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You are right though, there is a psychological element to it as well that causes tightening + lack of experience against the opponent and other things I'm sure. But with some movements I am more careful than I used to be.

I had also played the whole day and because of my injuries I'm a little bit "careful" with my movements

I was incredibly frustrated this match, as you'll see in my body language. I couldn't block the guys loop, I had some poor execution on some "easier" balls and didn't start thinking about how to play the guy until too late. I played one more match right after this one that I'll post soon. I...

Everything suggests that this is the approach I should take as well. I complain about my own game a lot in real matches. I've been back and forth trying to do something about it. Sometimes I've managed to be totally quiet no matter what, but each time I did that it took a lot of self control. I...

That's usually how I feel in training. But, because I usually train with the same guys and have relatively limited exposure compared to them, playing others in real matches is quite different for me. I feel like I have to be more focused as I don't know exactly what's coming. I can really see...

I remember reading Bounce way before I started taking table tennis seriously. Oh how my mind has changed about things. I've tried that "it is only Table Tennis" line before. Couldn't remember it from the book, but I could never get stuff like that to work for me. It just doesn't matter that...

Doubles from one of the league matches yesterday. When I find some more time I will upload some singles too. These two doubles games were pretty important, winning either determined whether we would stay in division 2 or get moved down. So one win would take off the pressure and the rest of the...

I'm starting to question my sanity.. I spent 13 hours in the table tennis hall today. There was a big time gap between playing the two teams, so we were waiting hours for the other team. It was the qualification whether we would go down a division or stay, we managed to win enough to stay in...

We were wondering the same about Karlsson and Falck. I don't know why they didn't play. Källberg played against Elias Ranefur in the semis, Elias did very well to get there and pressured Källberg well. Anton won 4-3.

Wow, that's incredible!

I was at the Swedish national champs yesterday and today, there were some epic games. Truls is just too strong. Just some out of this world serve and receive, deception in the open game, power and feeling. It truly looks and feels alien to me to be able to play like that. PS. you can see the...

The coordination and control/ball feeling this man has is out of this world

Today we had a player from the UK visiting us to help us out in our final league match. What a point :D and the comment from the Danish player :ROFLMAO:

This reminds me of the time FZD said he likes eating nutella.. :ROFLMAO:

I'm still struggling with some injury in my right knee and hip, the fysio says it's muscular.. I've been pretty bad at doing the exercises lately as not much seems to help. Been a bit demotivated, but it will of course only get worse if I ignore it.. so it's time to take it more seriously again.

Thanks, but don't get tricked by the highlights :D. It's also special playing against someone you've trained with a lot. As for your question, for anyone that's interested I should probably provide a bit of context as just saying x years played doesn't say a whole lot. Maybe I'll make another...

It's not easy to win points against this guy when: 1. I can't hit hard 2. I get read like a book 3. He gets everything back A while ago we had an identical point that went on a little longer AND he got that last shot in. This is why we will try to record every match :ROFLMAO:

It's amazing you can get this power even with your knee issues, you've worked around the problem nicely. Of course, it does put a bit more pressure on timing. Your FH and BH look quite balanced to me. Playing closer to the table like this is how I "should" play :D

I don't think it's so much that they don't take interest, but that they just don't know how to coach adults well and some just rattle off the most common advice because that has "worked" when coaching young players. Kids imo, learn more through playing a ton, messing around, copying good...

It's funny that you mention the leg pushing thing, because it was you who gave me similar advice and as you saw the very next session I had, it made some difference. I can only speak for myself here, but I've had many many misconceptions about technique and getting these perceptions kind of...