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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Sports (other than rugby)

Both Ev and Aiden are into tennis. Aiden's co-ord's have always been pretty good, Ev on the other had seemed to have some room for catch up.  Well that seems to have happened while I wasnt watching (I had a hint of it at Aiden's baseball party where Ev connected with a big swing every time he batted).  I recently got to go to one of Ev's lessons and was really impressed, he is "klapping" the ball beautifully, head down, follow through, wrist roll - the whole nine yards.  Here he is playing against the wall:


We call the place they have lessons the dungeon - it's very Hong Kong - under a building - steamy as all hell inside - but it does allow for regular lessons - on this particular day it was, as is so often the case in summer here, raining considerably.  The thing about indoor courts is that its not only the size of the surface area that has to be accommodated - but you need substantial hight of roof too (in this photo it doesnt fit in, but you get the idea:

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