Racket sports
Table tennis, badminton, tennis: about two years each, one club per sport, and only one racket that still comes out. Since around 2013.
- Ongoing
These are the only sports on this list with an opponent across the net, and that is probably why they sit alongside chess. A lost point has a cause you can name, and the next game starts right after.
The first rackets date from around 2013. Table tennis is the most practised of the three: two years in a club, and much more with family, for fun, on a table that required neither a licence nor a booking. Badminton was played outside any club, two years in middle school PE and two years at ENSIIE in the school association. Tennis, one year in a club, and since then a few games among friends, with no regularity.
None of the three is a competitive practice, and that is better written than guessed. What remains is occasional tennis, and the fact that an opponent across the net changes everything: you are not playing against a distance or a clock, you are playing against someone who also has a plan.