by pstokstad | Sep 15, 2021 | tennis
Starting with a limp wrist has all kinds of baggage as a phrase, but in tennis it turns out to have some high-level adherents in terms of serve technique, namely Novak Djokavic , who lifts the arm in his serve prep with the racket more or less dangling straight down....
by pstokstad | Sep 3, 2021 | tennis
The hazard of following my advice in How to Be Your Own Best Tennis Pro is that you have no one but yourself to come up with ideas on what to work on next, plus you really can’t effectively evaluate your own strokes because there is almost certain to be an...
by pstokstad | Aug 31, 2021 | Poetry
Does she know? But does the beautiful girlreally know theexceptional lightthat shines through her and does that divine shapebring her the tasteof pure silence as it does for usas it stops and holdsour breathing? The cup is where it usually is The cup is where it...
by pstokstad | Aug 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Videos of interest These videos are largely from the 1990’s and so are low-res, and in some cases the visual and audio quality is quite compromised. They are presented as an archive of past do-it ourselves cultural initiatives in Fairfield, Iowa,...
by pstokstad | Aug 21, 2021 | Poetry
I don’t have any new poems today so I thought I’d build one using words. This sort of thing has been done before with grandeur, planning, and scope. Other times in silence, modest and spare. Here is yet another poem glowing in the favored light of the...