help with FH technique

[TTlover11]

I've got this problem with my FH. Whenever I get tight my shoulder is either too high or my elbow is too high.I am losing matches cause of it.Can u give me any advice or share experience?

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

I've got this problem with my FH. Whenever I get tight my shoulder is either too high or my elbow is too high.I am losing matches cause of it.Can u give me any advice or share experience?

That is going to be hard to change. You may need a coach to help you change that. There are some drills that can help. Shadow practice in front of a mirror so you can see what the stroke you are doing actually looks like can help start things. There is another simple thing you can do on your own that could help where you bounce the ball on the table and then try to take a good stroke. But nothing will replace doing lots and lots of drills where you learn how to use a good stroke in any situation that can come up in a match. It is hard to do drills like that without a good coach.

Part of why is, it is probably a habitual movement pattern. Your body is used to doing that movement and trying to replace that with something your body does not know how to do yet when your body is used to doing that is really hard no matter how much help you have eliminating the old habit. So don't be too hard on yourself as you try and replace the old habit with better technique.

 

[TTlover11]

okay thanks, I'll give it a go and lately I've playing more tournament and league matches instead of practice.An experience told me that I should not play competition until I have fix my technical issues.What do you think?

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

okay thanks, I'll give it a go and lately I've playing more tournament and league matches instead of practice.An experience told me that I should not play competition until I have fix my technical issues.What do you think?

In a way that is true. When you have a habit ingrained and can't get rid of it, because it keeps coming up in games even though it doesn't in practice, not playing matches for a few weeks, or months, while working on losing the bad habit helps, because every time you do it in a match, you reinforce the bad movement pattern.

But we only live once. Playing matches is fun. So, you have to decide that for yourself. When you really get the right stroke in your body, the old pattern will slowly stop happening in matches.

It just takes a lot of work to change habits that are unconscious, that we are not aware of while we are doing them, or at least until after we have started the movement.