it has been a long time since I have written about my journey - primarily because I had lost focus - both in practice and in blogging about it!! I am reminded of the amount of discipline required to keep anything going on a consistent basis!!
However, my game today was a rude "wake up" call for me. Over the past 2 months, I had been working on my physical fitness and doing exercises off court like running, doing shuttle runs, skipping, movement drills off court and running up the stairs of our 15-storied apartment condo. All this had resulted in a marked improvement in my movement on court and stamina. However, over the last 3 weeks, laziness crept in and all I was doing was some work on court and playing matches.
Today, I got an opportunity to play with 2 players who are significantly better than me. What really surprised me was my bad movement on the court - to say that I was thrashed was an understatement!! I could not keep the rallies going beyond 3-4 strokes, I was scrambling all around for the ball, my rails were landing in the centre and the crosscourt shots hit by these 2 players were passing me by like bullets!! My reaction was slow and pathetic!! All the hard work on physical fitness that had brought about some improvement in my game was all lost - in mugs of beers!! So today I have decided that I am going to go back to the basics and start working on the fitness again!!
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