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:
Coach C gives two clinics a week, on Mondays and Fridays. It’s a playtime with very little instruction.
I was there a little early, and got a little serving tip because he saw me working on my serve for a long time.
The racket head should stay up straight before the trophy position for a serve, which allows for a more powerful and efficient swing.
Is my forehand correct?
The backhand, coach says: from low to high, and no chicken arms.
Coach and I lost two sets to Adrian and Greg 4-6 and 3-6. Greg is 4.0 and Adrian is 21, who can play and run. It was a good 8.0 game, except I’m too weak. Coach cheated on the score, good naturally a couple of times.
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I was searching for a sandy court tennis sneakers, this models showed up.
Although the color is lovely. But unfortunatley, I found the sole isn’t as thick as I thought. The shoes are a bit tight. The front of the sneakers look dull.
Nothing is really memoriable … but I’ve two rubbers with two different partners tonight.
Barb played the most – 8, and I played 7 out of 22 hands.
3-6, 4-6, Joel and I lost to Matt & Sandi.
My forehand works well today, won many points, especially hitting to Sandi.
正手发挥很好,赢了很多分,尤其是打给桑时… 为嘛我没能更好地利用它来赢得那一局和整场比赛? 我不知道… 不过觉得我找到了适合自己的投掷方法,我的左臂可以保持高/久一些.
Why didn’t I use it more to win the set and match? I don’t know …
I think I’ve found my tossing method so my left arm stays high and a bit longer. However, in the actual game, I do the old way! The decent toss happens only in practice.
A game won
… and a long rally: good defence but we lost the point
A photo app claimed it would cancel the accounts of users who hadn’t ordered anything from it since last summer. But for over a year, they have kept sending me the old memories.
Today, there are a few tennis pictures from November 2008. Apparently, I still wear the outfits nowadays because they’re cotton. Ann Taylor doesn’t sell many cotton garments nowadays, unfortunately.
The blue one was a RL hand me down from my kid. The two holes on the top t shirt are from trying to remove the label: eventually, I got a seam ripper! No more holes.
Memories: 17 years ago, from a photo app
至少十七年的衣服
贫困的限制
说真现在Ann Taylor 的棉/麻衣服很少了
兰的是RL娃不要的
红条的洞是标签没拆好 – 无奈买了个挑线刀
搞不懂 这个照片应用程序去年夏天就说是最后了… 结果一年多来还是不停的推送
勾起了很多回忆
Ok: here is 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
The short club, which is 1C in the bridge bidding convention means with opening-level points (13+) but no five-card major suit.
I’ve 13 hcp: 3 4 3 3. So I opened 1C. My partner asked me if I play short club. I said no. But with this hand, it’s. So afterward, they suggested that I should pass, which I think it’s misleading and not correct.
So I checked online. AI says: To open bid a minor suit, you need at least three cards in the suit and 13 or more high-card points (HCP).
If you have two 3-card minor suits, you should always open with 1♣. If you have two 4-card minor suits, open 1♦. If you have 3 cards in both minor suits and a 4-card major suit, opening 1♣ is recommended.
Should I open 1N or 1C?
I bid in club, thinking my 3 diamonds are weak for a NT bid. My P bid 1♦. I rebid 2C but the hand is played at 3♣ by my partner.
This hand, my P bid
~ me: P
~ 1h
~ 2♦
~ p
~ p
Should I bid 2S?
This hand is an unbid grand slam.
I’ve 12 hcp and my P 15. We only bid 4H.
We only have 3 aces but luckily the oppenont didn’t play their ♠️A. I’m sure they would if we bid for a slam.
4-6, 6-6 & quit. It was a little windy. Joel and I were lagging behind again.
More serving motions w/ 3 fingers.
… and the actual
