Erratic training schedules

Last month was characterized by erratic training schedules that were primarily aimless and did not improve my skills to the extent they could have. These schedules were primarily spent in working lazily on my footwork with ghosting on the court along with jogging off the court.

Thanks to my consistent jogging schedule off the court, I have realized that I am able to last much longer on the court without feeling as if my lungs are going to burst!! What it is not adding to is my movement and balance on the court!! Hold on...before you all start pulling out the knives and start saying that this contradicts what I had written in my earlier post - I am a lot better than what I was earlier!!

But now I am playing players who are a lot better and faster than I am and playing with them made me realize that my balance and anticipation need a lot of improvement - apart from a lot of other things!!

Some good things now - I have played some of the players that I have been playing with would have normally thrashed me blue!! Now, that is last week, when I played them, I was able o stretch them and make them sweat!!Infact, I made all of them huff and puff - an no I did not win - not those lat gasp victories!! This is not a hollywood movie - this is life!! Those guys play much more regularly than I do, they have been playing longer and are technically much better than I am. For me, to change their attitudes when it came to playing me was a big victory. over the past 2-3 weeks, while now playing me, they do not have the condescending attitude. They now know that I can last the length and give them a run for their money!! Heck - I took all the games to at least 7 to 8 points on all the games that I played with them!!

My next post tomorrow is going to about where I last the points when I played these players much better than me!!