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I have access to a friend's table with a robot for practice. I use it to practice certain basic strokes (I would be around 800 USATT rating) and then I play at a small local competitive club once a week.
The problem I am consistently facing is that I will practice a stroke for weeks on the robot and get pretty decent at it, but then at the end of a club session I will find that I never got a chance to use it.
The stroke right now I am practicing is a backhand loop, really at this point it's not even that fancy, just a backhand drive/counter with decent spin. I don't play too far from the table so it's not like I'm trying some huge power stroke. Also at my level I get a fair amount of backspin pushes towards my backhand so there should be enough opportunities for me to use this shot. But I never could.
I also put the robot to oscillate so I'm not just practicing against a monotonic ball from it. So I do two forehands, two backhands in succession. But it of course places the ball on the same spot every time.
Any ideas why this is happening and how I can transfer those skills to real game play quicker? Maybe it's mental? Thanks.
The problem I am consistently facing is that I will practice a stroke for weeks on the robot and get pretty decent at it, but then at the end of a club session I will find that I never got a chance to use it.
The stroke right now I am practicing is a backhand loop, really at this point it's not even that fancy, just a backhand drive/counter with decent spin. I don't play too far from the table so it's not like I'm trying some huge power stroke. Also at my level I get a fair amount of backspin pushes towards my backhand so there should be enough opportunities for me to use this shot. But I never could.
I also put the robot to oscillate so I'm not just practicing against a monotonic ball from it. So I do two forehands, two backhands in succession. But it of course places the ball on the same spot every time.
Any ideas why this is happening and how I can transfer those skills to real game play quicker? Maybe it's mental? Thanks.