First, we had a tournament and my team was good, not perfect but we could actually win some games and maybe get through the finals.
Before we join our first and only game one of my teammates started to laugh, saying that we were going to win since the other team had players younger than us, I immediately shush him since I believe if we get extra confident things can go off the road.
So, imagine what happened. WE LOST. He first started playing too slow, I could see he wasn't doing his best, and when we were losing by one, he was too unmotivated so basically gave up in the middle of the game.
MEANWHILE
I was at the bench and was watching the whole game waiting patiently to substitute my mates who could be tired. I only could switch with girls and this one, in particular, she was tired. She was visibly tired, she could keep up with the other team, I was angry, I wanted to enter since I was hype, with full energy, and she was selfish like that.
This was my last tournament, and I really wanted to give my best, I didn't and that's why I am so mad at them specially.
Otherwise, this senior year I 've been improving my volleyball technique and my teacher is my #1 fan hahah, she always understood my difficulties both physical and psychological, and even though she knows how much effort I put on her class, she always loves that I improve.
For 12 years, I would only make the lower serve, but this year I decided to try the float serve. Since I don't have much upper body strength, I found easier to learn the Jump Float serve.
I bought a ball, I started to train the technique on my backyard and I got pretty good at it. Every day I was going there and training by myself.
Once, during the class, we were practicing serves and I was in a good group, so I was chill and willing to try for the first time, doing the serve. I focused, I look at the ball and went for it. I made it! No, it didn´t pass the net but the technique was all there, I just needed to be more confident and attack the ball with more power.
After that, I was happy but I notice something, my teacher, was looking at me the whole time! As soon as I ended the serve, she went after me and told me that was watching it and it was perfect. I just needed to put more effort into it but the technique was ALL there. I felt too much happiness that day that I went training more and more on the following days.
For the last months, I 've been getting perfect and perfect on it and on the last Friday, we did a mini volleyball tournament, so I got the chance to practice my serves. Again my teacher, told me that I did one serve that was really really perfect. I feel so much happy, its something boogie but when you want to achieve something that you see others doing, and u do it, it's undescribable.
During this holidays I will try me best to keep improving the serve and other more techniques. Right now, this serve is not effective, since I do it really lightly bc I try to focus on the technique and just worry if the ball passes or don't. But slowly I m getting there, and than, I will be the best that I could possibly be.
-Blue
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