Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Tennis

This summer Nick has been participating in the St. Paul Urban Tennis Program. Please do not confuse this with the Urban Dance Squad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw5Gl28Xe5o). Instead of kicking some old skool funk/hip hop, the Urban Tennis Program aims to teach city kids how to play tennis. Presumably this is so the sport does not continue to be dominated by suburban wankers.

It seems like a good program. It meets weekday mornings from 9-10. They keep the kids occupied with a bunch of fun games and drills. Nick really seems to enjoy it.

The interesting thing is that Nick got interested in tennis from playing the tennis game that came with our Nintendo Wii. I guess this means that Grand Theft Auto is out of the picture... Imagine this conversation -

Me - "Hey Allison, I had to bail Nick out of jail today."

Allison - "Oh my gosh, why?"

Me - "Well, he apparently stole a car and beat up a hooker."

Allison - "How could he have gotten the idea that this was okay?"

Me - "Well, we were playing some Grand Theft Auto this morning. Then I told him he had played enough games for today and told him to go find something to do."

Allison - "I'll kill you!!!"

Anyway, here's a picture of Nick showing off his racket.


I need to work on capturing some action shots. It's a little hard to get a picture of him doing something in the midst of 15 kids hitting balls in every direction.

You may wonder what Xander does during all of this? My idea was the he would have a good time playing in the park while Nick was doing tennis and I would be able to sit and read a book. In reality the poor kid is bored out of his mind and devotes himself wholeheartedly to driving me completely crazy. I don't have any pictures of that, so you will have to use your imagination.

4 comments:

Peder said...

You might want to be careful with Rock Band, too. And Twisted Metal. And even Zelda leads to long complicated quests...

Anonymous said...

I'm not even so sure about Lego Star Wars, which we have been letting him play. He's trying to find out where he can get a real lightsaber.

Anonymous said...

The Urban Dance squad looks awesome! Maybe you could sign him up for that next summer!

MamaD4 said...

Welcome to the wonderful world of blogging. And no, I don't need to use my imagination to know what it feels like to be driven completely mad by a preschooler! Especially one who is AT THE PARK and should be able to find something to do besides drive me crazy!