Lugging his slightly oversized golf bag, papa crossed the road fronting the renowned golf driving range situated right in the centre of K.L. Having placed his golf bag behind the slot he wanted to practice his swing, papa proceeded to the counter in order to purchase the compulsory one hundred balls. Taking his time, papa changed his pvc dark walking shoes into proper golf footwear.
MR Aru, the resident Pro, his back towards papa appeared a bit engrossed, correcting his student’s ‘swing’ posture. Upon turning, he saw papa, who was nearly fifteen feet or about three or four slots away. MR Aru waved to papa, amiably greeting him with his usual yet inimitable “Good Morning Abang!” Papa answered “Same to you, Sir, Good Morning- Good Morning”. Papa makes it a point to always call MR Aru: Sir, as he was papa’s golf teacher- the quintessential Golf Pro, and apparently still is, since papa still seek his advice from time to time, to the extent of taking refresher classes once in a while.
Golf to papa is not an easy sports what’s with some enthusiasts even calling it an acquired skill. The body has to attain a level of flexibility in order to execute the much mentioned ‘easy’ or ‘fluid’ swing. Young golfers having been trained since tender ages do not have the innate ‘stiff’ or the quite ‘hardened ‘muscles inherent in older players. To condition these indolent ‘sinews’, a ‘late starter’ not unlike papa may need to increase his or her ‘practice swings’ by shooting ever more balls at the driving range. It’s the upper body muscles that all in all needed the impetus to ‘grind’ ever more since the ‘back swing’ must be pushed back all the more so and the ‘down swing’ should be ‘released’ to the full- following through with a ‘complete’ and ‘robust’ shoulder turn. Without exception the legs must be ‘taught’ to be ‘sturdy’ and ‘steady’, failing which the body will ‘wobble’ along with the swing thus executing the much erroneous ‘left pull’ procedure.
That’s why, until today, papa would always hear Mr Aru’s soft and gentle words at the back of his mind whenever he’s about to take his ‘swing’ reiteratively “swing kasi lepas, jangan tahan”- release your swing, don’t hold back, “follow through mesti ada”- there must be the follow through, “grip jangan kasi longgar”- do not loosen your grip, and last but not least- “badan jangan kasi goyang”- don’t ever allow the body to wobble.
KEEP ON GOLFING!
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- An inconsequential middle aged romanti c albeit hopeless- of whom is as mediocre as one can be. A graying, has-been individua l that had actually gone now here.Relentlessly looking for a pretty young thing to dang dut with.Howsoever,never yet suceeding but still hoping t hat one fine day a jelitawan will be found along with shar ing his love for the infernal dangdut musical genre.
2 comments:
hhmmmm no wonder golf does not goes hand in hand with JinAir~... rather the stormy sea... the dense thick green of the jungle are more to the liking of JinAir~ kekekekee. Well the best to you papalados kekekekeekeee eerrr how about this here night (the fourth of the month of november in this year of 2007th) appointment... to this so called pearls kekkekee ... is it on??
Papalados,
I would have spelt lados with a z than with a s considering the accepted pronounciation at the time was ladoz rather than lados. Some would even pronounce it as insert larrdozz . Or maybe its just the rough neighbourhood where I grew up in.
2. Hard to imagine a dangdut exponent like you being able to suppress the urge to wobble, dangdut as in jaipong require a vast amount of wobble in the upper and mid body , and not the least the hips.
Your masked friend,
( X )
Zorro
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