Archo, comparing yourself to Der_Echte, that is risky business no matter how you look at it. Hahaha.
First up: if you are still standing there and holding your followthrough when your opponent is hitting the ball, then you have zero reset. You should be reset and in a ready position to move and backswing for either a FH or a BH AS YOUR BALL LANDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TABLE. That you have not reset while opponent is making contact is WAYYYYYYY LATE.
Second up: at least you are admitting now that your FH is often a push forward rather than a stroke like I show in that self hit video I made to show Siva the same issue. I remember you swearing up and down that it was a stroke. You claimed your shadow strokes showed what you do when the ball is there. So, that is a big step.
That push forward, the reaching with the racket and then leaning with the upper body instead of moving your feet, they all have to do with low level tracking and intercepting skills. When you are at risk of missing the ball, having the racket go from behind the ball, straight forward into the ball is easier than taking a stroke where the only point where the path of the stroke and the path of the ball can collide is within a 3-4 cm range around where the racket does collide with the ball.
Whereas, with that push forward stroke, if your timing is off, you are still quite likely to make contact because the path of the racket and the path of the ball line up with each other.
For the leaning, the feet and the push forward stroke, what you need to do is a semi-random 2 point drill where, for every ball, you need to adjust your feet a few inches to the left or right. But where the placement is not the same exact two spots so you need to adjust to the precise placement for each ball.
And, sorry to say, for that, you would probably need A COACH.
In all your statements and arguments about how much your level has changed, HOPEFULLY, you are starting to understand the point about how, in reality, changes in level and technique take a very long time to be VISIBLE!!!!!
So, for all your talk the past few days about how the next video would be unrecognizable next to the first video, in terms of player technique, really it is very much in the same ballpark.
And, in fact, when you posted the first video, you had all these excuses about why it was not representative of your play. And yet, it really compares with this new video in many ways and on many levels.
Keep working. That is the important thing. But the next time you are critiquing someone else's technique, remember this.
If you were a humble guy who didn't like to tell 2100 level players that they lack deception in their serves, all I would be saying here is, "Good job posting video!"
If you hadn't implied that you and strangeloop where the same basic level as you were dishing out random, ridiculous coaching advice when players who actually know what they are talking about said "your technique is solid", all I would be saying here is, "keep up the good work!"
But given the outrageous number of posts where you have implied your level is vastly different than it is while criticizing other people's level of play, where you have implied that the amount of improvement you have made in the last 6 months is nothing short of through the roof and over the top, ALL I CAN SAY is, you would do well to get coaching. IT REALLY WOULD HELP.
And hopefully you may start realizing how hard it is, and how much work it takes, to make improvements, one little increment at a time.
When I get the opportunity to play with guys who are as good as NextLevel, Der_Echte, PPH, Edmund, SmashFan, Croitoroo, etc, I am consistently humbled and made to realize just how much skill this game/sport you need to develop.
Sent from the Subterranean Workshop by Telepathy
