Some of my today training footage

[SleepyMaster]

 

[ander999]

Is this the club located in Odessa?

 

[SleepyMaster]

Is this the club located in Odessa?

No, buddy, its Kyiv - the great capital of Ukraine

 

[SleepyMaster]

It's great that you can still train like that in Kyiv! A fantastic way to stick two finger up at Putin!

yeah, there was no TT for first 4-5 months of the war. Glory to heroes that keep holding back hordes of orcs that coming to delete our nation from the face of the planet Earth.
Yesterday's when I trained, two rockets was exploded near the gym, the sound was really shocking. Two dudes about 70+ years of age, looking to each other at that moment and on of them saying - this would be a good way to die on the table, and they just keep playing, so I did the same

 

[NDH]

You've not asked for any feedback, so I won't give any.

I just wanted to say I LOVE the fact that as a person who hasn't posted video before, you've:

1. Left the whole clip unedited - It's so easy to go back through and cut out all the mistakes and miss hits to try and make you look better. But you've not done that, and I think it gives SO much more information to those who know what to look for.

2. I just love the fact you've posted video - You know how I love video, and you've followed through. Regardless of your level, you are one of the rare ones who follows through on saying they'll post video!

3. Your club looks lovely! It always feels like other people have great TT specific venues, and most of us in the UK have to put up with a local multi purpose village hall!

4. VIVA UKRAINE!

 

[SleepyMaster]

You've not asked for any feedback, so I won't give any.

I just wanted to say I LOVE the fact that as a person who hasn't posted video before, you've:

1. Left the whole clip unedited - It's so easy to go back through and cut out all the mistakes and miss hits to try and make you look better. But you've not done that, and I think it gives SO much more information to those who know what to look for.

2. I just love the fact you've posted video - You know how I love video, and you've followed through. Regardless of your level, you are one of the rare ones who follows through on saying they'll post video!

3. Your club looks lovely! It always feels like other people have great TT specific venues, and most of us in the UK have to put up with a local multi purpose village hall!

4. VIVA UKRAINE!

Thank you for the kind words and a support, I heavily appreciate that
The whole video was about 2 and a half hours hours, I don't really think some one would be interesting in looking this arthouse table tennis movie in whole. I have more content if some one is interested - basically two more hours. There was counterspins forehands on a score with a coach - I was winning one and lose one. Some of me doing different kinds of blocking - don't really think that it is interesting to see.

So I was cutting down few drills, and upload them - that make more sense to me.
This is not my best shape and im not trying to impress anyone I don't really think there is something super cool in the video, I have giving my word on uploading and I following to it.

Our country going trough war and some hard times, I have going trough heart surgery and covid for the last six moths - that fucked up me little bit more than I expected. I was little bit better in tennis before all of that happening, but the life goes on and I will keep training till I can

 

[Haito]

Ave,
I am not qualified physician, based on the video (really great picture quality) on FH you are not using much of core I think. I can see forearm tension and shoulders, not so much butt and thighs. (its really easy to see, great musculature)

 

[SleepyMaster]

Ave,
I am not qualified physician, based on the video (really great picture quality) on FH you are not using much of core I think. I can see forearm tension and shoulders, not so much butt and thighs. (its really easy to see, great musculature)

There is a moment on that thing, before TT I was doing martial arts whole my life so for me, weight transfer technique is little bit different than for the most people, mine is more compact and not so obvious, im bouncing my right foot when I do forehand - this helps me to take the energy from the legs. As you will see the difference in weight transfer of an amateur boxer and a pro one.
But I need to be lowering my stance more - that's for sure, coach is always keep saying me this, from video its even more obvious

 

[Haito]

There is a moment on that thing, before TT I was doing martial arts whole my life so for me, weight transfer technique is little bit different than for the most people, mine is more compact and not so obvious, im bouncing my right foot when I do forehand - this helps me to take the energy from the legs. As you will see the difference in weight transfer of an amateur boxer and a pro one.
But I need to be lowering my stance more - that's for sure, coach is always keep saying me this, from video its even more obvious

Feel you bro. I did spent a couple of years doing karate. Still I benefitted a lot from loosening up and lengthening my stroke. More consistency and less strain on my muscles. I am not jacked like you though. That prolly the difference.

 

[SleepyMaster]

Feel you bro. I did spent a couple of years doing karate. Still I benefitted a lot from loosening up and lengthening my stroke. More consistency and less strain on my muscles. I am not jacked like you though. That prolly the difference.

Yeah loosening the wrist is always good thing especially for backhand exchanges, chiquitas etc, but with 09c on forehand I really feel that I need to hit hard. In reality I never played with soft rubbers, so I’m used to loop like that. I feel like I have more control on a harder loop shots

 

[Haito]

Yeah loosening the wrist is always good thing especially for backhand exchanges, chiquitas etc, but with 09c on forehand I really feel that I need to hit hard. In reality I never played with soft rubbers, so I’m used to loop like that. I feel like I have more control on a harder loop shots

No no. Loosen up your whole body. Not only the wrist. I think there are more competent people to explain the "idealistic version of the technique". When I play topspins I use arms and wrist to finish the stroke. Core to start the motion.

 

[Haito]

When you are doing BH loop. You kind of use the same muscle groups.

 

[Haito]

I guess what I am trying to say is that majority of the time I can see a lot of tension in you and that messes up both body and mind. Harder to focus, harder to loosen up for the next shot. With tension I personally could never get decent consistency

 

[SleepyMaster]

No no. Loosen up your whole body. Not only the wrist. I think there are more competent people to explain the "idealistic version of the technique". When I play topspins I use arms and wrist to finish the stroke. Core to start the motion.

I didn't really tense at all. Maybe the type of my build lead you to this opinion. I can hit gazillion balls without breaking a sweat. This is hard asf to continuously loop with tensioned and squeezed body, I don't even believe its possible. Im doing TT for a little more than a year, so my movement is not super duper TT orthodox but the point that I need to be relaxed before I hit I get since I was kid

 

[ander999]

No, buddy, its Kyiv - the great capital of Ukraine

Gotcha, just looked like the same facility as that in table_tennis_roman's instagram. Would love to visit sometime after this war is finished

 

[Richie]

For only having played a bit more than a year, especially as an adult, you must've made a lot of progress, nice job. Looks like you started out in a good training environment. You have a lot of potential to improve more as well.

It took me a few years to even get a proper racket that could spin the ball. 😂

 

[SleepyMaster]

Gotcha, just looked like the same facility as that in table_tennis_roman's instagram. Would love to visit sometime after this war is finished

I’m pretty sure Roman is from Odessa, our hall is in Kyiv - and it’s one of the best here. We have players of all calibers in it.
After the war is over, we will be very glad to see all the TT enthusiasts in our beautiful city. I was in a lot of cities: from New York to Tokyo, but there is something special and magical in Kyiv. Trees, nature, people and food here is really awesome. And TT lessons with a really good (national level coach) can be pretty affordable 🏓

 

[SleepyMaster]

For only having played a bit more than a year, especially as an adult, you must've made a lot of progress, nice job. Looks like you started out in a good training environment. You have a lot of potential to improve more as well.

It took me a few years to even get a proper racket that could spin the ball. 😂

Thanks a lot, I put a huge effort and work in to it, doing various sports from young age is helping too. Plus I have really good coach (I can see the deference, bc I’m a coach as well with 15+ years of exp)

But I’m little bit stuck now in terms of progress, maybe bc of the surgery and medicine that i take for recovery, maybe another guys from the team, that already were far experienced than me (6 years to 11 of training) making more progress till I recovered, and minding my heart business, but it is what it is. I was in the first roles, and now I’m stuck in the middle with inconsistent results.

Environment that i get to is pushing me the only way - to progress, so the only thing I can do - is to keep training 🤜🏻

 

[Haito]

Thanks a lot, I put a huge effort and work in to it, doing various sports from young age is helping too. Plus I have really good coach (I can see the deference, bc I’m a coach as well with 15+ years of exp)

But I’m little bit stuck now in terms of progress, maybe bc of the surgery and medicine that i take for recovery, maybe another guys from the team, that already were far experienced than me (6 years to 11 of training) making more progress till I recovered, and minding my heart business, but it is what it is. I was in the first roles, and now I’m stuck in the middle with inconsistent results.

Environment that i get to is pushing me the only way - to progress, so the only thing I can do - is to keep training 🤜🏻

I think that you can also work on recovery. After your FH loop, your hand looks like it ends up behind your left ear. Maybe just an illusion. But you seem to take too long to recover. Quicker recovery = more time to prepare for next ball. Using martial arts as a parallel. When you hit someone in your face you don't keep your hand in the air. You immediately pull it back to guard (sorry I do not know a proper word, in direct translation from Polish guard = ready position in martial arts)

 

[blahness]

The weight transfer and arm movement is all there on both wings which makes it quite good and relaxed (amazing for 2 year experience!! I was an annoying pusher and blocker for my first few years lol). The thing I think could be improved is to widen the stance (distance between feet) and that would allow you to bend more on the hips and knees to store more power from the lower body and thus generate more of it in the loop. But more importantly the wider stance allows for more flexibility and reach and also lowers your centre of gravity which makes your eyes closer to the ball and thus more accurate.