Recent content by Der_Echte

I also did not see the ball worth a crap too, it was my worst tourney, did not win any matches. I do not dwell on it, after that tourney, I probably played the best doubles back to back matches I ever played in the Sac tourney a few weeks later. My partner's daughter saw both matches and asked...

Too bad I showed up to the tourney totally not ready to compete, bad weeks of work and sleep, I couldn't even get 2-3 inches into a squat. That can happen and one gets what they deserve showing up to competition like that. Bright side of it is, I am not that un-ready to compete most of the time...

Try to ensure elbow is in front of body/ribcage by at least 6 inches or more to give you leverage and reaction to both sides, also gives much better first step. Maybe I see you live one day and have it make sense to you.

Drugs are real, both the steroids for physical and those for mental focus... some of the latter can really wreck you.

Maybe time to pimp the Der_Echte Special again.

Here is a medium vid of a dude promoting my former Korean TT club.

An older vid of one of their Thursday weekly league final... so you get an idea how Korean Ah-Chu-Ma players play vs inverted guy players. EDIT: You have to click on the WATCH ON YOUTUBE to see the vid

Achtung @Lula hehe

Korea's best Long Pips coach - Yoo Doo-Joon with one of his dozens of Yong-In TTC LP players. She just got one of those Nexy Korea custom fitted blades and slapped on one of those OX LP rubbers (Monkey OX) on the backhand side and is practicing a certain dynamic serve and LP pressure sequence...

Another totally unrelated issue she articulates in this and many other vids is disagreeing with how many players are trained. She argues that training at just one speed or tempo while learning and improving shots really hurts ones match play. I agree with her and she says to train for many...

Getting the ball to the strike zone starts with skill number one in TT - reading the impact and knowing where/when/how the ball will come and what to do with it. That is the number one skill I refer to. I stated skill number one in my quote from previous post...but this was in the context of...

Here is why I state that reading the opponent's impact is number one skill. If one does not immediately see what happened, and know where the ball is going in 3D space and time to one's endline AND quickly decide the response... then that player will be in the wrong place at the wrong time with...

God willing, you WILL be one day in the O70 Division and maybe I will be there too, same terms and conditions mentioned beforehand. The clock is ticking on all of us.

I believe that REGARDLESS of your efforts to hit center of sweet spot, it is first important to time the ball to the center of the strike zone. That is the number one skill in TT for every shot. If one is not seeing the impact, not discerning what happened, decides almost immediately how to...

In coaching, like nearly 100% of Korean ex-pro coaches, and even Werner Schlager hizself... I advocate for aiming to strike ball on blade in center of sweet spot, not a particular place on the blade. That is consistent and blade will not deflect, giving more consistent impact. Also, it is much...