LDM7, Just on game one some interesting stats you can get from watching the vid that will reveal a LOT of what is ACTUALLY happening. One would NEVER realize what is really going on until they see a vid of their match. When you look at what made you lose points, you can place them into categories. I do this only for your first game 1 and ONLY on the things that made you lose points. Why? At your level, the lion's share of points lost are from errors. It behooves you to see and realize WHAT and WHY you are losing points from errors. You can do this also from opponent perspective on what you did to make him or her lose points.
I could break down the whole match, but the approach I show here, you could apply to the rest of match and glean useful information. Game one is more than enough to get you started down the road to correct some things.
0:17 Some fat, old dude with coach written all over the back of his jersey obstructs the view of the camera and sits down next to an attractive young lady and strikes up a TT conversation. Doesn't even look like he is paying attention to the match (but he is) Good move. Wonder who that dude is. SOME of the forumers know this XXL large dude though. Goon Squad alert.
I broke things down into some categories... most are kinda general, like "Attacked Serve lost point right away" but you might need to look why... eg, BH attack of serve - struck ball too far in front of strike zone... or ball came to middle - player attack off balance no leverage out of strike zone - fail EVEN WITHOUT the kind of detailed analysis as to WHY the shot failed, you can see trends of where points are lost. GIVEN THIS KNOWLEDGE, one can begin to reduce unforced errors and improve performance simply from being aware of where points are lost... and later WHY.
****** LOST POINTS ******
- Serve receive - PUSH 2 points LOST
- Serve receive - Attacked serve LOST the point immediately 5 POINTS LOST
- Serve receive quality poor - opponent attacked and won point - 2 POINTS LOST
- Opponent played better in rally - 1 POINT LOST
- You served long and got MURDERED - 1 POINT LOST
So...you can see obviously you lost 7 points DIRECTLY on your serve receive. Some of this was poor push (way too long a stroke and firm grip. Some was attacking ball out of strike zone/off balance. Some was you mis-read spin or when the ball was going to arrive to the strike zone at what speed, what spin, how much spin what vector and where exactly at what moment...everyone struggles on that.
You lost a few points from poor pushes that made it too damn easy for opponent.
So, it mostly came down to you having a crappy push for your level and making poor decisions to attack the serve. You were gunna lose the point on most of those anyway, since ur push isn't very good right now.
You basically pulled out a Beretta 9MM, pointed it at your foot, and pulled the trigger... REPEATEDLY. Yes, this is a colorful way to express the American saying that you shot yourself in the foot a lot in game 1.
Knowing this, you know what to do to reduce your unforced errors. STOP WILDLY ATTACKING SERVES WHILE OUT OF POSITION and learn how to push with quality and high percentage.
Immediately, if you use only a TINY stroke, keep LOOSE grip, and impact the ball close the bounce, you will have a better push. Not perfect, but much better. You need to improve pushing. You should do push to push for 5 minutes EVERY TIME you play of goof off and focus on loose grip, tiny step to the bounce, and use only 1-2 inch stroke or zero and just take the ball off the bounce. Your push wil get a LOT better in a hurry doing that, then get progressively better with time.
That is a sample of an approach to looking at your game vid and seeing what ACTUALLY happened, so you can zoom in on how to fix it and improve performance. Often, what a player THINKS is going on is NOT what is going on at all.
