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For years my strokes have been rigid, stiff and showed a vid of it here.
And this is the result after just 3 days of @Stella advice for me to copy the forehand of a player I like, do it slowly, without paddle, 500 times a day.
This forced me to relax my grip during swings as that was the cause as to why my strokes were rigid.
On 4th day I finally had coaching and was able to apply what I learned from this.
He had me do volleys with another player cos he wanted to see how I play.
The thing where you do 3 close table volleys, then on 4th you back up then do loops and other blocks.
Finally swinging with relaxed grip.
Coach told me to accelerate closing of elbow to forearm to impart more spin.
And there it is, the thing I long envied seeing from experienced players, like scooping up the ball below table level to go upwards cross the net, then immediately go down
cos of the immense top spin. There I was finally able to do it myself.
So again, thank you Stella.
I'm showing this here as I'm asking advice from fellow tt players here on how to further improve the stroke.
And this is the result after just 3 days of @Stella advice for me to copy the forehand of a player I like, do it slowly, without paddle, 500 times a day.
This forced me to relax my grip during swings as that was the cause as to why my strokes were rigid.
On 4th day I finally had coaching and was able to apply what I learned from this.
He had me do volleys with another player cos he wanted to see how I play.
The thing where you do 3 close table volleys, then on 4th you back up then do loops and other blocks.
Finally swinging with relaxed grip.
Coach told me to accelerate closing of elbow to forearm to impart more spin.
And there it is, the thing I long envied seeing from experienced players, like scooping up the ball below table level to go upwards cross the net, then immediately go down
cos of the immense top spin. There I was finally able to do it myself.
So again, thank you Stella.
I'm showing this here as I'm asking advice from fellow tt players here on how to further improve the stroke.