Have been practising playing tennis against the wall for the past 2 week or so. Play about 3 times a week or so for abt an hr each. I very afraid of sun burn after the horrible sun burn i got after the sailing trip. My skin keep coming out for like a week or so until i had no choice but to buy sunbloc and keep "moisturising" them after i bath. ARGH... i hate doing that kind of stuff. I think onli girls do tat stuff but i dun really have a choice with my skins peeling off so badly and painfully. So anyway, i only go out to play for an hr just before the sun goes home. but still, even though quite short time, i still manage to get some hang of it and got more feel of wat nonsense i was doing. Basket, you should see how much time i spent looking for those balls during the first week... HAHAHHAHHAHA. but it was much much better after the second week coz i got a better grasp of wat is going on and also managed to find some websites explaining to me wat to do and wat not. So it was good.
Then yesterday i went to north campus to play with Batcha. ALAMAK, played like shit. sure i can hit the balls better now and not every single one of them leaves my racket as if i was trying to hit a homerun. HAHAHHA... but still it was my first "combat" situation and i kinda agitated and the control was just bad. dun ask. IT WAS BAD. but anywae, the good thing tat came out of tat game was that i had someone to give me more pointers about my gameplay. (other than a good workout coz i ran until my leg muscle like torn liao. but i think it is oso cause i cycled to north campus and continue playing the game without too much of rest. but tat is just excuse i think. hahaha... i am just unfit.)
Hong gave me one brief lesson about how to do my forehand and i am basically just keep practising tat and add it with those exercise i found on the web. But like every sport, you need someone to spot for you and get things rite. You can practise all you want, but without these occasional corrections, you will just go on making the same silly mistake and neva improve. So basically Batcha told me more things to keep in mind during my practise and showed me more details of how i should practise against the wall.
so i went really early today to practise. and it was fantastic. My shots were so much accurate and the shots were from the sweetpoints almost everyother time. very satisfied with the result today. The tip from yesterday is just wat i needed to get forward. But of course, the backhand is still quite disastrous and coz this is new practise, balls are still flying all over the place. but i can now hit like 10 times nonstop max and can at least hit like 3 good shots accurately. But it takes alot of focus coz i need to constantly remind myself wat i am doing and be very concious wat nonsense i may be doing. but still, today is very satisfying. Oh and i decided to go early today coz i think i need some sunshine and i am fed up of just playing like an hr each time. And coz of the "protection" i got now, i dun really give a heck about anything laaa. If the stupid skin want to peel then like it peel laaa, can't be bothered, i ain't gonna stay in the room like a girl so tat i dun get sun burn. The blardy sun is not gonna stop me from doing wat i want. And coz oso like a kid laaaa, just found some new exciting stuff so of course must "test" it out mah and doing it for an hr is just not enuff. So i end up playing like about 2 hr today. it was fun, but i am feeling abit strange abt my skin oledi. ARGH, damn nonsense...
posted by David at 7/11/2003 01:41:00 AM