{"id":93,"date":"2019-01-21T01:28:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T18:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/?p=93"},"modified":"2020-04-14T17:32:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:32:40","slug":"muscle-memory-and-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Muscle Memory and Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to secondary school at Hanoi-Amsterdam, I used to play basketball semi-regularly. I&#8217;d practise to consistently score 3-point shots.<\/p>\n<p>(For those unfamiliar, a 3-pointer is a shot made from the 3-point line, around 7.25 metres from the hoop).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-94 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4a7a6821-44a9-4edc-8112-7c2e44b3306a-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4a7a6821-44a9-4edc-8112-7c2e44b3306a-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4a7a6821-44a9-4edc-8112-7c2e44b3306a-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4a7a6821-44a9-4edc-8112-7c2e44b3306a-640x457.jpg 640w, https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/4a7a6821-44a9-4edc-8112-7c2e44b3306a.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Number 30 shooting from a 3-point line<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anyway, I stopped playing in my 11th grade and haven&#8217;t touched the ball since. It&#8217;s been 9 years.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I passed by the basketball court at NEU campus and came across one of our IELTS students. He was playing by himself. I joined him, thinking I&#8217;d embarrass myself after all those years of inactivity.<\/p>\n<p>So I did miss the first couple of shots, but it seems like the muscle memory was still there. I quickly got the feel for the technique and form and was able to get some accurate shots in after a few minutes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 568px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-93-1\" width=\"568\" height=\"320\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/8010418178324790386.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/8010418178324790386.mp4\">https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/8010418178324790386.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Muscle memory is real. 10 years apart and yet the moment I began dribbling the ball, I felt like it was just yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to secondary school at Hanoi-Amsterdam, I used to play basketball semi-regularly. I&#8217;d practise to consistently score 3-point shots. (For those&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,105],"tags":[25,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}