May 17, 2019, Friday: Wall Tennis.
Today was the first time for me to go out and do some actually hitting a tennis ball in a month and a half. My wife was actually the one that suggested this to me. We didn't get a court, but just went to the hitting wall at the park and we hit against a wall. I wanted to test my ankle to see if there was any pain with actual tennis movement. I started out at the service line and just practiced my stance and was looking for my contact point. I felt really uncomfortable. I couldn't seem to find the correct contact point and it was a mess. I felt like I was just flailing around. I was misjudging the distance to the ball a lot and was either reaching out for the ball or jamming myself. After about 15 minutes or so, I started to get the feel and timing back. After half an hour, I started to move back, and I began to hit the ball a little harder. My wife also hit so we traded off. There was another guy there on the other half of the wall so we had to share. We actually lost a ball over the fence but found two more so we gained a ball.
I was happy to get back to tennis and almost on a court. Since we were on only half a court, I couldn't really do a lot of lateral movement with my footwork to test my ankle like I wanted, but maybe that was a good thing. I need to just take it slow.
In the end, I burned a good 788kcal. I was surprised that I burned that many calories just hitting with the wall.
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