Your forehand 3rd ball is very consistent and spinny. And I like how you redirected to play down the line at the end of the clip. That's how you would play vs a penholder irl. His pushes were a little too easy to give you max benefit imo. Would suggest you let him push to 70% or 80% of the...
I counter topspin diagonal forehand loops to my forehand now by default. Switching from reflex blocking to countering was simple but not easy. I trained close to table fh - fh topspin rallies with my coach three times a week for a year. At first I would do it maybe once in a match and block...
Whenever I think about using a specific body part in TT, like using my wrist on serves, or forearm to loop, it only messes me up and never helps. Maybe this is why I am not a very good player lol.
No offense, but it sounds like a mental problem that only you can fix for yourself. We all go through this with nerves. The more you have trained and worked actually makes the self-preserve worse.
It's easy to say and hard to do, but the only cure is to play for fun. You will play much...
Yes, It's good to see you playing where you are the stronger one. So you started this game pushing back all his long serves and getting set to defend. Beginning with the point at 1:32 it's like you flipped a switch and realized you weren't still playing the first guy. From then on you were...
So by posting these coaching snips you are more helping us than the other way round. I hadn't seen that tip before about an extra sort of super-closed backhand followthrough. It was specially interesting because I think your coach said "That's how you get the spin. If you stop [stops with tip...
You are playing quite close to the table so I think you can get good quality with only waist rotation and no knees really. You may need them more to open vs backspin. It would be interesting to see you do an exercise where you serve, he pushes to your fh, then you go into the loop vs block...
Question for admins: I edited the last post for clarity. Whenever I do that it loses all the paragraph spacing and formatting.
Does it show up as one big text block to everyone now?
That's kind of annoying and hard to read - how can I stop that from happening when I want to edit my posts?
Okay, watched the rest and I did see a lot of good backhands. You have good feeling and technique, I really feel like some gameplay / tactical stuff is letting you down.You really do always play your fh topspin to his forehand. Simply cannot be that predictable. It's like you are training with...
It's great that you posted a match. I watched the first two games so initial feedback.
This opponent is a level or two better than you. That shows in the trouble you had with serve and receive, and him being able to counter many of your forehand topspins for winners. Which is good video to...
Funny to see the scorekeeper smile and nod after the early point where you hit about five consecutive backhands. Being so strong on that wing seems to really support your pips-out fh because you don't have to give up table position to play forehands from the backhand side. And you are...
It was fun to see you use your body more through the clip. I agree with NDH. At this stage it sounds like your coach is mostly trying to get you to stop doing bad things. With only five months of bad habit development that shouldn't take so very long. But while he is doing that it might be...
I'm not sure if anyone here can comment on your style. Your fh pips smash swings look too long and loose to work reliably, but they clearly do work great. It sounds like health and fitness are your limitations right now.
If you want something to work on maybe the quick, over the table pips...