I went to see the Watts Towers in South Central Los Angeles at 10pm last night with two friends. Arriving in an area where gang shootings are common, at night, in a convertible, what was I thinking? There is a 24-hour guard next to the site so we felt as comfortable as possible under the circumstance. Next to the Towers is a park and inscribed in the cement is a timeline discussing events from the building of the Towers to the present.<\/p>\n
It got me thinking about the sports timeline of my life. Personal events I associate with sports and historical events of these times. Here is a start to the timeline:<\/p>\n
More later. Post your sport timeline in the comments.<\/p>\n
Practice Report<\/em>: worked out at the gym<\/a> for 1 1\/4 hours I went to see the Watts Towers in South Central Los Angeles at 10pm last night with two friends. Arriving in an area where gang shootings are common, at night, in a convertible, what was I thinking? There is a 24-hour guard next to the site so we felt as comfortable as possible under the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-mechanics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSolutions Analysis<\/em>: when twisting and lungeing (something I do every time I execute a tennis shot<\/a>, particularly if I have to reach), it’s important to twist my trunk to avoid putting strain on my knee. When I do the front lunge and reach exercise<\/a>, I can tell if I’m twisting properly when my belly touches my thigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"