Two Month Cycles at Cesame

Starting this April, Cesame Tennis School in Mukojima (セサミテニススクール向島) shortened their cycles from three months to just two months. There are no changes to the total number of classes per year, so doesn’t affect me much. Only impact I guess is that if ever I do miss a class and need to reschedule, my options…

Cesame Tennis School Mukoujima

I enrolled at Cesame Tennis School in Mukoujima last January hoping to practice my shots, as I had plans to join a small tennis tournament in March. The tournament was eventually postponed because of rain, but it’s ok. I’m glad I enrolled and I’m glad i can practice my shots every week with professional guidance….

Playing Tennis in Tokyo

Tokyo is not really the ideal place if you want to play tennis on a regular basis. Tennis courts are hard reserve and they can be expensive, especially the private indoor ones. After living here for more than four years, I found several ways to satisfy my craving to play tennis. Enroll in Tennis schools…

Tennis in Arakawa-ku

The search is on! As I move to my new Arakawa-ku apartment in July, I need to search for a new place to get my weekly doze of tennis. If anybody knows any good tennis school in Arakawa-ku or in neighboring wards, please let me know. I’ve already searched Google Maps for tennis courts but…

Farewell, my VIP!

We’ve been together for more than a year now. My weekends were never complete without my regular visits to your most welcoming doors. All the laughter and the sweat we shared together, I’ll never forget. “Good things they never last”, so goes the cliche. It was a sad day when I learned you’ll forever close…

Disappointment

I was hoping I’d get promoted from Intermediate class to Upper-Intermediate class but unfortunately, I’m not. Nobody in my class was.

Ending the Year Right

I won two of them! These are the trophies VIP TOP Tennis School give away to the winners at a small and friendly intra-class competition for the last lesson for the year. I got one from my regular Sunday class and another from a Saturday class I just happened to have attended when they had…

Not a Beginner Anymore

This weekend, I did what I’ve always wanted to do ever since coming to Tokyo… I enrolled myself in a Tennis School! I searched the web for the nearest tennis school to my place and found the VIP Indoor Sports Club. I initially signed up for a trial beginners class (初中級) but they were keen…