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It has been a while since I’ve updated I know… I’ve been quite busy doing other things but now I have found the time to recap from what has occurred within the past week. No doubt, the highlight of last week was Drage’s 21st birthday celebration. His mum organised the weekend fiasco in late January all for a surprise. The whole Drage family was invited with the exception of me and his good friend, Sarah.

Our destination was Barwon Heads, not too far from Geelong and the Great Ocean Road. The spot is beautiful. Apparently the town is famous for the location of the television program “Seachange”. The 13th Beach Golf Course was our accommodation. The rooms were excellent! Friday evening led us to the Geelong port to a fully hired boat. We partied all night on sea named cocktails!!!

Saturday led us to an early morning breakfast in downtown Barwon Heads. The big breakfast they so called it wasn’t really big…but maybe it was because we were so hungover and hungry from the early hours of the morning. Andrew, Sarah and I went back to the hotel and got our swimmers. We walked to 13th beach, tanned and swam for a bit. The highlight of that had to be Sarah getting caught in a rip. I told Andrew and her on several occasions that we should swim in between the flags, but no…no one listens to me hahah. I can remember Sarah saying “I know where the rips are don’t worry” I always kept my distance closer to shore than they did.

That night led us to the coastal town of Torquay. We had an excellent Thai based dinner plus the booze of course. The next morning I headed back to Albury town.

Drage receiving a present from his sister, Kerrie

Sarah and Drage, just about to get onto the boat

Gotta love that ocean view

Acting like children again!

This is what happens when food takes too long

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Every time I go out and play tennis, I’m always thinking of ways to make my game…well especially my groundstrokes more reliable. I easily forget the fundamentals and it really showed after playing a week of tennis. My forehand became really inconsistent and it was because the motion was all an arm movement, rather than an upper body movement. Dylan pointed out to me that my left hand should “track” the ball at the correct contact point and I should rotate my upper body through the stroke. If I had done this earlier, my elbow and arm in general wouldn’t hurt this much. Ah well. Practice makes perfect…well closer to perfect.

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