Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

Der_Echte said:

NL knows, but for newer forum members Baal is 1 level better than NL or me.

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Boogar said:

So i thought id open up a thread where we can talk about our everyday tabletennis.
This goes as follows

Today i hit the club at 18:15 or 6:15 PM as you would call it . From 6:15 to 7:45 the kiddys have their training and I help coaching them, as good as i can .
At 7:45 the grown up training starts, well its not rly a training more like playing with each other as we have no coach or good players.

Anyways i start hitting with my trainingspartner first some standart drills like counter on counter and then topspin on block for FH and BH. After that some third ball attacks on long backspin pushes. Today i really felt the training i have been doing over the last weeks, i have accustomed myself with the new bat and I can keep the new grip up for longer

Then we did down the line topspins on block and inside out FH from the BH corner with some footwork exercises.

Ah jea i almost forgot i finally got a decent forehandflick, a little note of my trainings partner helped me and it made Click It was such an easy shot all along and i have been over thinking it way too much. So that made me happy for today!

For the last 30 minutes i played two matches. One against a sort of chopper, blocker. For the first time in along time my fh ingame felt very natural and i could attack the third balls and long balls! Yay! Btw NL post on the mind of an attacker helped me big deal! I won in three straight games as my opponent couldnt block my topspins on the table.

The last game i played against a LP player who also likes to attack. He switched to LP recently and has gotten better with them. At first i was leading by a great deal and thought i migth try out some stuff, typicaly i overestimated myself and lost in the end. However we only played one game as we had to leave the club before 10 PM. Otheriwse the janitor will get tantrums.

I also wanted to play with a new girl who joined today. She plays very well and i will try to get a match with her next time

I took the tram home and made myself some delicious croque monsieurs

So how was your tabletennis day? I am eager to know

Cheers

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Suga D said:

Hey Boogar,
I'm not sure if this has been pointed out before, so i might as well say it anyway.
Although I don't post a lot here, I just wanted to acknowledge that this thread of yours has gotta be one of the most popular threads made here if not the most popular.
More than a hundred Pages!!! That's really crayzayyy.
Thanks for seeing the necessity of this here and congrats, buddy.
Good 1.

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songdavid98 said:

How do you know?

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NextLevel said:

You work with Good coaches and you are older than most of us and I have never seen video of your play so I won't ask for it. All of that caveated, the usual culprit is not athleticism or moving too much but that one is not moving in response to the ball. Usually people are moving too early in rote fashion and overstepping in anticipation of where they think the ball will be hit to. This is often the case on fast drills.

Practical footwork requires you to respond after the ball is hit and very often the feet are the last things to move. You can watch top players. They are often swinging at the ball with their feet in the air.

Of course, as we get older, such footwork might be impractical for a variety of reasons. But I am just pointing this out because I used to think I was over or under stepping. I later realized that even if I had the footwork right, your footwork never practical if you are moving before you know where the ball is going to in a manner similar to to match situations. I can pivot and cross to just about any easy ball despite having terrible knees. It's when I pivot or cross in response to a fast push or topspin that I know that I am doing the real thing.

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OldschoolPenholder said:

So the site won't accept I phone or d ump

Not sure how to interpret that lol

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Baal said:

Yep. Some things to think about. I actually seem to move better in free play than drills. Not sure what that means (well except that I am cheating on the drills maybe, like you say). I am very fit and these days relatively injury.

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UpSideDownCarl said:

Why that may even be where the secret hideout came from. It's a good thing nobody can figure out where the entrance to the secret hideout is since we can keep causing it to change locations; there are even entrances in, London, Beijing, Hamburg, Brooklyn, Philly and DC.

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