Perform in multiball but not in game

[Pe-ter]

Adding my grain of salt here. Recently I bought a robot and had some drills, pure FH, pure BH, short backspin serve followed by a long backspin "push" etc, mix of FH and BH to the side, middle, other side, middle, etc. Today we had a TT tournament at the company where I work at and it came down to the final 4 (myself being one of them)...so yesterday in the evening I went downstairs to have some prep for today...doing mostly FH or BH drills with ball placement approx. to the same place. Today I lost both matches (with a 3rd place match) ended in 4th place, earning the (as we call it) potato medal.
Stuff that I'm capable of doing in practice/multi ball I can't perform in matches. And I think one of many reasons is that with a multi ball session (placement on the table doesn't matter) teaches you to go for the shot even if you miss. So I did today and lost. I was not patient enough to prepare the winner and I lost so many points because I wanted to perform a 3rd ball attack or to loop a backspin and it ended in the net (most of them were long and low to the FH side). My point here is that a coach during multi ball or robot is feeding you balls and you do not really care if you hit it or not. You are being shot at with 60 balls per minute and even if you hit like 45-50 of them, in a match you have just that one shot.
So, yeah, I'm in the same boat, doing well/decent with a robot (sometimes even practice matches) but playing crap in matches that matter.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Adding my grain of salt here. Recently I bought a robot and had some drills, pure FH, pure BH, short backspin serve followed by a long backspin "push" etc, mix of FH and BH to the side, middle, other side, middle, etc. Today we had a TT tournament at the company where I work at and it came down to the final 4 (myself being one of them)...so yesterday in the evening I went downstairs to have some prep for today...doing mostly FH or BH drills with ball placement approx. to the same place. Today I lost both matches (with a 3rd place match) ended in 4th place, earning the (as we call it) potato medal.
Stuff that I'm capable of doing in practice/multi ball I can't perform in matches. And I think one of many reasons is that with a multi ball session (placement on the table doesn't matter) teaches you to go for the shot even if you miss. So I did today and lost. I was not patient enough to prepare the winner and I lost so many points because I wanted to perform a 3rd ball attack or to loop a backspin and it ended in the net (most of them were long and low to the FH side). My point here is that a coach during multi ball or robot is feeding you balls and you do not really care if you hit it or not. You are being shot at with 60 balls per minute and even if you hit like 45-50 of them, in a match you have just that one shot.
So, yeah, I'm in the same boat, doing well/decent with a robot (sometimes even practice matches) but playing crap in matches that matter.

you need brains behind the feed
with out brains, and quality of feed, I would advise against multiball.
some of TB's feed (and his mate) are really low quality to be honest and an unrealistic feed (include that of 60 balls a min for example) will do more harm than good.

the speed of feed is dependent on the players ability and would shift when the player is tired to a slower feed, to allow the play to push the body to new territories - and that last bit, is the purpose of multiball training.

 

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you need brains behind the feed
with out brains, and quality of feed, I would advise against multiball.
some of TB's feed (and his mate) are really low quality to be honest and an unrealistic feed (include that of 60 balls a min for example) will do more harm than good.

the speed of feed is dependent on the players ability and would shift when the player is tired to a slower feed, to allow the play to push the body to new territories - and that last bit, is the purpose of multiball training.

Any videos out there to show how to feed well for different situations?

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Any videos out there to show how to feed well for different situations?

I actually made one some time last year to show one of the rural coaches in south africa on how to feed better.
but i didn't make it for public production.
I guess this is probably an important video, as there is only videos on how to hit balls, but not much videos about how to feeder better, as without a good feed, it is impossible to have quality training.

 

[PenHoldSandro]

There's a lot of reasons why someone can't perform in matches what they do in Practice.
A common one is they fail to watch the ball. They can't recognize if the serve is going long and they end up playing safe. A lot of the game is muscle memory or just memory. Gotta remember what to look for and then what to do.

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