I'm not a fan of tennis. I'm not a fan of many sports where the primal reason for its existence doesn't exist. Let me explain - running...it's mans method of getting from A to B fast. It's about developing your ability to make you the fastest and the primal reasoning being running after prey, or running away from being prey. Javelin - similar story where you are practicing the primal urge to get your spear the furthest...maybe kill an 'ol antelope in the process. Discus, cycling, weight lifting...all have the fundamentals in the primal need to develop the person for a reason.
But tennis...where did that evolve from? I mean, in a primal sense? Did man develop their skills to beat an object across a row of foliage to another man and hope that they couldn't hit it back?
But today I see a video where the primal basis makes a return...it certainly sounds pre-historic:
So, where is this blog coming from? Oh, I don't know. Maybe with the proliferation of sweat bands around the Kettlebell Club and the grunts & groans at the end of 6 minutes Jerk may have reminded me of it. But whatever the reasoning - Kettlebells and the sport isn't exactly tennis, is it? It's more primal than that.
I wonder what the legal length of the sweat band is in tennis anyway ;-)
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