Last Thursday I took my first lesson with Barry.\u00a0 He’s trying to correct my strokes, not just one, but basically all of them, from forehand to serve.\u00a0 Shhishe, I’ve been\u00a0taking lessons on and off over the years, group or private.\u00a0 None of the coaches tried this hard.\u00a0 They all say how good\u00a0I played \ud83d\ude42 guess not.\u00a0 I didn’t like it – IF indeed I’m good, than how come I don’t improve much, stagnate at 3.0? Well, I never gone out of my way looking for one that can pick my game either.\u00a0 Hopefully Barry is the man.\u00a0 He first worked on my forehand.\u00a0 My problem is I don’t shift my weight, and hit short, hooves around\u00a0the serve line, which isn’t good, baseline is the target.\u00a0 Simon had said it hundred times.\u00a0 So was Lou, so’s Barry.\u00a0 After a while,\u00a0tired of telling me to hit it deep, he\u00a0said my lacking of power is due to my skinny arms.\u00a0 Hey, I eat lot of spinach,\u00a0will it\u00a0mean that I’ll get my popey’s arm, soon? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Right before ending of the session,\u00a0he\u00a0showed me how to serve .. the right way. \u00a0I remembered one of the coaches years ago, who said, “your serve is great, but you should consider adding more varieties, like twist the grip when you’re up 40 love..”\u00a0 I was lazy, and my serve has always been very dependable with very few double faults.\u00a0 If I could force errors and gain points here and there, there is very little incentive for me to add<\/em> anything to my repertoire.\u00a0 <\/p>\n I told Pumpkin how did I learn to serve when she asked: that\u00a0for the first few times, I felt totally lost of control and the ballet movement. Ya, the ballerina, the metaphor coined by Gerald at Queens College.\u00a0 Barry showed me how to do it, which I thought that’s the way I’m doing it.\u00a0 Last Thursday I took my first lesson with Barry.\u00a0 He’s trying to correct my strokes, not just one, but basically all of them, from forehand to serve.\u00a0 Shhishe, I’ve been\u00a0taking lessons on and off over the years, group or private.\u00a0 None of the coaches tried this hard.\u00a0 They all say how good\u00a0I played \ud83d\ude42 guess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“Oh no, you don’t” he replied.\u00a0
\nGeee, now I see the purpose of mandatory continuing education in many industries, to refresh and to improve.\u00a0 Many things I thought I’m doing it the right way, but after years of doing it, I somehow found a way to do it incorrectly, cutting corners, out of laziness.\u00a0 Same with swimming.\u00a0 Once a girl asked me to teach her, did I realize how badly had\u00a0I been swimming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"