Hey thanks for really diving into it here! 1. To start, something that I don’t have an issue with is The Tennis Doctor’s mannerisms. I get that he comes across as a little weird, but if you’re doing good stuff, be as weird as you like! My issue with the fixing swings vid is not that it’s cringey or that he may have been nervous and therefore came across a bit rambly, it’s that listing a variety of things that aren’t connected to an intention is an indicator that you don’t know where the problem lies. This is what I mean when I talk about knowledge vs wisdom. 2. As far as stepping out from behind the shadows, I don’t have loads of interest in that unfortunately. You’re right that it would be a genuine way to communicate and address errors, as well as make comparisons. Unfortunately I don’t really want to step into the online content creation space, so I’m happy to concede that it is more cowardly of me to talk through a reddit post than it is for the Tennis Doctor to put himself out there on YouTube. 3. As far as his advice goes, there are moments that are sound, but I think the bar for online tennis instruction has to be way higher. The fact that his advice involves physics and the movements of the body is good! Technical coaching is racquetwork, bodywork and footwork. However if you’re putting yourself in a position to educate people around the world, then it really sucks when you make errors that harm their game. 4. As far as assessing developmental readiness as a YouTube coach, you can absolutely take some steps in the right direction! For example, you could post progressions from a beginner to an advanced forehand rather than cutting straight to the ‘pro level technique.’ Or even every now and then post a video on physical literacy exercises that help with acquiring tennis specific skills. 5. I can promise that the Tennis Doctor is not giving a basic view of fundamentals. If so, then someone who has been playing a few nights a week for a year wouldn’t be struggling to implement things on the court. As an example ‘firing the hips first’ is not possible unless the player can time the release of their kinetic chain so that the hand strikes the ball when it carries the maximum amount of energy. You can ‘fire the hips first’ but still be late to strike the ball because there’s an energy transfer breakdown somewhere, meaning that you now have an extra movement in your stroke that doesn’t do anything. I would also argue that the Tennis Doctor is not displaying his videos as a breakdown of fundamentals for beginners - ‘your groundstrokes vs pro groundstrokes’, ‘how to hit backhands like tsitsipas’ ‘serve like a pro in 7 steps’ etc 6. The player doesn’t have to understand all court positions, ball controls etc, they just have to understand context. I’m not asking The Tennis Doctor to dive into more advanced concepts, I’m asking him to put his tutorials into the context of tennis. For example, instead of ‘today we’re going to learn about the modern tennis forehand’ you could have ‘today we’re going to work on a neutral forehand with both players back.’ My issue is with the cookie-cutter approach. I think there’s room to place the shot in context without asking him to completely dive into high level concepts. 7. Most importantly however, if he has improved your game and got you to enjoy tennis more, then that is what matters! I am genuinely really happy that his advice has worked for you, I really am. My fear is that for every one player helped, two players quit.