It has been four years since I posted in this blog. Four years. It sounds like an eternity. Folks have started and earned a college degree in that time. Presidents have been elected to a term and elected out of office in that time frame. One could fly to Mars and back to Earth twice in four years. Four years. The last four years have been a bit of a whirlwind for me. 2019 saw me slow down a bit…
It has been a while since my last post. Blogs always seem so easy to write in your mind, but putting those thoughts into written words always seems to take longer than expected without proper motivation. Lately, the majority of my motivation has gone into playing tennis and the day job so the blog has kind of taken a back seat. I have also stabilized my equipment of choice so review material has been a bit lacking as well. …
Getting old sucks. I have just risen out of my hot tub after a 60 minute soak and some Washington state Chardonnay. It has become something of a ritual as I put my aging and out of shape body through 4 to 5 tennis drills a week. On days where I can not perform the ritual due to work obligations, I pay for it in stiffness and pain the next day. Why do this to ones self? Why go through…
The hardest part of becoming a frequent tennis player is finding the inspiration to commit to playing regularly. Family, work, and life circumstances can make finding time play tennis complicated. In our situation, both my wife and I work in careers that require some very strange and irregular hours. Both of our professions are 24/7/365 and weekends and nights off are not always a given or few and far between. Finding a way to stay motivated when you can not…
Tennis is a game for the young, the strong, the fast, the focused, and the thin. I do not meet any of those criteria. I am too old, too weak, too slow, too scatter brained, and too fat to play the game of tennis. I shouldn’t even be on a court according to most of the experts….but I am. I do not fit the profile. I do not look the part. I am not supposed to be a tennis player,…