Chapter 5.1 - Lesson

As I used the day so densely, time passed quickly in 1996.

Young Suk was 12 years old, and Jin Hee was 13 years old.

"Have you waited a lot?"

A little mature woman's voice digs into Youngsuk's ear.

"No, I just came."

Yeong-seok greeted Jin-hee with a smile.

The growth of girls is scary fast… Yeong-seok had to look up over 165 centimeters. Yeong-seok is still 160 centimeters taller than his peers, but still far from Jin-hee.

Yeong-seok seeing Jin-hee, who grew bigger than herself, felt subtle.

All the time he had acted as a protector, but nowadays he was covered and covered. It was a girl, so I came to puberty a little faster, and Yeong-seok had no choice but to recognize Jinhee as an unknown creature. These days, I treat myself as my brother and play my sister, but it is cute and unfamiliar.

If nothing has changed, it is their schedule.

"… What happened at school today? "

"Oh, um. I'm a little worried these days… … . "

"What?"

There is one more thing that has not changed.

Jin Hee was holding onto the arm of Young Suk while talking. It is so natural that the two people do not have any consciousness.

***

"Oh, it's great?"

Yeong-seok scored Jin Hee's problem and admired him.

Jin Hee's problem paper was clean without any indication that it was wrong. As I got more right, I started to omit circles, but Yeong-seok's red pencil was no longer needed.

An English teacher quit teaching two people because of his job. But no problem is that Yeong-seok already understands the curriculum of the English teacher, so Yeong-seok had to teach Jin-hee. As I studied more to teach, I was already different from my peers in English.

And that's the same in other subjects.

There were numerous collections of problems on the desk. The concept book was already mastery, so he wrote it, and nowadays he is solving only a collection of questions in the form of a mock test. Jin-hee, who has been following her since she was young, is about to enter middle school, but she has already reached the level of high school students.

"Youngseok."

"Huh?"

"I told you I was worried… … . "

Jin-hee carefully took luck.

Yeong-seok gave a look to Jin-hee's serious atmosphere.

"Huh. What are you worried about? "

"I… no. Let's talk later. "

"… okay."

Then they continued studying until four o'clock in the afternoon.

***

"Once you simply hit two guns and two hundreds and take a short ball. And I'll give you three at random. The finish is smash. Did you understand? "

Sac a little more than before, Choi Young-tae says hard. Marriage with weary still does not change the personality. Yeongseok picked and answered Choi's consistent appearance.

"Yes, please."

Yeong-seok walks and gently relaxes the neck, wrists, and ankles. Like a kind of jinx, the habit of slowly loosening the whole body walked. With a center mark at the very center of the baseline, Young-seok took a deep breath and leaned over. And I gripped with both hands and turned round and round. Keep your knees slightly bent and your eyes facing you. It is the attitude that makes the forehand and the backhand available at any time. The pose is similar to a baseball infielder.

"I go light because I'm relaxing."

"Yeah!"

Choi Young-tae throws the ball to the left of Young-seok.

Yeong-seok's legs quickly step up a split step (a step that jumps slightly at the same time as the opponent hits the ball) and bounces like a spring.

A feather-like side step puts the ball into range. In search of the best place for the RBI, a smooth residual step (a quick stepping step with short stride) flows. And elastically take the impact as if to loosen the twisted body.

pop!

The swing trajectory is elegant.

But the hit was awesome. The ball goes off like a bullet. A flat batter with little rotation is snapped right into the baseline of the court opposite.

Young-suk takes the follow-up swing quickly, then runs back to the center mark in a side step.

The ball thrown by the coach is already far away. Following the repeated steps, this time the backhand stroke is blown.

bang-

If you shoot with a high speed camera, you will see the tennis ball distorted badly.

Young Seok's backhand has progressed day by day, making Choi Young Tae's busy moment to admire.

The ball bounces in front of him without a time to enjoy a clean swing.

It is a short falling ball. Yeong-seok rushed in and raked the ball with a forehand.

The ball that ate an enormous topspin wanted to cross a large parabola, but Choi Young-tae hit the ball right away. This is usually possible because coaches throw the ball in front of the net.

"큭!"

Young-suk was forced to respond to the ball in a hurry.

I had no choice but to deal with immature Bali, and the ball became a prey to Choi Young-tae.

Su-Fang!

Choi Young-tae's undisturbed smashing was inserted.

"It's one of several strategies, but I'm doing a drop shot (a lot of underspins on the bottom of the ball, that's how the ball falls off as soon as it crosses the net). There is also a pattern to win… Lee Young-seok, do you know? "

"Yeah!"

Yeong-seok replied vigorously.

Choi Young-tae nodded and said again.

"Forehand strokes are now up to mediocre levels, but Volley doesn't get much better. At any time, whatever grip you hold, you should always be able to handle the ball consistently. "

"Yeah!"

"Go back."

With Choi's words, Yeong-seok walked back to the center mark of the baseline.

So hitting the ball was about 20 minutes passed.

It was too much time for Yeong-seok to pick up the ball, and Choi Young-tae gave lessons with one ball. He gave the ball to Volley in response to Young-suk's stroke in front of the net. The ball did not come regularly because the ball was given by applying a volley, and Young-suk's nerves were keenly keen to respond to the various balls.

When the ball was finally exhausted, Yeong-suk ran like a light and picked up the ball.

And this time the return practice continued.

Young-tae Choi is a flat serve and a spin serve. (Spin serve is different from a flat serve in that it spins the ball. Unlike a flat serve, it is slow and has a lot of rotation.) to be. As a result of his great ability and age, Yeong-seok had no choice but to return.

After 50 or so finishes, the ad court (left) serves 50 more.

Serving is the most basic and the most difficult skill. It's hard for a coach to help with a lesson with more than 100 servings. Choi Yeong-tae also had to serve quickly because he was sweating as he spits out heat all over his body. The same is true for Yeong-seok who is in a rush to follow the ball.

Choi Young-tae sang Yeok-seok with his hand.

"헉헉… Why, coach? "

Choi Young-tae said he was breathing.

"Return can collapse. I'll tell you because you're looking for a pro. Pro's serve averages over 200km / h. The scary thing is that you can plug that 200km / h almost anywhere you want. Especially if you are in the top 10, you can put 10 and 100 in the same place. "

Yeong-seok nodded.

"I am 150 at most? It's only about 160 km / h, but at your age it's faster than you can imagine. In any case, it's almost impossible to make four perfect swings at that speed. What is a good return? "

Yeong-seok answered Choi's question without any concern.

"I'm fasting… Maybe you will serve near the center mark (in the middle of the baseline)? In that case, the best thing is to return the ball to the foot of the player who served the serve. It's a quick ball too. "

Choi Young-tae nodded.

"Of course, if it could, that would be one of the good ways. But serve alone is all sorts of things, and you can't handle every ball the way you say. If you're an experienced serve and Bali-style player, you'll be in front of the net just by serving and stepping on two or three steps. Then your ball is volleyed. "

"… Well."

Yeong-suk shook his head when he said two or three footprints. Choi Young-tae looks at such a stone.

"Look Carefully."