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+1 yes there should be a goal for each practice session, it should never be just blind playing games or rallying. For me too I'm always working on something in training regardless of the opponent and sometimes that means allowing them to play their strengths instead of exploiting their...

It's not just about 2nd or 3rd ball attacks but the threat level of your shots which could be placement, spin related too.

OP plays a solid game, but everything in his game (from serve/receive to rallying) is focused on safety with not a lot of sting or variation in them. There is no killer instinct in his game. Some of the 3rd balls should have been killed without mercy as theyre just asking for it - high and not...

I'm not sure why is it 200 IQ stuff (sounds more like Youtube clickbait to me) - to me this is quite standard tactics from more 1-wing players as they want to get their strong FH in. For e.g. deep push to middle instead of short push to avoid the wide angles, force a weaker loop and then do a...

Probably you need to adjust your placement of the serve to BH side (especially those wide ones that curve back into the table), and it has to be a faster short serve (less time to 1st bounce). These are very hard to place to your FH because of the sidespin and the short distance. The most likely...

Yes that is the benefit of the BH serve - recovery is much easier. If you're serving the classic way (FH serve in the BH corner), you need to do a rotation + weight transfer from right foot to your left foot and then use that rotation to return you to ready position by the 2nd bounce of your...

Probably the easiest way to get more points is to really train up a nasty serve game. Against even my practice partner who faces my serve regularly I can still usually get like 4 free direct points per game especially if he is not using LP to receive. Against some new opponents I don't even need...

Yep saw those too. Anyway I've thought about it and I think I'm gonna rethink my approach to the FH a bit. Maybe it's better to have a big bazooka FH rather than a smaller FH that is focused more on continuity. I can't keep up with all the tricky spin changes from these penholders, might as...

I have been testing going more forward with my FH loop so that I finish with the elbow in front of me rather than it still on the right side. So what this does is it increased the quality of the loop quite a bit especially in terms of the speed. This allowed me to put more pressure without...

A little bit reminiscent of Felix Lebrun's style except its shakehand. Promising!

Hey you already have a robot and table at home to train as much as you want!

I had a chat with one of the senior coaches and he said I have a good serve/receive game and very high quality on my 1st loop, but then after that I can't sustain the attack with very good consistency after the 3rd,4th loop, and my feet are not finding the correct spots to hit the ball. He...

I think most modern players stand in a flexible square-ish stance where you can hit with both wings with either leg in front depending on the scenario. Heck I even see Ma Long and Fan Zhendong training FH loop to loop with right leg in front. I feel like it's something I need to unlock - the...

Went back to the drawing board a bit and practiced a lot of whole table topspin countering today as I want to become a topspin rally monster. So the drill is they will block/counter and do whatever they want to random placements and I will quick loop everything back to their BH. I'm doing boxes...

Yep this works against them and it's one of my fav point winning patterns except I tend to use more sideswipes - I give them sidespin curving away at a very wide angle and then sidespin counter it the other corner with the opposite sidespin. But it's not always possible in game play for eg if...

I kinda dig your method. I had a lot of success when I simply started blasting big BHs to their wide FH lol. But it's very hard to do that when they're going to my wide BH, and if I drop the quality I'm too afraid of their FH attack. So basically the pattern is that they go wide to my BH and...

thanks all for the advice. It seems like basically it's: a) Try to vary the 1st loop enough to drastically reduce the success rates of the chopblock. Spin, placement, etc... b) move into position fast, try to get a FH loopkill in aka dingyibvs style. This is probably what I lack because I...

Lol at Hao Shuai still being 5th best in the world in this list!

This is not strictly correct - you only need enough tackiness to engage the sponge correctly, then the topsheet elasticity does its job - similar to catapult in the normal direction (for speed) you also have catapult in the tangential direction (for spin). If spin was completely dependent on...

So this is kinda a common situation I face now (due to facing off against too many twiddling pips penholders). I do an opening loop and it gets spin reversed (with my own spin) using the pips to form a kinda disgusting return that has quite a bit of underspin and sometimes side underspin and...