ROAD TO 1550TTR Week 17 Part 1
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
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Good training video
I am not sure that the hitting point necessarily will alter your stroke so much, its more about footwork and how you judge the distance from the table. Some people like to hit the ball at a certain point in its curve, but I think its most important to be able to be flexilble with it and this way you can move in and out of the table as a way of braking the rythm of your opponent. A stroke that looks good is nice to have, but in the end its about winning games.
About your forehand timing, more than an earlier timing, what is important is to hit the ball in front of you, to, as you said, have a forward motion.
But this timing in front of you can be succeded while being further away from the table. You should try to find the distance to table that allow you to hit whith décent quality and in front of your body.
@@hervemasson7586 yes that’s also something I thought about. Maybe I am just too close sometimes!
I Concur ! The second you keep your elbow close to the body and you hit to the side of your body or even worse from behind your body, your shot will lack weight transfer into the ball and mostly will go up than forward. Taking the ball early is one aspect needing addressing, BUT it implies that you should step into the table in order to be able to take the shorter balls right off the bounce or at the top of the bounce in all situations AND have a very closed bat angle compared to the table; try to stay in a 45% angle on that table, so you will have enough space to make a quality topspin and most of the time try tranfering your body's weight into the shot, to make the ball skid of the table's top surface ( the trajectiry should be tangential to the top of the table and the spin will sctually help with skiding ). I would sugest to always block right after the bounce on the table with closed racket / bat, in order to never give them opportunity to get a high ball after your block and also use active, neutral and defensive blocking, in order to put everybody off. As conclusion : footwork wise - always be close the the bounce of the ball with the body to take it as early as possible, topspin wise - in front of your body, 45° to the table, weight transfer into it, block - mix different style of blocking, while keeping the bat facing mostly downwards. Goodluck!
When doing the topspin whichever side, always make sure to keep a very closed angle compared to the table, because it will give you a lot of control even against very high spining topspin ( including the skiding ones ) and because it will allow you get the confidence to easily loop any backspin ball coming towards you as well, since you will always be able to generate high amounts of spin that will control and neutralise / use the underspins to your advantage. Against punches ( no spins ), if you can punch it back / neutral block it on their table, it will force them to topspin it ( that you are used to deal with mostly ) or they will push it, which will come again going up and you'll be able to get back into attacking mode.
Well yes and no, hitting the ball more in front of ur body than at the side is true, but that can also be achived by turning the upper body more to the right instead of standing too parallel to the table or taking the ball earlier. Going away from the table is really only a good solution when it helps u attack more balls that are too fast and that you would miss or play too passive elsewise.
The best way is to stay rather close to the table and take the ball early, this is modern fast and efficient table tennis. You only go back as far as u need, any decent coach or pro will tell you that too.
You are too close yes@@limittless.
Ur forehand topspin is weak coz in the first half of the video ur playing it exactly how u play it against longpips/anti, a very slow/safe/less spinny one with a very open racket angle.
In the mid ur doing better just as u said, when ur having a closed racket angle and really going OVER the ball and brushing it, creating much more spin and speed and ofc its more forward that way.
Beeing early or late doesnt really have to do with that, u can do a very late topspin where u let the (underspin)ball drop and then brush it really good creating a dangerous very spinny open up topspin
or u can take it right of the bounce and still brush it well going forward with a rather closed racket.
The modern way is mostly taking the ball early but ether way to get more quality into ur forehand topspin u need:
1) a rather closed racket angle
2) go forward (obviously since the racket angle is pretty closed)
3) and last but not least really brush the ball good with a very EXPLOSIVE motion, creating a high amount of spin and also speed with it
(dont hit against the ball, brush OVER it explosively !)
So you can do these easy safe topspins against defenders for safety okay, but against anything else u need to close the racket and really go for it and try to be as EXPLOSIVE as you can right when u hit the ball.
when did you start playing professionally? i'm 33 year old who has been playing casually for 5 years or so but lately i was focusing on TT. Do you think it's normal to get started at 30s professionally?
btw, love your vids, really helpful
Hey, I am far from being a professional 😅, started TT around 20months ago to. I think most pros start at a very young age. But I also think everything is possible, up to you and what you believe and want.
@@limittless. I mean to break 1k pts that's pro enough for me 😅. Thanks a lot for the motivation ❤️
@@AhmedSam Well if you mean cracking the first thousand in the german TTR-System, starting at 30, 40 or even 50/60 isn't too late, I've seen people starting later than even that and stiml succeeding
I mean ma long has 4k that's a legend 😅
@@AhmedSam I think you are confusing the german rating system (elo-based-system, points are called "TTR"), in which no player has 4000 (I believe that with an elo system, the best players in the world would have around 2800TTR, like in chess) with the wtt rating system, which works with international tournament placements and has nothing to do with the elo system. In the WTT-rating, ma long does currently have 3985 rating points. I believe that to even get into a wtt-tournament, you at the very least need to be a semi-professional player, which the player making this channel will (at least likely) never achieve. I would say to be ranked as a semi-pro, you would need at least 2000/2100 german rating points
This training is not going to help you at all. Knowing exactly where the ball is going to come, not hitting as hard as you can on every shot possible, not trying to end the points right away by hitting with power and to the extremes of the table, and facing someone who is hitting forehand blocks to you rather than counterattacking, ALL DOES NOT HELP. You are at too high of a level for that