This gives me hope. I feel like giving up TT sometimes after playing for many years and not seeing results. But I always come back to it because I love it so much.
Maybe you should reconsider how you are training?
This gives me hope. I feel like giving up TT sometimes after playing for many years and not seeing results. But I always come back to it because I love it so much.
This gives me hope. I feel like giving up TT sometimes after playing for many years and not seeing results. But I always come back to it because I love it so much.
Getting a coach is really beneficial. A good coach can say what you're doing wrong but a VERY good coach can tell you how to improve those issues.
I've improved a lot lately by solving the small issues (not getting enough spin on serves, not following through enough on FH loops) but I've still got some major issues (footwork / resetting properly, not using enough wrist when chopping). I would not have identified these by myself and my previous coaches have either ignored this or been incapable of identifying the issues. You don't need that many hours with a coach if the quality is very good.
My 0.02€ as a novice.
The final of the most recent U2000 at Princeton. If my health continues to improve I might make a sincere push at training for 2100 again. But that assumes a lot about married life....
https://youtu.be/xbRVOrmnnsE
The final of the most recent U2000 at Princeton. If my health continues to improve I might make a sincere push at training for 2100 again. But that assumes a lot about married life....
The final of the most recent U2000 at Princeton. If my health continues to improve I might make a sincere push at training for 2100 again. But that assumes a lot about married life....
https://youtu.be/xbRVOrmnnsE
Glad to see you playing AND playing well, NL. What's made the difference in your health? Seems like you're moving better than I've seen since I joined here.
Quitting playing last year in some ways was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I started gaining weight rapidly and having a visible recalcitrant fluid buildup in my right leg after I stopped. That fluid build up kinda freaked me out. So trying to address that led me to intermittent fasting and low carb diets and a completely different approach to healthy eating vs what I was taught before that (for some context, I was a vegan for a while). The changes managed my autoimmune issues better and I have lost about 28 lbs and counting in the year and a half or so. The lighter weight helps me move better though my trashed joints are still shit. Maybe if I knew this 5 or 6 years ago, I could have preserved my health much better.
Sometimes the shock/fear is what it takes. As always, super impressed at your ability and desire to keep tweaking and find ways to manage your symptoms.
I was an IF/low carb guy for about 5 years through college and traveling my life away at my first job. It kept me lean and helped my stomach issues but I often felt strung out. Recently I've been eating breakfast and have been going higher carb/lower fat (still 90-95% healthy food) and have been feeling better. Still throw 1 fasting/low carb day in, though, to let my digestive system catch up.
The most important thing IMO is that you have the knowledge and the flexibility to make the choices. Many people don't and have been completely miseducated by the commercial and ideological interests driving the "one plant based diet with 3 or more meals a day fits all" paradigm to dominate the airwaves. I am grateful that I at least had a chance to relearn all this. Given how this stuff is beginning to affect many people I come into contact with who either don't tie lifestyle to medicine or have been introduced only to the vegetarian paradigms, I get the opportunity to help a lot of people.
There are no secrets, no shortcuts, only hard work.
May or may not work for you ... I practiced more than playing matches. When i played a match, I forced myself to use whatever stroke i was focusing on all the time ... my RPB and FH loop have been the last 2 strokes I focused on. Looking at footwork now.
I did not care about winning or losing... only if I was able to execute the stroke properly or not during game play. I have a 9-90 record vs 1 friend ... lol at me.
Good luck in your SH journey si-hing! I still like you, you "faan gwat zai"
https://youtu.be/fIfQNRtie88 What Do these guys use? I thought hardbat But my friend that play that alot tell me it is not possible. Bigger ball? Short pimple with very thin sponge?