2-July-2007 (Wahyan)

We had our gathering after the boys' match.
Charles, Ernest(who didn't have the racquet and the tennis shoes today!), Chris, Frankie and I went to the court at about one thirty. Charles and Chris played a match.

Later on, more people came such as the old boy Covan.

At about 3pm, we started the lesson.
Chris, Tommy, Louvre, Calvin.
We had some basic baseline stokes.
I taught them about the split step, what they can do is to work hard on their heavy legs.
So, today's theme is focus on their heavy legs!

We had some serve, all you know, their serving should practice more in order to achieve consistency.

Then, we had a drill about running or chasing the lob ball from the net. I hit a deep lob and they start at the net. What they do is to run behind and chase the ball behind and hit the ball. It's hard for them at first, but Chris and Calvin learnt it after few shots. They were tired after the forehand chasing, they had to run fast as they can in order to reach the ball. After, we had the backhand chasing, I decided to play with them at the volley. After they hit the ball, I played the volley with them. Calvin and Chris did well, they hit some passing shots.

At the end, I prepared some shuttle run for the boys.
However, it rained at about 5:10.
We ducked into cabin for a while. Chris suggest doing some push-up. Raining dogs and cats, we moved to the LG of the New Wing.

At first, we did some exercise focusing on their heavy legs.
After, we hit the volley-volley.
Volley-volley is fun.

Then, we had a time to hitting against the wall of the building. The boys hit some forehand and backhand volleys. They really enjoyed hitting against the wall.

Nice day though it rained.
Cheers.