaches I have ever known for adult players is Perry Schwartzberg (lives in San Diego now, the other was Eric Owens). At the time I worked with Perry he was only a couple of hundred rating points higher than me, but he helped me a lot, maybe more than anybody else*...

I think it sometimes takes a pretty insightful coach to know what to fix and what to leave alone. Not everybody can make that distinction. Another thing that sometimes a good coach realizes is, ok, we're never going to be able to fix this one thing, it is too ingrained or the student has some...

I have seen a coach try to fix an adult player's ugly but effective shot. Tried to turn it into something perfectly orthodox. It didn't make him better.

Also, can trying to fix every possible flaw in stroke mechanics in an adult player be a really good used of time, or might it be better to focus on some other things?

A pretty small group of people you have just defined. But starting from scratch I would imagine you would go about it the same way as with kids, but progress will be a lot slower. I'm not sure I've seen many adults start from scratch and then train 2 hours per day 5 days per week. Actually, I...

I posted this in a thread on videos but I think it deserves a thread of its own. Right now there are some coaches that I know in my city that can take a kid with talent and make them really good really fast, give them really perfect technique, great footwork. (I am watching with amazement...

By the way, I personally think Emrat's responses to the critiques were perfectly reasonable.

Coaching is a an interesting topic in and of itself over and above Emrat's videos. Not all coaches understand that students come in different categories. Some adapt to this and some don't. In Houston we have a lot of coaches now and in the past (from China, Serbia, Montenegro, USA, Germany...

That is also true.

That is always the criticism of criticism.

Here are the options. 1. There is word of mouth (or forums). 2. Some imprecise set of numbers, that can't really capture everything or even all that much about a rubber. Right now we have "speed", "spin" and "control". 3. Or you can try it yourself. That is all there is. The third...

The rubber I am using now I tried ONLY because of things people wrote about iit n TT forums. There is nothing else quite like this rubber in my decades of playing. I like it a lot. The descriptions from NL and Der Echte were really good. I have no idea how a set of numbers could convey how...

If you want a a list of measured parameters that allows someone to know with high confidence that they will like a rubber before actually trying it, how many numbers would there need to be? Let's say it is 6. I suspect that wouldn't be enough but let's just say that. If it is 6, how does that...

Sorry I confused you. I guess it was too much information, too many parameters, for the intellect of the mighty engineer. Of course, the very first post I wrote on this thread (and the third post in this thread) was this: A lot of the time when TT forum people talk about the throw angle, it...

EmRatThich, here are my sincere suggestions for improvement. 1. Make the videos shorter. Get to the point and remove non essential stuff that just wastes viewer's time and makes them impatient. 2. Make sure the things you call "Chinese secrets" are really that, and not in fact common...

yes, I will definitely not be to hard on them given the price.