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I know and believe me I am more than willing to do drills. It's finding the time to go and practise on the same days as the 2 or 3 possible people willing to do it (sometimes they only want to do top table or play with better people). In this case do you think its better for me to practise with inconsistent or 'worse' players or jump on top table with higher lvl players?



I feel like its all of the above tbh
One thing I just realised I do is that I am always trying to do a 'quality' shot and the reason I highlight that word is that in my head I am thinking it needs to be as spinny as possible. But actually you're right and I should remember this point of yours as I lose sight and get distracted easily and will forget this. So I definitely need to make a note of this on my phone and read it every time I am on the bus going to the club

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Do a mix of both. Definitely do drills, but if they can't put enough spin on the ball, it'll only help you up to a point. Top table is important too if only for the fact that you get to play against better players.

I'm exactly the same - or have been, until lately. Always worrying about how much spin is on the ball, etc. Forget it. Concentrate almost exclusively on firstly keeping the ball on the table and secondly keeping it long.

Consistency, and the ability to deal with any incoming ball, makes you a good player.

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[Other gear I've used]
Blades: Butterfly Defence 3, Butterfly Defence Pro, Butterfly Innerforce ZLC, Butterfly Innershield, DHS Power G7, Stiga Offensive Classic Carbon
SPs: Friendship 802 (1.5), TSP Spectol (1.3, 1.8, 2.1), TSP Spectol Speed (1.3), TSP Super Spinpips Chop Sponge 2 (0.5, 1.3)
LPs: Butterfly Feint Long II (1), Butterfly Feint Long III (0.5, 1.3), Tibhar Grass D.TecS (OX), TSP Curl P1-R (0.5, 1, 1.3), TSP Curl P4 (1.3)

Ok so today I attended one of the Urban Spin weekly masterclass as the coach told me to come along for free to help the kids improve.

Again the FL2 was just not clicking and I wasn't able to stay consistant in the drills. I will note that this time I wasn't worried at all how much spin I was putting on the ball.
I got quite frustrated and at the same time felt bad as it wasn't good practise for the kids. So....I got my Stiga ALL classic out with Dtecs....

Well....we just had the chemistry and instantly I was almost never missing and the partner said my chops had more spin (of course I know this is down to reversal).
It doesn't stop here though because when the point is played out and then when we done matches I was able to put much better pressure to the balls pushed or touched short and my chops were the best I've ever seen them. Low, long, spinny and most importantly consistent.

I am sold. My match play was 2 lvls above too.
Sorry FL2 we will part now.
On Friday I may glue my fresh sheet of the Dtecs OX on my VKM or may just stick with the Stiga ALL classic

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I'll start the timer to see how long you last...

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Blades: Butterfly Defence 3, Butterfly Defence Pro, Butterfly Innerforce ZLC, Butterfly Innershield, DHS Power G7, Stiga Offensive Classic Carbon
SPs: Friendship 802 (1.5), TSP Spectol (1.3, 1.8, 2.1), TSP Spectol Speed (1.3), TSP Super Spinpips Chop Sponge 2 (0.5, 1.3)
LPs: Butterfly Feint Long II (1), Butterfly Feint Long III (0.5, 1.3), Tibhar Grass D.TecS (OX), TSP Curl P1-R (0.5, 1, 1.3), TSP Curl P4 (1.3)

Also yesterday I managed to beat a Premier Division player in local league. A strong one too. He even said before the match he loves pimples especially long. He trains a lot against them that's why. After losing he did give me credit on my victory. Asked me to come down to another club him and some other prem players come and train at on Friday night's

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I've lost count of the number of times I've heard people say, "I love playing against pimples" only to then lose

Pimples players, like non-pimples players, are widely varied in how they play the game. Some attack, some don't. Some have good serves, some don't. Some are better than others... I will never understand why non-pimples players group us all together and say, "I'm great against pimples".

That's a good win though - and if there's an opportunity to play against other players of a similar calibre, even better. Keep it up.

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Blades: Butterfly Defence 3, Butterfly Defence Pro, Butterfly Innerforce ZLC, Butterfly Innershield, DHS Power G7, Stiga Offensive Classic Carbon
SPs: Friendship 802 (1.5), TSP Spectol (1.3, 1.8, 2.1), TSP Spectol Speed (1.3), TSP Super Spinpips Chop Sponge 2 (0.5, 1.3)
LPs: Butterfly Feint Long II (1), Butterfly Feint Long III (0.5, 1.3), Tibhar Grass D.TecS (OX), TSP Curl P1-R (0.5, 1, 1.3), TSP Curl P4 (1.3)

Even when I played inverted I never grouped them together as each pips play so differently and then people play differently with them. I always knew this and never under estimated them. Actually I always had a stronger win rate against pips coz my BH was really consistent at slower top spin. It was my weapon against pips and it always got mentioned after the games.

Tbh even in my club on the weekends there are a good 5 or 6 prem players a couple with 85-100% win rates. I have played with them before but they all just destroy me. I wasn't confident to continue playing after like 3 tries with them. But after yesterday I feel I can pose a challenge now. Let's see how it goes!

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Is the D.Tecs on your Stiga All in OX or is it sponged?

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Blade: Victas Koji Matsushita Offensive FL
FH: Victas VS > 401 2.0
BH: Victas Spectol S1 1.5

Rating: Recreational Player

OX

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I hope you don't mind, but was your FL2 also OX? If not, which do you like better in terms of feel, OX or sponged LP?

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Blade: Victas Koji Matsushita Offensive FL
FH: Victas VS > 401 2.0
BH: Victas Spectol S1 1.5

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The FL2 was 1.1 sponge. Tbh I can't say as of yet coz I have tried dawei 388d OX and I really didn't like it much.
But give me 1 or 2 more proper sessions with matches too and I'll give my opinion. Coz I have tried Dtecs with sponge and felt that was nice too so it could be the pips

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That's my usual experience with grippy sponged pips like FL2 1.0. This week I tried Feint soft 1.0 couple of times, but result is the same as always: I can't get any benefit using grippy pips, but lose a lot in many spots.

Oh I forgot to post this. The new FH. I'm pretty happy with the spin I can get now. Just need to work this in a lot more to make it muscle memory coz in matches I still revert back to my terrible bad habits lol

https://youtu.be/qKOeQh7DnMI

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good result-i think you should pop along to fridays session-

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Day -by-day inhalation of the speed glues is not any good for health..

Ok so tonight I played top table and then best of 5s against 4 premier division local league players. 2 of them average. 1 I'm not sure as he plays in a different league and the other guy has a high win rate.

I played mainly with the VKM but did switch and try a few sets with the Stiga ALL classic. Both Dtecs OX. Overall the VKM is better if you want to win instead of have faster FH as it was better in the short game. But honestly I could easily play with both. But I won't touch the Stiga bat again.

It's the best I've ever done. My BH was very consistent and actually became more of a weapon than a weakness. My FH was good WHEN I done the correct technique which unfortunately was not even 50% of the time. I often found when I went for a FH attack I lost way more points than won.

I didn't manage to win a full game but I won quite a few sets and most sets very close, quite often in deuce. Compared to before where I won none and barely got to 6 points. Sorry correction I actually beat 1 of the average players whom I never even came close to before. My attacks were more consistent in that game though.

Gonna play again tomorrow and hopefully record a bit depending on who's there

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