Today on the squash court (match starts at 12:00, red.) a new philosophy will be tried out: Fun on court. After loosing all 3 matches this year it’s time for a change. The first game I just lost. The second I had the excuse of the broken racket, but the last match I was without any chance. I expected an easy win, but that was never possible so I got very frustrated… Not good. Not good at all. No real excuse either, other then the fact I don’t like loosing. In the last 4 years, I have won 31 out of the 36 matches… guess I was getting a bit spoiled… Playing should be fun. So today having fun on court will be a little bit more important then winning. But, as winning is of course more fun then loosing, it would still be nice to leave the court as a winner this afternoon! :-)
I am really looking forward to play again, so we will see what happens! Hopefully the new philosophy works and I will be smiling when I am writing the update to this message later today!

Update (February 19, 2005 at 15:25):
The smile is there! :-) The victory as well. 11-9, 9-2, 5-9, 10-8. Although it could just as well have been the other way around. The game was very close (Bastiaan missed setpoints in the 1st and 4th set) and at an unbelievable high level! Lots of beautiful points throughout the match and a lot of running… That was also quite noticeable in the 4th set… we both were in great search of our breath between the points. And started missing balls because of that… but the game was great fun! Just one little scary moment just after the match, when we were playing a bit in our cooling down. I chased the ball, hit it and all of a sudden I couldn’t move my right hand anymore… it was stuck in a 90° angle from my wrist… Very strange. Not painful, and it went away really fast, but scary for a moment. But the smile is back, the philosophy worked and I am already looking forward till next week! :-)

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