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Ok thank you, but I CANNOT forehand drive with it; the ball goes too fast
Yes you can… but you need to get better. It is not a perfect training partner but in combination with other methods it’s really useful. I just realized that if you serve against it… it tells you the quality of your spin. You can see yourself improving. If you get one make sure it is easy to adjust the angle. You can dress the surface with old rubbers or the cheapest of cheap will do too.

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Yes you can… but you need to get better. It is not a perfect training partner but in combination with other methods it’s really useful. I just realized that if you serve against it… it tells you the quality of your spin. You can see yourself improving. If you get one make sure it is easy to adjust the angle. You can dress the surface with old rubbers or the cheapest of cheap will do too.

Cheers
L-zr
I'll try, but I almost have no ability to do it right now..

also spin is different here, topspin will come back as backspin to you.
 
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Oh wow, thank you man. These are the tips that I need XD
you are welcome,

if you want to train at your home, just do FH-FH drive with correct mechanics and footwork, until you master it like 50 decent speed ball.

Do not try fancy looping etc by yourself, only do what your coach have taught you,
otherwise most likely you will execute poorly and get wrong habits which are hard to fix it.

one other important thing would be use a shoe or at worst barefoot,
with crocs it's not possible to move in a healthy way. you can injure yourself easily.
 
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I'll try, but I almost have no ability to do it right now..

also spin is different here, topspin will come back as backspin to you.
Yes, but you can control the pace by yourself. Anyway it’s worth thinking about. You don’t have enough space there for serious training. Gotta do the best with the situation at hand…
Enough of this …

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Yes, but you can control the pace by yourself. Anyway it’s worth thinking about. You don’t have enough space there for serious training. Gotta do the best with the situation at hand…
Fair enough, I'll do it once Im done reviewing for my exams (they're tomorrow XD)
Enough of this …
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fair enough. Thx for the help again!
hey sandro. when i first read your posts I thought you were a more advanced player than me but I guessed wrong *no offence* im also a penhold player trying to improve and u also have a coach and I know sometimes it feels good to get some advice from others too so I'm gonna try my best to analyze your video :) .

while it is true you should not focus on your wrist movement for now, try getting more wrist only on the serves. don't use your wrist for pushes and other things (for now)

I also saw that in your backhand serve you did not cut the ball you just gave it a flat hit and it went on the net. you should work on just one of your serves for now.

you also need to fix your forehand form it looks really weird and its putting you off balance
your legs are also all over the place you aren't keeping them wide enough and you aren't bending down enough

also you bend your body away from the ball when doing forehand. its something even I did while I was pretty new to the game. just do more multiball training and single ball training to improve it.

i noticed that your elbow is going up with your racket while making forehand shots.

dude just look at some players practicing forehand and ask your coach to guide you to fix your forehand.

when you use your backhand you are keeping your racket angle the opposite way that it is supposed to be. idk how to put this into words but try putting pressure on your index finger and keep your thumb at the handle while doing backhand.

also I think you should switch your rubber Volant Phoenix rubber is generally not considered suitable for beginners so try out something like xiom vega x or xiom omega. just use some slower europian rubbers for now
 
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@PenHoldSandro : You made two threads for the exact same subject and the exact same videos.

YOU CAN'T DO THAT.

I have merged them into one thread.

I also think you should know, you got some good information. Too much information will do the opposite of help you. You need to work on one thing at a time. I think this is simply a distraction from what you need to work on.

The footage shows that you need to work on very simple fundamental skills. What you are doing by continuing to solicit more advice when you already have way too many things you have been told you need to work on is insuring that you won't work on anything useful.

Guys, I wouldn't get trolled into trying to help the kid when the kid already has so much advice it would take him years to get to half of it. :)

Sandro, I appreciate you are young and impatient. But you have to work on one thing at a time. And your video footage shows that what you are doing is not training but goofing around without really being able to pay attention to what you are doing because of all the stuff going on around you as you are goofing around on the table.
 
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@PenHoldSandro : You made two threads for the exact same subject and the exact same videos.

YOU CAN'T DO THAT.

I have merged them into one thread.

I also think you should know, you got some good information. Too much information will do the opposite of help you. You need to work on one thing at a time. I think this is simply a distraction from what you need to work on.

The footage shows that you need to work on very simple fundamental skills. What you are doing by continuing to solicit more advice when you already have way too many things you have been told you need to work on is insuring that you won't work on anything useful.

Guys, I wouldn't get trolled into trying to help the kid when the kid already has so much advice it would take him years to get to half of it. :)

Sandro, I appreciate you are young and impatient. But you have to work on one thing at a time. And your video footage shows that what you are doing is not training but goofing around without really being able to pay attention to what you are doing because of all the stuff going on around you as you are goofing around on the table.
I looked at the threads of Sandro and he seemed like a pretty good player because of the theory he had. It was a bit shocking for me to see that he is still just a newbie :)

Btw was the advice I gave him valid? I want to know from other people too
 
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