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🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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0:00.0 | All through middle and high school I absolutely loved playing tennis but when I flew out to LA |
0:06.8 | four years ago coincidentally I flew out on a Monday and it was the week that the whole world, you know, started shutting down because of |
0:14.8 | COVID and I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get home on a Friday. |
0:17.4 | So it was exactly four years ago. But either way when I flew out to LA to visit my friend Brian who loved playing tennis, |
0:24.5 | I knew that it was going to be a little rusty because I hadn't played for 14 years. |
0:29.2 | I didn't know just how rusty I would be. I again I hadn't picked up a racket in |
0:35.8 | in probably 14 years and so I'm like yeah let's go let's go hit let's go play |
0:39.8 | some tennis and when I first started trying to serve, my serves were flying all over the place. Like, |
0:46.2 | legitimately, you know, over the fence, like they were going everywhere. I could not get a serve in at all. |
0:52.8 | And I tried this for about 10 minutes. |
0:55.3 | I'm like, oh my gosh, this is bad. |
0:57.5 | Like, this is way worse than I thought. |
0:59.9 | And then Brian stopped me and he said, |
1:02.1 | hold on, hold on, hold on, let me see how, let me see, like |
1:05.2 | grab your racket, hold your racket as if you're getting ready serve. |
1:07.5 | I'm like, okay, sure. |
1:08.8 | And so I grabbed my racket and he's like, buddy, your grip is completely wrong. |
1:14.5 | And I was like what? |
1:15.6 | And he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
1:17.3 | All you have to do is change your grip like a quarter turn on this racket and then start start serving like you're holding it in in this |
1:26.4 | Western group you need be holding it in a continental grip and I'm like oh okay and so |
1:31.8 | as soon as I twisted my grip, just a quarter of a turn, and I threw it off and I hit my first |
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