itsaboutlearning.org
CHANGEd: What If…Weekly | it's about learning
https://itsaboutlearning.org/category/changed-what-if-weekly
It's about learning. Exploring the educational crossroads of our time. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Bo’s bio and highlights. Learning and leading profiles. Brain food and pmp. Category Archives: CHANGEd: What If…Weekly. Challenging Assumptions – Grade Reporting Timelines. September 16, 2016. What conditions and characteristics of school do we simply assume are engrained parts of the system? During the 2016-17 academic year (there is one of those assumptions, right? So, I’ve b...
bbbrg.blogspot.com
BRG Blog: 11/01/2012 - 12/01/2012
http://bbbrg.blogspot.com/2012_11_01_archive.html
Mostly tennis related essays from BRG. Friday, November 09, 2012. So You Wanna Be A Millionaire. Andre Agassi's dad, Mike, wanted Andre to hit roughly a million balls per year. To do that, Mike set up a ball machine that fired balls at young Andre. Mike figured 2,000 balls per day would get Andre to roughly a million balls per year. I get over 2,700, but who's counting. So how many hours per day must a player dedicate to various practice methods to hit 2,700 balls per day? What about match play? Little R...
bbbrg.blogspot.com
BRG Blog: Every Game Went to Deuce
http://bbbrg.blogspot.com/2013/07/every-game-went-to-deuce.html
Mostly tennis related essays from BRG. Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Every Game Went to Deuce. I lost 6-0, 6-1, but every game went to deuce.". Just because every game went to deuce doesn't mean the match was close. It's conceivable it was close, but very, very unlikely. Let's have a look. You bet it is. Ask Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize winning physicist and tennis player. Fermi would not accept that he was the lesser player unless the difference between his games won and his opponent's games won was greater ...
bbbrg.blogspot.com
BRG Blog: 10/01/2014 - 11/01/2014
http://bbbrg.blogspot.com/2014_10_01_archive.html
Mostly tennis related essays from BRG. Friday, October 10, 2014. Treat Huey makes a living playing doubles. Any other players on that list that have covered their expenses playing tennis? If it's true that the top 10 should reasonably consider playing at a service academy, is it any less true of the rest of the top 50 or 100? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Brian Gordon 3D Tennis. University of Tennessee Men's Tennis. Little River Roasting Company. Picture Window template. Powered by Blogger.
bbbrg.blogspot.com
BRG Blog: Shot Location Charts
http://bbbrg.blogspot.com/2014/03/shot-location-charts.html
Mostly tennis related essays from BRG. Tuesday, March 11, 2014. I grabbed a few more shot location charts off of recent tennis telecasts. I thought I'd post them here for purposes of easy access. And below, for reference, is Naomi's Circle. Naomi's goal is to hit balls that land outside this circle and inside the court. My error rate shoots through the roof when I try this. More like Naomi's Elipse, roughly (x 2/110.25 ft) (y 2/225 ft) = 1). Are a couple of old posts showing more shot location charts.
bbbrg.blogspot.com
BRG Blog: Instruction Delusion
http://bbbrg.blogspot.com/2013/10/instruction-delusion.html
Mostly tennis related essays from BRG. Tuesday, October 29, 2013. We cripple our young, possibly for life, when we tell them "You need an instructor to learn" or "You need a teacher to learn.". Instruction. Yet, our young people today believe with all their hearts that learning takes place only with instruction, that instructors make us better at things. That's a delusion. Three recent anecdotes from my tennis coaching life illustrate this delusion. So I'm not your typical professional instructor. Now th...
bbbrg.blogspot.com
BRG Blog: More Shot Charts
http://bbbrg.blogspot.com/2012/04/more-shot-charts.html
Mostly tennis related essays from BRG. Thursday, April 19, 2012. I'm curious about what sorts of shots players hit, the ball speeds and spins, the heights over the net, the depth, where they contact the ball, is the ball rising or falling into their strike zones, are they hitting near the lines, aiming for backhands, and on and on. My friend Brian Gordon is interested in how players hit the ball, their mechanics. Here is Rafa's first set shot chart:. And here is the same thing for Kukushkin:. I see only ...
bbbrg.blogspot.com
BRG Blog: 06/01/2013 - 07/01/2013
http://bbbrg.blogspot.com/2013_06_01_archive.html
Mostly tennis related essays from BRG. Saturday, June 01, 2013. Roger Federer and His Wall. Roger learned to play hitting "for hours and hours" against this wall. Maybe kids should try that before "lessons" and "classes" and other BS ways to learn tennis. Tommy Haas, Quintessential American. I'm watching Tommy Haas playing the "last American", John Isner, at the French Open. Tommy Haas became a US citizen in 2010. He now lives in Los Angeles, California. He fulfilled his dream. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
bbbrg.blogspot.com
BRG Blog: 11/01/2014 - 12/01/2014
http://bbbrg.blogspot.com/2014_11_01_archive.html
Mostly tennis related essays from BRG. Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Coaches, it's my view that the professionalization of instruction is ruining play and ruining childhood. With parents wanting "what's best for their child" and without the option of just sending the kid outside to play with other kids, they turn to adult professional teachers and instructors (of tennis, golf, baseball, basketball, chess, piano, you name it) to teach their kids how to play. What a bad joke. Kids who come to professional ...
bbbrg.blogspot.com
BRG Blog: 07/01/2012 - 08/01/2012
http://bbbrg.blogspot.com/2012_07_01_archive.html
Mostly tennis related essays from BRG. Thursday, July 12, 2012. What happens to a tennis court when it's neglected? When nobody maintains it? That depends upon the surface. Here's a hard court after five to ten years of neglect. Here's a clay court. Not sure how long this one's been neglected. Probably not more than a few years. And here's the world famous Stonegate Academy after roughly thirty years of neglect. Stonegate's still playable, among the best courts in the area. Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Frankl...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT