Der, where are you from?
I would think NorCal, but if you ever come down to OC let me know and we can play at OCTTA 
Der, where are you from?
I would think NorCal, but if you ever come down to OC let me know and we can play at OCTTA
Where is Der_Echte from ??? SOUTH CENTRAL.
. Unfortunately the only stroke you can do with it is TPB
Prove to them that you can study effective and get good grades despite practicing more. I do not think they have any problem with you practicing, they are just afraid your grades will drop. It is possible to practice everyday if you study effective.
Never really thought about it this way before. It's good to be able to get an honest perspective from someone else. Thanks for this. I'll put more time into studying on my off days. To show them that I can do it. Thankyou
It is also important you consider the factor that your parents might not be able to afford the practice. Its great that you love table tennis so much, but dont pressure your parents too much!
If your back is good, play the forehand band and backhand with the core, - your problem is that the forehand is arm powered so the stroke finishes too high, but you then want to take the ball in front of you rather than take it where it shows up with a circular loop with the backhand. IF you recover and try to play the backhand with a circular stroke around the elbow, you might add some sidespin but you will do better I think. My lower level opinion. You do something like this later in the drill when you back up from the table but you should replicate it closer to the table.
When I say with the core, you don't really get your body behind your backhand when you play it close to the table so I think there is a timing or power problem that needs to be solved to get the desired effect.
Thanks guys.
@takkyu Good observations, I don't like slowing down 😆 but realistically it's what I need to do to really do this drill properly.
NL, when you say use the core, do you mean bending a bit more with the back or at the hips and this unbending motion? Like going from a bit scrunched up to unscrunched?
I try to do this both close and further from the table. But I struggle to find the right feeling.
Yes, the bend is ideal but not required, just something that shows that you are trying to put something from the legs/core into the ball, even a circular rotation of the hips. You could even rotate the upper body a little to play the shot, but your arm won't get it done by itself. I was looking for an ancient video with cross backhand footwork but I couldn't find it. But there are many ways to do this, just about anything that feels as if weight is flowing through the hips in some form works, even the ones you think are incorrect. I have played backhands with my weight going in exactly the opposite direction from what I think is right, and I am at a point where on the backhand I have no clue what is right anymore from a quality standpoint.
Thanks NL.
So I should reach a bit/adapt my arm position and hit the ball more on the side depending on where the incoming ball is, rather than always attempting to hit the ball right in front?
Yes - and don't just try to loop the ball with the arm, use your legs and your core to throw as much into the ball as you can while using the follow through to stay in balance and get ready for the next ball. As long as you make contact with the ball and feel like you are hitting a solid stroke, that is the most important thing. IT is hard to get behind the ball and do that on the move with the backhand with a set stroke, so you need to be flexible with your position as long as your backhand backswing with the bent elbow is set. If you have the bent elbow position, take it to the ball and only play/release it when the ball shows up.
The irony is that I'm trying my very best here to not play so arm oriented and trying to push with my legs as I backswing. But I guess it isn't the way I imagine it. I find it very difficult to find the right feeling for it.
But one takeaway is to be flexible with my arm position, which I used to think was the way to go, but then I got into my mind that I should be playing the same/a similar stroke all the time and move to the ball. But that's difficult practically as we see, so maybe a bit unrealistic.
I can see that, the same stroke concept has strengths and limitations. Are you the same Richie as you were yesterday? Is Harimoto playing the same backhand in the clip I sent you that he plays? After all it is Harimoto's backhand.
Just pretend you have two backhands now, one for each situation or something like that. As long as you dont compromise your technique and balance unless you intend to end the point, it isn't the end of the world. Pros make similar compromises just at a different level since they have forever to try to fix whatever they care about
