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 Golf is the first sport I have ever played. I started playing when I was about 4 years old, and at that point, I took it more seriously than tennis. I would get lessons quite frequently and go out to practice on the course with my dad or grandparents as much as I could. Oftentimes, I would go to the range as well if there was one available. Last year in the summer, I decided to start playing again simply because it is the safest sport in regards to COVID-19 restrictions. At that time, I was playing with my dad's golf clubs since I had outgrown the ones I used to use. Last Christmas, I received my own clubs as a present and started playing a lot more. Additionally, I joined the golf team to hopefully improve my game even more. Since last summer, I have improved significantly and hope to continue doing so. Last summer, I would normally score just over 100 on 18 holes. This means that I would take just over 100 strokes in total over 18 holes. Now, however, I will score below 90 on 18...

 I have decided to take a break from tennis tournaments and instead focus on running. My main goal as of right now is to improve my lung capacity. In order to that, I've been trying to run for somewhat long distances anywhere from one mile to three miles, and as soon as I get to where I want I try and sprint as fast I can for roughly 20 seconds. Additionally, I am hoping to improve my mile time. About a month ago I was running 7-minute miles. Now, I will usually run 5 miles and the average time in which finish running a mile will be about 6 minutes and 30 seconds. So far, I have found that the only way to improve mile time is simply by running quite frequently. I hope to run a mile in 6 minutes, as of now, that is my goal and I feel like I can achieve it.  LO2 LO4

 This month, I signed up for another tournament. Unfortunately, I had to pull out after my second match due to leg cramping. I was prepared to do well as I had played a good amount and had a lot of discussions with my coach in regards to what I should be doing mentally. Although I found that working with other people to help improve my tennis game was very helpful, I played quite poorly in that match that I actually played and I lost 2-6, 4-6. Although the score was better in the second set, I thought I played worse than I did in the first set. I've experienced multiple leg cramps over the past couple of months regardless of whether I've spent a great amount of time playing tennis. In some cases, I have had to pull out of matches simply because of muscle cramping. So I need to spend some time figuring out how to reduce the number of muscle cramps I have if possible. At no point do I want to risk getting an injury simply because I didn't take care of a muscle cramp. LO1, LO2...

 Similar to last year, I've been doing volunteer work at the tennis academy since this is the time of year when new players join the academy. This month I did some fairly minor things, I showed the new players the warmup and recovery stretches we do. Additionally, I showed several players around the facilities so that they know where to go whenever they arrive for practice. Other than that, I practiced myself in order to prepare for a tournament that I signed up for. I did not play very well. I should mention that I did not favor the conditions. It was around 40 degrees Fahrenheit and very windy. Fortunately, I won my first match fairly easily. We had to play short sets due to the weather and the score was 4-1. 4-1. I lost my second match in a tiebreaker, the score was 2-4, 4-0, and 8-10 in the tiebreaker. Although I lost, it was a very close match. I have learned a lot from this tournament, and I hope to apply what I've learned to my game next time I play.  LO1, LO2, LO4

 Today is the last game that will be live-streamed as it is the end of the volleyball season. Overall, I thought I did okay with setting everything up. I noticed that on youtube, a lot of other school sporting events were being live-streamed were getting recommended. I became curious to see how others went about live streaming one of their games. For example, I believe one of the ones I found was a basketball game from The Kinkaid School. It looked like they had a pretty standard view of the basketball court, similar to one you would find on television. A lot of what they had wasn't really possible in our gym as ours is not really like a stadium layout. To get the live stream similar to Kinkaid's I would have to place the camera on a small ledge above the basketball court where the speakers are. That certainly would have been a lot more difficult to set up. Nonetheless, I thought what we had was good enough. All the feedback I received was good, and no one had any problems with...

 I've continued helping with the live-streams at the boys' and girls' volleyball games. Since the first time I started helping with the live-stream, I've learned a lot about the software and what I have to do. In the last blog, I described that we weren't able to get the score up on the live-stream. Recently, however, I was able to get the score displayed and everything went fine. I also adjusted the camera angle and put in a tripod that can extend to be very tall so it had a better angle of all the volleyball games. Other than that, however, not much has changed. I am looking to improve some minor things, like showing the name of the teams for instance. I think that will be an easy fix and probably won't take very long to include on the live-stream. LO5 LO4 LO3 LO2