I just created a Youtube channel on my journey to pro!

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Aggressive serve return is a major gap in your game and should be addressed as soon as possible (you pushed way too many side top serves). So should your tendency to almost never attack the middle.

Congrats on a good game.
Yeah I need to work on serve return a lot
 
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As far as I remember Tony said 2400
He said 2600

As much as I admire the kid’s grit and determination, the only way he can probably make money playing TT is being an influencer. He won’t make it to the pro level as many have alr said for a multitude of reasons. But best of luck bro! Hope the channel blows up so it can be your full time job
 

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Considering your age and how long you've been playing, you've made excellent progress. Your technique and footwork is great. I also like your hook serve, as I really couldn't tell what spin you were putting on the ball. As someone else said though, your next step is probably working on your return game and trying to be more aggressive. Your pendulum serve also looks a bit loose (too long, not enough spin or speed). I've subscribed to your channel so I'm looking forward to watching you get even better. Keep up the great work!
 
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Considering your age and how long you've been playing, you've made excellent progress. Your technique and footwork is great. I also like your hook serve, as I really couldn't tell what spin you were putting on the ball. As someone else said though, your next step is probably working on your return game and trying to be more aggressive. Your pendulum serve also looks a bit loose (too long, not enough spin or speed). I've subscribed to your channel so I'm looking forward to watching you get even better. Keep up the great work!
Ok thank you for the kind words
 
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TBH Jayden looks like a 1800 to me
Such statements are broadly unhelpful, even if they are correct, ratings are earned in matches not by how a player looks. The tournament system in the US is different from the predominantly league system in Germany and it can also take time for a player to start executing their dominant game style for many reasons. Kids also tend to show less variation than adults. I find that players in the US tend to look worse vs their European counterparts because they are more willing to win and lose points at the table, while Europeans at the same level tend to be more willing to enter the rally. But if they play multiple matches in either country, such issues tend to just result in the same broad rating.
 
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Such statements are broadly unhelpful, even if they are correct, ratings are earned in matches not by how a player looks. The tournament system in the US is different from the predominantly league system in Germany and it can also take time for a player to start executing their dominant game style for many reasons. I find that players in the US tend to look worse vs their European counterparts because they are more willing to win and lose points at the table, while Europeans at the same level tend to be more willing to enter the rally. But if they play multiple matches in either country, such issues tend to just result in the same broad rating.
Yes. I think its annoying when people call people overrated. i think underrated is fine but they have that rating because that is what they earned
 
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This is how you play after 1-2years only? Wtf. I guess having a good coach who can teach you the foundations and a good trainings emvironment helps a lot.

Also really cool that you edit your videos on your own (which software?) Even though I also film myself I can't get myself to edit each and every point with a scoresheet (I just put the camera there lol)

Also how does your training look like?how do you train - what drills? what is the focus right now ?

I am also surprised rating in the US is so high. In our rating system I would rate you a good 1250-1300 I think.
 
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This is how you play after 1-2years only? Wtf. I guess having a good coach who can teach you the foundations and a good trainings emvironment helps a lot.

Also really cool that you edit your videos on your own (which software?) Even though I also film myself I can't get myself to edit each and every point with a scoresheet (I just put the camera there lol)

Also how does your training look like?how do you train - what drills? what is the focus right now ?

I am also surprised rating in the US is so high. In our rating system I would rate you a good 1250-1300 I think.
Every rating system measures the players registered in its pool and the number is not designed to convert to another pool just by looking at the number. Until you have a group of players who havs ratings in both systems, it is hard to measure objectively the playing strength with conversion. Kids (because they are usually new to the playing level their rating describes, something similar applies to rapidly improving adults) also have more gaps in their game, but this also means that that they look better and worse vs specific styles. Unless you know a few players with TTRs in Austria who have also played in the USA, any conversion is subject to personal bias because watching a player struggle often underestimates what they do well and overestimates what they do badly. I remember someone watching me miss a lot of long serves loops into the net when trying to loop them and instead of concluding that the serve was deceptively heavy, the conclusion was that I didn't know how to loop long serves. Usually having seen someone whose strength you objectively know play an opponent can help you better appreciate what is going on.

If the kid is supposedly 1250 in your system, then your system is very different from the TTR system in Germany. Even from where I sit, the kid executed a lot of good pushes on backspin serves, something players stronger than him don't do so well. He also opened aggressively with the forehand when rhe opponent pushed long. Off the bounce countertopspin vs an opening loop is something I have never seen you do, yet this @KTableTennis competently executed this shot on a few points with his forehand. Might have been luck but he did it at least.

That his backhand and overall approach to returning hook sidespin serves with a topspin element, especially when served deceptively to the short forehand, needs improvement is no guarantee that the struggles were not about trying to read a good serve vs just being a bad serve returner. But these are all things you get a better impression of when you watch multiple matches. I have played pros whose backhand is a weakness for their level but when I play them, I cannot block their shots (many people who say Quadri's backhand is weak would never beat him in a backhand match).

I say all this as someone who has watched a decade of people play "guess the rating" and come up with laughably bad estimates based on overestimating some things and underestimating others. It isn't easy to tell game reading skills and anticipation from watching a match, but they are probably the biggest rating determinants and are why you need to watch an opponent play someone you know to often appreciate their true strength.

My feeling watching him is that his playing against you would be a competitive match. Your rating estimate implies you do not believe this is the case. That is why absent of actual matches or data, such statements are broadly unhelpful.
 
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This is how you play after 1-2years only? Wtf. I guess having a good coach who can teach you the foundations and a good trainings emvironment helps a lot.

Also really cool that you edit your videos on your own (which software?) Even though I also film myself I can't get myself to edit each and every point with a scoresheet (I just put the camera there lol)

Also how does your training look like?how do you train - what drills? what is the focus right now ?

I am also surprised rating in the US is so high. In our rating system I would rate you a good 1250-1300 I think.
thank you. in the us the rating system most people says is around 300 points higher than ttr.
I train with my partners on mondays wendsdays for 3 hours then 2 hours on fridays i practice on saturday with my training partner for 3-4 hours. and when i am not at the club i practice at my house for 1-2 hours with my robot. and I am super happy because I am now starting 2 private lessons per week
 
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