By game, I mean your own style and ability. Do you know what style you are, what your strengths are? Do you play to them in matches or do you simply walk up to the table, serve and react to what comes back?
Do you even care? Once a points in play, it's very difficult to pause, think and pontificate about what to do next. But that's where training and practice come in. Do the thinking in practice so that it's habit and automatic in match play. And therein lies one of my favourite quotes of which there are many variations:
"the more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle"
The key is to be willing to sweat doing the right thing in training, and you'll only really manage to do that if you think about how you actually perform in battle. So how much do your really understand and think about your game? Self reflection mmm.... not one of my strong points. I'm better at assessing other's games than my own which kind of explains a lot
