Tennis, anyone?

In the quest to find exercise that I actually enjoy doing, a friend and I began tennis lessons today. Today's lesson: Anna Kournikove I'm not. My friend and I decided to take lessons from this guy who C's friend had recommended. So, we called him and turns out he'll give us a cut-rate since C's friends with his other client. Sweet. Other sweet part of the deal? He's apparently hot and foreign...with a cute accent. So of course I said sign me up.

First lesson was this morning. I felt pretty prepared. I had my tennis racquet. That's right. I own a tennis racquet. I was actually pretty proud of the racquet because I found it in a dumpster during freshman year of college still in its wrapping. What luck! Yeah right. So we get there this morning, I'm wandering around with C and my racquet looking for our instructor. Here he comes. He's tall...he's dark....wow. He's totally not handsome. At all. He did have a cute little accent though. Still. Not what I bargained for. Whatever though. Then, we walk to the court, and I have my racquet out, and C has her racquet she borrowed from the club. He looks at me and says, "You can't use that racquet." I said, "Why?!?" thinking there was some racquet-discrimination going on because mine wasn't from "the club." Yeah. Again no. "Um...because that's a baby racquet." Huh?!?? "That racquet is for like a really small child." Nice. So, my dumpster-diving did not get me a free racquet. It got me free humiliation. What a deal. :-p

We ended up splitting the hour-long lesson in half, which was cool. I apparently like to swing my tennis racquet like a baseball bat. Not cool. Hard habit to break. Also, I like to backhand with one hand (must be all those years of smackin' my bitches up) which is apparently wrong. Also, I like to launch tennis balls into space (due to my apparent lack of follow-through.) Which makes it hard for my opponent to hit them. Also makes it hard for me to get any points. So, I have a lot to improve upon. And apparently I have to buy a non-baby racquet. ;) laters!