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Wait till you are angry and tell them they should only sit in seat G18. You'll be surprised how much better you feel.

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Ok, you convinced me, I will give it a try.

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Just you wait and see Though I don't play often enough to do that!


Haha don't worry. I'll still mostly post here.


I tried one of these the other day. The ball just came back because I had no power to the shot. I might post it but I didn't reposition my camera so you can't really see me do the shot clearly. Only the resulting weak ball.


I actually find stuff like this really useful. I feel like my "rating" has gone up possibly 100 points since the backhand dive discussion and comments on my forehand. I keep trying different things because I always feel like I need to keep changing things. I'm still trying to refine things of course, but being told that it's at an acceptable place has given me more confidence to just play the stroke. And I feel like a lot of that practice (for consistency and just being more flexible with the stroke) has improved my game a lot. I still don't do the same strokes during match play and semi random drills, but the average match stroke is definitely closer to it now than before.

Here is my serve and 3rd ball practice into 1- and 1 transition practice. I serve backspin or side backspin, my partner is allowed to return anywhere long on the table no matter where I serve from and I then try to open, he blocks back to the opening and then I do one FH/BH alternating.

It was at the end of maybe 3 to 4 hours of practice so in some ways I am gassed. But let me know whatever you see as I think this is what my body wants to do by default tecnically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An3x-mB2Gkw

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I would suggest Taking the ones like @ 2.04 earlier.

Thanks. What makes that a different one? Usually, and for this drill, I try to take underspin late. One of my coaches told me it is better to respect the underspin ball.and spin it than to get aggressive and be left unable to spin the low balls or miss into the bet.

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I think the forehand was great and the backhand is getting there. I can see everything that you are trying to do and it's a good track. Your friend's pushes are pretty sharp, so it's not an easy thing you are doing.

The stand out to me is the lack of LTT96 and LTT119 on the serve. I like this concept because it's better for serve quality and recovery.

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Yeah against fast pushes may not be the best idea to wait too long. You may end up taking them behind u

Some content from yesterday’s. I choked up a lot of big leads.
The league was extremely exhausting Felt tired during and still recovering after 24 hours.

Another frustrating part was whiffing so many balls that was just an odd feeling.

Sorry had to work today so no time for editing

https://youtu.be/Sxv6Pn-DdUo

https://youtu.be/SLG_kobgboA

https://youtu.be/2oOEB4bZvro

https://youtu.be/wVKsJWvKFsk

You should take it later! You should take it earlier! Wait for the ball and get lots of spin! Get the ball whilst it's still over the table so you can come forward more! Go somewhere in the middle of the road so you are neither too early or too late!

All of the above advice is said with good intentions but I think it's all part of the same conundrum. I can for argue for and against all of it. Just tell me which debating team I'm on and I'll prepare and go for the kill.

Or maybe just get your legs/body doing the right thing and hit the ball (This is what I think you were doing, hence my positive position in the post above).

When you have time against weaker balls, you may find yourself taking it earlier in that context. Against tougher balls, you may find yourself taking it later. And then we could talk about the trillion grey areas and increments in between the two extremes. Or maybe just get your legs/body doing the right thing and hit the ball.

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I would suggest Taking the ones like @ 2.04 earlier.[/quote]

Thanks. What makes that a different one? Usually, and for this drill, I try to take underspin late. One of my coaches told me it is better to respect the underspin ball.and spin it than to get aggressive and be left unable to spin the low balls or miss into the bet.[/quote]

You should take it later! You should take it earlier! Wait for the ball and get lots of spin! Get the ball whilst it's still over the table so you can come forward more! Go somewhere in the middle of the road so you are neither too early or too late!

All of the above advice is said with good intentions but I think it's all part of the same conundrum. I can for argue for and against all of it. Just tell me which debating team I'm on and I'll prepare and go for the kill.

Or maybe just get your legs/body doing the right thing and hit the ball (This is what I think you were doing, hence my positive position in the post above).

When you have time against weaker balls, you may find yourself taking it earlier in that context. Against tougher balls, you may find yourself taking it later. And then we could talk about the trillion grey areas and increments in between the two extremes. Or maybe just get your legs/body doing the right thing and hit the ball.[/quote]

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Hahaha. The focus was getting the body to do the right thing. Even with all my hours of hitting the ball, I don't have the time to fix everything so for me it is important to try and do what is relatively correct.

Taking the ball later to me in the context of backspin just means to spin the ball up, not necessarily that I am really taking the ball later. I sometimes try to kill low and relatively heavy backspin (which is usually what I do in these drills when I am early to the ball, even vs a good push) and the coach had a really heavy push which made the whole thing comical (for context, he beat both Wang Jinxin and Wang Xi because they couldn't loop his push).

In any case I hear you 100%, just get the best right, adapt to the ball and play the stroke that works.

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Since I can't really play, I decided to make a highlights video from some points I played in 2019 which got captured on a video. No rap music this time, though.

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A lot of cool Reverse serves!

Everything looks better - great job.

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