Screaming like harimoto. It boost your confidence, annoys your opponent and somewhat intimidates your opponent. Some say it's unsportsmanlike but hey it's legal.
My #1 tip for winning more points is to simply focus on keeping your serves as low over the net as possible. Even if your serves are otherwise predictable, if you can do this relatively consistently, you will get consistently weaker returns. Just a few centimeters makes an enormous difference. Whenever I'm struggling on my own serves this is the first thing I evaluate. It still surprises me how much value you can get, and it's very easy to overlook if you're not paying very close attention
I have another interesting idea. Can you 2 play a match, then explain to us in detail what was your strategy and what you were thinking about for every single point from start to finish (e.g. he is trying to rush the point so I'm going to do this to make him make more mistakes; now he has adapted my strategy I am going to do this next etc.). I think this would give us a good example of how to analysis players and how to deal with them during a match
Very good tipps. But I think there must be a bonus tipp. Watch the opponents bat / bat angle after you hit the ball. Don‘t follow it with your eyes. Because he is on the way and you cant‘t change anything. If you look at your opponents position and his bat angle you can see very early, where the next ball will be played. And you can get much earlier into the right position to do your stroke. This will not work at all players. But it could help to get more time for your attack.
I always find Dan and Toms ‘unintentional’ block misses really funny 😂 as it’s so obvious that your purposely blocking off the end of the table lol great video once again though 🏓💯💪
My thanks to the two of you. I often lose to players that have less consistent strokes than me. In short, I beat myself. Your advice to go slow, focusing on hitting at least 5 shots in a rally, is particularly on point I believe. Cheers BrianW
It's actually possible to train your backhand to make a strong attack even in the crossover area. My bad habits have given me terrible footwork, but I have become quite good at hitting the ball in awkward positions, my armpit forehead, while not as strong as a normal forehand, often surprises my opponent often. Good footwork is of course preferable, but for us who can't move well, this is an alternative.
We heard often ''watch the ball'' , should be Watch the opponent (attitude/move/eyes).Against hard hitter/blocker i tend to serve very soft , the ball barely crossing over. Thanks for sharing great tips ...may the smartest win !
The big one is to actually have fun ! ! ! Enjoy yourself don't get too serious , and you will be more relaxed and make your shots, and when you don't - you won't get too demoralised !
Hi Dan, greetings from Indonesia. Another great video & very useful tips. Can't wait for the new episode of TTD match. I see a lot of comments asking for new episode release everytime you upload video other than the TTD league match.
I do a lot of serve practice, but I think its important to mention that you have to play matches with the serves because the whole dynamic of how the serve effects the opponent and taking advantage of how they are pushed to return the ball in a certain way. The third touch is my weakest point right now, as I can serve practice easily, but match practice are harder to arrange.
I think warming up should be talked about. My last match I had like 5 minutes to warm up because we had two home competitions taking place, so four tables for four teams, which is just not enough. Kids training went on normally up until 7PM, the games were scheduled for half an hour later. Timed had to be wasted for setting up the hall until we could start warming up. It went really bad for me and my partner and then our team mates came to us and wanted to switch. I'm not as good as you guys are and losing matches is one thing, but playing bad because you had not enough time to prepare is another thing. I was furious for the next couple of days because of this.
My forehand topspin was always the spinny and slow moving but now I'm practicing to vary my forehand to hitting the ball more forcefully instead of a spinny one like the Chinese. The problem now is I have to be a bit more agile and improve my footwork because my opponents can easily block my topspin unlike before.
Hi Dan , big fan of your videos . Just wanted to ask you to recommend some custom table tennis racquet under budget (1000-5000Rs)(60 £) for average gameplay , I'm an intermediate player who enjoys playing in office hours but also wants to improve game. Some reply would be really appreciated. Also a video idea😁😁😂
I think, a problem at amateur leages is that the players do not play explosive enough. If I watch games of the 3rd or fourth german tt league (I also can see it at the second league), that the players don´t have enough feeling for good and explosive topspins and spinny serves or chops. The player often have a very bad backhand and only can use it for blocking or serve returning at the table. But if they go 2 steps back, they miss every topspin or it contains little spin and pace. I think, for backhand topspins you should use also your elbow and underarm.
We are all too passive honestly. I'm in the lowest league and our first team is four leagues above and you can see the same pattern there. It disgusts me when I play like that.
