{"id":2215,"date":"2008-09-03T21:28:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T01:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2011-12-25T01:08:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:08:19","slug":"the-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=2215","title":{"rendered":"Open shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This slow motion shows Nadal’s\u00a0muscles during a serve.\u00a0 It’s unbelievable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I often heard that to get a better serve you need to open up your shoulder more.\u00a0 I think I know what does it\u00a0mean.\u00a0 I don’t always open up my shoulder when I serve.\u00a0 It is a hard work.\u00a0 Playing a better game requires more mental and physical efforts.<\/p>\n

I know how to play a lazy game (or swim lazily) or a hard fought game.\u00a0 It’s hard to put up a fierce fight every time when I get\u00a0out on the court.\u00a0 Because my mood is different, my opponent\/partner could be different.\u00a0 The weather affects me .. many factors.\u00a0 For a pro, those shouldn’t be a factor.<\/p>\n

Doesn’t it sound like in life,\u00a0no one could go on high strung for ever.\u00a0 So you pick you battle and choose your war.\u00a0 Sometimes you go all the way and others you only spend\u00a080% or 90% of your energy for task.\u00a0 110% effort doesn’t guarantee you the result – still came up short.\u00a0 Timing and luck do play a roll.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to get to the 3.5 or 4.0 level, but haven’t.\u00a0 I didn’t try harder.\u00a0 My mental toughness isn’t always there.<\/p>\n

One day waking up on the cruise, I found my left shoulder was in pain.\u00a0 Though it would go away in a few hours.\u00a0 But it stayed.\u00a0 I have no problem to swim but have trouble to serve and play double hand backhand.\u00a0 Actually we got back home on an over night flight and I went to play tennis as soon as I got home.\u00a0 I forgot totally about my painful shoulder.\u00a0 On my first backhand, it hurt so much I almost screamed.\u00a0 Now I’m making do with single hand bh.\u00a0 Passable but without the power.<\/p>\n

I was quite happy at yesterday’s win at badminton.\u00a0 Can’t play with the girls with my left hand for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 This slow motion shows Nadal’s\u00a0muscles during a serve.\u00a0 It’s unbelievable.\u00a0 I often heard that to get a better serve you need to open up your shoulder more.\u00a0 I think I know what does it\u00a0mean.\u00a0 I don’t always open up my shoulder when I serve.\u00a0 It is a hard work.\u00a0 Playing a better game requires […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badminton","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","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=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}