First of all, thank you for your videos. I learned a lot from your videos. Since i’ve been watching your videos, a lot of things that i’ve been doing were wrong. Consequently, with your tips, i made changes which improve my skills. May, I ask if you can make videos on how play against long pips and short pips players. I have trouble in returning serve, their return, and attacking them. Thanks again!!!
Thank you! if your opponent can not receive short I would do dead serves to the forehand, or backhand if they cannot flip as the ball you get back will be very simple to loop
Great video as always Seth. The racket that is on the table as you discuss the flip appears to be the Samsonov VS unlimited? Did you recently change racket?
Hi Seth, can't wait for your next video. Down the line, would you be able to talk about the topic of "why we make mistakes in table tennis" I find table tennis so frustrating sometimes, and I just hate myself so bad, when I miss a shot or misplace a shot, or make errors. Recently, however, when I watched videos of myself in slow motion, I found that there was a tiny impart of back spin on the opponents block which I didn't take into consideration, which would make my loop hit the net. Whilst I don't know if this is always the case (i.e. mis reading ball spin) I think a closer analysis of why we make mistakes, can make us better players. Is there anything worth analysing on this topic, i find it so odd that during rallies, training and multiball we rarely miss a shot (i.e. can rally for 50balls) but when we play games, I will miss the ball, overshoot the table, hit the ball on the edge of racket etc. Any thoughts on why people make unforced errors?
That’s a great topic and I for one am with you! I have practiced much and get soo frustrated when i miss shots that I feel I should be making, it does come down to what you mentioned small details that we miss, often times in training we have nice drills that are giving clean balls that we know what’s happening, I really improved when I started training drills that implemented variations which I talk a lot on my channel. I’ve also in my own game started to focus a lot more on watching those small inconsistencies my opponent makes, I am in a place where I feel I can trust my stroke and I can focus more on them, which I feel can be hard for lower rated players as they are also trying to move, do the right stroke, time things up and then to watch the small details on top of that is very difficult. Some people are more gifted at it than others and I think those are typically the players that reach higher levels faster, they are better at receiving serves, blocking strong or spiny random attacks, and looping all sorts of block variations because they see more, that being said I think this is a skill that can be learned if done the right way. I am on the same road as you in this and I’ve worked hard to improve at it, I can address this in a video for sure I think people would gain from it.
Hi Seth, Great video. I have a question, how much time do you generally spend warming up before matches? How much time do you spend practicing (on the table) before a match?
Hey I usually like to be at the tournament hall one hour before I play, I warm up my whole game for 45-50 minutes and then rest for 10 to 15 minutes before I play. once Im going though I dont do much practicing maybe if there is a break of an hour or two I will ask someone to block a few for me and then do some serve free just to get back in the game mode.
Seth, I must say that your channel is one the best channels for learning table tennis. Nobody explains practical points in such a detail. Commendable !!!! Dan's main strategy seems to be loop (generally slow) on your backhand side. He also tried to keep game slow as he didn't want to get into power-game. Regarding your reviews I have one suggestion. It would be important to know your opponent's equipment's in order to understand game analysis. Without knowing equipment it is hard to understand whether it is his tactics or nature of the equipment (Being slow).
Played a small tournament today and because I play only for about three years and I never had a coach or consistent training, I was the fifth out of eight 😄 The better players are all semi-pros, tho (the three behind me were amateurs like myself). I knew going into this that I have more variation and creativity because I have a lot of theoretic knowledge (as I read a lot and watch many coaching videos), however, the players who have been playing for much longer just have the basics mastered (in contrary to me, because I never had time and/or a training partner to train and get the feeling), meaning that I can't go into the short game with them because the years of practice make them unbeatable in the "basic" shots (eg. push, short touch, block). I had to play the shortest rallies possible and I had to attack everything, because if I didn't play better than I'm able to, I would end up even worse. As Adam Bobrow said about the match of Mattias Falck and Ma Long in 2019 (where Mattias was the underdog), "he has to make a high percentage of low-percentage shots" (Mattias is my favorite player because he is almost as tall as me 🙂) And surely enough, even though the semi-pros defeated me, in the match with the guy who won the tournament I lost 11:4, 11:6 and in the third game I got the score to 12:10 (very proud of saving two matchpoints from 10:8 with very aggresive topspins right from his serve 😆) because I attacked basically everything and I figured I had to make more top-side spinned serves in order to avoid the short game he had the high ground in. It was a game of tricky serves and second- or third-ball attacks. So even though I got only about three wins, I managed to impress the better players and get a chance to train on a regular basis (which means the world for me as the last year when I tried to start playing in a club, the head-coach ghosted me ...) I'm currently thinking of getting a new racket. I have the Stiga JMS Control blade (allround, made for beginners), Mantra M on backhand and Mantra H on my forehand (both with 2.1mm sponge thickness). Because I have this racket for about a year now, It doesn't spin nearly as much as when it was new. Do you think that the all-wood Primorac Zoran blade, coupled with Ten05 Hard (FH) and Ten64 (BH) is a good combo? 😉
I have not tried those combinations but I think they would be worth a try, would be very fast but if you can control it I’m sure you would win many points!
@@PechPongTT That's what I wasn't so sure about. I thought that the Primorac blade was like Off-. I'm not even thinking of anything else than allwood blades, considering my level, however, my setup is getting kinda pain in the behind to get the ball fast (and I'm actually around 195cm tall and pretty strong so it's not like I can't hit hard 😆) Any recommendations are more than welcomed 😉
I would say strait heavy underspin because the opponent will have a hard time angling the ball to a super wide corner, also in order to keep the ball short your opponent will have to deaden the ball if they make any backspin friction it will go long so you get a clean slight under ball placed to the middle of the table, perfect for a backhand flip. I usually like to serve heavy backspin to the middle backhand and look for the flip
I’ve been trying out a new one to get a little more speed out of my game nothing is final yet but I’ve liked it so far it’s the Samsonov unlimited blade
Cuz it’s awesome! Haha well I started using Dignics 09C and liked it a lot, I thought I’d give K3 a try and really liked its capability to counterloop opponents heavy loops and switched and am loving it! It’s slightly tacky and has good speed paired up with the Samsonov Unlimited blade it’s been good
Ive tried Timo boll alc but I found viscaria had more feeling, the blade also has a nice throw angle and the dwell time is right in the sweet spot not too long and not too short so I feel I can make spin as well as punch the ball when I want to, I feel like its a very safe blade for any offensive player.
Have you ever considered putting the camera on the left side instead of the right? I think it allows the viewer to see more of the match because it prevents the player on this side to block the view. Any way great match 😀
Hey yeah I wanted to get the scoreboard in the shot normally so it usually flip flops depending on which side The scorekeeper is on. I did notice that when editing that it was harder to see gameplay I’ll remember that for future videos.
I was playing Dignics09c and I switched to K3 I felt very good about it with flips, underspins and backhand counters honestly its very similar to dignics09c maybe not as high of a throw but its not much and it makes it easier to counterloop that way as well
Nice. I always enjoy your videos. I have uploaded some practice matches of mine today as well. I am 8 months into my table tennis journey now and still practicing hard! Any feedback appreciated. Keep on keeping on guys ;)
Hey! looks good I remember watching some of your videos with the robot. Some things I noticed when watching your matches. Your strokes are great when you wait for the ball but many times you reach for the ball and there ends up being less of a stroke I would encourage doing multiball drills where you are blocking and when the feeder gives you an slower ball you change gears and try to loop with a full stroke, this will give you the ability to see the ball and make different strokes right now you may be stuck reaching for most of the balls. the next thing I noticed was your moving which is definitely getting bette, I would really try to keep the feet moving as a whole unit sometimes you take a step to get closer to the ball and your stance gets wider and that will kill your chance to move fast to the next ball. you can set the robot up to give you high slow balls anywhere and you can practice moving both feet and taking a forehand smash this way you can develop the ability to move with both feet even when you dont know were the ball is going. if you start off too hard its hard to bridge the gap but slow and high you will be able to move around and develop hope this helps
@@PechPongTT Thats great! I have been thinking this exact thing ;D ... here is a video of me doing this type of drill about three weeks ago: czcams.com/video/dItPwDsT4AM/video.html&ab_channel=thecommenter ... Thanks for helping out. You seem like an all-round great guy!
Your videos really are of extraordinary quality and content... thank you for this 🙏
Thank you I've been working hard to upgrade the quality comments like yours mean a lot :)
@@PechPongTTwhat you advise on normal situation - stay little far from table or close) I think that move forward more easy than move back
Your insightful, but transparent analyses are excellent! You’re helping all of us! Keep ‘‘em coming! Bless.
Thanks, yea I’ll keep them coming we are all learning how to perform Better at this crazy sport!
I love the little training tips at the end of your video. Especially with the little video clips they are super interesting!
I’ll make sure to keep doing those!
Seth you have a gem of a channel, I can tell you have a passion for teaching table tennis. Keep it up!
Thank you!
great content! I could watch your videos every day :)
Thank you! Ill make more then :)
Legendary video !!!
Thank you!
amazing, thanks!
First of all, thank you for your videos. I learned a lot from your videos. Since i’ve been watching your videos, a lot of things that i’ve been doing were wrong. Consequently, with your tips, i made changes which improve my skills. May, I ask if you can make videos on how play against long pips and short pips players. I have trouble in returning serve, their return, and attacking them. Thanks again!!!
I have been making notes on playing against pips soon to come 👍👍
@@PechPongTT Thanks!!!
Good vid Seth, thx for sharing the match. Quick tip: work on your forehand push, which often goes a bit too high :)
Thanks! I’m on it I’ll improve that part of my game 💪
Love your analysis and calm way to explain. Which serves would you suggest for less experienced players that can't receive short? Thanks
Thank you! if your opponent can not receive short I would do dead serves to the forehand, or backhand if they cannot flip as the ball you get back will be very simple to loop
Great video as always Seth. The racket that is on the table as you discuss the flip appears to be the Samsonov VS unlimited? Did you recently change racket?
Nothing slips past you! Haha I’ve been trying it out it seems to be one notch faster than Viscaria which I was looking for.
congrats on making the last 16 bro!
Thank you! It was a hard fought journey but I made it! Hopefully I can get to 8ths next time around
Hi Seth, can't wait for your next video.
Down the line, would you be able to talk about the topic of "why we make mistakes in table tennis"
I find table tennis so frustrating sometimes, and I just hate myself so bad, when I miss a shot or misplace a shot, or make errors. Recently, however, when I watched videos of myself in slow motion, I found that there was a tiny impart of back spin on the opponents block which I didn't take into consideration, which would make my loop hit the net. Whilst I don't know if this is always the case (i.e. mis reading ball spin) I think a closer analysis of why we make mistakes, can make us better players.
Is there anything worth analysing on this topic, i find it so odd that during rallies, training and multiball we rarely miss a shot (i.e. can rally for 50balls) but when we play games, I will miss the ball, overshoot the table, hit the ball on the edge of racket etc. Any thoughts on why people make unforced errors?
That’s a great topic and I for one am with you! I have practiced much and get soo frustrated when i miss shots that I feel I should be making, it does come down to what you mentioned small details that we miss, often times in training we have nice drills that are giving clean balls that we know what’s happening, I really improved when I started training drills that implemented variations which I talk a lot on my channel. I’ve also in my own game started to focus a lot more on watching those small inconsistencies my opponent makes, I am in a place where I feel I can trust my stroke and I can focus more on them, which I feel can be hard for lower rated players as they are also trying to move, do the right stroke, time things up and then to watch the small details on top of that is very difficult. Some people are more gifted at it than others and I think those are typically the players that reach higher levels faster, they are better at receiving serves, blocking strong or spiny random attacks, and looping all sorts of block variations because they see more, that being said I think this is a skill that can be learned if done the right way. I am on the same road as you in this and I’ve worked hard to improve at it, I can address this in a video for sure I think people would gain from it.
Hi Seth, Great video. I have a question, how much time do you generally spend warming up before matches? How much time do you spend practicing (on the table) before a match?
Hey I usually like to be at the tournament hall one hour before I play, I warm up my whole game for 45-50 minutes and then rest for 10 to 15 minutes before I play. once Im going though I dont do much practicing maybe if there is a break of an hour or two I will ask someone to block a few for me and then do some serve free just to get back in the game mode.
Seth, I must say that your channel is one the best channels for learning table tennis. Nobody explains practical points in such a detail. Commendable !!!!
Dan's main strategy seems to be loop (generally slow) on your backhand side. He also tried to keep game slow as he didn't want to get into power-game.
Regarding your reviews I have one suggestion. It would be important to know your opponent's equipment's in order to understand game analysis. Without knowing equipment it is hard to understand whether it is his tactics or nature of the equipment (Being slow).
Thats a very good point you make! I will try to include that in all the reviews from now on!
Thank s for all your advice i love it it s helping me a lot!!! What is the racket and cover on the Begin of your video match?
Played a small tournament today and because I play only for about three years and I never had a coach or consistent training, I was the fifth out of eight 😄
The better players are all semi-pros, tho (the three behind me were amateurs like myself). I knew going into this that I have more variation and creativity because I have a lot of theoretic knowledge (as I read a lot and watch many coaching videos), however, the players who have been playing for much longer just have the basics mastered (in contrary to me, because I never had time and/or a training partner to train and get the feeling), meaning that I can't go into the short game with them because the years of practice make them unbeatable in the "basic" shots (eg. push, short touch, block).
I had to play the shortest rallies possible and I had to attack everything, because if I didn't play better than I'm able to, I would end up even worse. As Adam Bobrow said about the match of Mattias Falck and Ma Long in 2019 (where Mattias was the underdog), "he has to make a high percentage of low-percentage shots" (Mattias is my favorite player because he is almost as tall as me 🙂)
And surely enough, even though the semi-pros defeated me, in the match with the guy who won the tournament I lost 11:4, 11:6 and in the third game I got the score to 12:10 (very proud of saving two matchpoints from 10:8 with very aggresive topspins right from his serve 😆) because I attacked basically everything and I figured I had to make more top-side spinned serves in order to avoid the short game he had the high ground in. It was a game of tricky serves and second- or third-ball attacks.
So even though I got only about three wins, I managed to impress the better players and get a chance to train on a regular basis (which means the world for me as the last year when I tried to start playing in a club, the head-coach ghosted me ...)
I'm currently thinking of getting a new racket. I have the Stiga JMS Control blade (allround, made for beginners), Mantra M on backhand and Mantra H on my forehand (both with 2.1mm sponge thickness). Because I have this racket for about a year now, It doesn't spin nearly as much as when it was new.
Do you think that the all-wood Primorac Zoran blade, coupled with Ten05 Hard (FH) and Ten64 (BH) is a good combo? 😉
I have not tried those combinations but I think they would be worth a try, would be very fast but if you can control it I’m sure you would win many points!
@@PechPongTT That's what I wasn't so sure about. I thought that the Primorac blade was like Off-. I'm not even thinking of anything else than allwood blades, considering my level, however, my setup is getting kinda pain in the behind to get the ball fast (and I'm actually around 195cm tall and pretty strong so it's not like I can't hit hard 😆)
Any recommendations are more than welcomed 😉
What kind of serves allows me to play more backhand flips off the recieve? Very good video btw.
I would say strait heavy underspin because the opponent will have a hard time angling the ball to a super wide corner, also in order to keep the ball short your opponent will have to deaden the ball if they make any backspin friction it will go long so you get a clean slight under ball placed to the middle of the table, perfect for a backhand flip. I usually like to serve heavy backspin to the middle backhand and look for the flip
What you say if opponent make long push? How I must to correct my movement and topspin
Do you have two different rackets? One for practice? Cause you seem not to play your Viscaria when showing the flip stuff :)
I’ve been trying out a new one to get a little more speed out of my game nothing is final yet but I’ve liked it so far it’s the Samsonov unlimited blade
Hey Seth, do you know how the scoring system in the USA differs from the QTTR value in Germany or how the values can be compared (Timo Boll: 2583).
I do not unfortunately!
@@PechPongTT Thank you for your reply. My quick research showed me that Kanak seem to have a (Q)TTR score of 2476 and an USATT score of 2767.
you know when you see a player with huge legs, it's gonna be a good match.
hi Seth, why do you use Hybrid k3?
Cuz it’s awesome! Haha well I started using Dignics 09C and liked it a lot, I thought I’d give K3 a try and really liked its capability to counterloop opponents heavy loops and switched and am loving it! It’s slightly tacky and has good speed paired up with the Samsonov Unlimited blade it’s been good
Why you have chosen Viscaria ? For example not TB ALC ?
Ive tried Timo boll alc but I found viscaria had more feeling, the blade also has a nice throw angle and the dwell time is right in the sweet spot not too long and not too short so I feel I can make spin as well as punch the ball when I want to, I feel like its a very safe blade for any offensive player.
Have you ever considered putting the camera on the left side instead of the right? I think it allows the viewer to see more of the match because it prevents the player on this side to block the view. Any way great match 😀
Hey yeah I wanted to get the scoreboard in the shot normally so it usually flip flops depending on which side The scorekeeper is on. I did notice that when editing that it was harder to see gameplay I’ll remember that for future videos.
if you know, Dan does a lot of short, death serves wouldnt be natural to just attack them with flick?
on your BH rubber: you switched from T05 to K3, why? how does that change your BH game?
I was playing Dignics09c and I switched to K3 I felt very good about it with flips, underspins and backhand counters honestly its very similar to dignics09c maybe not as high of a throw but its not much and it makes it easier to counterloop that way as well
@@PechPongTT great, can you make a video reviewing K3?
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@@PechPongTT do you mean BH flick is easier with K3? Will you make a review video about this rubber?
Still waiting the video about equipment for begginner / advanced / pro player 🥲
his play style reminds me of an american zhang jike
Ill take that as a compliment I love to watch and learn from his playing style!
Nice. I always enjoy your videos. I have uploaded some practice matches of mine today as well. I am 8 months into my table tennis journey now and still practicing hard! Any feedback appreciated. Keep on keeping on guys ;)
Hey! looks good I remember watching some of your videos with the robot. Some things I noticed when watching your matches. Your strokes are great when you wait for the ball but many times you reach for the ball and there ends up being less of a stroke I would encourage doing multiball drills where you are blocking and when the feeder gives you an slower ball you change gears and try to loop with a full stroke, this will give you the ability to see the ball and make different strokes right now you may be stuck reaching for most of the balls. the next thing I noticed was your moving which is definitely getting bette, I would really try to keep the feet moving as a whole unit sometimes you take a step to get closer to the ball and your stance gets wider and that will kill your chance to move fast to the next ball. you can set the robot up to give you high slow balls anywhere and you can practice moving both feet and taking a forehand smash this way you can develop the ability to move with both feet even when you dont know were the ball is going. if you start off too hard its hard to bridge the gap but slow and high you will be able to move around and develop
hope this helps
@@PechPongTT Thats great! I have been thinking this exact thing ;D ... here is a video of me doing this type of drill about three weeks ago: czcams.com/video/dItPwDsT4AM/video.html&ab_channel=thecommenter ... Thanks for helping out. You seem like an all-round great guy!
Dan liu is my coach lol
He’s a good great player and I’m sure an amazing coach!
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