Tennis Red Flag - Frustration

I was heading to tennis one to two times a week for the club sessions, not doing any practice in between and sometimes not making it at all.

So it's been two months and about a week and a half ago, I got insanely frustrated.

I was not getting any better and I could see it.

Now what's lovely about my life is I have done this as in do something brand new and take it as far as I want to take it.

I've done this many times and so I know the progression.

I know how it starts out and I know where it gets to and progress.

This is fine.

And I know my frustration points.

And my frustration point a week and a half ago was I can hit the ball most of the time, but I could not tell you where it's going to go.

And I remember that when I went into Olympic lifting.

I could snatch the barbell, but I couldn't tell you when I was going to snatch the barbell and when I would fail.

And it caught me out when I went to do a competition.

I think it was my very first Olympic lifting competition.

You get three lifts and you're endeavoring to get your max lift over those three lifts.

It's only three.

Now, the first one I was, so I'd started on 50 kilos.

That was what should have been a reasonable weight for me, like an okay, a safe weight for me.

I failed the first lift.

I went, okay.

okay uh all right I walked back in to do the next lift and I failed that one too and by that stage I was very very nervous very nervous so I had one more shot one more shot or I was done that was the competition done for me and thank goodness I have no idea how I pulled it off but I got it What did that teach me? It taught me about consistency.

It taught me that I didn't have it.

I could lift 50 kilos, but it took me two fails to get there.

Yeah, that was a very interesting game for me.

So I was at the same place in tennis.