Roger Federer slow motion video
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| Desc: | Super slow motion videos of Roger Federer - hitting
mostly forehands and a couple of backhands.
Incredible detail of racquet vibrations, him
watching the ball and more... |
| Duration: | 234 seconds |
| Added: | May 25, 2006 |
| Views: | 1,362,111 |
| Avg. Rating: | 4.80 / 5 (1898 total) |
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Roger Federer Magic -- Slow Motion Tennis
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| Desc: | "He just sees the court in a different sort of way.
... Sometimes he'll come up with shots you weren't
even looking for... it's almost looks like the game
is in slow motion for him." - Andy Roddick
"Roger
Federer is one of those rare, preternatural athletes
who appear to be exempt, at least in part, from
certain physical laws. Good analogues here include
Michael Jordan, who could not only jump inhumanly
high but actually hang there a beat or two longer
than gravity allows, and Muhammad Ali, who really
could "float" across the canvas and land two or
three jabs in the clock-time required for one. ...
Federer is of this type — a type that one could
call genius, or mutant, or avatar. He is never
hurried or off-balance. The approaching ball hangs,
for him, a split-second longer than it ought to. His
movements are lithe rather than athletic. ... he is
able to see, or create, gaps and angles for winners
that no one else can envision. ... This thing about
the ball cooperatively hanging there, slowing down,
as if susceptible to the Swiss's will — there's
real metaphysical truth here. ... After a July 7
semifinal in which Federer destroyed Jonas Bjorkman
— not just beat him, destroyed him — Federer and
Bjorkman are chatting and joking around, and
Bjorkman asks him just how unnaturally big the ball
was looking to him out there, and Federer confirms
that it was "like a bowling ball or basketball." He
means it just as a bantery, modest way to make
Bjorkman feel better, to confirm that he's surprised
by how unusually well he played today; but he's also
revealing something about what tennis is like for
him. Imagine that you're a person with
preternaturally good reflexes and coordination and
speed, and that you're playing high-level tennis.
Your experience, in play, will not be that you
possess phenomenal reflexes and speed; rather, it
will seem to you that the tennis ball is quite large
and slow-moving, and that you always have plenty of
time to hit it. That is, you won't experience
anything like the (empirically real) quickness and
skill that the live audience, watching tennis balls
move so fast they hiss and blur, will attribute to
you." - David Foster Wallace
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| Duration: | 44 seconds |
| Added: | Feb 29, 2008 |
| Views: | 10,944 |
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Roger Federer - Spirit of a Champion (Part 1/3)
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| Desc: | Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player,
ranked World No. 1 for a record 232 consecutive
weeks.
Federer has won twelve Grand Slam singles
titles (three Australian Open, five Wimbledon, four
US Open), four Tennis Masters Cup titles, and
fourteen ATP Masters Series titles. Federer holds
many records in the game, including having appeared
in ten consecutive Grand Slam men's singles finals
(2005 Wimbledon Championships through the 2007 US
Open) and 17 consecutive Grand Slam singles
semifinals (2004 Wimbledon - present). He also holds
the open era records for consecutive wins on both
grass courts (65) and hard courts (56).
Federer's
remarkable success has prompted a number of tennis
critics, legendary players, and current players to
consider him to be the greatest tennis player in
history. In 2008, he was named Laureus World
Sportsman of the Year for a record fourth
consecutive time. |
| Duration: | 600 seconds |
| Added: | Jul 8, 2008 |
| Views: | 2,606 |
| Avg. Rating: | 4.60 / 5 (9 total) |
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Roger Federer - Spirit of a Champion (Part 3/3)
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| Desc: | Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player,
ranked World No. 1 for a record 232 consecutive
weeks.
Federer has won twelve Grand Slam singles
titles (three Australian Open, five Wimbledon, four
US Open), four Tennis Masters Cup titles, and
fourteen ATP Masters Series titles. Federer holds
many records in the game, including having appeared
in ten consecutive Grand Slam men's singles finals
(2005 Wimbledon Championships through the 2007 US
Open) and 17 consecutive Grand Slam singles
semifinals (2004 Wimbledon - present). He also holds
the open era records for consecutive wins on both
grass courts (65) and hard courts (56).
Federer's
remarkable success has prompted a number of tennis
critics, legendary players, and current players to
consider him to be the greatest tennis player in
history. In 2008, he was named Laureus World
Sportsman of the Year for a record fourth
consecutive time. |
| Duration: | 346 seconds |
| Added: | Jul 8, 2008 |
| Views: | 2,303 |
| Avg. Rating: | 4.60 / 5 (9 total) |
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