ROAD TO 1550TTR Week 35 Matchday!

[@FirephoenixX02]

Weiter so!

[@verysmellygarlic]

Great video as always. Your technique is excellent. IMHO what would boost your performance is working on the inner game, which I think that you have not yet talked about in your channel. The game of confidence. The art of sports psychology. By ways of meditating, visualizing and making affirmations. For example if you changed your self image to beeing "the athlete that under pressure becomes more aggressive" then at the end of difficult sets you would play more full strokes. The same with weight transfer to the heels or stepping back.

[@wilkinru]

Good you are recording this. A few things to fix right away but the FH is improving when you believe in it.

[@limittless.]

yes finally i feel some improvement in the fh, table tennis is not an easy sport that´s for sure.

[@Blackain66]

@@limittless. ye u really gotta do everything with confidence, in the the first match u always lost at the end of the set coz u did ur topspins only half-arsed like you said thats what im saying to our lower ranked players too when they start to crumble, always always always do all ur shots with confidence, doesnt mean to go overly aggressive but when u go for it, go for it decisecively and even if you lose then at least u did ur best ;)

[@limittless.]

@ 100% correct!

[@benjaminmoreau3560]

Stark, wie du dich verbessert hast! Ich habe die ersten episoden gesehen und dann gleich diese hier, unglaublich was man in der kurzen zeit mit der passenden arbeit erreichen kann. Das einzige, was ich noch nicht verstehe, ist dass du so einen schönen harten Topspin kannst, um dem ich dich beneide; dennoch benutzt du ihn immer als erste Lösung. Wäre es nicht effektiver, einen ersten, weichen, langsamen aber qualitativ hochwertigen Ball zu spielen, um den harten Topspin vorzubereiten?

[@limittless.]

@@benjaminmoreau3560 danke dir 🙏🏼. Mit den weichen Topspins als Vorbereitung, habe ja früher nur locker und weich und passiv gezogen im Spiel. Erst seit kurzem trainiere ich härtere Bälle und deshalb manifestiert sich das jetzt gerade. Denke das wird sich später einpendeln.

[@sebastianjo752]

gutes video wie immer, deine Vorhand wird besser sieht man im Training sehr gut. Finde es erschreckend wie Leute spielen die fast 1500 Punkte haben dein erster Gegner hat eine grauenhafte Technik und ein echt komisches Spiel.

[@limittless.]

in dieser hinsicht ist tt echt besonders. leute mit komischer technik, seltsame beläge die das komplette spiel verändern, völlig unfitte leute usw. usw. muss mich immer noch an all das gewöhnen. glaube es gibt kaum einen sport den man diesbezüglich vergleichen kann. da hilft nur so gut zu werden das man mit all dem umgehen kann.

[@BiscoWho]

Who told you that moving back after the forehand drive is bad? It's not. First of all, moving back means that you have not over-committed to your shot. Second of all, and most importantly, moving back is what you always need to do after a hard forehand drive. This is because you just put pace on your shot. Your opponent's shot is going to come back deep and fast due to the pace on your shot. Moving back means that you won't get jammed up by the returning ball. Remember: It is very easy for you to move forward very quickly whilst remaining balanced. It is never easy to back off in a hurry whilst remaining balanced. So, you can always come forward in a hurry when you need to. You cannot back off in a hurry when you need to. Therefore, it's better for you to be a bit too far back than a bit too far forward.

[@BiscoWho]

The one thing that made your forehands better in the prior video was that you kept allowing your whole arm, your wrist, and your whole hand to be loose the whole time. You were whipping your arm, and that's the key. Your body and your feet aren't the keys to a hard forehand in TT. Take it from me. Soon I shall be challenging for the Guinness World Record for hardest TT shot. And just from testing on my own time I can tell you that I am going to beat the World Record by nearly 10mph. During my tests I have consistently hit every single shot faster than the current record. The only thing left is for Guinness to come with their equipment so that I can make it official. Anyway, the point is that I can hit forehands harder than anybody in the world. Plus, I am now at mid-level professional after lots of hard work. And my best weapon is my forehand, obviously. Even after just jumping up a level of professional play very recently, I still have not run into a single player who can actually handle my forehand attacks, which says a lot because the difference between mid-level professional play and low-level professional play is ENORMOUS. And still, my forehand drive is so devastatingly fast, devastatingly spinny, consistently deep, and consistently accurate that nobody in the mid-level can land a counterattack on my side. Anybody who manages to land the ball back on my side after my first forehand drive only does so with desperation blocks. But, I am SO well-trained in attacking that I am always ready for them to get the ball back against me. Since I am ready, that means I am ready and able to hit hard forehand drive after hard forehand drive. I know that it's my best weapon. Therefore, I have trained myself to always play in ways that makes it so I am able to use it as often as possible. I have also trained myself to be able to use it against any ball, and to be able to play it over and over and over, and never have the attack taken away from me. So, trust me when I tell you that you need to worry most about how you whip your arm and you need to worry about the power in your body a lot less. Trust me, "power from the ground" is a very misunderstood thing, because if you don't whip your whole arm, it does not matter how much power you have developed from the ground. All of that power that you develop from the ground gets lost by any and all tension in your arm, your wrist, your hand, and even your fingers. Try thinking of all of it this way: You must put your weight on your right foot first and foremost. Then, you must use your legs and hips to transfer all of that weight from your right foot to your left foot. And you must do this in a very quick BURST. Then, as your force hits your left foot, your loose racket arm should then begin to transition from your backswing to your foreswing, with all of that force whipping through your upper arm first, then into your wrist next, then into your hand and fingers, and then finally, into your racket. If you remain loose throughout this procedure, then the pace of your shot will be at its maximum and the spin on the ball shall be immense as well. If you tense up any part of your arm, or if you halt yourself from allowing all of that whip to burst through your entire arm in any tiny way, then the end results will be far less than ideal. It seems to me that you're so focused on your feet when you ought to be focused on the biggest key to forehand power and spin, which is your entire arm, including all of your fingers. It's just a tiny, ultralight plastic ball. It's not a bowling ball. It's not even a tennis ball. Therefore, don't you think that you can generate a ton of power and spin just with your arm in a short, bursting movement whilst it remains loose? How important do you REALLY think that your feet are for generating the power necessary for hitting this little plastic ball really hard? Your feet's biggest importance in this endeavour actually has to do with balance, allowing your racket arm to swing explosively and loosely, and recovering from your shot as quickly as possible. In fact, "power from the ground" is actually the key in forehand looping, backhand driving, backhand counterattacking, and overhead smashing. But, when it comes to forehand driving (meaning that the ball is higher than the net's height when you make contact, which means that you are able to strike it FORWARD, and meaning that your first focus is hitting the forehand as hard as you can, on as flat of an arc as you can, and not anything else.) your biggest focus is not on "power from the ground". Your biggest focus is on "power from loose arm, quick burst, and short burst". And yeah, if it helps, focus on a flat arc when you drive the ball. A loop is going to arc from down to up over the net, then back down on the other side. A drive SHOULD go from being higher than the net's height to straight across from your side to their's without going up at all, and then coming down at the latest point possible, and doing so with tons of speed. This means that the arc is more or less a straight line from the point of contact to hitting the table on the other side (preferably on their baseline/corner). Get what I mean? I think that if you visualise this straight path of travel as you're about to swing, it will probably help you a lot. See the ball, visualise exactly how it needs to travel, and see where it needs to land on the other side. And just be aware of the fact that, the less the ball is above the net's height when you're going to make contact, the harder you have to hit that shit in order to keep it from coming down before clearing the net. AND DO NOT GET TOO MUCH OF A BRUSH CONTACT ON IT WHEN YOU ARE HITTING THE DRIVE AND IT'S THE VERY FIRST ATTACK. YOU NEED SOLID CONTACT INSTEAD. YOU ONLY NEED BRUSH WHEN YOU'RE COUNTERATTACKING WITH A DRIVE. THIS IS DUE TO THE INCOMING BALL'S SPEED AND SPIN. IF YOU HIT WITH FAT CONTACT THEN, YOUR SHOT WILL BE CONTROLLED BY THE INCOMING SPEED AND SPIN A LOT. WHEN YOU BRUSH INSTEAD ON THOSE, THEN YOUR SHOT IS NOT CONTROLLED BY THE INCOMING SPEED AND SPIN NEARLY AS MUCH.