I wish we had gotten rained out last night. But the rain held off and it was actually pleasant with cloud coverage and a breeze. However, weather aside, tennis clinic was horrible. It was the kind of night that made me want to put my tennis stuff out by the curb and find a new activity.
We worked on lobs and overheads. Apparently, I need to do a lot of work on both of these skills. But my problems started with the warm up, truthfully. I prefer to start warming up close to the net, get the hand eye coordination working, then move back a little at a time until I'm hitting from the baseline. The other players were already hitting from the baseline though, when I joined them. And one of them was this guy who consistently hits the ball really hard. Too hard, most of the time. So I was uncomfortable and discombobulated from the start.
Once we began the various exercises, things continued to go downhill for me. I felt like such a loser and really wanted to leave. At least I can credit myself with sticking it out until the end. But the whole experience gave me the blues and now I don't want to play tennis on Saturday, despite the party. Yes, because it's the 4th of July, everyone's supposed to wear red, white and blue, and bring food of some sort. I figured on bringing cupcakes and possibly making Joy's punch. It's not very patriotic looking, but it's so delicious, I doubt anyone would care.
I just hope I can get out of my funk and into a tennis/party mode by Saturday.
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