I improved my game gainst pimples using slow and ultra slow motion footage of Wang Manu Vs Honoka Hashimoto, and drills on pongbot nova s pro robot.

[Bearded Ste]

 

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Nice video and overall good message. But, IMO, the logic is slightly different.

Honoka is not an attacking player that uses pips only to disturb the opponent. She is chopping 95% of the time... Hitomi Sato is more aggressive, but still not like Yuto Maramatso and Ruwen Filus. The last one openly states that he is attacking player.

The level of under spin that you are trying to lift is not very high. Pongbot is like 60 rpm max, that drops to under 50 after the bounce. Your opponent creates similar or less spin, but the balls are very high and slow. It is normal to take some time to readjust your lifting technic. BTW, what is his winning ratio against short pips attackers?

The goal is just to pass net height, lifting more will sacrifice speed. Focus on speed with little bit of lifting. Inverted rubbers can kill some of the incoming spin just by sinking the ball more into the sponge. That can happen when you meet the ball with higher speed. More sinking, less brushing. Slow balls half a meter above the table are pure gifts - your opponent needs to remember that after your next match.

 

[Bearded Ste]

Nice video and overall good message. But, IMO, the logic is slightly different.

Honoka is not an attacking player that uses pips only to disturb the opponent. She is chopping 95% of the time... Hitomi Sato is more aggressive, but still not like Yuto Maramatso and Ruwen Filus. The last one openly states that he is attacking player.

The level of under spin that you are trying to lift is not very high. Pongbot is like 60 rpm max, that drops to under 50 after the bounce. Your opponent creates similar or less spin, but the balls are very high and slow. It is normal to take some time to readjust your lifting technic. BTW, what is his winning ratio against short pips attackers?

The goal is just to pass net height, lifting more will sacrifice speed. Focus on speed with little bit of lifting. Inverted rubbers can kill some of the incoming spin just by sinking the ball more into the sponge. That can happen when you meet the ball with higher speed. More sinking, less brushing. Slow balls half a meter above the table are pure gifts - your opponent needs to remember that after your next match.

I don't know his winning ratio against short pips attackers. Hashimoto's main play is defence but she's a very competent attacker. Against Wang Manu, she needed to be strong in her attack to keep Manyu under pressure. That's just my assessment though. I may be wrong. As per the video, I used to chop and top against medium and long pips. Wang Manyu played persistent slow, high loops off the pips and lower, faster shots off Hashimoto's tacky rubber. I wanted to try this technique, which seemed to work well. I'm not kidding myself that I'm going to produce shots like Wang Manyu or receive shots with the quality Hashimoto puts on the ball. The Pongbot works for my needs and level. It's not easy to find a player or machine to feed balls to practice against this style.