With a little extra time on hand before tennis, instead of the warm up laps, I record myself.
The most obvious one is my free: thought I’ve fixed my hand/arm crossing the middle. But my right arm is still doing it.
I rarely swim the fly, which looks kiddish. And the backstoke: do I need to turn more?
Four strokes: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, in the individual medley (IM) sequence:
Another community tournament this morning: $5 plus a can of balls to enter. Four women and eight men signed up.
I picked Dunlop Black Max: unyielding and small. It seems everything is being updated, except my tray serve. Ok, today, I tried to toss the ball first. A small step.
Matt drew me from the hat and we won the tourney, with pro set format:
8-2, bye, 8-6 we won the Vintage racket tourney
赢
教练带来好多旧拍子比赛. 我用的是Dunlop Black Max. 又硬 又小
球拍一直在改进: 啥都在进步 唯独俺的发球盘子改不掉
周末愉快
A Slinger day. Talking about the closed face-down forehand, the coach has been preaching for a while, but only this time it sticks. The transition from whatever the form I had before to the closed face forehand is easy.
According to AI, the advantage of a closed-face forehand can lead to generating a flatter shot with more pace, as well as powerful topspin with heavy, jumping shots. It also allows for a longer stroke through the hitting zone and can be easier to control for players with slight timing issues. However, a closed-face forehand can be harder to master, especially when dealing with high balls.
… forehand
… fore and back hands
… and two serves: how to get rid of the tray???
140 University Town Center Dr Unit 275,
Sarasota, FL 34243
… more pix on Google Maps, Yelp,
An average Lululemon store. It looks less crowded than their Hyde Park location.
They haven’t been doing great for a while. Reasons may be many, but adding men’s part might have diluted their brand power.
I bid 6 NT, and won a grand slam – all 13 tricks. It’s a wonderful 50 minuetes of play, before the book club.
36 hcp: I’ve 23 hcp: ♠️ AKQ ♥️ Q♦️ J 10 6 5 ♣️AKQ97. My P has 13 hcp: ♠️982 ♥️A 10 3 ♦️AKQ 7 ♣️10 3 2.
Janet is very gracious, helping us with which bid is asking for A and K, which is a prelude to a NT bid.
This year US Open starts on Sunday Aug 24th, instead Mondays in the past.
The mixed doubles were played ahead of the main draw opening, on Aug 19 and 20. Essentially, taking away the normal mixed doubles players’ oppertunity.
I’ve my tv on all the time, watching the mutiple courts coverage. It streams on Disney→espn: streaming is a complecated business and I don’t even want to know!
Day 1, Sunday 8.24
Day 2, Monday 8.25
There are few players from the countries that I don’t see often:
Madison Keys looks smart and fit, and has match point …
Yoshihito Nishioka (西岡 良仁; 1995-; 2014, $6,926,298) acts like a 12-year-old or a brat: stomping his feet and destroying his racket when the point didn’t go his way. Practice more to get better at the game!
I finally went to acupuncture for my left arm, since early June. At registation, the sheet asks for two problems – I guess they only treat two prolbem per visit?
Dr. Scott is a Caucasian in his 40s (?), sporting a crew cut, he’s personable, asks about my problems and the history of my health, inlcuded if I’ve acupuncture before. (Yes, in NY) I’ve three problems but he said, he’ll do the first two, and leave the third for next time.
He said he leart his craft in Chicago. When he looks for a spot to insert the needle, he uses his fingers to measure. I debated if to kid him – like – “hey Dr, do you need a measuring tape?!”
After the needles were inserted, my NY acupuncture would have his staff to connect the stumulant machine – electroacupuncture – to each or many of the needles with the clips, then left me for the next 15 minutes or so.
Dr. Scott uses a handheld gadget that clearily need some TLC or cajoling – perhaps a new battery? He did ask me if I’ve used electroacupuncture before, I said yes and described the above scene. He said he has the large machine with clips too. Whatever works, I guess?
Waiting at doctor’s office, to get needled.
So we were down 0-3 and I was serving underhand at 30-40, and double fault. I don’t know underhand serve can make a mistake. But that’s me. I didn’t know why did we lost four straight games and have no idea how we won the next six.
The second set with Matt, I was serving at 1-2 and lost the game. From 1-3, we claw back to 5-4 but Matt failed to serve it out. Oh well.
Monday laugh: I didn’t know sweat from arms could trickle down to my palms. Today I constantly dry my palm but next minute, I find not only my hands were sweaty/wet but my tennis racket handle is wet … laugh all you want – I’m laughing too.
周一笑料:我都不知道胳膊上的汗会流到手掌上.今天我一直擦干手掌,但下一刻就发现,不仅我的手出汗了,连网球拍柄都湿了… 想笑就笑吧 —我也笑弯腰了. 听说人钝是无药医的.
Me 钝? 不可能 哈哈哈
在针灸办公室等着被扎
早上我们0-3落后,轮到我发. 30-40时用下手发球, 然后双误. 我不知道下手发球会犯错😹 但这就是我. 我不知道我们为什么连输四局,也不知道接下来的六局是怎么赢的.
第二盘我和马特搭档,我1-2发球时,又没有hold 住.从1-3开始,我们追到5-4,但马特没能hold: 5-5. 然后有人坚持不住了 – 好热.
1502 Commerce St.
Fort Worth, TX
A neat little garden in the city. On this hot Thursday, it’s particularly soothing.
According to wiki, the Fort Worth Water Gardens, built in 1974, is located on the south end of downtown Fort Worth between Houston and Commerce Streets next to the Fort Worth Convention Center. The 4.3-acre (1.7 hectare) Water Gardens were designed by noted New York architects Philip Johnson (1906-2005) and John Burgee (1933-).
During the intermission at Van Cliburn 2025 piano competition concert #3 @ Bass Hall, I did a little yoga in our booth.
Morning yoga @ Arches National Park
… at the Delicate Arch
… at the Double Arch
… at the Turret Arch
