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Hi Brookerbig, thanks for the message - in all honesty...
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Hi Brookerbig, thanks for the message - in all honesty...
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Hi Paul! Thanks for joining here, it's greatly appreciated by all of us Your answers are stunning! It is great go see yiu bounce back from injury!
I want to ask, you had a lot of multi ball when you was younger with a Chinese coach. How important do you think multi ball was to the development of your game?
Hi Dan - thanks, great to be back from injury now fully recovered and thanks for having me on TTD, the No.1 table tennis forum on the internet! Yes I was lucky enough to have multi ball lots as a youngster, my coach Jia Yi Liu was an absolute master of the technique and we used it daily. In China all the players use it in the daily regime too, and the players learn the technique also so they can give each other multi ball. It's brilliant for reinforcing technique and musclle memory, the speed really makes you very sharp and the pressure on you means you can improve things like movement very quickly. It's also an amazing tool for developing table fitness, you can start with one minute bursts then increase gradually. I would say it's a really important and useful tool that helps you to improve a lot of aspects very quickly, but it needs to be used in conjunction with normal practice so your brain learns to anticipate balls played from an opponent at the end of the table - after all, in matches that's what will be happening!