Positive Experience On Racquetball

While my athleticism developed, I neglected honing my mental strength, leading me to not achieve my potential during matches. Allowing my mind to dictate my emotions rather than produce strategies led to frequent defeats. However, with motivational tales recounted by my coach and plenty of work on my part, I gained the ability to focus and rise up to become a nationally competitive tennis player.

The state of Oregon and the national Racquetball scene are ablaze with high expectations and excitement for young Sawyer Howitt. Sawyer is a senior in high school majoring in business and finance. He also plays in association with the esteemed and private; Racquetball Club in Portland.

Racquetball is played on a rectangular indoor court with four side walls and a ceiling. The courts are designed so that the ball can bounce off any surface and still be in play, yet it is in a confined area so you don't have to run to cover too much territory.

When I step foot onto the court and take my position, I get ready for anything that comes at me. I take my stance, moving side to side as I see the server’s arm float up, tossing the ball high into the air, their racquet gradually moves behind to scratch their back, and in the blink of an eye they strike. I quickly move to position my body for the perfect shot. The ball comes flying in, and my racquet ready for the ball. It hits the ground and as soon as I see a perfect time it’s my turn to strike. I then have so many other thoughts in my head that causes myself to focus my concentration somewhere else and forget what I was aiming for. The ball bounces of off my racquet and it heads straight for the net. I am frustrated, saying words I don’t normally say, and wanting to hit the ground with my racquet. There are other times when I feel vulnerable because of my injury. Once they see my braced leg, they soon find out that it’s a struggle for me to run. Even with serves, at practices they seem perfectly fine but once someone stands on the other side it feels intimidating. Having all these thoughts run through my head. “What if she can return it?” “What if it doesn’t make it in?” “Will it hit the net?” I tense up, and double fault my serve, which isn’t like me. However, they can also bring out the best in me, for short periods of time. Maybe a little practice with

Through experiences of playing sports and pursuing academics for the past three years, I found it always difficult to balance school and athletics. Coming home from practice or matches, eating dinner, showering, and doing homework until three in the morning seemed like a constant, repeating cycle. I always caught myself drowsing during class, but still having the capacity to pay attention, take notes, and complete tasks. Despite the struggle of stabilizing schoolwork and sports, I was aware of the fact that I aspired to play tennis, especially since I enjoyed playing with my father every weekend. Playing tennis for many years, my dad was a main reason why I took interest in enduring the sport. Although my father and I played for fun, I witnessed his motivation, perseverance, and dedication to the sport while playing, whether it was playing against amatuer me, or competing with others who ranged from adequate to professional. In addition, my team has been a major motivational factor throughout the years that I have played tennis. From singing to High School Musical during practice to cheering each other on during games, they have always been a fun and supportive aspect of my

The tennis serve is the most important shot in the game of tennis. Many of the professionals have made their serve extraordinary, but only few have perfected the art of the serve. I however haven’t. I am currently at the associative stage (Mr Schmidhauser,2017). In this essay i will showing and explaining how to develop my serve into

I still recall the many hours spent as a kid hitting a tennis ball against the drywall in my empty garage. Tennis has inspired much of my intrinsic growth since then, both socially and mentally, developing two core values that I continue to adhere to today: persistence and making a substantial impact. Consistently pushing through situations in which I have struggled has contributed to my persistence and my desire to excel, whether as a professional tennis coach or as an aspiring physician in a medical care facility. I have come to learn that with people in general, there is really no losing; everyone has something they want or need that makes them tick, and throughout my tennis coaching career, I have found that the more you are able to understand people’s wants or needs, the more influential you can be for them.

For as long as I can remember, I have always been a shy person and never liked putting myself into social situations. The one way that got me out of my shell was playing tennis. In ninth grade my best friend encouraged me that we play and try it out. As soon as I started playing ,I fell in love with the sport. In my life, I have tried other sports such as soccer and volleyball, but i never stuck with them due to the fact that i just could not connect and get into them. Tennis was completely different.

As we all know, America is a nation of sports enthusiasts. Most Americans participate is some kind of sporting event, either as a spectator or as a competitor. In the pantheon of great American sports, there is one that stands out. It has been called the great American pastime. Yes, that great sport known as tennis. Tennis requires a mastery of many skills to be able to play competitively, but the primary skill needed to win in tennis is the serve. The serve is the primary offensive weapon used I tennis, because it is the only time when a player gets to put a ball into play. The player controls the speed, the placement, and the spin of the ball. With proper procedure, the serve can win many points and games for the server. The technique

I’ve played tennis for four years, and I’m awful at it. I can’t run fast, I can’t slam the ball, and I have no sense of balance whatsoever, but I do know that if I really tried, I could be less mediocre. I’m naturally a perfectionist. There’s always a more perfect version to strive towards, but with tennis, I never felt any motivation to become better. I would never be good enough to play college tennis, I reasoned, so there was no reason for me to try so hard on something for which there is no reward to reap. Satisfied with my logic, I pleaded with my parents to let me drop tennis, and they absolutely refused, and instead putting me in more tournaments. Their backward way of thinking – a sort of “fear conditioning”, if you will – struck a

Some people really liked the racquetball tournament. These people had fun playing their matches. These people enjoyed how I ran my tournament. However, in some ways the project did not go as well as I had expected for a few reasons. First, it was difficult to get people to actually sign up for the tournament. Although there are many people on base who like to play racquetball, people just didn’t want to sign up for the tournament. I had advertised for the tournament with flyers and sign up sheets around the base. Lindsey had even put the tournament information on Coast Guard computer portal. (I couldn’t because I didn’t have access to it) I think many people were too busy to actually play in a tournament. Second, some of the people who did

One of the aspects that really helped me was the checkpoints. By feeling the tennis racquet near my head I was able to know if I did it right. I may not had the best contact, but by having the correct form I could then move up and work on my contact. Personally, it’s pretty difficult to work on multiple things so it helped me a lot that we could dissect the basics of tennis and work on one thing at a time. Another aspect that really helped me improve was having a firm wrist from beginning and throughout the swing. Sometimes, I would catch myself with a relaxed wrist and that would be my problems to why my tennis balls were not going in the direction that I wanted them to go to.

The day that my dad took me to the courts, pictures show me carrying a Dora junior racket while wearing a “Daddy’s little Princess” shirt and I was overjoyed. In the early years of my life after tennis was introduced to me, every day I would go with my dad and chase after tennis balls, without really being able to play yet, while the sun was setting. Even though it was so long ago, I remember feeling tiny compared to the enormous and intimidating tennis court in front of me. My main and the most vivid memories of these times were after practice when my father and I would go to our favorite ice cream shop, Baskin Robbins, and order the same thing as each other every time.

Since I was a kid I had good interest for tennis. I would spend hours just sitting and watching tennis games. By the time I was 8-years-old my dad bought a table tennis(ping pong table). He taught me how to play and keep a score. At first it was hard to learn, but once I get a hang of it was one of the best things I learned from my father. I still remember the first time I won a match between me and my father it felt so good to beat him. If I remember right we played 3 set of games and he won the 1st set 6-1, I won the 2nd set 6-4, and the I won the 3rd set 6-4 again.

For the warm-ups before practice I will have the players start by running these drills to get the blood flowing: The Courier Drill, Spiders, and Cross Court line touches. After this practice will commence with various stroke preparation drills such as cross-court/down the line and a point blank volleying drill to develop better hand-eye coordination and racquet preparation. In the cross-court/down the line drill there will be four people to each court and players on opposite sides of the court will plays five point games while alternating drop serves. One player is only allowed to hit the ball cross-court while the other player is allowed to hit the ball