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Here's a video of me doing some 3rd ball with my friend. This was in February, so I've probably gotten a bit better since this video was taken.
https://goo.gl/photos/hzJqmwnnrXH565KTA
Hey laistrogian, I thought this might be useful and rather than continuing it in the other thread, I thought I would make a new thread to help you and anyone else who wants to improve their basic strokes and fundamentals.
What got me thinking about this was the video you posted. I am not going to analyze the technique. I do think ttmonster did a good job of that. I am just going to give you a few ideas for how to improve your strokes. Hopefully this will help you. But also, hopefully it help a bunch of people with ways to think out of the box and do things to improve their fundamentals. So, hint to you guys who like finding fault in other people's technique. This thread is not about that. It is about giving players extra tools to develop and improve their technique.
So I am going to start off with a few ideas:
1) Analyzing video footage on a regular basis will really help any player improve because, what we think we are doing and what we realize when we see what we are actually doing are often very different. So analyzing footage can help us correct things we didn't realize we were doing.
2) Shadow strokes and shadow strokes with footwork, particularly with a mirror so we can adjust what we are doing while we do it can really help.
3) Self hitting to try to develop better touch and brush contact.
I am sure other people will have more great ideas. But I am going to start with these.
Here red are some videos for ideas. I have posted all of these before. But they fit with this subject.
Shadow strokes:
Self Hitting:
Now, for laistrogian, I think he actually needs to work on a much smaller more compact stroke to start out with. He may even be helped by simple counterhitting like what the pros use at the beginning of a match to get their timing. But these kinds of exercises could very well help any number of people improve their technique. The nice thing about shadow strokes is, you can start getting a better stroke into muscle memory without even having a table or a hitting partner. The thing to realize though, is that, when you have to adjust to a ball, your body does not simply do the stroke that you did while shadowing. Same thing with self hitting. But over time these types of things can help your technique develop.