More About Tennis Video

As I wrote about last week, I'll be blogging about using video to help your tennis game.

So, I did some online research to see what type of camcorder I was going to need in order to get some good quality, frame by frame, video that I could use to compare my tennis strokes with the top players in the world.

Last year I played around with video analysis, but I was using an old Panasonic camcorder that did not have an adjustable shutter speed. The video was helpful for gross body type observations, but not for frame by frame analysis, because the racket was blurred due to the low shutter speed.

My research led me to conclude that I needed a camcorder that I could set to have a shutter speed of at least 1ooo.

I went down to the video store, filmed a few service swings, and went back home to see what kind of detail I would get with the higher shutter speed.

But when I got home, I couldn't get the system to work. Man, I was annoyed!

After doing some more reading, I figured out that the problem could either be in the camcorder, in the firewire that connects my camcorder to my laptop, or in the laptop.

I loaded up all three ( camcorder, firewire, and laptop) and off to the local electronics store I went. We hooked up my camcorder and firewire to one of the computers in the store -and -lo and behold - it worked. This eliminated my camcorder and firewire as causes, and led me to conclude that the problem was with my laptop.

Since my laptop is under warranty, I got on the phone with tech support and we tried to figure out if the problem was a hardware or sofware problem. After a number of diagnostic tests, it appears that the problem is a hardware problem .

Tomorrow, I'm bringing in my laptop to the service center to see what can be done.

Now, I know that this blog post hasn't talked too much about tennis but , if we're going to get into hi-tech tennis learning, we have to learn something about technology.

Until the next time,

Glenn


Glenn Sheiner M.D. - author of Insider Tennis Strategies A Tennis Ebook Guaranteed To Improve Your Tennis Results guaranteed to make you a smarter tennis player and take your tennis to the next level. Also, check out the world's top tennis humor screensaver
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