{"id":1496,"date":"2006-04-21T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/2006\/04\/anyone-for-tennis-real-of-course.html"},"modified":"2006-04-21T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T15:13:00","slug":"anyone-for-tennis-real-of-course-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"Anyone for tennis? Real of course&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Took myself off for my first lesson in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Real_tennis\">Real Tennis<\/a> today under the guidance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/pros\/index.php\">Kees Ludekens<\/a> the senior coach at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/\">Cambridge University Real Tennis Club<\/a>, yep a bit of a mouthful and rather offputting as you don&#8217;t have to belong to the university at all to join.<\/p>\n<p>Really enjoyable especially under Kees eagle eye, spotting all my mistakes (Using the racquet like in badminton &#8211; just doesn&#8217;t work!). Things I have to remember is to imagine a camera in the racquets handle looking at the oncoming ball, serving slower and serving sideways on &#8211; plus all the names of the parts of the court!<\/p>\n<p>I notice in the Wikipedia article that there is a court in Australia at Ballarat where my  friend, from infant school,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballarat.edu.au\/media_releases\/img_display.cgi?id=476\">Stan Jeffery<\/a> lives. Will have to convince him to take it up.<\/p>\n<p>My next session is Wednesday 26th April at 12.30 if anyone fancies joining me for group instruction under Kees.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"blogger-preserved-comments\">\n<h2>Archived comments<\/h2>\n<p>These comments are preserved from the original Blogger page. Only the times shown there are available; comment dates were not recorded on the page.<\/p>\n<article>\n<h3>Ellee Seymour<\/h3>\n<p>Original displayed time: 8:37 PM<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m up for it. Hurray, a blog from Geoff after so long, thought you&#8217;d given up.<\/p>\n<p>Iain Dale is on Sky tomorrow morning talking about blogging, I shall miss it unfortunately.<br \/>http:\/\/www.iaindale.blogspot.com\/<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<h3>Ellee Seymour<\/h3>\n<p>Original displayed time: 11:20 PM<\/p>\n<p>I bumped into Lorraine in Cambridge today at a climate change lecture, she said she was determined to start blogging straight away.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this space.<\/p>\n<p>I also bumped into Jane from the Cambridge Women&#8217;s Networking lunch group. She has just set up a blog on their site as a result of my suggestion &#8211; so progress is being made.<\/p>\n<p>Now we just need to make the world reduce carbon emissions!<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>\n<h3>Ellee Seymour<\/h3>\n<p>Original displayed time: 8:01 PM<\/p>\n<p>Never mind asking if anyone is up for tennis, how about anyone for blogging?<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took myself off for my first lesson in Real Tennis today under the guidance of Kees Ludekens the senior coach at Cambridge University Real Tennis Club, yep a bit of a mouthful and rather offputting as you don&#8217;t have to belong to the university at all to join. Really enjoyable especially under Kees eagle eye, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}