Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

[jk1980]

That serve, the toss is pretty backwards (more than 30 from vertical). Very hard to see in a match from the opponent's side but I need to figure out how to see it because the spin is usually underestimated by me lol...

Yes, i definitely know that these is not a legal serve even though from ghe opponents view its hard to judge because i seve straight at his backhand. This exact serve i usually do if i underestimate players or i want to use the match to get accustomed to win fancy, because it get's me straight into the 3rd ball attack. This is a low backspin serve which often enough gets returned to mid or backhand where i actually would like to backhand loop, but it is just to ingrained for me to use forehand from that position, but i try to change that. The only spin imparted on that serve is because i kinda throw it into the racket but the acceleration is all arm and no wrist. I only would increase spin i the opponent would backhand loop these down the line.

You might think that my aim would be to make that serve more legal, but i am thinking in the opposite direction actually. There are incredibly many people serving out of their hand and i am active thinking about finding an even more illegal and obnoxious serve that would really annoy the opponent, so that i can show theses guys how cool it is to be on the receiving end of it. Then it is my turn to say "we are just hobby players and we always did it like this".

The spin underestimation comes more often by being lazy and not watching every serve in its own space. Once i receive a serve and the opponent kinda serves with roughly the same motion i wont really check the accurate ball contact and just expect a similar ball like before. I am definitely guilty of that.

 

[Archosaurus]

I get that from the video, but that's not what I get from your forum posts. From what I read, I think you have ambitions but can't find the resources (coaching, partners etc) to get any further.
If that's not the case and you just want to remain the level you're at now, then sure, don't change your rubber, clothes, training attitude and whatnot.

Me too, but that's for a cooldown or warmup sessions. When shit gets serious, those trackies come off.

These clothes will start to restrict once you're dripping in sweat. You can't make full and swift use of your legs, knees will experience dragging on the trousers. It's harder to get to that deeper posture quickly because of that.

Maybe our idea of serious is different. The highest ambition I have is to not get crushed in Division 7 next year and I'll see from there. In all likelihood I will lose 90% of my games but it's just how it is.

Everyone "serious" already has established partners and our level is too different to train. The only reason they accommodate me at all is because they can't return my serves, so they can get some practice against serves which are closer to the high division ones. So we will do an hour or two sometimes if the time is right. I will occasionally take sets off these guys but I think they overestimate me a bit sometimes, so it's unclear if they will keep training with me at all once they can figure out how to return my serve lol...

That could be true about the sweat, I think I've felt them dragging a little really late into a tough session. I need to get some shorts anyway some time so I'll start training in them at some point.

 

[jk1980]

EDIT: Video stabilization was on automatically. If I understood it right that might mean a variable shutter speed to reduce motion blur, which might be interacting badly with the lighting in the venue because of a rate mismatch. I can't guarantee that'll fix the strobing effect, I feel like it won't fix it because the framerate is desynced from the power grid frequency anyway but I'll try it anyway.

Dude, as an fellow engineer i would have expected you to solve this issue by yourself. Depending on the camera quality these tips might or might not be needed, but in general: make your recording fps the Hz/frequency according to your country power grid properties. I germany we got 50Hz, so if you get that flickering, set the recording fps to 50 fps instead of 60fps. You might also use a multiple of your frequency. Your cam is probably set to 30 or 60fps. Just set it to 50 fps and you will be fine.

 

[Archosaurus]

Dude, as an fellow engineer i would have expected you to solve this issue by yourself. Depending on the camera quality these tips might or might not be needed, but in general: make your recording fps the Hz/frequency according to your country power grid properties. I germany we got 50Hz, so if you get that flickering, set the recording fps to 50 fps instead of 60fps. You might also use a multiple of your frequency. Your cam is probably set to 30 or 60fps. Just set it to 50 fps and you will be fine.

You have a habit of assuming. Not great when engineering. Take it from someone who learned the hard way.

You see the issue is that my phone is a very low spec model, so I can't even choose the rate. It's locked to 30Hz LOL. If I could adjust the rate I'd have put it to 50Hz already to match the local grid.

However I'm looking at my first video right now and it looked different; grainy, but not strobing. So something must have changed in the settings, or maybe I toggled something on like an idiot when I was setting it up.

I'll do some A-B testing at the club next time and I bet I can at least restore the original quality.