Not so much today, but today many many years ago.
FB video, so here is the link (apologies for the quality, old videos, with old camera or phone with low quality lens)
Adult learner, started age 31, and 2 years into total (then 33) with 18 months of proper training.
Doing 3 point FH.
Link here
2 x Adult learner, going for a serve challenge.
Equal amount of balls to start, and see how many can land the ball into the container.
Serving hard is easy, serving soft is not.
Pressure makes it even harder, and I always like to incorporate fun into my trainings (very non asian of me lol).
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One of my better students, at age 17 or 18, won U21 bronze medal in Africa, was an olympic hopeful for me (I had only a handful of hopefuls)...even though South Africa has a TT history of not approving qualified players due to the policy of, not sending a player if they are not medal contenders or top 16 in the world (even if they request for self funding), but I still thought, let me worry about this policy once I get a player to qualify
Sadly, her journey to national team had too much politics involved, and decided study life and future career can't bare disappointment for non team selection over and over again.
Back to reality for many.... we had a challenge as tournaments always come up in school holidays, and before school holiday's start, there is always exams.
I recall this training was her 1st day back after exams were concluded (not touching her bat for 3 to 4 weeks). and throughout the years, we had the same issue.... how can one prepare for a tournament 1 to 2 weeks after exams... when do you train? how do you train?
anyways, she is fighter and i'm sure her training and hardship will have some form of value in her life.
I know I haven't develop an olympian yet, but the olympic spirit is something we strive for (the journey of getting there - even if we don't, we tried)
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