The clips used were taken from the WTT channel and the TableTennisDaily channel. One clip was taken from ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-seEBrl3R7Sg.html
maaan thank you for this I was playing for years in an enviroment of spinny rubbers where I knew what kind of ball was coming back at me but now I am in Asia where people use lots of long pips and short pips, I really struggled to get use to this but getting there with this advice. Thanks!
In some way, I would say it's not really the ball one has to watch but rather the players actions and what kind of incoming ball they result in. Also, if you see the ball and then move, you might always be late to react. Rather, you must have some guess/prediction of where the ball is going to come and move there a little earlier. And now one can improve the accuracy of this guess over time. Also, I'm not sure if you do this, but I used to do this earlier which took some time away from me. After hitting the ball I would keep looking at how it landed on the table instead of seeing how my opponent was preparing for it.
I hear you, maybe sometimes it can help to take some time before serving and receiving to just go over what circumstances you are anticipating and how you plan to handle them in your head. As for changing some habitual patterns of actions or gameplay, it can be difficult and there is no fixed way around it but I plan to make a video about the same in the future.
