Any opinions on why some of the things tennis  teachers say make no sense and are nevertheless helpful?
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Personally, I'd prefer an instructor who could sensibly explain anything he is asking you to do, but sometimes that isn't always the case.\nSometimes the teacher's suggestion really is not sensible, but it could still work. For example, some tell you to "peel an onion" to hit a slice serve. This really doesn't make technical sense, but it may get you to move your racket head across the ball, which is required for a slice serve.\nOr he may suggest that you need to jump to hit a serve, which again is not really correct. Your momentum carries you off the ground as you hit, but you don't jump and then hit. However, it could help to think about jumping if you hadn't been using your legs.\nI also realized a long time ago that, in terms of strategy, an "incorrect" plan may be better than no plan at all. I.e., doing the wrong thing well can cause you to focus confidently on that strategy, causing you to do better than if you remained confused.\nThat's the best I can do. Good question.
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i believe you should say 'i don't get it'.  although it doesn't sound appropriate, it one of the only ways to let your teacher know you don't understand.  that's a good question.
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I just guessing here, but I'm betting he/she don't have a clue of what you are saying. I'd go get a counselor to help out.
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How dare you claim that those who actually know the subject matter would be the best teachers!  Don't you know it's more about self-esteem, and making the students feel better about the fact that they don't know s**t?
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I am a teacher (actually a university professor). My *job* is to teach people and I enjoy it. I want to promote a world where people think for themselves rather than take whatever those in power tell them. I believe this will make the world a better place not only for me, but for my daughter and others that I love. When I find someone that has misunderstandings about basic things like atheism, or mathematics, or evolution, or history I try to teach them if I can. Seek the truth and it shall set you free.
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Cancel your trip to the Bolletieri tennis camp ASAP. \n\nI'm a nationally certified tennis instructor, and I have several tennis students who've attended his camp. They all tell me the camp relies far too heavily on hard work, and provides far too little actual tennis technique.\n\nAnd, even though I've not actually attended his camp, I can absolutely confirm you'll receive far too little technique there. \n\nIndeed, one of my tennis instructor friends, who used to work at Bolletieri's camp, showed me the camp's instruction manual. It definitely contains far too little, as well as basically incorrect, tennis technique.\n\nIn fact, you should forget all tennis camps because they all suffer from the same problem... too little technique and too little individual attention.\n\nInstead, take PRIVATE tennis lessons from a qualified tennis instructor. This is absolutely the best bang for your tennis buck!
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I think teachers are like all other people and they can hate and love. I'm currently studying at an expensive private school in Bulgaria and ALL of my teachers have their favorites and I'm not telling that because I'm not one of them, but because it's more than visible. These people always use preferences and are always helped in every way, although we all pay a lot of money to study there, they always have the better marks and all. \nI have a few classmates who are more than afraid from our classteacher, who's a 37 year old spinster looking for sex. \nBut I think most of the times the teacher can't do you any harm if you're the Perfect student. \n\nBUT most of the students are not. it is complex, but everybody has his favs and it's a normal thing, although it's not objective, what in life is?\n\nI wish there were no favs and we were talking to computers, THEN maybe things would change.\n\nP.S. I'm against the stupid educational system that wants us to know a lot and at the end we know nothing.\nPeace
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I do not believe in conventional wisdom. I personally believe that it only increases the chances for people to do what ever is being questioned. I stick to one of the mottos of the Perkins School for the Blind near my town, "Let the child interact with the scissors, so he may cut himself and learn that they are sharp"
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It is overused.  Too general.  \n\nIf you are a student receiving this comment, there is nothing to worry about.  Your teacher wanted to say something positive about you.\n\nIf you are a teacher, think about WHY this student is a pleasure.  Is it because s/he turns her/his work in on time?  Is it because s/he is agreeable and cooperative?  Is it because s/he is helpful?  Is it because s/he just sits in the back of the room and doesn't bother you or anyone else?  For parents, the specifics are more meaningful.  I understand that for teachers, it is the easiest way to enter a positive comment.  I used it all the time, except for the bad students.
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Tennis seems to be the least likely to help you in the long run.  It seems like that would be the most "just taking it for fun" classes.  Take the three that will help you the most in the future :)
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The Hawkeye system has yet to be endorsed by the ATP, ITF, and Players asociation as the authority on line calls.  The system uses several camera angles and computer imaging technology to "calculate the landing area of the tennis ball"  Line judges and governing bodies have said it performed very well but is not quite 100% accurate.  therefore on those really close line calls where half a ball length off is the margin of error for the machine.  Therefore those line calls where the ball is just touching the line falls in the margin of error for the system and can't be said with certainty if the call was right or not.\nHaving said that, it is at least as accurate as a linesperson and therefore is gaining additional support for professional use.
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Grammar is like the wind, the rules change with time. One English teacher will say incorrect, another would say correct. That how come is, I don't know.
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How can we help you if we know nothing about the teacher?  Would it help you to know why I liked my favorites?  OK:\n\nI had a history teacher in junior high who had us act out little scenarios from history, to make the whole thing seem real.  That was very good.  One of my math teachers used to give use wonderful little math puzzles, including some that were extremely funny, like those based on the works of Lewis Carroll.  My favorite French teacher gave us little gifts for spelling bees, and I won a package of five tiny (sample size) bottles of real French perfume!  My Latin teacher had us reading the "naughty bits" in the old bawdy Latin plays, but that was in college, and we were all very mature.\n\nGenerally, the teachers who put some creativity into the classroom, and who draw creativity out of their students, get the best ratings and teach the most.  But the other thing is the teacher to expects a lot, but plays fair.  My sixth grade teacher gave us lots of homework, and graded exams very uncompromisingly.  But she always answered the questions we had, and never played favorites.  She just imperiously assumed we all had the ability to learn, and would not accept laziness.  The lazy students hated her, but the ones who wanted to learn, learned a lot.  She was also very systematic, did the same pattern of exercises every day, so we always knew what to expect.  We had ten questions on the blackboard to write down in our notebook to answer in history and social studies; we had 20 vocabulary words in spelling, ten sentences to diagram in English . . . does anybody diagram sentences anymore?  Sometimes a very old-fashioned teacher is the one from whom you learn the most.  (Not "the one you learn the most from," because a preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with!)
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Hmmmm. I apologize for trying to help. I know I "sound" intelligent, but how do you sound responding like that. \nI respect the lesson, but not the teacher.
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I think the explanation you quote is accurate. It isn't as "romantic" or mysterious as the ones you hear discussed on shows like Coast To Coast with Art Bell/George Nori, but it makes a whole lot more sense.\n\nSorry kids, reality and scientifc explanations aren't much fun are they?
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I'm a teacher, and I can be completely stern and completely fun and laid back with the same class. I find the combination to be effective. It lets students know that class is a fun place to be, but there are times to be free, fun, and creative, and there are times to be silent and controlled. In general, teachers MUST be stern, but a "stern teacher" seems to indicate one that doesn't make an effort to relate to their students or to make education enjoyable for them, and that's not effective at all.
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Well We had a lecturer in our college teaching auditing . He was a practising Accountant and with good clientele and teaching was part time and he enjoyed it.\nHe was witty , short of hearing but very quickwitted. The honorarium he got was a pittance.\nHe would be writing on the board but inspite of it he could see thro his eyes sideways if any one in the back bench is chit chatting. He can just cut a piece of chalkpiece and throw backwards aiming at the two talking chaps.\nWhenever some one goes to him for any clarifications in solving accountancy problems:\nHe would ask" have you passed your ENGLISH subject in the I year course"(II year no language)If the student says NO SIR he would say NO WONDER (meaning you who are so mediocre could not have passed it)\nIf some one says YES SIR he would still say STILL WORSE MUCH WORSE SIT DOWN(meaning if you are so good but could not solve this problem it reveals you in bad light)\nAlso he would solve all the ten questions in the chapter but the 7th problem which you wanted help will be left out saying now that I have solved for you all the rest it is for you to solve the 7th problem\nIf you say I forgot to do home work he said did you forget to take food today.\nIf you say I did not do homework because I did not come to school yesterday, he would say can you tell your boss tomorrow when you take up a job that you wont attend to yesterdays mails because you were on leave?\nAlso if you say 7th sum is tough and you could not solve he would ask have you solved 6th have you solved 8th Please show me!!!\nOne day since I was talking to my friend seated next to me but in hushed voice he noticed it (he is short of hearing in one side, no hearing aids those days)and asked me "Hi Mister\nIS IT TOO HOT OUTSIDE"( meaning why are you talking ?do you want to be sent out of the class room in the hot sun?)\nI told him boldly YES SIR IF YOU DONT MIND YOU CAN COOLY DISPERSE THE CLASS FOR TODAY!!!\nTO MY UTTER SURPRISE AND TO THE SURPRISE OF ALL OTHERS HE SAID OK THATS FINE ENJOY YOUR FREEDOM FOR ONE HOUR TILL THE NEXT CLASS COMMENCES AND LEFT THE CLASS ROOM\n\nWell More stories I can tell but due to lack of time and space let me end here.\nI DESERVE 10 POINTS FOR THE NICEST COOLEST ANSWER