ROAD TO 1550TTR Week 32

[@danielschwarz531]

Great video as usual and congratulations on the progress. I think with your playing style and the way you train, you gonna fly through the lower/mid TTR levels with ease. I've got two tips you play around with on your serve. It's something I always teach to my advanced students. If you step through your serve training frame by frame, you can see them clearly. Fist you mentioned that you want to use more wrist. This includes two parts, a faster wrist movement and using a bigger range of motion. It seems you are manly focusing on the first. The wrist can rotate by 180 degree, so why not all that range of motion. After your serve, your wrist is mostly straight, leaving at least 60 degree that you can rotate your wrist more. Same for opening your wrist before the serve. You can play around with that and see how it feels and how the spin changes. I know the serve is something very individual so different things work for different people. Just a reminder for something you can play around with and see if it works for you. Second, is the contact point on the paddle. For your serve it is dead centre. Moving the contact point further up, will increase the spin. It's simple physics. The racket has a higher speed, the further it is away from the point of rotation. Just moving it by a few cm will increase the spin by a lot. An advances technique is to vary the contact point. Doing that you can create an empty serve or a heavy serve with the same motion, if you either hit the ball up on the racket or down close to the fingers. This way you can create deception, without using a deceptive motion. It also basically doubles the amount of serves you have at your disposal, since you can do a heavy and a no spin variant.

[@limittless.]

great points ty! today I saw a chinese player do the same thing as I saw Ma Long doing. He didn´t change the grip at all for serving backspin, maybe it´s because of the tacky chinese rubbers. I like it because the grip switch is still tricky for me. I`ll try the two things you mentioned for serving!

[@Felix-st2ue]

Amazing difference compared to last week. You added some hip Rotation and now you end your forehand topspin with a weight transfered to the Front. Last week your weight was going back and down.

[@Felix-st2ue]

Next thing I would try to focus on is transitions between backhand and forehand. Especially around the ellbow. So for example BH topspin-> Block on elbow -> fh topspin -> BH topspin -> Block in forehand-> fh topspin and repeat.

[@limittless.]

@@Felix-st2ue Yes it’s a up and down though! I just came back from a short holiday and felt relaxed. The exercises and first game were extremely good. Later on my Topspin startet to fall back into old patterns. It will require a lot of work to stabilize it until it’s second nature and most importantly work in games under pressure. I will get back to isolate the movement again in my next session. I tend to go to fast and add too many steps, this time I really Want to make sure to get it right, dealing way too long with this problem already.

[@limittless.]

@@Felix-st2ue yeah the transition is really hard for me for sure!

[@Blackain66]

Sieht gut aus, VH wird langsam, immer wieder gute Topspins dabei wenn du dich reinhängst. Neben der längeren Bewegung ist aber auch die Beschleunigung wichtig, muss richtig schön "ruckartig" oder auf Englisch "snappy" sein damit da mehr Spin/Speed reinkommt. Für die Angaben würde ich dir sehr empfehlen dir ein Returnboard anzuschaffen was du ganz am Ende auf den Tisch stelllst. Das ist der einzige und sehr gute Weg den tatsächlichen Spin zu sehen den die Angabe hat und nicht nur dein Ziel. Ich mache das selber auch nach dem Ballmaschinen training, war eher Zufall weil ich das Returnboard mal zum Spielen gekauft hatte wozu es nicht taugt, aber dafür ist es perfekt. Und du wirst sehen das nicht immer das drin ist was man dachte ! Denn z.B. bei 5:39 bin ich ziemlich sicher das das keine top/sidespin Serve war sondern eher eine reine sidespin Serve mit etwas Unterschnitt nur eben deutlich weniger Unterschnitt als die danach. Für richtigen Topspin bei der Pendulum musst du den Ball erst ganz am Ende bei der Schläger Aufwärts-Bewegung treffen (am besten auch relativ weit oben am Gummi) und nicht noch bei der vorherigen normalen Abwärtsbewegung.

[@benstrutz606]

your weight transfer is getting alot better! work on not being so square to the table for your forehand and have your left leg back more so you can get more hip twist and more drive with your legs.

[@limittless.]

@@benstrutz606 You mean the right leg back more?

[@JohnDoe-ie8cy]

Sorry my mistake I did mean right leg. I was coaching a leftie earlier this morning and my brain just stopped working 😂.​@@limittless.

[@limittless.]

@@JohnDoe-ie8cy thought so np 😉