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http://www.hi10spro.blogspot.com discusses what happens and the unwritten rules of tennis

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  • @dchijp yeah, but socially...tennis is a very social game so the setting has to be appropriate... and if you coach kids, it's really important to differentiate the line--i once had a girl bean another girl in the forehead on two consecutive points... it was kind of sad... it was unnecessary.

  • @hi10spro dude, its a tennis ball. you want to win? aim for someone just like this guy did. he got the point right? is it a legal move? then do it.

  • I have never told my kids to aim at people.

    I will not do that. Nor do I condone unsportsmanlike conduct. I will default you if you cheat, play with poor sportsmanship, or make yourself look bad. that is a standing doctrine in my book--if you want me to coach you.

    just to set the record straight.

  • GueorguiJoukov. There is a competitive perspective and a philosophical perspective. I see what you're saying and concur it's wrong. The sports perspective is what I coach. If you let the players get intimidated, they will lose. I don't coach players to lose, nor do I coach players to do bad things, BUT I will warn them of what happens in matches--this happens all the time in matches--you have people that enjoy being jerks..

    so here's a better question, what would you do? or the cure?

  • Nothing excuses a bad action. Nothing, never, in any circumstance.

    Pretty frustrating? You are reacting exactly how I said you would. You think it is cowardise that makes one act as I told you to. But, I'd told you it's actually the opposite.

    An explanation is worthless if the only answer you have is to not consider logic.

  • "you will be viewed as someone who doesn't care."

    Does it make you lesser great in any dimension, for that you are viewed as the worst man? No. it's not about you look, but how are which define your state.

    You said it yourself:

    "play with honor"

    Where is honor in avenging yourself when you know it to be wrong?

    No greatness is grant from evilness as beauty stand in opposition to ugliness.

    Be a gentleman and aim the court, not the opponents, no matter how bad they are.

  • Philosophy works in the classroom, but if you're playing Mixed doubles, and they're pounding your partner off the return, off the first volley, off the overhead, and off the groundstroke. And you chose the higher ground--and do nothing.

    you will end up losing and in the real world of life, your partner will not want to play with you because you don't defend her. thus, you lose the match, lose your partner, and lose face.

    you will be viewed as someone who doesn't care. this is sports :D

  • "philosophy works in the classroom, but this the real world "

    It stays as logical as it was when you get out of your room. The point is that if you don't follow your affirmation you are consciously and knowingly doing something bad.

    Giving a choice, you must take the best and being in contradiction with a loigcal answer means you choose the worst pick willingly. And, it is feature to madness to willingly be wrong.

    Philosophy is meant to make you choose and understand, not to get a grade.

  • this is not being unfair. it is bad. but to hit someone, it's really hard to do. I mean really, if they're paying attention to you, try and peg someone, they're going to react and won't get hit. it's tennis--what if I'm aiming at a spot on the court, and the person gets in the way.

    this is sports--and payback is a part of sports--bean ball in baseball, big hits in hockey, they're legal, but are they bad...

    philosophy works in the classroom, but this the real world

  • You know, Socrates(Plato's character) made a split between things on single point. Ansering A or B, you will never be able to agree with the other.

    This was on whether or not unfairness is bad.

    Your answer on this will lead inevitably to a conclusion on this question: Does suffering legitimate a bad action?

    And up to what I understand, being unfair is being bad and therefore nothing excuses a bad action. Sending back an attack is therefore excluded.

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