JOOLA USA

Lily Zhang

On the first day they both greeted me with wide smiles. But I was so happy my smile was wider than the both of them together. I soon learned that their names were Zhang Li and Li Zhen Shi. They were both extremely nice and they corrected my wrong moves.

Coach Li and Coach Stefan talked and demonstrated many useful things. Such as body position, backhand, loopdrive, forehand loop, backhand push, forehand push, how to attack, return serve, serve, and how to play with pips. I took notes on what they said and if I wrote everything down here it would take up many pages.

I had a small problem, though. When holding the paddle the index finger is not to move, but I could not really control mine. So they put some tape on my finger and stuck it to my paddle. And guess what? It worked! By the end of the day, my finger didn’t even move a bit!
 Then on Thursday we played a small tournament. It was one team against another. And our team won! I thought I played pretty well that day. And it was probably because I had such a good training with Coach Zhang, Coach Li, and Coach Stefan.

On Friday, I had so much fun. We played doubles and it was a very good experience. I felt good at the end because it was so amazing that I improved so fast. But I thank the three coaches that led me through this. It was all because of them that this happened.