Personalized Simulations
Personally, I think it's good to pretend.
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To conduct personalized experiments of tennis, you need to include properties of yourself and your context as part of the representation of the court events. That is, you (as player in a particular court) must be represented to some degree as you (the experimenter) run tests (of your own skills). That's what I do in my Select 'n Shoot games. The simulation allows for different court conditions and different racket conditions.
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My Select 'n Shoot simulations let you probe your own tennis space, just as you might run tests at the tennis court, one shot at a time, by trial and error. With them, you specify racket conditions for your contact with the ball and try to direct the ball to different targets in special ways. In doing that, you learn what shots work and what shots don’t work against which shots from your "opponent (you learn what is or isn’t possible in your tennis space).
Simulation lets you "hit" the ball from many different positions in your court to many different targets in your opponent’s court in any of a wide variety of ways for different conditions. You can gain more from simulation in a short period of time than you might over many hours hitting the ball at the court, because set-up time is much shorter and you get instant and accurate feedback.
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