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Watched arch's videos and I thought he would have improved quite a bit more than he has. First one I can't see a ball until halfway through and I realize he's actually playing someone. Arch, I thought you were doing some weird shadow practice and just failing at it terribly.
Second video I can see what's going on a lot better although I'm still disappointed with how your game has evolved. The way I would describe the biggest problems that I'm seeing would be as followed. You're too focused on form. Trying to stay relaxed pretty well but your strokes aren't dynamic because of this. You often react and change your paddle's angle at the last second instead of doing a full stroke, and when you do this, you're just poking at the ball. This will only work on low-level players or players that you're extremely comfortable with. Your footwork isn't lazy, it looks like you're doing things kind of right there, but it seems like you're just going to the wrong places with your feet and with weird timing. Like you aren't anticipating the ball right or don't have enough experience to understand where to stand at given times with your style.
I think that you're just getting too comfortable with your opponents and you THINK you've improved a lot more than you have because you're so comfortable hitting all their balls.
I also believe you have more knowledge about the game than your playing level indicates and you're a pretty smart guy. Not all your posts should just be dismissed because your playing level is low. Often, I feel everyone is dismissing all your arguments because of that reason. They pick out a few words of your post that are wrong and dismiss the entire post because of that.
Watched arch's videos and I thought he would have improved quite a bit more than he has. First one I can't see a ball until halfway through and I realize he's actually playing someone. Arch, I thought you were doing some weird shadow practice and just failing at it terribly.
Second video I can see what's going on a lot better although I'm still disappointed with how your game has evolved. The way I would describe the biggest problems that I'm seeing would be as followed. You're too focused on form. Trying to stay relaxed pretty well but your strokes aren't dynamic because of this. You often react and change your paddle's angle at the last second instead of doing a full stroke, and when you do this, you're just poking at the ball. This will only work on low-level players or players that you're extremely comfortable with. Your footwork isn't lazy, it looks like you're doing things kind of right there, but it seems like you're just going to the wrong places with your feet and with weird timing. Like you aren't anticipating the ball right or don't have enough experience to understand where to stand at given times with your style.
I think that you're just getting too comfortable with your opponents and you THINK you've improved a lot more than you have because you're so comfortable hitting all their balls.
I also believe you have more knowledge about the game than your playing level indicates and you're a pretty smart guy. Not all your posts should just be dismissed because your playing level is low. Often, I feel everyone is dismissing all your arguments because of that reason. They pick out a few words of your post that are wrong and dismiss the entire post because of that.