{"id":533,"date":"2006-04-21T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjon.s423.sureserver.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2006-04-21T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T15:13:00","slug":"anyone-for-tennis-real-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Anyone for tennis? Real of course&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 Kees Ludekens 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,  Stan Jeffery 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","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":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geoff-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}