A 2600's opinion on being 2000 

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This makes so much sense! I like the way he said “right here the ball is coming in fast and you are reaching out to stop it”. I definitely needed to hear that 🙌🏻

Taiwo explained this so well! Reonceptualizing your struggles with moving as struggles with stability makes so much sense. Can't wait to see more!

This is amazing material. Thanks for sharing!

It's a pretty simple concept that anyone should know, but impossible to execute unless you have some serious training under your belt. Footwork is 70% of the game. If you are in position, you can almost certainly return any sort of balls if you are experienced. If your feet can't keep up, you are done.

Work on finding your comfort contact point. Once you recognise where your contact point is, all you need to do is move your body until the ball lines up with where you're going to hit it. Then it's all about training your footwork to be able to hit the ball where you feel most comfortable during drills.

In China and where I am now, coaches always tell me”when you strike, always shift your centre of gravity to prepare a more controlled and powerful hit”, I guess that is why your feet is always more important

Good video. But Nittaku premium balls beat those butterfly balls.

That is why they say hit by the legs not your forearm. The legs and core is what generates movement and power. The forearm is just there to guide the ball back.

As a Nigerian I am proud of taiwo. A very solid player

Is the rating here official for WTT? Or the rating here is only for this place? I don't understanf. 😢

Bro I want to come down there to play with you guys and get some coaching. This is like the best coaching I've ever seen

I honestly think the coach is oversimplifying things a bit. Sorry, but it's not that easy. He says the right things and to him we are all the same but every 100 you got another level to climb. I am sure you are aware of the book called "breaking 2000" by Alex Polyakov. It was one of the things that helped me break 2000 back in the day. Highly recommend

Very interesting! Thx for the video!!! This is an important reminder for me.

Your rating will always reflect the stability of my game and not just the quality of your shots… literally what I’m dealing with rn!!!

no way the nittaku ball is way better than butterfly it floats way to much from my experience playing so many tournamets if you can spin you can if not then you cant it takes practice no matter the ball no excuses

WTF are those advertisements on the wall in chinese, immobilien and life insurance 🤣🤣🤣

Great content, please keep posting!

Nathan, you don't play better vs higher level players. It feels that way because a higher level player will give you a more consistent ball that makes more sense and has more power. That ball is easy to understand and easy to attack. A lower level player will give you a zero-quality ball that is dead and just floats in the air; that ball is much harder to attack because you must now generate all the energy yourself, you can't use the incoming energy as there is none. I was under the same false impression for a while, actually. The reality is - you're not playing better, you're playing exactly the same, it's just that the game is easier to play because it's closer to what you've practicsed. Playing a faster, higher energy ball just masks issues in your game that prevent you from doing a proper stroke in a match.

I like the videos man!

At 5:41, when he says you were standing at the middle and stretching your hand he is right and wrong at the same time. It is good to play with a stretched hand as it gives you more acceleration, but what he means to say is that your right leg needs to be under your elbow for support to guide the ball and maximize the power from your body.

What does this translate into european ratings?

I think from 1600-2400 the game is the same, just the consistency, power and spin go up incrementally, but once you surpass 2500 or 2600 the game becomes more technical as small mistakes are punished a lot more. I think to get to 2400 there really isn't anything special that you need(many 2400s that I play or see playing have unconventional borderline bad technique). On the other hand, to get to a top level(2800+) your fundamentals need to be perfect and it requires some talent or a lot of motivation.

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