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). The simulation could allow for different court conditions, different racket conditions, differences in personal speed, height, skill characteristics, and the like.
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My simulations are scientifically based in that scientific principles are used to build them, and they let you pretend you are conducting tests in a lab. The programs let you use the simulations to probe your own tennis space, just as you might run tests at the tennis court. With them, you specify racket conditions for your contact with the ball, one shot at a time, and try to direct the ball to different targets in special ways. In doing that, you learn the theory of what shots work and what shots don’t work against which shots (you learn what is or isn’t possible in your tennis space). The theory guides you and lets you discover the shape and limits of your space and learn how you might stretch those limits. Every time you launch a probe in simulation, the event corresponds to a physically real event that could occur at the court, so the simulation shouldn’t be taken lightly.
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.
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