I could write many pages about what you did to lose the points you did, but I will keep it really simple and narrow my comments to your FH topspin attacking where you lost points and why. What you need to do is obvious.
By the way, is that a Korean Community Center or church facility? I might make it back down to NYC/NJ area and if I do, I'll post it on TTD and the forums and PM you. If I show up there, I might be speaking more Korean that the Ajoeshi crowd there. Heck, I am certified Ajoeshi. When do you guyz play there?
If you look at what you keep doing to make you lose points when you attack with FH, you will see what is responsible for the majority. It is something you can fix with awareness, time, and practice.
GAME 1
Right away, you missed on two serves. You were probably trying to go for too much spin for your timing or trying to keep it too tight for the spin you were trying to make. keep loose and you will see your serves improve
Wherever you see a time indicated, it is a missed shot unless I mention otherwise
:50 vs underspin ball too upright, no squat, no use of lower body
1:02 You see the ball too late and move way too late and barely weakly lob it back to get crushed
1:12 vs underspin ball too upright
1:22 vs kinda high underspin ball too upright, leaned back, maybe a bit close to ball, good step around move though, you were open stance
1:24 vs underspin ball, leaned back, no adjusting position, too upright, no use of lower body, did not bend knees to use legs to start shot, out of position, no lift to shot
1:37 vs popped up weak underspin ball, you hit the ball way too far in front of you. If you took a step to the ball, you would have been in good position with good weight transfer
1:40 vs underspin ball, you stepped around to make a slow topspin, but you failed to step around enough. Prolly the Ajoeshi crowd seated too close to the table had something to do with this and a possible way to cope with that is to use a BH opening loop or step around and go to the front close to the table and hit the ball earlier.
1:59 vs underspin ball poped up high to you at endline, you failed to see it in time and started moving way too late and got caught too close to the table and you had to try to lean back and hit the ball too deep in your zone -fail
2:16 swing & miss vs underspin, bad step to ball out of time
Game 2
:08 / :15 / :35 / :45 vs a blocked ball you hit too far in front of you and hit it out... see a pattern? Either step forward and HIT the ball or allow the ball to come deeper to you so it is in the middle of your effective hitting zone. Stand in your stance and make a fist with your left hand, then hold it out to your right side around a few cm lower than chest height. This is your effective hitting zone center.
:39 vs underspin ball, you do not use lower body to help power to lift ball on your slow topspin. bend knees, get bat and shoulder down, and explode up and fwd with leg, waist, then shoulder uncoil and lower arm snap and wrist. You are not using your whole body for power and control
1:11 vs incoming high/deep weak topspin you hit the ball way too far in front of you and it goes out. Either step fwd and HIT or wait just a little more before trying to finish that ball. Many amature players are all too eager to finish the point when the see that ball and do not wait for the ball to come into the zone and hit it too early. The solution is to see it earlier and move (you have to have knees bent in a good stance recovered after you hit to do this though) or simply just just a little more for the ball to be in zone, it isn't going anywhere until you smash it anyway.
2:27 vs block from your slow loop, ball is high and deep. You are in center of table. WHY? When you do a slow loop and intend to HIT the slow blocked ball that is likely to be high enough, WHY stand in the middle of the table? MOVE closer to your BH corner right after you hit your slow loop. You have time. Simply push off with your right foot and hop/pivot open towards the BH corner and you have landed and are ready before opponent even blocks the ball. Heck, you would have time for a FB post. What you did is watch your nice FH spinny slow loop, then acted too late. You didn't move out of the way (ball was blocked at you or your crossover) and you ended up being too close to the ball and hit it too deep in your zone leaning back like gummi bear under a bend test. Whne you hit a slow loop, get into positon open stance near your BH corner. Just make it a habit. So what if opponent blocks it to your FH corner, do a crossover step and crush his block right back at him and stamp his parcel "Return to Sender"
If you are in a good stance balanced and ready, just believe that you can get to the ball and put a good lick on it. BELIEVE in yourself that you can do this from a good ready position.
2:35 vs underspin ball, you swung and missed. I also wish the sport waz like baseball where you get three swings before it is over. You moved and hit out of time. Finely grazing the ball requires everything to be just right and until you get the things right, you will sometimes miss like that. It helps to have a good balanced crouch knees bent to make your first step, that helps heaps.
No one fixes bad stance or footwork overnight if they have been doing it that way before, don't get discouraged if you even miss MORE points in matches trying to fix it. You are trying to do something you have not yet perfected under pressure in a random unknown situation, it will come many months later.
