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Don't discount the DJ, he might put us in a trance.

It's his style, I usually open more. Actually this time I got really tired and gave away many openings in the end.. it was 3 best of 5 after all. They were even but he took all 3 this time. Usually he has a slight edge against me. Just too consistent and I make more mistakes.

I believe Lula made that comment last too 😆 Antonis has never played tennis, but he has been involved in many other sports. Golf, handball, soccer and more. Our styles make for some really enjoyable points. I don't usually get this with other players 😀 We've also trained a ton together, we know...

The "winning against players I should beat" seems to be common at all levels. I've really tried to reframe this as it has happened to me many times. The truth is imo that those players often have some good qualities, it's just that they don't fit the model of what we imagine a "good" player to...

Yeah this hits me hard as well lol. So many times I've been nervous - gone on to play erratically or stupidly, get more frustrated and throw away point after point. It really feels awful and worse than having actually lost the match. The more difficult but better approach is to learn to just be...

In my experience, we need to be okay playing with nerves. There is no magic trick to just remove them, but by learning to be more ok with them and with enough exposure they should affect your play less and probably lessen a bit. You can also think about what's driving your nerves and maybe...

Thanks for the kind comment NL. People should be even happier about your and the other members like you, Carl, Echte, BRS etc contributions to helping adult learners. I keep track of most of the posts and they are very motivating.

Hi all, I usually post my videos in the TTD chat thread, but I thought I'd make my own thread and post everything here from now on. I don't record many of my matches these days, so we'll see how much activity there will be. But I'm trying to record more of my matches against some of my...

11-6 Dima

Will dark mode be making a return? :D

This is been my goal with the BH for some time after seeing how effective my teammates BH has been . He doesn't hit the ball very hard, just rolls into the ball and creates more spin than you'd think just seeing the motion. I've liked hitting hard backhands, it's probably the most satisfying...

As we see, what we believe to be basic principles really aren't basic principles at all. It's tough, because it's very easy to interpret a lot of advice as absolute. I still do it, even though I know it's dangerous I'd say this skill in particular, taking the ball later, is relatively easier...

Truls with his extremely rare and creative playstyle is 1-dimensional? Can you elaborate what you mean?

I think this is a total myth. It's really contextual. https://youtu.be/8nN-REA-fSE?t=84How about in the video above which also shows the upperbody coming back on the BH vs push? If you need to lift backspin, especially if it's heavy, you might need to go back a little for the added lift. But...

I can identify with the bolded part. When I really got into table tennis and wanted to improve I felt like I lacked the information to improve. It was always extremely frustrating to find that even really good players couldn’t give good information. And I do seem to be a sucker for accurate...

I really don't think it means what you think it means. I didn't watch the match, but it's possible he's not playing with 100% focus because he knows he can pull out what he needs to win when he wants to. Some lack of focus and possibly luck or if their opponent is playing really well, it's not...

Thanks NDH 😄 I think it was the TTnuri channel that said, that the order of how things are done are very important. This is the takeaway from pro players imo. Every single pro executes technique in a certain order which proves the point above. Their exact backswing, stroke structure etc varies...

I get what you're saying. But in my opinion, if someone only has a great BH or FH in warm up, then they don't have a great BH or FH at all. But if they do have that situation, that's better than having no BH or FH but having good feet. Because even if they manage to move perfectly to the ball...

I'm still doing rehab for my right leg (seems to be a muscular issue with my hip flexor and knee) with now another physiotherapist. So I'm only doing the exercises he gives me. Some rubber band exercises focusing on the lower body. But I could probably do a little more. Some light running etc...

For sure. I actually don't know what to focus on in my training anymore, or what drills to do. But since this may be affecting my FH-BH transition it does seem in my interest to change. What do you guys think I should focus on? Right now I mostly do the same stuff every training and don't think...