I agree in the future I would want more options here. But for now it gains me more points than loses it (if it lands on the table). I think I don't have to worry about upgrading here up until 1800TTR atleast. Right now my germany rating is around 1550TTR up from 1450 about a month ago.
I don't know did he really do that? He is a lefty. And again I am focusing on myself not on him. As long as he lands his balls somewhat there I am happy enough. He is actually one of the rare players I can do drills with. By kick you mean I should hit harder or what else?
How would you go about this? Right now my drills focus on long ball exchanges. And even if that is the focus the drill ends after 2-5 shots. We were training here with only 4 matchballs so we would be more busy collecting balls than actually hitting balls. But this way I am not training about setting up balls. Right now my "default" set up is when opening up a slow spinny loop wait for a weak block and attack that. I do play more to their weakside if time allows like I know they cant open up properly with bh or very error prone so I push to their bh until they give me a weaker push or a higher ball that I can start attacking. Does this count?
More than the rare long rallies I need a good strategy for short ball exchanges. The long rallys are in my favor. Also when I did that highlight video of 8min I was dominating the long rallys except a few easy misses. Yes it's a bit random but for now it's enough as long as I am attacking. Noone not even the 1800TTR are counterlooping my shots.
maybe subconsiously. But if you would ask me what after 1st set what I should be doing more what receive/serve I would be clueless and go with my gut feeling. I am still very random here myself. Which can be good in terms of them not being able to adapt since I am doing too many random things myself. I do think especially at this rating I should be doing more of what is working and not just acing with the serves but also what receive am I getting and if I am happy with that forcing it more. One example would be me serving backspin to their backhand and they push into my bh. I try to open up and hit out or into the net lets say. Next serve I do reverse pendulum with topspin they push or flip and the ball goes to my fh. And this keeps repeating so I don't really give my chance to build confidence with my bh opening by forcing those balls more there. Maybe I might be wrong here but I also see the upsides to get the same receives and adjusting my stroke and being more confident throughout the game afterwards.
Yep I already wrote in my last comment I will be shortening the "regular" part of the drill and somewhere on 2nd round I will go for the finishing stroke. But I agree with weaker players I tend to give the balls to their sweetspot so they can block it easy and in matches I don't have to wonder if I can't place the ball to the wider angles with confidence since I wasn't practising that. Still figuring out how to find the right balance here. It won't be fun for either for us if the drill ends after my first or 2nd stroke either..
To further understand this can you give me some examples so I know if I already to this or not? I do chose drills where I get to attack first. But it's a bit more forced usually starting off with a backspin serve of my own and then opening up immediately
okey so this is interesting and my answer will be a bit long. FH dominate is a bit of a broader term. Is he also good with flips? I would assume he also likes pivoting?
I would try more short to the fh mixing up with serves into his backhand varying length. I would try a few half longs into his bh but mostly I would avoid that serve since if it drifts long he has too much time to pivot and get the first attack in. Depending on how successful I am I would do more serves from the middle like reverse pendulum to his wide fh short with a mix of long to his backhand. If his return is good I would simplify my serves further and default mostly to short backspin to his bh. I feel like it all depends on how his receive looks like.
serve more wide to the fh. Short or long even. If he has a weak fh idc if he starts looping first. I would use my reverse pendulum short wide to the fh more and then attack his bh. Even simple serves like short bs to fh then next ball deep into his bh. if he likes receiving with his bh on the fh side I would mix in some long pendulum sidetopspin to his fh
I don't have one favourite ball. I am always in doubt when doing a sidespin serve. But what I would say I had the most success with so far was to first use a backspin serve and then a halflongish no spin serve that they pop up and then I just whip through.
I do short to the fh hook serve 20% and 60% long serves to the bh and 20% fast long into the elbow. If I miss a certain spin I vary depending on against which spin I feel more confident looping on that day/against his pips. I avoid sidespin.
I guess you mean close to the table. Long serves or short backspin and push deep to the white line. If I loop I want it to be higher arc and longer to the white line but thats easier said than done. Elbow is another good point to hit if they are short it might not hurt them as much though.
I played against micheal who touches the table with his hips on the receive but plays and loops from very far back of the table. So your question is a bit lose here. Is he also standing back on the receive? If yes serve short and then deep or if they like to go back play another short ball as a variance. 3rd Ball attack is a bit harder against people who like to go back. In theory if I had the ability to change my fh loops I would loop with a shorter arc (just clearing the net) and it sinks right after the net. I would not try to loop to the white line. Also more to the sides since he would give me more angle if he goes back. But the solution to this are stuff I never really train so I am not sure if I could pull this off.
This is funny because I go for a topspin serve but for some reason they are so good at chopping that it doesn't matter and they chop this back still. What I wonder here is how it affects the backspin on the ball. If the chop against topspin serve is more than against a backspin serve for example. To me it looks like I get light backspin back.
My strategy against them is do a light flip to get out of pushing game. Change the spin of the backspin. And if I am in position loop anyway. So the goal is open up ASAP no matter how.
never faced one. But they automatically go back anyway from what I have seen. Against me it would look like that I loop next one I push then I loop again and just hope they can't deal with my spin.
I don't know when exactly but I mix it up especially in the first set and when I am ahead and can afford to lose an easy point if it turns out they are really good at returning those. But even if I am behind I like to collect that info in the first set. Maybe even as a first serve.
If I am 0-2 down and what I have tried so far doesn't work at all. Before losing the 3rd set very clearly I change my serve and go serve from other corner. Happened twice so far. I also did it once when it was 9-9 or something never again will I do that. I didn't know how to deal with the next ball.
I do it only against weaker players. Against better players my down the line serve is not good enough because I am too stressed.
Do you force them to do a special return then? If yes I have no trouble. If I don't force them it feels like matchplay with no consistency. Like I tell myself what is the difference doing this than just playing matches and people say if you just play matches you don't really get better. I do feel like in my matches I perform better on my serve than when I am on the receiving end. Like I do seem to attack a lot after my serve. But in training its over after 1st attack most of the time in matches I get a block back and then I start scooping but thats a different issue.
Yeah I will stick to this setup until they wear out.
If you have found someone who will work with you, then perfect..feeding is an art in itself and it is hard to learn..he also plays at the table which seems common for your area based on your videos.
The strategy you use for these questions like above is what I drill as is it your opportunity to force the point.
Simple example for me is a basic backspin serve with side spin to direct the ball to my FH. Really simple serve to get the opponent to push to my FH so I can open up with an attacking shot aimed at being a winner..I drill this very simple serve setup, so that when it happens in a game, I don't miss it and secure a point. And the opportunity might not come from this very serve in a match, but as soon as I see that similar ball return either in serving or in an rally, muscle memory kicks in.
I love a pendulum serve from the right hand side of the table and I use it particularly against BH dominate players as I get a predictable return to my FH that I can attack. I literally drill this with spin variations to get the return I want and my attacking shot is automatic..no thinking, just do.
When I go to Tournaments, I hear the other side saying that I have a dangerous serving game and lots of different serves....sounds great but they are over hyping my serve.....to be honest, I don't think my serve itself is particularly dangerous compared to other players....I get good spin but nothing that other players can't generate themselves....the real danger is the predictability of the return and the shot I must play.
These are the types of drills I do because the serve then 3rd ball attack is the key moments of each point that you actually have control.
Serve receiving is a bit more challenging as good players serving will attack early. But, you can take the attack away from them with your return game.
Since you don't have access to a coach, my thinking is that this style of training might be beneficial to you.
My training around this all changed from training with a Chinese coach who likes short sharp drills with winners....the look of disappointment when I didn't attack.... scaring.
