|
Page Title
TennisONE Editor John Yandellto Collaborate on NASA Tennis ResearchMost thorough scientific principles of tennis ever undertakenFor more information, contact:Kim Shanley, 408-271-6647, kshanley@tennisone.com John Yandell, 415-885-6959, videoten@isp.net
July 15, 1997, San Jose, California. TennisONE, a leading tennis web site on the Internet, today announced that John Yandell, a TennisONE Special Contributing Editor, will be the project manager and co-investigator in a three year NASA-funded project that will use leading edge aerospace technology to investigate and define the scientific principles of tennis. Cislunar Aerospace, Inc., a Napa, California based engineering consulting firm was awarded a $1.87 million contract for the project. Yandell will collaborate and manage the project with Cislunar CEO and principal investigator Dr. Jani Macari Pallis, as well as a team of aeronautical engineers and software developers. The project has put together an impressive group of collaborating partners, including the USTA Sports Science Group, LGE Sport Science, and Wilson. "The project represents an incredible opportunity to use aerospace research methodologies and existing space age technologies to understand tennis at a whole new level," said John Yandell. "Compared to golf we don't know very much about what really happens when a player hits a tennis ball. As we find out we believe this basic knowledge is going to lead to better equipment design and a whole new generation of training techniques." Yandell Will Cover Story for TennisONE"John Yandell's work on this project is the culmination of over twenty years of work focusing on identifying the elements of good tennis," said Kim Shanley, President of TennisONE. "In the eighties, he produced "The Winning Edge, an instructional video using McEnroe and Lendl. He followed that by writing the book and producing the video, "Visual Tennis." Most recently, he has produced the Pro Tennis video series which is advertised on national television." Continued Shanley, "We at TennisONE are thrilled that John is leading this prestigious scientific project and will be reporting his personal perspective of this important on-going project regularly on TennisONE. Stay tuned on TennisONE for John's reporting on STTI, Search For Terrestial Tennis Intelligence." Phase OneThis will include the study of changing ball speeds and spins, the differences between court surfaces, and wind tunnel analysis of the aerodynamic properties of tennis balls and tennis rackets. Using a new generation of high speed digital video cameras, the team will film players at all levels, including world class professionals, in an attempt to gain a new understanding of tennis biomechanics. Phase TwoIn the second phase of the project, the team plans to commercialize space age technology through the creation of a series of revolutionary high tech tennis products. These include state of the art super slow motion instructional videos, and a software package that would allow players and coaches to compare video of their own strokes to those of top players. The team will also focus on racket technology through the application of computational and performance analysis methods currently used in aircraft and spacecraft design. The plan is to develop new software tools that will allow manufacturers to evaluate the effects of changes in the complex elements in modern racket design. This could lead to a new generation of performance rackets and also custom racket design to suit the precise styles of individual players. More details of this project can be found at the following web address: http://wings.ucdavis.edu/Tennis/  Do
you have major environmental clean-up issues? Reed, Elliott, Creech &
Roth is one of the valley's top environmental firms.Back to TennisONE Home Page webmaster@tennisone.com
|
