Your own table tennis habbits?

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Everyone has them. Habbits!

Some love to hear some music before a match to get pumped up, others want to be alone. Why do we do that? We just get used to it and a certain routine in life seems good to have in a ever-changing world.

What are your habbits around the little celluloid ball?
Do you speak with your bat? Do you cut your rubbers with your own technique?
Or do you have a prefered type of play? What do you do with your left hand (respectively right hand) when you play? How important is clothing to you in a match? Does it make you more confident?

Let's discuss it here :)

As always i start:
My habbit is to write messages on my bat or/and rubbers before i glue them together :) it may sound silly but it did help me sometimes mentally to win a tight match

Here an example:aaaa.jpg
 
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I like to listen some music ...... and i always want to be de first in front of the table!
 
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I twiddle by bat all the time, I started to notice I was doing it before I threw the ball up for every backhand serve. Please note that the rubber on my bat is inverted both sides so I don't actually flip my bat for any purpose it's just a random habit I have :p
 
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Used to has a habbit on writing my name on every own ball so they dont mix up with other... beside that, probably stomping with left leg

Talk about the serve, long time ago, I have seen one player who will twiddle his paddle for few rounds when he toss up the ball for serving lol
 
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Oh.. and I bounce the ball on the table always before I serve.

OMG man, that is really annoying. One antispin defender does that all the time and it drives me crazy. One time in a competition I asked him to stop doing that and just serve normally, he said he can’t because it is his ritual and he would know how to serve differently. Luckily I have managed to hold my nerves under control and still haven’t suffered a loss against him, but still, this is really annoying :).
 
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