Please Critique

Let's not judge other people's rating based on 1 video clip, remember the guy Pushblocker? How many of you guys thought he is only 1600? And he is a solid 2000plus  player as we later found out.

m.k guys its not like I'm a compulsive liar. His actual rating is b/t 18-1900. And we are both from Alabama. He went to baltimore with melarimsa and ken cameron from mytt. Like I already said. Hopefully the new vids will be up within the hour...I haven't even watched them yet though, and I'm not sure if they are great since they are just fun rallies not any games. God...are you there? Why are there haters on mytt? Its just a fun filled forum. Anyways vids will be up shortly. And to the guy asking about my shoe...Thats kind of important to me. I have never had a shoe come off and those are the energy 3's that I got for Christmas...I'm not sure why it came off because I have them really tight. I think it has something to do with the shoes not having a tongue.

I see, i guess you were beaten by a better player in a match where your shots just don't seems to fall....Well this is exactly the kind of match that make people a lot worse than they really are. If you have any other clips where you played somebody your level and you played decent, it would definitly give others a better idea of your true weakness. Everybody looks bad when playing someone a level above.

As for the whole 1300 video that was posted.. I want to throw out there that looks can be very deceiving when watching and trying to rate someone.  When someone has a "coached" technique, like service and stroke, they can look very professional and robotic, making them look higher rated than they are. The stroke alone can sometimes make you want to bump them up a few hundred points.  Just like someone who has NO stroke technique and plays ugly, can still be better than he/she looks.

Now for the critiquing.  Your stroke and footwork need a lot of work.  For your stroke, I would trust this video.  It's a video I give to people who need to learn stroke.  Now of course stroke will change with the situation, the ball your receiving, speed spin etc.  But for basic stroke, follow this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqtfLYKOTD4

As for you're footwork.  First, you need to bend your knees more, it's much easier to see the spin on the ball and it'll lead to more power, better balance, better foot work.  Bend your knees.  Your receiving stance needs to be a little more to the right (remember, bent knees=lower stance=seeing the spin on the serve). 

Also, you were pushing almost every serve.  If a serve has any topspin at all, I would loop or smash it, not push.  This is a very hard part of the game and will take practice. 

I'm running out of things to critique :)

So bottom line.  Keep low, knees bent.  Work on the stroke and the footwork.  Move your receiving stance to the right. And work on hitting different kinds of spin.

I am little worried about how you play with your racket all the time; proper, consistent grip is absolutely crucial if you think of any improvement in your game. Are you sure that you hold your racket exactly the same in each type of stroke? - at least in each backhand and forehand respectively? (I recommend one grip for both sizes' strokes personally).

Your opponent looked just too fast for you atm - you have to be able to quickly execute full movement strokes from Swiff video above to beat him...

LOL, wut a joke. i would beat u like a drum probably. please tell me ur anywhere from 1800-2000 so i can take like 40 points from u when ever i meet u. thanks

Anton Chigurh wrote:   At 1:20, you did a pendulum serve from your forehand corner. It went into the net, but even if it went over you likely would have lost the point. Again, when I first started I used to do this serve. As my coach inevitably pointed out, it's a "suicide serve" as he used to say. You're opening up your entire backhand side for being attacked, while putting yourself in the most inconvenient position for defending an attack to your backhand side. I hope that makes sense the way I described it. Basically, don't do it.

I disagree. Using a pendulum serve from the forehand side can be beneficial in setting up a backhand loop. Although i don't generally serve it from the forehand side, i definitely do it from just right of the middle of the table for this variation.
Depending on which variation i serve because of the angle change they sometimes push their receive to the left of the table or push it right into the slot of my backhand loop. I wouldn't recommend doing this all the time though =]

@fruit: you should have seen his serves back then lol! he would do like 15 stomps with both feet like he was running in place and then serve a soso underspin/sidespin ball...

Takadigi wrote: Fruit loop wrote: Depending on which variation i serve because of the angle change they sometimes push their receive to the left of the table or push it right into the slot of my backhand loop. That might be the case with lower rated opponents. But against any higher rated player (starting from say, about 1600), a pendulum serve from your forehand to their forehand would inevitable be strongly attached, particularly if they are right handed. And they would likely get it right for over 90% of the time as they would be really using your spin to make the shot.

Of course the serve would be short and most often chop/sidespin mix. if i serve plain side or top i would be expecting a flick. This works against players of around 2000 usatt level as well.

BarnabasG wrote: No Troll here, same goes for you. i will beat you also if you are 1800-2000. Keyboard hero, lmao. thats all these forums are. a bunch of guys who have dedicated there lives to something there not even good at. all these guys have been playing like 20 years and are like 1900. that is funny. i have been playing only a lil over 2 years. please do feel free to look me up on usatt. Barnabas Gonzalez. also let me know your name so i can check you out.

You may or may not be "good", but that doesn't dismiss the fact that you're a troll. Did you start an account just to try to belittle people? What a douche. I sure am glad you joined the forum, and may I say, feel free to leave at any time and not return... ever.

XOXO

sorry guys...but it would hurt my feelings to if my rating was upper 1800s and peope were comparing me to 12 year olds that are a little over 1300..thats kind of belittling as well correct? Barnabas is a good guy...maybe a little cocky, but he is a great table tennis player...I introduced him to this forum...just give him some time to adapt...We all know that we have been smart a$$es on the forum before.

BarnabasG wrote: No Troll here, same goes for you. i will beat you also if you are 1800-2000. Keyboard hero, lmao. thats all these forums are. a bunch of guys who have dedicated there lives to something there not even good at. all these guys have been playing like 20 years and are like 1900. that is funny. i have been playing only a lil over 2 years. please do feel free to look me up on usatt. Barnabas Gonzalez. also let me know your name so i can check you out.

I live in australia so i don't have a usatt rating. Feel free to check out my videos with boz. I've been playing for around 2 years also. You're a troll and a mediocre table tennis player with an ego. gtfo the forums plz.

I prolly wont ever b n Cali, but i will b n the Teams tourny n Baltimore. cya there if u wanna play.

Just tell me where u live and dnt expect me to clean any floors 4 u unless u r that great.

BarnabasG wrote: please send me sum links to ur vids. i dnt have time to waste looking up vids of sum1 i dnt know and dnt care to watch. i will watch them if u send them to me then i can talk trash about how bad u r cuz thats all u do anyway. TROLL!!!!

 Hi Barnabas , most people might know that you are only responding to other members because it is you in the video playing kelly. and you are only defending your ratings and ability. You have a real rating and if you have only been playing two years then its a very good one.