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Buttefly Forever!!!
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Buttefly Forever!!!
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So Carl introduced to me Marcos' special training, sure will make my short game go ballistic. No problem. Hitting against the edge of the table is hard, I get it. I respect that, but against a wall? Too easy, I'm gonna nail this. Easy Peasy.In Table Tennis, the terms TOUCH and FEEL refer to the art of how you contact the ball and how you feel the ball while it is on the surface of your rubber and blade face.
Below is a video. It shows Marcos Freitas doing some technical exercises that require a high degree of touch and feel. If you practiced the one where Freitas his hitting the ball against the edge of the table, except, perhaps started by doing this hitting the ball against a wall so you had a bigger window for success, this would help you improve how you touch the ball, because, for sure, how you touch the ball is absolutely an area you could improve:Any of the other exercises would also help you gain control over the blade face. But probably, where you are at, the one that would be most useful for you to try and practice would be the first skill.
Until reality sinks in. I tried doing the first drill on a wall. It was surprisingly very difficult. The window of success and failure is so thin. Too soft and the ball limps away and too hard, the ball bounce away. I tried it until 10.30pm at night until my family complained to me saying they can't sleep while hearing the sound of ping-pong ball.