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Malte Möregårdh on Mastering Serve Variation
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Very good! Everyone knows that serve and receive are the most important skills to master in table tennis. It’s often what separates you from the better player. We should focus much more on serves, but also on receiving. Everyone knows it’s a nightmare to face someone with good serves and a lot of variation. Yet we stand there practicing forehand loops and backhand loops, buying the fastest new carbon blade to loop through our opponent—when we rarely even get that far against the best players...
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Yes, absolutely, @Crillo! If you can’t get past the first hurdle of serve and return, being able to do 50 forehand loops in a row isn’t going to help you at all.
Unfortunately, I think we too often go into practice on auto-pilot, just doing the motions without taking the time to think about what kind of game we want to play. If we took a moment to figure out how to get the rally into the “track” that works for us, we’d also get better at identifying what we actually need to improve and focus on. Just being more aware of our own game can make a big difference.
Building a good culture of talking about tactics and strategy in your training environment would benefit us a lot. Swedish clubs have traditionally been good at this (at least in the past), and it’s something that should be held onto. At the same time, it’s important to be aware of your own strengths and weaknesses when you apply tactics—just because Ma Long or Truls can pull off something spectacular doesn’t mean it’s the right answer for you. The focus should always be on what fits your game.
Unfortunately, I think we too often go into practice on auto-pilot, just doing the motions without taking the time to think about what kind of game we want to play. If we took a moment to figure out how to get the rally into the “track” that works for us, we’d also get better at identifying what we actually need to improve and focus on. Just being more aware of our own game can make a big difference.
Building a good culture of talking about tactics and strategy in your training environment would benefit us a lot. Swedish clubs have traditionally been good at this (at least in the past), and it’s something that should be held onto. At the same time, it’s important to be aware of your own strengths and weaknesses when you apply tactics—just because Ma Long or Truls can pull off something spectacular doesn’t mean it’s the right answer for you. The focus should always be on what fits your game.
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