Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

[jk1980]

watching the first minute i thought "hey, he trained well and now he got his success rate looping up"... and then it went all to shit. I dont think it can be related to stamina if only the first two openings per game work.
You spamming random serves does net help either.
Pick one serve and one location to serve to and stay with it. This will make you learn the variations of receive you can expect from that serve and placement. You could serve long backspin to the lefties middle, which will result in a long push to you middle or forehand. Both positions you can loop with the forehand without much repositioning.

Doing random things in training matches does not improve you at this stage.

 

[Archo]

watching the first minute i thought "hey, he trained well and now he got his success rate looping up"... and then it went all to shit. I dont think it can be related to stamina if only the first two openings per game work.
You spamming random serves does net help either.
Pick one serve and one location to serve to and stay with it. This will make you learn the variations of receive you can expect from that serve and placement. You could serve long backspin to the lefties middle, which will result in a long push to you middle or forehand. Both positions you can loop with the forehand without much repositioning.

Doing random things in training matches does not improve you at this stage.

This advice is incorrect and I'm sure you know it too. There's no point in me serving something that will only give me a popup and just putting them away for an hour. I might as well just set up a punching bag if I'm gonna do that. I prefer to leave it for the competition.

For clarity, we already do multiball how you suggest. "Easy" balls which are supposed to be high %, "hard" balls which we don't know how to hit, random mix of easy and hard etc. The only way we can find out what is what is by coming across them in real situations. There's value to training against both.

Between 3rd ball against a fast and slow, high and low, wide, middle and backhand, moving left and moving right, hitting with spin or with speed, hitting from close to table or far there's about 100 variations of just forehand loop and that's simplifying it. I think it's expected I will miss most of those because I haven't practised most of those. You probably can't hit half of those either judging by you posting in the past that you've almost lost to beginners, so maybe this rang some bells for you too.


EDIT:
In fact from these last few videos and making some notes I've found that my partner lacks the ability to discern heavy back from light back, so we need to practice the push return vs both of those. Isolated just in drills. Not in games. That's not what games are for.

My main issue is when I'm covering the wide forehand and I get a semi-high, half-long light push to the middle of the table, I'm too slow to react to it and don't know the shot to do against it. So I will need to practice multiball first where it's more optimal to hit with FH, then one that drifts towards BH and needs to be hit with BH, and then random variation of those, and ultimately mixing in a more quality receive that I either need to push or slow loop.