At this lesson we focused on improving forehand, which is the more complex of two ways of hitting the ball (forehand and backhand).
The thing that is the most problematic for mw is hitting the ball in the right place. As every ball flies differently this is one thing that cannot be repeated, afterall there aren't two identical balls nor two identical hits.
This technique is crucial for tennis players as it's one of basic hits thus it is often used in a game.
Today we had another Amnesty International Meeting during which we discussed police brutality and how it should never happen. We talked about how to stay safe on protests, why the police has no right to attack the protestants.
We talked how this applies to the democracy and to the human right to express one's opinion, and how not right it is that police didn't act on 11th November march but attacks peaceful Strajk Kobiet protests.
Last lesson I finished working on the Pirates of the Caribbean theme. However, I will still continue to play it and practise in my free time.
Today we started a new piece, this time its a part of polish folk music, instead of world movie soundtrack. The piece is called Jado goscie, jado, and as one can see on the picture below the notes are three pages long.
It is not as hard as it seems, as in folk music there is a lot of repeats and returning themes. Thanks to this I could focus more on the more detailed parts of the art that playing violin is, instead of on pure melody and rhythm.
At today's tennis training I was trying to improve my serves. This is the part of playing tennis I have most troubles with.
To make a proper serve one must have to first throw a ball upwards in a correct manner and later hit it with the racket so it hits the right place on the opponents area.
I don't have troubles with hitting the ball, but it hardly ever lands in the right place, and, of course, bad serve means losing points. That's why it is really important to master this part of tennis play.
Of course, I can see progress with this move since I started, but it's still not even close of what I would like it to be. Still, I keep trying and hope I will get better at it.
At this week's Amnesty International Meeting we further discussed the ongoing protests in Poland. How the ban of abortion is a violation of human rights and why it is important to protest and show that there is no place in Poland for such violation of women's rights.
Today's goal was to further improve my performance. I have spend most of the lesson reviewing and practising harder fragments of the Pirates of the Caribbean theme.
I have most issues with the specific fragment at the end of my music sheet. The rhythm there is really tricky which creates certain difficulties for me, but I'm working on it.
I think the way to truly improve is practise, practise and... practise! So that is what I'm planing to do.
As I joined Amnesty International Raszyńska, I will also take part in their CAS project, which is Maraton Pisania Listów. In the past years the event was happening in December and required meeting at school, so we do not know yet how it will be organised this year, due to the global pandemic. We are waiting for official information from Amnesty International Polska conserning this matter.
