The Prince of Tennis
Jul. 6th, 2005 12:59 amI watched until episode 16 on Saturday. Then I conned a friend into teaching me tennis. I’ve played occasionally for years – just never, you know, correctly =_= and now I’m looking at more than a decade of bad habits. There’s a reason the Seigaku first-years aren’t usually allowed to play!
I also drove myself out of forty dollars’ worth of gasoline. Worth it to spend Fourth of July in Ohio, where fireworks are legal? Maybe. Sandusky could use better beaches, Cleveland is a cleaner friendlier more prosperous version of Detroit, family in Canton/Columbus was as usual. I am so, so tired. Why am I always more tired after vacations than before?
Sorry, I was talking about TeniPuri.
( A couple things )
Fanfic! Just something I wanted to get down before I forgot. Written with Mike Doughty – Looking at the World from the Bottom of the Well on repeat.
( Ficlet – Non-trivial )
The tennis is (partially) made-up. If Konomi can do it…
But Ryoma’s strings are low-tension, you can see it in the way he bends them with his fingers. Physics says he’ll have to convert most of the incoming momentum himself -- I wonder if his rackets are heavy -- so he should have more control at point of contact, more time at point of contact, etc.
Probably. ^^;; my impromptu coach is leaving for Pennsylvania today, so from now on I’m on my own (again). How much tennis can I learn from watching PoT, do you think?
I also drove myself out of forty dollars’ worth of gasoline. Worth it to spend Fourth of July in Ohio, where fireworks are legal? Maybe. Sandusky could use better beaches, Cleveland is a cleaner friendlier more prosperous version of Detroit, family in Canton/Columbus was as usual. I am so, so tired. Why am I always more tired after vacations than before?
Sorry, I was talking about TeniPuri.
( A couple things )
Fanfic! Just something I wanted to get down before I forgot. Written with Mike Doughty – Looking at the World from the Bottom of the Well on repeat.
( Ficlet – Non-trivial )
The tennis is (partially) made-up. If Konomi can do it…
But Ryoma’s strings are low-tension, you can see it in the way he bends them with his fingers. Physics says he’ll have to convert most of the incoming momentum himself -- I wonder if his rackets are heavy -- so he should have more control at point of contact, more time at point of contact, etc.
Probably. ^^;; my impromptu coach is leaving for Pennsylvania today, so from now on I’m on my own (again). How much tennis can I learn from watching PoT, do you think?