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Hope you guys had a good Xmas. Haven’t had much chance to play over the last couple of weeks. last time I played was in a serve receive group coaching session run by Tom Lodziak, 5hrs of TT, real work out of the old knees!! Took about 3 days for them to recover!! Great session, went through the...

Kicker serve, sometimes these bounce up slightly more, or appear to, or is it that the ball shoots forward faster than expected. Players get caught out by the 2nd bounce.

Tonight I had the 1st run out with Jupiter 3, I got mixed up with which blade it is on!! It’s actually on the SDC Primorac clone, and the H8-80 is on the SDC defensive blade. I started off knocking up with the H8-80/H9 combo on the Stiga Def Pro and then used the J3 on the Primorac Clone, the...

Well the H9 and RZ/RZ EH turned up a day early!! sweet!! Stuck the H9 on a blade that has H8-80 on it (old sheet) Haven't stuck on the new sheets of RZ / RZ EH on my to go blade yet so the old sheets will have to do!! so tonight 1 can test the all of them against each other!! (all UNBOOSTED) Set...

Well the EJ bug has reared it’s head again, after about 6-9 months of Rakza Z. I needed new sheets of Rakza Z and Z EH and thought I’d order some other rubbers as well, so after reading this thread I ordered 2 sheets of Jupiter 3, 38 and 39 degree, 2 sheets of H8-80 37 and 38 degree, 1 sheet...

Hi Gozo, Dips and Peaks, it's always gonna be there, 1 thing improves and another "seems" to get worse. This is part and parcel of being coached and learning. If you are doing a lot of random training then it's the hardest type of training, anything with disruption or decision making involved...

On Sunday I played in a Veterans tournament in Bristol. As I hadn’t played in a Vetts comp before I was in the lowest band - 9. 8 players in the group, so everyone plays 7 matches, a lot of games to get through!! Started at 09.30 finished at 17.30, we had to use 2 tables, (after a table became...

Hi LDM7, In the same situation regarding looking after a parent, in my case it’s my dad, 88yrs old, deaf as post!! Heart issues, mobility issues, coping with the loss of his wife of 60yrs, living alone. Cleaning, shopping, checking in everyday etc etc it becomes the ‘norm’ but it ain’t easy...

Anything that adds stress will affect TT game, I found this to be the case 18 - 24 months ago, similar situation to LDM7, Looking after 2 elderly parents + COVID, mother was in and out of hospital, eventually she passed away aged 90. It was expected, so not a shock, but still stressful. At the...

Prey tell LDM7

Rakza Z is a decent rubber, it has high (ish) throw angle for top spin stroke so this helps when playing top spin v backspin. the opposite for pushing v back spin, it takes a bit of getting used to, you have to open the blade more when pushing v back spin. If you do go for Rakza Z, go for the...

Tonight at coaching, after the 1st hour of coaching the youngsters, I was paired with Jason, he’s one of the better adults that attend. It was just what I needed!!! We did some good routines, especially FH and BH open ups v backspin. Consistency improved as the session went on, started to move...

LDM7 - oh yeah, I forgot, I do have a dead no spin hook serve.

Hi LDM7 I played Rai about 1 month ago, (the club he plays for has 2 teams in the division, he was playing 'up' for their 'A' team this time) last time out I beat him comfortably 3-0, didn't feel pressured at all during that match. Rai was my 2nd opponent of the evening, 1st opponent was a...

https://youtu.be/zQsrXz52NPk Hi, latest video from a match last night. rushed to post this, off to work now!! More about opponent later.

Hi LDM7, Got a match tomorrow tonight, I'll get some footage.

Hey Wrighty, Good going in those handicap matches, you played pretty well !!! Didn’t play OVER safe, controlled, didn’t waste too many chances. Nicely done !!!

That’s one of the observations I made, in fact the whole arm looks sort of fixed and rigid sometimes. Loosen the grip, let the tip of bat feel ‘heavy’, let your wrist go sort of limp!!!

In desperate need of some structured coaching sessions myself !! Too busy with matches and coaching others. Match results haven’t been good over the last couple of weeks, played 15 singles, won 4, lost 11. 2 out of the 5 matches have been against teams that are top of the respective leagues...

Using the free hand, is one of the things Ti Long advocates, But he likes to see the free arm pulled back slightly, pulled away from the ball, both FH & BH