I am hitting a little bit more consistently and with good power. People are amazed when I tell them i haven't played tennis in about 13 years. I know originally I said 20 years but I was a little bit off because I remembered playing tennis with my dad after I got out of the Army for about a year or so before emphysema got the best of my father and he couldn't play. So that would be close to about 18 or 19 years since I played seriously. I know I have picked up the racquet sporadically as recently as 1993, but by then tennis was not in the picture, it was all handball and martial arts(which I have also studied since I was 8 or so).
Back to the tennis, I got to play on the court with an actual person and boy it felt great! We were having excellent rallies and hitting some hard shots, he was surprised when I told him about my time off of playing tennis, he said it looked like I have been playing for a long time. It was great to see my instincts take over, this is the way any sport should be played, when you have good basics and lot's of repetition.
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