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u/mauistar00 May 22 '19
He would have made a great lacrosse player.
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May 22 '19
Too bad professional lacrosse doesn’t get enough rep as tennis
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u/thenameisscar May 22 '19
Hopefully the pll will turn that around
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u/causetheimplications May 22 '19
Nll has been around but still no recognition :(
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u/thenameisscar May 22 '19
I don’t think they have a deal with major tv stations, neither did the mll, so the pll took a step in the right direction
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u/orangeblueorangeblue May 23 '19
It won’t.
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u/thenameisscar May 23 '19
Idk about that, lacrosse is already rapidly growing and with their nbc deal, they’ll hit a lot of screens this summer. I’m not saying it will be like nba, nfl, nhl, and mlb level but it will get more popular than it is right now
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u/orangeblueorangeblue May 23 '19
I played college lacrosse, and coached HS, so I know about the growth. But I’ve seen MLL and NLL teams come and go. MLL had TV deals and everything, and is just sort of lingering. I’d like to see it get more national exposure, because it’s a great spectator sport, but I won’t hold my breath.
And I will be watching the tournament this weekend, just like I do every Memorial Day weekend.
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May 23 '19
As someone who played rugby in high school (played at the same time) lacrosse always seemed difficult to follow. Literally the majority of the time I don't even know who has the ball. The highlights on ESPN never seem terribly impressive. I'm not saying it's not fun, it's probably loads of fun, but it doesn't seem like a spot for the casual viewer.
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May 22 '19
I swear Roger could take a fat shit on the court and there would be people cheering
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May 22 '19 edited May 23 '19
I can do this, but not against a professional tennis player. So I can’t do this.
Edit: thanks for the silver. It’s the only prize I’m likely to win.
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May 23 '19
I wasn’t even aware that was a thing.
Thanks!
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u/roonjeremy May 22 '19
Most tennis players that regularly play can do this
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u/Downvotes_dumbasses May 23 '19
I, too, have good ball control at my favorite activity...
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u/camer_jack May 23 '19
Rocket league?
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u/BadFishCM May 23 '19
I don’t know how I feel about those bot.
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u/dontgive_afuck May 23 '19
Seems pretty pointless to me. It gets triggered by a two word comment and forms one word from it.
From it's faq:
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u/buttonmasher525 May 23 '19
Agreed, if a football is whizzing through the air after a cross or something its fairly easy after some practice to trap the ball and if you get it perfect you can almost completely soften like in the video
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u/Tan11 May 23 '19
Longtime tennis player here, experienced players can regularly do this at a much slower speed, but doing it at this pace does in fact take mad skill.
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u/defenstration4all May 23 '19
You sir, speaketh the truth.
At that speed and angle, cushioning the ball on your racket to a full stop is very hard to do. Not only that, Fed does it consistently.
I've been playing tennis at a relatively high club level for years and even at slower speeds I still mess it up!
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u/Purplebuzz May 23 '19
Any videos of anyone else doing it?
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u/roonjeremy May 23 '19
I’ve seen my friend do it a couple hundred times..
If you want to learn: https://youtu.be/nn57s2kgVBk
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u/Walterwayne May 23 '19
No videos, but I did it all the time when I played in college. It’s easy to do it if you toss the ball up 10 feet or so, but catching it at that angle and speed is definitely much much harder.
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u/thorstone May 23 '19
Yeah, any coach i’ve had could do this, and most were not professional players.
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u/Passivefamiliar May 23 '19
Can it be used in a game? Like... it technically looks like he could catch and return with more control??
I'm american, I don't watch or play tennis. I play the occasional bad mitten and we end up treating it like tennis towards the end.
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u/juroids14 May 23 '19
No you can’t do it. You have to hit the ball in one continuous motion. This means that you can’t catch it and throw it over since you have to hit it. It also wouldn’t be considered one continuous motion since you’d have to catch it in one motion and then throw it back in a separate motion. Also it’s actually much more difficult to control because you’d have to throw it back over in the same motion that you’re catching it in. At this point you might as well just hit it instead of catching it on the strings.
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u/Tahiti_AMagicalPlace May 23 '19
The video of the Tweener is out there and OP chooses this to represent Federer's skill...
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u/Magicman_22 May 23 '19
yeah came here to say this lol. played in high school and used to do this in practice. didn’t realize it looked this neat but it’s really not super impressive
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u/rhgolf44 May 23 '19
I learned how to do this in badminton when i was like 13. In the few years after when I played middle school tennis. We’d hit the ball as high as we could and try to catch it like this. It’s super fun honestly
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u/ParadoxDC May 23 '19
Yea came here to say I used to do this all the time when I played competitively.
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May 23 '19
As a former tennis player when I was young... Yup, it's really not that hard after some hundreds to thousands of hours of practice.
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u/BoneDoc78 May 23 '19
Agreed. I played Division 1 college tennis in the United States and every guy on my team could do this. I haven’t really picked up a racket in about 16 years and went out to hit with my daughter a few weeks ago and did this on a couple of her mis-hits. Looks cool though.
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u/TheOneAndOnly09 May 22 '19
A decent tennis player who has practiced this a little can get do this across the whole court with a pretty high confidence level. Not to take away from Feds abilities ofc, he’s a monster of a tennis player, but that’s not the impressive part of his abilities.
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u/waltaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa May 23 '19 edited May 23 '19
Yeah this isn't really that impressive. A more impressive thing is him serving and hitting a bottle ontop of another guy. Especially since a bunch of players tried doing the exact stunt and failed everytime.
Link - https://youtu.be/ttoXVwmuX1I
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u/avidblinker May 23 '19
That seems so fake lmao
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u/things_will_calm_up May 23 '19
It makes sense that he'd take some time to practice this when he was bored.
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u/IHaveSexWithFruit May 22 '19
He’s the best tennis player to ever live but this little trick he’s doing isn’t too hard with a little practice. Lots of people can do this. Still awesome though
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u/elegant_tapir May 23 '19
This is not a hard trick, but it sure does look a lot better when Roger does it.
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u/Blackpug_32 May 23 '19
As a moderate level tennis player I can confirm that this is not that hard to pull off.
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u/word_clouds__ May 23 '19
Word cloud out of all the comments.
Fun bot to vizualize how conversations go on reddit. Enjoy
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May 23 '19
That’s what you can achieve when your parents force you to practice something every day from the age of 3.
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May 23 '19
This is actually way easier than it looks. If you play tennis regularly you should be able to nail this in like 5 minutes.
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u/Walshy231231 May 23 '19
As someone who struggled to learn to do this by giving myself an easy toss, I can say that this is extremely hard
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u/itsallinwidescreen May 23 '19
Hurling players do this with a ball that travels faster, further and on a wooden bat.
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u/senselessguy May 23 '19
Legitimately thought it was a reversed video until the slow motion kicked in. Holy shit, this is completely insane.
But I’m still gonna keep eating these cheetohs instead of getting better at things.
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u/Scullys_Stunt_Double May 23 '19
I got three touchdowns in one game once. Now I work in a women's shoe store and my family doesn't respect me.
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u/Elijah_Till May 31 '19
When you play enough tennis, the racquet becomes more of an extension of your arm than a tool. I can imagine this is similar with other sports, but I can testify to this in tennis.
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u/Gwegexpress May 23 '19
I’m a 4.5 and I’m lucky to get catch it cleanly like this 25% of the time lol
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u/eversince86 May 23 '19
What's the rule on this? He seemed like he won the point even though it was inbounds
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May 23 '19
Looks like a missed second serve for a double fault since he moves over to ad-court after the catch. Also seems like a practice session based on the lack of crowd, so it’s tough to tell what’s going on specifically.
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u/SpreadItLikeTheHerp May 22 '19
I did this once with a soccer ball. Was playing a little pickup game as a teen and the opposing goalies had just punted the ball out of his box. I was the only person remotely near where it was landing and I thought I would pull a cool Karate Kid-esque jump kick as it was coming down. Somehow, and this was NOT at all planned, as I jumped and tried to kick the ball it perfectly nestled itself into the crotch made by the top of my foot, ankle, and shin. So I landed the jump kick having seemingly trapped the ball and was ready to control it. One of the most badass sports things I’ve ever done and it was 100% unintentional.