Okay. I am not so interested where you play and what days
I am more interested if you have good focus? do you fight hard? many balls on the table? Are you training with quality and not quantity?
What exercises do you play with the other coach? the lady?
Do you never play exercises where you can choose to train mostly your strenghs or/and sometimes your weakness? or like serve and free? where you can try to build up how you should play serve and return to get those balls you want, to use your strenghts.
I think it is good to practice alot of different exercises if you are still developing your strokes. But i think you need to train some other stuff to, to be able to play good in matches and win matches. And i notice that you often write that you play tournaments so i think you should consider this. I think it is important that you find your playing style, what your strengths are and weakness. Try to learn how you should serve and return to be able to use your strenghts as much as possible. And also how you should play in the open game to use your stregths as much as possible. Then when you know your strenghts you should try to train these as much as possible so you are good at these, and also train serve and return so you get to use your strenghts. I would go so far to say that if your technique is already good, and almost fully developed you should almost only train your strengths. Everything else that you train that you do not use in a match is almost a wast of time and almost unnessecary. Like if you have a better backhand than forehand, then it is just stupid to train falkenbergaren were you train to go around and play with your forehand. why would you train this if you have a better backhand and never step around in a match? Maybe you also need to train your weakness also, but maybe it is better to become better at using your strengths. In ex Gatien and Liqin could barely play backhand i think, but that did not matter so much becuase they were good at serve and return and had good footwork so they could play alot with their strenght, their forehand. Another example is about my own play. i am somewhat confused about my game. I want to learn to kill the ball with the backhand, beacuse i mostly need to run around kill it with my forehand now. Should i try to triain one of my biggest weakness, to kill the backhand or should i try to be able to get to my strenghts, my forehand smash better? i do not know if it is better to try to make my backhand kill better or, try to make my placement and the pace of my backhand over the table better so i will get easier balls to go around and kill with my forehand smash, and even more important get better footwork so i can move around faster and can kill more balls with more forehand smash. What is the best option? i am not really sure. And at the moment i have gotten a better backhand kill in exercises but i do not really use it in a match. I need to implemnt it in match soon, otherwise i am practicing something that i am not using in a match.
I think coaches think different about this, and what you should focus on when you train. but i think the above is important, we do not have all the time in the world so we can nog become good at everything, and we are proably not able to become good at everything also since we need alot of talent for that. I have understood from our korean friends in the forum that in Korea they only focus on the technique and nothing about the things i just mentioned. Maybe that is better, but personally i do not think so. I would be very surprised if the pros train everthing, i think they only train stuff they use in a match and alot of their strength that they use alot in a match.
It is late, and i have a tendency to talk a lot but still no one understands what i am talking about. I hope you do, and maybe that this well help you a little.
