I've got to be heading for one b/c the down has been pretty....down. I played like crap in my doubles tennis match last night. We were competitive and playing fairly well in the 1st set, but we lost 4-6. We shouldn't have. I was going for too much and trying to hit difficult winners a lot. In the 2nd set, we were up 5-4 and I was serving. I don't think I had lost my serve the entire match. I double fault on the first three points! TERRIBLE. I can't remember ever double faulting that much before. My serve has been a little hinky since May, but I think that was just a mental plunge. I think we either got to 40-30 or deuce but lost the game and ended up losing the 2nd set 5-7.
I was pretty down on myself, b/c we should have at least won the second set and taken it to a 3rd set tiebreak. The set was in my hands and I totally blew it. I'm chalking it up to just being one of those days. Had an emotionally rough day at work so that probably contributed too.
The next day I'm already feeling better mentally and really ready to get back on the workout train. Will do some stretching today for lunch and then some sort of met-con. Lifting to start again soon, probably tomorrow. Lifting heavy things usually makes me feel better.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
The Losses Pile Up
Saturday was a big day.
Started off with mixed doubles practice. I'm really glad that I went, b/c I haven't played with men that really quite serious about winning in awhile. Joe had a mean kick-serve that I was able to return once. ONCE. I could not time that thing for the life. When I tried to come in and take it early, I became concerned for my well-being b/c he had quite a lot of a pace on it. He had it kicking over to the left quite a bit, so I thought I had it all figured out when he kicked it to the right and it was all I could do to move my head out of the way in time before getting clocked. *sigh*
I did fine with everyone else though. Played better than I thought I would since I've been doing nothing but lose at doubles once a week.
Immediately following mixed doubles practice was BJJ. Holly was instructing, so she went over some basics with a new kid (teenager) and Walter and she and I reviewed the ankle-sweep and kimura defense from last week. Another mellow class. I rolled with Walter twice at the end. I was happy with the rolls. Really need to work on subs from the guard when someone has committed their arm high up on my body (i.e. trying to perform a lapel choke).
Saturday evening I officially received my blue belt at graduation. w00t!
Sunday
Played a competitive 2hr doubles match. The sun was shining, the courts were empty and we went after it. Linda and I took the first set 6-3, dropped the second set 4-6 and lost a heart-breaking tiebreaker at 9-11. We were down 2-7 in the tiebreak and fought back to 9-9. Really impressed that we hung in there and made it tight. Bummed that we lost...we really did come close and we had our chances to win. I got a little creative several times and was overthinking my shots in the beginning of the 2nd set and the beginning of the tiebreak. When we tried, we did a good job of taking the net. More of that, please.
Started off with mixed doubles practice. I'm really glad that I went, b/c I haven't played with men that really quite serious about winning in awhile. Joe had a mean kick-serve that I was able to return once. ONCE. I could not time that thing for the life. When I tried to come in and take it early, I became concerned for my well-being b/c he had quite a lot of a pace on it. He had it kicking over to the left quite a bit, so I thought I had it all figured out when he kicked it to the right and it was all I could do to move my head out of the way in time before getting clocked. *sigh*
I did fine with everyone else though. Played better than I thought I would since I've been doing nothing but lose at doubles once a week.
Immediately following mixed doubles practice was BJJ. Holly was instructing, so she went over some basics with a new kid (teenager) and Walter and she and I reviewed the ankle-sweep and kimura defense from last week. Another mellow class. I rolled with Walter twice at the end. I was happy with the rolls. Really need to work on subs from the guard when someone has committed their arm high up on my body (i.e. trying to perform a lapel choke).
Saturday evening I officially received my blue belt at graduation. w00t!
Sunday
Played a competitive 2hr doubles match. The sun was shining, the courts were empty and we went after it. Linda and I took the first set 6-3, dropped the second set 4-6 and lost a heart-breaking tiebreaker at 9-11. We were down 2-7 in the tiebreak and fought back to 9-9. Really impressed that we hung in there and made it tight. Bummed that we lost...we really did come close and we had our chances to win. I got a little creative several times and was overthinking my shots in the beginning of the 2nd set and the beginning of the tiebreak. When we tried, we did a good job of taking the net. More of that, please.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Light Rolling
Had a very mellow class last night. Holly and I both had sore backs so we paired up and went through a kimura defense where you end up putting your partner in a kimura. Pretty awesome. We also did some double-ankle sweep defense and then putting the arm-bar on someone that is trying to defend. Mounted arm-bar escape. Everything felt pretty awkward, mostly b/c I was paranoid about my back. Not sure what happened, but I did something to tweak it earlier in the day and it was never right during class. Any sortof bridging was a big no-no.
Officially getting my blue belt this weekend at graduation and damned excited about that. :)
Have mixed doubles practice tomorrow morning, immediately followed by BJJ. A doubles match on Sunday to round out the weekend. I really, really hope that we do better on Sunday and at least get 7 or 8 games, even if we lose. Getting crushed and only pulling out a couple of games per match is demoralizing. Onward!
Officially getting my blue belt this weekend at graduation and damned excited about that. :)
Have mixed doubles practice tomorrow morning, immediately followed by BJJ. A doubles match on Sunday to round out the weekend. I really, really hope that we do better on Sunday and at least get 7 or 8 games, even if we lose. Getting crushed and only pulling out a couple of games per match is demoralizing. Onward!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)