How to Level Up With A Robot! 

Awesome video! Could you please expand on your 1300-1700 robot training? All the routines, training schedule, anything and everything, that's probably where the majority of your viewers are. Would help a lot! Thank you!

Excellent video, Seth. I wish more advanced players would talk about how they use robots in their training. I learned several new things from this video even though I'm a old veteran and a guru of the table tennis robot industry (played 50+ years and worked in the robot industry for 30+ years). Here's a tip I'll share that can make robot training more beneficial-use several differently colored balls in the robot and assign a different meaning to each one. So, for instance, in the drill where you were working on different touches for serve receives, you could signify white balls to mean use a short drop shot; an orange ball, a heavy, long push; a blue ball, a flick; etc. If you need more colors than white and orange, get a bunch of white balls and dye them various colors. This forces you to wait for the ball to be released before you decide what type of return you will do, much like you have to do in a real game. This really makes you have to concentrate especially hard. Try it sometime, I think you'll like it!

Robots helped me a lot. I’d also like to add that one other essential training aid is a rebound board. I know a lot of decent players can’t get even 5 reps when using a rebound board, shows how inconsistent their strokes are.

This is great timing. Im looking at getting a table at home soon so I'll be using some of these and your previous tips with the return board. Your videos are always so detailed, ive been sharing your channel with a few of the players at my club and every one has come back to tell me how good your videos are. Keep up the amazing work

Outstanding. What you said about hitting and then getting stuck is one of my major concerns - I see no way out. Anyway your videos are always so insightful. Keep going!

This page/channel deserves more! Excited for the growth and exposure to come with all the useful/informational content you deliver. 10/10 will recommend lmao

I have been staying away from the robot lately for exactly the reason you state in this video... That it is very easy to get comfortable hitting the same ball over and over again with the WRONG technique. This video gave me lots of hope for training with a robot again ❤ thank you very much!

Outstanding, thank you very much for the tips.

Yeah Really good vid, Seth.. I was inspired by your work to get the PP robot and revisiting this vid really has reinforced how useful robots can be. I have been under utilising mine. Cheers

Thank you

Right to the points.

What fantastic tutorials! 👏 thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.

Amazing man, thank you very much for this video!

Pure gold! To put the robot an a chair far away from the table or sideways is a great idea. I will implement that to my robotraining!

Can’t wait to buy one!

Thanks so much, your video helps me a lot .

OMG! I am sure this is exactly what happened to me at the tournament today. I have a great robot as I don't have a training partner. I was felling very good training until the tournament. Will change my robot training and getting 2 chairs 😂 Great video Seth!

Great lessons

Great video

Loving it, good stuff 😊

Your instructions and advices are the best, everything makes sense.

Such a great, informative video! Thanks Seth!

Awesome tips! I have this same robot and use it refularly but never thought about moving the robot back for serves and other balls - genius!

Thanks for this, really appreciated

Thanks, great stuff! Love my little robot.

nice video, finally someone touching the subject in a serious way im training with my robo pong 3050xl twice a day for a year now in addition to training at the club and i improved super fast with everything kinda, my strokes got much stronger and safer and i can open up backspin very good now on backhand as well and when im warming up with people i look like a much higher rated player than i currently am coz my basics got so much better i still struggle with reading sping on good serves the most since i cant train that with a robot but thats pretty much it appart from wierd uncommon balls that i also lack expirience in what im doing with the robot is usually: - warming up with topspins random fh / bh and then random all over the table - random serve recieves random backspin to sidespin both sides all over the table short-long so i can train to push them or flick or topspin - playing all balls that fell off back into the net with training my own serves - serves from empty to a lot of backspin to train to loop different amounts of spin - a full game excercise which starts with random back/sidespin serve, into random backspin balls short/long that i flick/topspin open up, into slower and then faster topspins all over the table and then it starts all over its really nice just playing this one for a while since it brings all kinds of balls and i can just go go pretty similar to a match ofc it cant replace regular training matches but its a very good practice what i still need to implement more is falkenberg movement which im a bit lazy on right now

Thanks for your advice last month where you advised my 11y/o kid to `Enjoy` her first competition (QED not worry). She won both matches against old/er experienced players (even winning from 2 sets down in one). 1st place in the group category. Won a Shirt & Competition Diploma. You had a bro to train with, she has an older sister who competed a bit to help train. Kids are clunky at first with matches.

Well thought and well explained 👌👌👌

Great recommendation to put the robot away from the table to practice receiving serves. The range of serves you can create is much bigger and more realistic than only using the robot on it's usual place. Thanks 🙏

Es muy bueno tu canal! Que robot recomiendas?

Loved the graphics, acting winning against the robot vs real world, good video!

Hi Seth, great video, thank you, really like the 5 drills you mention at the end. I have the same robot, and as you know, the drills can be exported and imported to another robot, would you mind sharing those drill files?

(1) what is the ideal stool height to sit the robot on for away from table and to side of table placement of the omega robot? (2) in your fav 6 drills at the end...various positions. is that drill also various spins? (SS, BS, TS) in one drill?

Excellent tutorial Seth! Would you mind to share the robot training setup with me? Thanks

Hello. is POWER PONG ALPHA PLUS a good alternative to OMEGA? Do you have any tips on any other option that is good. Want to be able to train, among other things, loop against non-spin, backspin and topspin? BR Jan

This TT robot video is not "one of the best..." as it is actually the best video on TT robot. Thank heaps Seth. I just wish you share your top 20 drills instead of the best 6.

A TT robot should definitely be used in a smart way. It is easy either to improve very much with it or stuck in illusions and sheer mistakes. I experienced both things) but now I seem to advance rapidly, thanks to a good choice of routines. I use Butterfly Amicus Advance, it's flexible enough for everything I do.

Great tutorial, as always! PowerPong allows sharing the drills. Do you know if a repository of drills exists?

Thank you very much for the all tutorial . However I wonder if you could tell me how to set up the robot( like the spin, speed) for practicing at level 1300/1700 and up. I’m really appreciate. Again thank you very much.

what is the balls/minute cadence you use for the game-like scenarios (like 60% forehands with 2 random backhands)?

I donated my Butterfly robot to the Fremont Table Tennis Acadamy I'm going to train on the return board I like the things I can do with my flip and also the dead ball loop...

Thanks for the content. I wish I know this. I messed up my stroke using robot the wrong way

Will it be possible to share the diagram showing location and speed etc? I have robo pong. Also, I would like to spend a week with you one of these day to coach me. I probably should visit you or maybe when you visit California.

Great video. I thought the car would crash into the house. What shoes do you wear / recommend? Thanks.

Hi Seth. Any chance you can share the power pong drill files? Thanks.

What's up Champ? Great video as always, what do You think about timo boll web coach?

I have a different robot. In game situation, I find judging the drop position on my side of the table. Can you please tell me how to judge the Bounce coming on my side of table. I often move too far in and the bounce comes right below my racket. Hard to judge these bounces.

Great content, thanks again. Have you had a chance to use the Butterfly Amicus Prime robot and compare it to the power pong omega that you are using? Is power pong reliable and easy to purchase when parts are needed? Thank you, I am deciding on either butterfly or power pong, your input will be greatly appreciated!

But why didn't I think about moving the robot further back!. Thanks a lot for this. Awesome tutorials.

Great video as always, the only problem is that I don't have a space for the table at home... Not to mention a robot... Anyway, could you do a more specific tutorial on forehand and backhand topspin against backspin? Your tutorials are golden so I would really appreciate such a tutorial ;)

Hi, love your stuff. What thickness K3 are you using? On what blade? Cheers from Belgium

Lol that is me at 2:00. Jpen

Do you have any recommendations for cheap ones?

Hi Seth, would you be interested in doing some individual coaching online ?

I experienced in a tournament this weekend that I had practiced so much vs. underspin and topspin balls that I wasnt able to adapt to a player that didnt spin much and just hit really fast nospin balls. Table tennis is so hard ... this balance between trying to learn the right technique and winning vs players that either go with fast equipment early and win a lot of games with speed or players that uses thin rubbers to control the game instead of developing the skills to control the game with spin ... I have to just trust the process, but its really tempting to just take a shortcut when losing to players that dont play with spin. I also find myself not being able to throw out the "practice the right technique" -mindset in matches. My practice with robot has probably made me not so adaptable to all the different types of styles and I am not good at reading the movement of peoples rackets so I sometimes dont get my feet moving in time because I focus a lot on the ball movement instead, which comes much later. All in all I think the robot practice has helped a lot on my technique, but there is a big skill gap in my game. If you were to judge my skill based on my strokes, you would maybe think that I am much higher ranked than what I am.

What was the lower end robot you used?

I spent the past 2.5 years working on the robot 5-6 days a week it destroyed my match playing. I stopped using it about 60 days ago and started practicing with humans again and I am making some shots I never had in the past, hitting a tournament on the 30th...

How to develop a forehand like Aruna even Harimoto has a tough time defending against in Singapore Smash ? Maybe we need a video on all different styles of killer forehand ?

U13 lebel vidio please

Is the App from Power Pong better than Butterfly Amicus?

Hey Peck! I want to post videos of my matches just like you, but I'd hate to post without a scoreboard. How do you add a scoreboard/tracker to your videos?

Hi Seth, thanks for sharing ur experiences w training w tt robot. am a table tennis coach and will try to incorporate ur ideas into future training w students.

what is brand is the robot?

10:08 I am tired tonight, I will come back next time from here

I have a newgy robopong 2050. I can’t relate to the drills you demonstrated.

How can I get this robot in India....?

Hi Seth, you only showed us 5 of your favorite drills at the end instead of 6. Did you forget one?

8 balls 6 in the forehand is 75% in the forehand;) not 60% ;)

🌎🇪🇨🙂👍

You are a robot though...

1 year late but i have a question. What is the difference from the alpha,delta and omega robot? Because i was looking to buy the omega but is very expensive😂😂