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[pdx5]

I just wish I had the good racquets they have these days when I played tennis in my college years.

Those wood frame rackets had such a small sweet spot and not much of a kick.

I am impressed by players like Rod Laver & Kenny Rosewall who played such great tennis

with those dud wooden rackets. Modern rackets have a huge sweet spot and a huge kick..

[andr99]

right......but you need a good arm nowadays like yesterday to emerge and top spin or kick is not always the solution.....if you have a quick arm and a quick and correct body's position, you can overcome whatever top spin you face in tournament. Less top spin means more speed. but obviouly you can' t play completely flat strokes, a little top spin is needed. In other words I prefer speed to rotation because heavy top spin brings great phisical efforts which I don' t like, because I like to see speedy balls with no efforts. I' m lazy.......lol. But even so my muscles and bones are half gone........no matter I won' t give up. I never give up. i didn' t give up in my early years facing the stock markets when everything seemed unreasonable and completely random......why should I give up with something I started as a kid ?  

Edited by andr99, 16 June 2021 - 04:13 PM.

[pdx5]

Be sure to rest a whole day after serious tennis. Muscles need time to recover.

As we get older, the recovery time is longer.

I stopped using the treadmill 7 days/week because it was giving me leg cramps during the night.

Now I do 3 days exercise then 1 full day of rest. That cycle is working better. 

[andr99]

maybe the problem is another one.....if you have no time to dedicate to tennis, more than once per week and you go there to discharge all you can in a single event, well you' re not trained enough to do that. From there I think, problems are generated. In any case thank you for your suggestion, I will think about it and about the right solution to choose.

Edited by andr99, 17 June 2021 - 04:31 AM.

[12SPX]

Yes I love my tennis too, play at least 4 times a week, were all 60-75 and the quality is still good.  I do know 3 guys that are 100 plus that are still playing and they looked pretty good lol!  What keeps me going is Yin yoga and even more stretching cause I just don't wanna slow down yet for those balls lol!! 

[Rogerdodger]

Just Hours after my receiving the JnJ, the warning about possible blood clots stopped it's use.

Had that news came out sooner, I would have had second thoughts about it.

But neither I nor my wife had any negative effects at all.

 

Today I read:

JnJ: “It’s just kind of one after another negative news about the vaccine.”

 

The New York Times
High Hopes for Johnson & Johnson's COVID Vaccine Have Fizzled in the U.S.

With only 11.8 million doses administered in the United States — less than 4% of the total — the “one and done” vaccine has fallen flat.

At a food bank in Reno, Nevada, 12 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine were administered Thursday.

Between the small number of doses distributed and the lack of interest in them, public health experts say, the United States missed a critical opportunity to address health disparities with a vaccine that should have been ideal.

The two-dose vaccines have a higher efficacy rate overall — roughly 95% versus 72% for Johnson & Johnson’s — but studies showed that all three were highly effective at preventing hospitalization and death.

Dr. Clay Marsh, West Virginia’s COVID-19 czar, said that the pause and Johnson & Johnson’s later authorization — more than two months after Pfizer’s and Moderna’s — deprived it of a “halo effect.” By the time West Virginia had an ample supply of all three vaccines, he said, “people started to get this concept that maybe there’s something better about being immunized with Pfizer and Moderna.”

 

Because of a major production mishap that resulted in a two-month shutdown in operations, Johnson & Johnson has essentially been forced to sit out the brunt of the pandemic in the United States

[Rogerdodger]

Something different every day...FOLLOW THE SCIENCE!

 

 

 

COVID-19 AstraZeneca issues: Pfizer, Moderna are ‘preferred’ for second shot, U.S. travel problems may arise

 

Joanne Enser

@McCaughey333

Jun 17

So now, 3 weeks after my second dose of AstraZeneca , Canada’s vaccine advisory announces it’s not preferred.

 

Edited by Rogerdodger, 19 June 2021 - 03:01 PM.

[andr99]

The vaccination was good to me.......after 8 months in which I couldn' t play tennis, I got back to the tennis court. I' ve changed opponent because the previous one was an idiot and I can' t digest idiots. The new opponent is a very good player at third division level and the first, the second and the third time we played in June he was able to beat me easily. Today we were on the court, my athletic condition is increasing exponentially and the touch on the racket' s strings as well.......just a week after vaccination. I' m on my way to make my tennis opponents get crazy. So the vaccine doesn' t seem to have any negative effect........