going on five years ago now i've wanted to try to get better at tennis.

I'd hit the ball around before that and always kind of enjoyed it.

But I've kind of played tennis for the last four and a half years.

I got a membership up at the tennis center.

I go up there all the time.

I got friends up there. I try to play people who are better

than me. Those are not, it's not hard to find those kind of matches. And I'm improving. It's

fun because I'm past my physical prime for all the sports that I grew up playing. And I played

everything. Baseball, basketball, football, hockey, volleyball, wrestling,

track, everything, except tennis. I didn't play tennis. So I'm getting worse at all of those

sports that paid for my college education and that were so much fun and so physical. But there's

one sport I'm getting better at, and that's tennis.

Now, it's not a function of me getting younger.

It's a function of I was horrible to start, and the only thing I could do is get better,

but it's still really encouraging, and I like that.

But over the course of learning tennis, I've discovered that it hasn't been this straight line

or arc of growth.

There's been a lot of regression as well.

It's very easy for habits from all of those other sports to sneak in and manifest in ugly

ways.

So, for example, when you get up close to the net in tennis, every now and then there'd be a

situation where you'd swing away like crazy.

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