8-01-18 (Wednesday) Tennis.

8-01-18 (Wednesday) Tennis.

There was a lot of "drama" today with regard to where the practice would take place, how many courts were reserved, and how long the practice would last.  Everything was solidified about 90 minutes before the practice was to start, and wouldn't you know it, a ton of people showed up.  The practice was moved to the indoor facility because of rain in the forecast.  Because it was last minute, Only the final hour had two courts.  So the practice was initially only going to be one hour.  I am always a little iffy when it comes to going to such a far venue for only one hour.  But I was a Ball-Person so I basically had to go.  But around 5:30pm there was a message that they were able to get one court from 7pm.  So practice would be the full two hours.  I got there a little after 7pm and there were no balls.  So it was a good thing that I went, because the next basket of balls didn't arrive until about 25 minutes later, so that would have been a huge waste.

I was feeling good today on my strokes.  My volleys started off terribly because I just couldn't see the ball.  The lighting in the indoor facility is really not that good, so I was shanking a lot of the balls.  But after a few minutes, I started getting used to the conditions and started hitting better volleys.  Volleying first really helped me to watch the ball better so when I went to stroke practice, I was zeroed in on the ball and I was striking it very well.  My serve has sort of gone the way of the Dodo Bird.  I get a few in, but I still don't feel totally comfortable with it.  My toss is too inconsistent for me to get into a groove.  I need to just pick a spot and stick with it.  But I seem to sort of loose my head on my serve and I chase the ball, and bad tosses.  I need to just go out and serve a bunch of baskets of balls to find that groove.  Game Sims were also pretty good.  I was still striking the ball well and seeing it better.  The only real negative point for tonight was the high humidity inside.  I was sweating like crazy, and my shoes were sopping wet afterwards.

In the end, I burned a good 1324kcals.  Off by about 200+ kcals from the average.  Probably due to the first hour being only on one court.