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Blusting Music to Drown Out Reality
The contractor sent around two sullen,slack-jawed young assistants to do pair work on the tennis court across the road. They bought with them, inevitably as standard equipment for the job,a powerful portable radio which kept blasting away for a full afternoon. Call me any ugly word you will,such as snobbish it remains my firm and unshakeable opinion that such people are as close to moronic line as it is possible to get. The tolerance for a high decibel rate,masquerading as music is in my opinion inversely proportional to level of intelligence.
I can understand music in factories to keep people from falling asleep. But these young men are working in August among grass and flowers and birds and trees. instead they anethetized themseleves with junkiest of junk music.
Does the author support his thesis convincingly? explain
show how the author's diction betrays his bias
Quote two sentences which are judegmental. esplain how they are judgement

It seems that the decibal of the music is not the issue as he states that it is the junkiest of junk music...this is truly a biased opinion.

Close to a moronic line as it can get is another segregated opinion.

The author only supports his biased opinion of the workers music and not the fact that it is being played loudly...masquerading as music, as was quoted by the author, states a difference in the style of the music.

I hope that this helped, I am almost not sure what you are asking

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i'm a tennis begginer plz help me?

plz tell me the right positions and how to serve and plz how to return and serve the ball in bound i always end up hitting the ball way too far and what type of equipment should i buy and i cant take lessons but i do live very close to a tennis court

Okay. It's a bad thing you can't take lessons. There is a LOT to learn. Unless you are a tennis genius, you could take several years to go beyond the beginner level, if you ever do. Some people grow old never being able to play tennis well. Thank God for the internet or else things would be much worse for a lot of people.

Alright, let's begin. http://tennis.com/yourgame/gear/general/general.aspx?id=649 First you will need to read this, mainly for the serve because I cannot otherwise tell you the right grip for serving. You NEED the continental grip for serving. For spin serves you may use a grip rotated a little more towards the backhand grips. For your forehands and backhands, any grip can work but some are more reccomended than others, but more on that later. Also, you should hold the racket with your dominant hand at the lowest part of the grip that you can hold on to tightly with the entire hand. For two handed backhands, just put the nondominant hand over that, similar to what is shown in the link above.

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Okay. Let's start with the serve. This is the most complicated part of tennis.

Stance - The general guideline is your dominant foot behind the non-dominant foot and parallel to the baseline. The non-dominant foot right behind the baseline and angled to the net post on your dominant side. So for a right hander, the left foot is right behind the baseline, and angled to the right net post. The left foot next to it, behind it from your opponen't point of view, and parallel to the baseline. You can move the feet to someplace comfortable. There are two sides of the court that are obviously marked. The one on the right is the deuce court, the one on the left is the ad court. You will find out why when you play some games and notice the scoring pattern. But you will have to read the rules on that. Also, you have to hit the serve into the opposite side of the court, meaning diagonally. For the guidelines on the stances, this applies to righties on the deuce and lefties on the ad, under those circumstances where your feet are pointing is set in stone. However when you go to the other side, the angles and directions change, so some pros, instead of having their body memorize 6 different directions, they instead rotate their stance so the only difference is where you are looking pretty much. Watch the pros, you will know what I mean.

Also, there are 2 different stances to serve from, platform and pinpoint. I personally reccomend platform since the best servers ever (Federer, Gonzalez, Roddick, Sampras). Basically you keep your feet on the same place until you leave the floor. Pinpoint you drag the foot up right next to the other foot so that both are right behind the baseline. This style was used by Edberg and Rafter.

Toss - Now the toss, you want the toss inside the court, not extremely, and barely out of the fully extended reach of your racket. When you toss, hold the ball in your fingertips and push it up to where you want the toss to be with a relaxed and fully extended tossing arm.

Motion - Now the motion, first off you need to get in the fully loaded position. http://tennis.com/yourgame/instructionarticles/serve/serve.aspx?id=535 The third picture shows it, although a pinpoint stance is used. You need a good knee bend and a good shoulder turn. To get the shoulder turn, in that loaded position make sure the racket is behind you, meaning your elbow is pointing to your non-dominant side as shown in the picture. Now that you are fully loaded, then hit the ball at the peak of the toss. You should naturally be coming off the floor. Don't force it and don't jump. The pros don't jump on their serves.

That is the basics of the serve. I might have missed a thing or two, but just go to the forum on tennis.com. If you want I'll give a more detailed explaination. You can hit spin on serves, which is very important at higher levels of the game. I won't talk about it now, since that would take at least 5 more paragraphs.

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Now the forehand. This is the most natural stroke. You can use any grip on that list except for the continental grip. That is used for slice and on the forehand slice that usually means you are in trouble. You need to learn to hit topspin and hit it on almost all of your shots, especially on the forehand side. Any grip may be used since every grip (including continental, but doing that would injure your wrist) can produce the same amount of topspin given the right motion and enough racket head speed. Although this is very hard for lower levels. I reccomend the semi western forehand grip since it is easy to generate topspin and hit flat. If you want the ball going over the net you need to hit upward and generate topspin.

Stance - There are 3 stances you can hit from, closed, semi open, and open. To make things more confusing, there are also angular momentum forehands. Anyway, when you start it is reccomended to hit every forehand you CAN with a closed stance. As you get better you can use multiple stances. I reccomend using what comes natural, but that won't give you a full shoulder turn, which is important in every stroke you do in tennis, as is a knee bend though to different degrees from stroke to stroke.

Takeback - To naturally get your shoulders turned, have your non-dominant hand on the throat, or Y, of the racket. Take take the racket back with BOTH hands so that the racket is behind your body but still on the dominant side. Looking from the other side of the court the racket shouldn't break the plane of your body. Letting go of your racket and your non-dominant hand pointing to the dominant side and racket behind you. So if you are right handed, your left arm should be pointing to the right side of the court and the racket should be at an angle to your body, both to the right and behind your body. This shoulder turn I reccomend is completed before the ball bounces, so the timing is easier and you are prepared for the ball early, which makes it easier to hit the ball cleanly. Also, depending on how low the ball is, you should have a knee bend. Generally the lower the ball is the deeper the knee bend. Also, your feet should be lined up perpendicular to the net, creating a closed stance, but any stance works if you get a good shoulder rotation. And a closed stance works the best for learning players since it is easier to get the shoulders turned.

Swing - Basically, in a smooth motion, from the loaded position drop the racket below the level of the ball and hit through it, and follow through over your non-dominant shoulder. During the motion the shoulders should open up because you want to contact the ball in front of you. All this, should getting you hitting through the ball and hitting up on the ball. The face of the racket should be perpendicular to the floor or even tilted slightly down so that the strings slightly face the floor so that it is harder to overhit the ball since you need to generate more upward brushing motion, creating more topspin, to send it higher over the net with the topspin bringing it down. The reason topspin brings the ball down is due to the magnus effect. So before contact the racket should be slightly tilted down, called closed face, and below the ball. After contact the racket should have gone through the contact point and well above it. If you follow through over the shoulder it is hard to do the windshield wiper finish, so I won't talk about it since you don't need it at the beginner level.

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Now the backhand. There are two backhands. I would like to see more players using a one hander, but it is hard for most people, but generally the best players used one handers (Federer, Laver, Load, Rosewall, Sampras, McEnroe), but that was during the day when control was important (except Sampras and Federer). Two handers were used by the best known baseliners (Borg, Courier, Connors, Agassi, Nadal). I will teach a two hander since it is very similar to the forehand and will require much less explaination. However, if you could get lessons, I would reccomend you get lessons on either a one hander or the serve. The forehand will need lessons too, but the other 2 require more work and help. Also, know this, the one hander does not finish over the other shoulder if you haven't figured it out, it finishes up and forward with the shoulders perpendicular to the net, and for most people the opposite arm comes up as well in the opposite direction, like a bird looks like with its wings extended before it flaps down.

Stance - Same to the forehand basically. But your dominant foot will step foreward and across the nondominant foot, so the line that is created by the feet is at an angle to the baseline. You don't want to use an open stance on your forehand, but if you have a two handed backhand it's not as big a deal, but a closed stance is reccomended. For one handers the closed stance is a MUST. The closed stance makes sure that you get a shoulder rotation, or at least helps it.

Takeback - This is a little different than the forehand, it's not as looped of a backhand, though it can be, but more people seem to like to cock the backhand below the level of the ball, like Jim Courier and seemingly Roddick. The shoulder turn should happen at the same time as the takeback, like the forehand.

Swing - Just like a forehand. This is actually like a non-dominant forehand. Only the non-dominant hand isn't at the bottom of the grip. Before contact the racket should be under the ball, and after contact the racket should have gone up and past the contact point, generating topspin. And follow through over your dominant shoulder with both hands still on the grip. This stroke has been compared to golf swings(golf players that play tennis), baseball swings (Courier), and Borg's two handed backhand supposedly came from a slapshot from hockey. Pretty cool. What I just told you about the forehand and backhand just put you ahead of many beginners out there that have practiced for years. They never learned spin and/or never learned to use a full swing. When you get a good shoulder turn and finish over the opposite shoulder, you ensure a full stroke. Think of it like this, when the shoulder turn is completed, you are looking over one shoulder, then when you finish the stroke and follow through completely, you are looking over the other shoulder. Also, for the forehand and backhand, watch the ball, and when you swing keep the head still and stare at the contact point. This make sure you get as clean a hit as possible, regardless of racket head size. This is why Federer his so many good balls, he is a master of keeping his head still and watching the ball. If you look up prematurely you will probably hit the ball long. You don't need to look, you aren't calling the ball in or out, the opponent is, so why not keep your head still and improve the chances of hitting a good ball instead of looking to see if you hit your shot in and risking hitting it long or missing it completely.

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To return the serve, you need to generally be able to cover whatever the opponent throws at you since the serve is the only thing you have 100% control of. At higher levels, many pros use a slice serve in addition to a topspin or flat serve to maximize the area their opponents have to cover. It's fun when you start doing it yourself. You most likely won't be able to cover EVERYTHING. Even Agassi, Nadal, Davydenko, Federer, they all got aced on before. Covering all the angles doesn't mean covering them all with your forehand. You need to cover it with both the forehand AND the backhand to maximize your service return efficiency. When returning serves, you need to shorten your backswing since the ball is coming faster. Your main objective is get the ball in, once you do you can start using your full swings.

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Since you are using topspin now, you should be hitting many more balls inside the court, you might actually be hitting the ball much shorter than you want. To fix this, aim higher. Depth is created by height, not pace (which is the speed at which the ball travels at).

Okay, I covered most of the basics with topspin. If you want to learn about other shots like the slice, chip, volleys, and so forth, go to the tennis.com forum and ask. The topspin will keep your ball in even if you hit it hard, though the harder you hit the more topspin you will generally need. Also, hit your shots nice and relaxed.

Hopefully you can practice your serves on the court, and hopefully you can practice your strokes on a backboard. It's actually really good, but it doesn't work for me since my topspin makes the ball die and land short without bouncing foreward like a normal topspin stroke, requiring me to go up and the shortened distance gives me much less time to change grips between forehand and backhand, so I have to try and hit my shots flatter, which I don't like.

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Okay, for equipment. There are several rackets out there. But like the name states, many oversize rackets suck. Not all of them though.

For equipment, these are a few things to avoid, ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE TOGETHER:
*Lightweight
*Head Heavy Balance
*Stiff (This can be acceptable if not together with the above 2, but is still a concern)

Why avoid these you ask? Because they lead to arm problems. Heavy head light balanced rackets are the best. That's why you never hear someone with a 12+ or even a 13+ ounce racket complain about arm problems.

Look at this racket (oversize edition): http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=PO3HH

It is 2 pts head heavy, very light, 10.1 ounces strung, and is pretty stiff, 72. That is very bad for your arm. I used this racket specifically because someone recently complained about tennis elbow that was obviously caused by this racket, and you don't want tennis elbow. I reccomend something at least 4 points head LIGHT, 11+ ounces, prefferably 11.5+ then add some lead tape to some places to add some heft, and under 70 in the stiffness category. My racket is well over 12 ounces, 67 in stiffness, and nicely head light. I also intend to customize one of my other lighter rackets, still not light to the point it is bad, and put lead tape on it and hopefully hit the 13+ ounce mark, but I'm willing to settle at around 12.5 ounces, and I'm only 16.

I've heard great reviews of one oversize racket, actually extremely good reviews because the company didn't try to take away the weight to make it "more user friendly" and stiff it up and make it head heavy to make up for the lack of power. Kids used to use wooden rackets at around 15 ounces and they never had problems with it.

http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/descpage.html?PCODE=GRO is a good oversize racket. The 107 square inch head. Notice that regardless of its big face, it still is 12+ ounces, rather flexible at 63, and nicely headlight at 6 points head light. And since it is an oversize racket, it is easier to use than the midsize rackets or midplus rackets. And with your new full strokes, assuming you followed everything above, will allow you to get nice shots out of your racket. However, you will need to learn to speed the swing up over time. Using a more demanding racket can help. I used a Yonex RDS 003 and it helped me speed up my swing.

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As for string, I use Luxilon Alu Power 16L in the mains and NXT 16 in the crosses in a hybrid application that allows me good durability and good feel. However, I would not reccomend a stiff polyester like Luxilon to a beginner. There are so many strings, it's hard to reccomend one. NXT is a great string, and if you aren't a string breaker you can go for NXT 17 or even NXT Tour 18. I don't know the difference between NXT and NXT Tour, however the bigger than number the thinner the gauge, and the thinner the gauge the more spin you can generate and I believe it adds more power.

http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/descpageACGAMMA-GLWPRO16.html is supposedly really good and has a warranty, but I'm not sure how it works if you buy it online. After you string it, if you don't like it, cut it out within 10 days and send it to them and I guess they will pay you back or something... It's supposed to play really well, better than natural gut.

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So if you want to know more, just go to www.tennis.com and go to the message boards. I'll give you more answers there. That way I can give you answers about specific strokes instead of trying to cover all of them, but I covered the basics of serves and groundstrokes.

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