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Buttefly Forever!!!
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Buttefly Forever!!!
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First off, the kid is good, no doubt about it. He is well trained. He will attack all ball regardless where the position is. He does not push at all and will topspin everything back at me. It is so so so different playing against these academic trained Jr players. Where my usual staple of club level uncles player type will mainly push safe and open up when they feel safe to do so, this boy will open up every ball no matter the position of the ball, be it BH or FH. His BH open up is very spinny. This is a credit to him, I must say.One thing I notice that, Gozo, would be worth you looking at is: when the kid hits a topspin shot that hits the net and bounces back from the net and onto the table, you can see it has good spin and gets pulled towards the net fairly fast (there are some where this is not the case, but usually they have good spin). When you hit a "topspin" shot into the net and it does the same, the ones I have seen in the first two sets of the video, there is not so much spin.
It just might be worth knowing that working on developing more spin is usually good for increasing your level.
I spoke to him after the game and I gather these few facts. He started being properly trained at the age of five and he has been under a proper coach for the past five years.
The pace of game is very fast and I get a chance to play my counter-hit game with him. I did score some fast counter-hit winner against him, which I am very proud, to say the least. For example is at 16:40. There are few more like winner like these. My counter-hit is so fast, even when I slow down the video to 0.25X I still can't hardly see the ball.
@Carl,
The boy's game is so fast, I can't hardly get into position to do a loop drive. All I could react was to counter-hit his topspin incoming ball. That is why you see very little top-spin from me. The boy hardly ever push or cut the ball, but mainly just topspin all strokes.
It is a challenge as well as a massive learning opportunity for me. Playing against him is like a breathe of fresh air versus my usual club-uncles / club-pusher type players, which is aplenty at club-level.
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