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Spin and more spin.
says
Spin and more spin.
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Today i went to the academy and played against few of high level players, i lost to all games, but somehow i felt like i played much better than those games against lower level and winning over them, i thought i will lose very bad like 11-0 or 11-2, but to my surprise i only lost one game badly with 11-4 but the rest i lost in such 11-9, 11-8, 12-10, 14-12,...etc, and in some i was in lead or reached 10 first, but somehow i lost easy point at the end.
I focused more in practicing at home and didn't play games against other since 2 weeks ago, so i will try to go out and play more, today games showed me if i really give it more try and practice more i may improve significantly, after all those high level strong players are playing there almost everyday, and sounds that i tried not give them easy points, but i miss mine so that they won, and good that i returned back to my offensive style after long long time in doing defensive one to learn, but as you said, attacking is the way to go further.
See if I can provide info that makes sense. Some of this is about the fact that winning isn't everything and does not always tell the whole story. Nor does when you think you are close.
So I am playing matches right now. Well, right now I am waiting for next. There are three of us. The first guy is a level and a half better than me. The second guy is 2-3 levels higher than the first guy.
So, last week I played the first guy and won my first match ever from him. This week I lost 3-0 in the both matches and in each game I got 7 or 8 but I am comfortable telling you that the games were not that close. He beat me like a drum. And a lot of the points I got were after being down 7-2 or something like that. So, he really beat me solidly and he usually can.
Now before the second guy showed up the first guy was talking about how he would love to legitimately win one game from the second guy. One game. Every time I play the second guy I get at least one, sometimes two games. Tonight is no different. I played him two matches. I got 1 game in the first match. Two games in the second match.
In the matches with the second guy I am often ahead by a few points and once I get to around 9 points he pretty much shuts me down. The games I win, I often get a point where I play above my level for a few shots once I have 10 points.
But when the first guy plays the second guy it is always 3-0. Always.
I am here to tell you that it is not that I play the second guy better than the first guy. It is not that I match up better. It is that he is enough better than me that he does not even have to try. Whereas, when the second guy plays the first guy, if he plays the way he plays against me, he will have a much harder match and may not win.
But the fact that you lost every game, even the games where you were up, tells me that these guys are better than you by more than you probably realize and, most likely, there are things going on that you don't quite understand. And if that is not the case, then you will eventually start to win matches from these guys.
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