Tuesday Tennis

Hey Hey to all you peeps reading this. Today was like the 4th, or 5th session of tennis. I think the batch has been improving a lot, since we had our first lesson.

Well erm.. maybe Jonathan hasn’t got much more to improve. Oh and by the way next time perhaps we could try out less IMBA teamings when playing King??!! Today Jonathan and Ram were like perma staying at the other side of the court… and one more thing, Jonathan if you’re reading this, hope you would stop playing BeyBlade when the rest of us are doing plain tennis. Really, the way you spin it… ah well… I suppose with more practice I’ll soon be able to spin it like Roger. Or Nadal. Or Maria. Or maybe even Jonathan. Or Ram then. Maybe.

I find that being allowed to play with each other improves me more than doing drills. Well of course, we gotta have some drills before we’re allowed to go duel against each other… but for now, I think I just need more practice.

I’m actually rather disappointed at the way I’ve been playing. That’s because I rather expected to be OK at it after a while. But its been a while, and yet I’m still missing so many balls… by the way, sorry if I’m focusing too much on myself. (:

To all those who play Badminton and/or Table Tennis, I suppose you also realize that its rather different from tennis… the main thing is that both Table Tennis and Badminton use lots and lots of wrist actions, and to use the wrist in tennis… hmm… well for now, it sometimes works, but I suppose it’s because we’re still rather NOOBY, so as long as the ball gets over the net, its fine. Haha. With badminton and ping pong, most of the time you just need to flick your arms/wrist a bit and the ball would fly back. But for tennis still gotta remember to bring the arm backwards. Its sometimes rather troublesome, so in the end we forget to move it backwards and just sort of deflect the ball back so it flies up high in the air, leaving it open for smashes by the other side. But no worries for that now, because most of the time anybody attempts smashes, they just underestimate and hit too low, so it goes into the net. So they basically self-JAG.

I suppose the standings (I mean, you never heard of sittings right?) for tennis pro-ness goes as follows:

Jonathan
Ram/De Hong
Chee Yeow
Chu Yong/Ivan

Well the rest (including me) I suppose are somewhere in the top ten also, but I’m not really sure of the rankings.. Haha.

One question I’ve been pondering over though, who do you think is the Lao Da between the two coaches? The older and more tan one, or the Younger GL hair one? Hmm… I think it’s the older one.

And Kevin seems to be some hot favorite for the younger coach. He whole day ‘koala’ here, ‘koala’ there.

I hope my badminton and table tennis skills don’t suffer as a result of trying to adapt to tennis playing style… who else in our batch plays badminton or table tennis??? Hope we get to play them some time… it’d be much fun.

Seriously.

And Yan Wei pangseh me and Kelvin walao! Never wait for us a while…

:D


DONE BY WEEKIEN. Yanwei is just helping me post cos I don’t have a blogger account.

And Yanwei here says: Yea right, wait for bus 20 minutes and then still wait for another 20 minutes thanks to you guys. I don’t have a life to waste, dude.

This Tuesday, a group of Ventures went to the Burghley Squash & Tennis Centre for our 2nd tennis lesson, for our NYAA's physical recreation segment. Yep, the 01 Ventures can play tennis too. Any tennis players who wants to see us in action, you can navigate here: Latitude 1.359327 Longitude 103.860473


We can navigate AND play tennis.

We met at the canteen at 3 something, and then took a bus to the Burghley Centre, which is opposite Dehong's house. In the bus, there was this funny incident that happened. Dehong was drinking his water, and he paused to talk to Shide, who was beside him. During that time, he leaned the bottles, uncapped, over the seat in front, unknowingly emptying the contents over the rgs girl who was sitting in front.


Bad hair day.

We reached the court on time this time, though the coach was late =P We warmed up by playing random matches before the coach comes, and then we split into our classes to take lessons. Since they were just plain, boring lessons, I shall not go into the lame, unnecessary details (since this is not a chuyong-quality blogpost)


Moving on.. at the end of the lessons, we then had our 01 King of Tennis Doubles Championships, Venture Division. For this, we had teams of doubles, who will play against each other. There will be King team, and a team who defeats them will gain the title, and so on. The teaming are as such (not in order):


Kelvin - Shide
Cheeyeow - Yudong
Chuyong - Zhixuan
Ram - Weekien
Jeremy - Samuel
Dehong - Nathan
Trachsel - Ivan
Yanwei - Harish


The game started off with a bang, where the Ram-Weekien pair quickly gain the King position, and remained there for more than 2 cycles, because of Weekien's great forearm strength and Ram's special technique, the powerful King Cobra Shot.


Improved version of the Snake Shot

However, after a intense, hard fought battle, the Kelvin-Shide pair managed to break their streak, using their strong, powerful strokes, of course, due to them being two of the strongest people in the batch. They continue their streak for another 2 cycles.


Representative of Shide's powerful strokes

The next team which took over was the Chuyong-Zhixuan team. This vice-captain combination, with a sudden change in wind direction great teamwork and sheer determination, managed to break Kelvin-Shide's Beyond-Godlike streak.


After that, there were a few more matches played, where the Kings got switched around a few times, it was time for the final match of the day. Cheeyeow and Yudong, who hasn't grasped the position once yet, was deperate for victory =P At this point of time, Cheeyeow suddenly achieved his state of awakening, becoming more of a monster than he already is, gaining his first taste of the King's position.


OMJ(eremy)

And then... the match ended, making Cheeyeow and Yudong the doubles champion of 01. The tennis activity then came to close, with our Golden Pair getting ready for their bright future career in tennis ahead.

Harmonica Session + Informal Tennis Session

What?

01 Venture Unit Harmonica Session and Tennis Self-Practise (:

Who?

Zaki
Shanghai
Chu Yong
Yan Wei
Nicholas
Zhi Xuan
De Hong
Yu Dong
Jonathan
Hao Qin
Kelvin
Chester
Shi De
Joshua

(zx take note pl0x)

Where?

01 Raffles Scout Group Scout Den, and tennis court

When?

2nd February 2008

Why?

Nothing to do.NYAA Component, and harmonica is fun.



Anyone from the Venture Unit can add on the this post.

Tennis Lesson

Today we went to the tennis courts opposite Dehong's house for our very first tennis lesson. We took 156 to a busstop near Dehong's house, but then it was raining. We decided to take a bus to another bus stop, then another bus from there. While we were waiting, I decided to squeeze Jeremy's tits for fun. Our wonderful CCAL started doing the same to me, and frankly it was far easier for Jeremy to get me than it was for me to get him, due to some size issues.

Well, we took a bus to the busstop, then we decided to walk instead of wait for the second bus, which was pretty dots since it would take longer, so we should have just walked from the first bus stop. I'm not saying anything about you at all, Dehong. Except that you're pretty smart.

We did get to the tennis centre in the end, where I found out several important things about the batch:

1) Wayne was suffering from some illness or other, so he couldn't come. Personally I'm expecting syphilis or something along those lines.

2) Haoqin is a dirty ponning bugger who didn't come for his NYAA tennis lessons. =)

3) I'm lousier than Kelvin. Yuck. I shall now copy Yanwei and put random Google pictures on the blogpost.



4) Speaking of Yanwei, he wants me to lend him my guitar. Ha, right.

5) I paired with Yanwei for a game, we got 10 points. Yanwei got 2 out of 10 but he is still better than me because he is a property mogul and could evict me from my house.

6) Jeremy said my tennis damn zai. =) =) =) =)

Seoul Garden tomorrow, then ice-skating = 2.5 hours of fun then 4 hours of pure shame and embarrassment. Yes, Seoul Garden rocks.