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Essential Tennis Podcast #108 features an interview with Dave “The Koz” Kozlowski. Ian and Koz talk about an age old topic: power vs control. Discussion points included in this interview are: how do you develop control exactly? At what point should you start working on weapons and adding power to your game? How can you find a “rhythm” on the court as you play and make it part of your game? Definitely don’t miss this interview, Koz has a real passion for the game and is a pleasure to listen to!
Download Podcast #108 for free by clicking the link below. You can download the .mp3 file right to your computer or by using iTunes.
We’re leaving for the airport in about 30 minutes (it’s almost 5 in the morning — yikes!). We’ll be at the tournament tomorrow filming through the following Tuesday. If you want regular updates about what we’re doing follow me on Twitter @wihamilton.
Today Youtube rolled out a new feature: automatic captioning! Youtube is using Google’s speech-recognition technology to automatically transcribe what I’m saying and display it as a closed caption in the bottom third of the screen. Best of all, you can translate what I’m saying into virtually any language!
So how does this work? In the bottom right-hand side of the player there is a button with an “up” arrow (make sure you’ve started playing the video). If you hover over it with your mouse some additional options will pop up. One of these options reads “cc” with an arrow next to it. Hover over the arrow and a “transcribe audio” option will appear. Once you’ve transcribed the audio, you can repeat the process to translate what I’m saying into another language.
Google’s speech-recognition technology does an OK job of translating what I’m saying. Some words are way off… but maybe I’m not enunciating properly =)
You can try this new feature out on the video below –
As many of you know, we’re leaving Monday for the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, CA. We’ll have 4 HD cameras going, including a Red One (120 fps). Here’s an example of the Red’s footage –
We’ll be filming all the big-name players. Do you have any specific requests? Not necessarily players (”Get Nalbandian!”). Rather, a specific shot or camera angle. For example, a zoomed-in shot of Rafa’s footwork. Etc. Let us know in the comments!
Next Monday we’re flying to SoCal to attend the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, CA. Outside of the majors this is my favorite tournament.
One of the things that makes the BNP Paribas Open special is the practice courts. They are EXTREMELY spectator-friendly. Our videos of Roger Federer warming up at last year’s tournament should give you a pretty good idea of what we mean.
We’re going to be there from the 9th to the 16th. If you’re going to be there look for us! We’ll be wandering around the practice courts with big HD cameras so we should be pretty easy to spot.
