Yea that was my first tournament, it was the one where I didn't sleep the night before. Then seeing one of our club members playing against danny and hold their own to an extent was pretty exciting.
Nice video BaumschuleYour topspins have a lot of dip and probably a great deal of spin as well. However i felt like those shots were all kill shots and not control shots. So can you do those shots in match conditions?
Also how is your recovery with this somewhat low and across the body end phase of the stroke?
While I obviously know where the majority of the balls go during the video these shots are pretty much how I would play about 90% of balls that are long enough to loop during matchplay so for me these are what you could call control shots. While I really enjoy long rallies my gameplan usually revolves around ending the point with the first or second loop. During the other 10% where I am not able to play the type of stroke I want I use a more soft and slower stroke with more spin rather than speed wich I think you can see a couple of times in the video.
Folow-up post from yesterday:
My usual partner for multiball practice was unavailable and nobody else was either willing or good enough to feed me some balls for a couple of minutes (btw does the expression "feed me some balls" make any sense to native speakers?). So instead I recorded 10 minutes from the session. Firstly I'd like to say that my stroke is not what you would call perfect technique and I know the loop is supposed to end more in front of the head rather than the way I do it. I started with the most basic forehand loop against block drill to get a better feeling for the rubber and then switched it up to a basic 3rd ball attack drill. I guess it went better then yesterday but I'm still not that convinced of the quality of the end product. Except for maybe a few strokes I felt I could produce the same amount of speed and spin with a Roxon wich may simply be due to the fact that the T05 is already used. I also felt like I needed to put in more effort to get the same amount of speed wich may be because Roxon is super light compared to T05 and I was still not used to the heavieness. With all that being said this is obviously far from matchplay so I'm not quite sure how representative this video is.
Also, what do you think about the camera angle? It's the first time I recorded myself and I was not quite sure where to place my phone. I think it's a bit to close to the table.
Oh one last thing: At about 7 minutes the light goes out for a few seconds but we continue after we managed to get it on again so don't think the rest of the video is just blackness
That walking backwards thing is something I do quite often when I don't make the conscious effort to move forward.) and even people playing BOL comment on the speed and power of my forehand so its always a bit hard for me to abandon the thing people like most about my game. Since the season is starting in a few weeks I'm not sure how much I want to change but as I already mentioned in the conversation with nextlevel I'm definitely going to attempt a more looping approach on monday. Maybe I'll post another video for you guys to see how that goes but this one already took 2 hours to upload so I'm not sure. What is different about T64 that makes you think it would suit me better?
baumschule said:
Jep, i think I missed every backhand shot I attempted in the video
Yeah you're right I do drive a lot rather than pure looping. It's part of my game and means I can generate lots of speed even on 3rd ball atacks against heavy backspin. Consistency of my forehand is in general pretty good (for Bezirksliga at least
I'm the biggest offender of this, hence why I brought it up. It makes a huge difference though, and someone your level can probably make more use of the proper position.
