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I think that sort of coach would be very hard to find, and obviously spending that much time with you would not make him enough $$$ to make living out of it.

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Luckly for me, he is a tax specialist. So when its off tax season he has all the time in the world. During tax season, planning becomes a much harder task.

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Yeah, was in the club today and talked with Chris (who you played with on Saturday as well). He mentioned that you beat the #1 ranked player (Jack) in the tournament. Congrats!

I'll look up Trolley Car TTC, thanks!

I was not there Saturday. You mean Chris Lehman? Yes, I beat Jack, the #1 seed out of U2150 and lost to Chris in the final. I also beat Lim Min Chui in U2300. So two good wins.

By the way, I put these matches up on youtube. You could get to the links from my web site www.breaking2000.com

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Got your book today and devoured it in one sitting. It reads like a combination of a novel and an instruction guide, capturing the thoughts of a intensely focused developing player. A good read and a great chart for my table tennis exploration! I will be certain to re-read it many times. I laughed about the section on being merciless to the elderly, women, children and disabled, a lesson I learned recently after losing to a 77 year old lady. Last night I was determined to show no mercy to a couple of girls we played. For the first time, I was the intimidator and not the intimidated, and I won more comprehensively than I should have; our skill levels were not that much different but I had the mindset of the dominator and it was amusing to see them crumble!

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Sounds like you've created a monster Leshxa!

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Thank you for reading my book. I do really enjoy the feedback I am receiving. I am a bit embarrassed, but the amazon page has no reviews of the book. Any chance you could jot a few words about the book on their site? I really appreciate it.

Regarding your mindset when you play - sometimes, that is the only thing missing in order to win. I'm glad it is working for you!



I can't wait for these monsters to start moving up the ladder of the tournament events. I want to see more new faces with the winning trophies!

I once had a dream that US will have a strong table tennis team

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Spot on about not going easy on opponents, especially the ones who appear weak. You never know how many needless points and games you give away and in a round robin where there is a tie, it comes down to games won and sometimes points won, they all count.

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Alex, how much time did you spend on robot and backboard training as a proportion of your total time, and how did you go bringing the skills learned in an artificial arena into your human drills and games? Sometimes I find that beyond a certain level of practise, robot training can even harm me because the spin is too predictable, yet at the same time it is great for honing a particular shot. I am certainly itching to try the backboard drill method you had on your video with push, push, flip, was this the most effective drill for your short game? Being busy with full time work and a young family often the time available for practise is late at night or early morning in my shed while everyone else is asleep. I want to maximise the benefit of this practise while aiming to get enough human drill sessions as well.

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I briefly mentioned it in the book. When the training was altered to work on another element of the game, I used the robot to keep my underpin training sharp. Actually, I only found robot useful for underspin training, but it does come with many warnings. First and foremost, don't set the underspin too strong on the robot, make it reasonable - try to match it to produce the underspin of your peers, otherwise, you'll be spinning the ball off the table - I learned it the hard way. I once trained against a very strong underspin and then could not loop a very basic push. Second, make sure to have the technique down before you attempt to practice with robot - it can engrave the wrong technique quickly, especially if you go with the first point at the same time.

The return board was used briefly in beginning. Funny thing about it is that I learned to spin the ball and hit the board, but after 2-3 shots the control of relooping was lost - the spin or power input changed and the board can only block one of shot at the time. I did learn to control my spin to make more than 2-3 shots, but it was way too difficult. The underspin practice with the board was a good practice for pushing the ball and flipping as you have seen. Mostly because I had a hard time understanding how to do it. Push was a weakness since I dropped the ball instead of actually pushed it by producing underspin, so working with the board if I did not produce the underpin, the ball would simply fall. So I had to focus more on proper push. Flip was a byproduct, but even now, I am still working on it. I still do not use it in a match too often. It is a rare point to encounter when I have an opportunity to use a flip. I think this is true for most people, it is a shot that very rarely comes up, so unless you have no other things to work on, it could be an element you could try to perfect.

For the most part, there is no substitution for a good practice partner, but you need a partner that can control his shots and follow instructions. Otherwise, its a waste of effort - time will be spend picking up the ball instead of learning.

Regarding using these shots in a human drill - put them all together, create combinations. Serve, get a push, flip the push to a set spot, get a block, loop the block. Or, serve, get a push, you push back, get a flip, you counter, etc. The combinations are limitless - the only thing I focus on is to break shots down and work on them in silo for some time, and then bring them into combinations so I can use these shots in sequence. So far it worked well for me.

Sorry forgot to mention the time practiced: With robot - maybe for a month when I was learning an underspin and occasionally once in a few months after for about a day. Same with the return board - I've used them opportunistically when there was no other way to train. I would not make this a constant affair unless you can mimic real match scenarios.

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By the way, Malleus!

Thank you for the review on Amazon!

I only have one question... why not a 5 star? Just kidding. Thank you!

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Thank you very much.

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Today is exactly a month since "Breaking 2000" was released.

I wanted to say thank you for all of the support and all of the feedback.

This month was quite difficult and involved as I was trying to get the information about he book out, as I continued to work on my website, and as I finished and released the paperback. However, there have been some great rewards for me as a writer - almost 150 people acquired a copy of the book thus far and I do hope that with every copy, there was yet another player who became inspired to improve.

Thank you all!

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Congrats mate, that's not a bad start at all!

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Funny thing is that as soon as I've made the post, my book dropped to #2 on Kindle

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