{"id":37,"date":"2007-04-14T13:32:05","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T20:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2007-04-14T13:32:05","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T20:32:05","slug":"i-want-more-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"I want more discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u00a0woke up to a sunny day.\u00a0 Since Slowpoke n her g\/fs\u00a0decided not to attend the service (of a Bat Mitzvah), so she’s free till 6pm.\u00a0 “How about some tennis?”\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 Should I call Katie?\u00a0 K is taking her lesson with Martin at 1:30.\u00a0 No, mom,\u00a0I want to play with you.\u00a0 How flattering!\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Slowpoke kept up with me, moving me from left to the right; and she knew she was often late for her forehand.\u00a0 I told her to keep a plan in mind, not just moving me, but make it point of moving me to the side she actually intended.\u00a0 She’s hitting really well.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When we begin to play a game, that’s when she showed her frustration: her\u00a0serve was inadequate.\u00a0 After only two\u00a0games,\u00a0she said she’d like to practice serving.\u00a0 By the time she finished a basket (of balls), Kerner’s lesson was over, and as usual, he came over to give Slowpoke some advice.\u00a0 Her grip is all wrong, he said …\u00a0 It brought back some early memory of myself when I started learning to serve.\u00a0 For the first few lessons on serving, I felt totally out of control.\u00a0\u00a0But after used to the motion, I was ok with it.\u00a0 After Kerner left for his next lesson, to my surprise, Slowpoke said she’d like to take lesson from him,\u00a0“I want more discipline.”\u00a0 I felt my jaw was dropping.\u00a0 So she’s serious, or at least she knows what she needs to do to improve.\u00a0 I had wanted her to try Craig<\/a> too, but never connected with him.\u00a0 I think different coaches would give you some insight that others won\u2019t, and I told her about this.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>Martin once said that when he was a kid, he played with Kerner who’s already coaching.\u00a0 But looking at Kerner, I’d guess him as\u00a030ish – Martin laughed, ‘no way … black men don\u2019t age.’\u00a0 Kerner has a 20 years old\u00a0daughter\u00a0who plays tennis.\u00a0 So much for my guessing, lol.\u00a0 Kerner has concession of this local park and he keeps it pretty neat.\u00a0 I didn’t start playing there again till last year with Andy, Alex, etc.\u00a0\u00a0The park has a decent size pool and a picnic area.\u00a0 <\/span>It used to be empty.\u00a0\u00a0Last year I realized every weekends the park were packed, which is very annoying and noisy, plus the fumes, and we weren’t invited to the party to boot, lol.\u00a0 Thank god Kerner is around, provides a little authority figure in an otherwise deserted park.\u00a0 He’s always been nice to us, making small chat and giving short brief coaching.\u00a0\u00a0 But back then the kids didn’t seem to take to him as they took to Martin.\u00a0 Now that Slowpoke asked for Kerner (instead Martin<\/a>), I am very happy to oblige, in a way I could reciprocate Kerner’s kindness or good salesmanship.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u00a0woke up to a sunny day.\u00a0 Since Slowpoke n her g\/fs\u00a0decided not to attend the service (of a Bat Mitzvah), so she’s free till 6pm.\u00a0 “How about some tennis?”\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 Should I call Katie?\u00a0 K is taking her lesson with Martin at 1:30.\u00a0 No, mom,\u00a0I want to play with you.\u00a0 How flattering!\u00a0 Slowpoke kept up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saga","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}