[Video] Rate me and give me tips

Without seeing you playing an actual game where we can see your serves, serve return, reading spin, how you construct a point, and how you react to a ball that is coming back to different locations, its very difficult to guess a USATT rating.  

there is good potential on your FH. You do  the weight transfer from a leg to another, the rotation of the feet, the hips follow well  with upper body too; the swing & follow through...all is there.

fatt wrote: there is good potential on your FH. You do  the weight transfer from a leg to another, the rotation of the feet, the hips follow well  with upper body too; the swing & follow through...all is there. I suggest you find a good blocker to learn recovery so you can have 10+ fh loops (70-75% of your max strength) in a row --> you will be forced to be more relaxed in order to save your energy and not be worn out and miss; you'll be more fluid. There is much more work on the BH.

Thank you, I'm going in to play tomorrow and will work on my forehand recovery. Now when you say there is much more work on the BH what do you mean? That it looks like I have worked on my backhand more than my forehand? That I'm making myself work more on my backhand shots? or that I need much more work on my backhand? If it's the last one  to say that I need to work on my backhand a lot more versus my forehand is something I'm going to respectively disagree with. Please keep in mind that I'm using short pips and the stroke is different than inverted as it usually starts at more of a chest height and produces fast low spin drives. I really like my backhand but I do recognize of course there is always plenty of room for improvement on all aspects of my game. I will continue to work on these aspects but short pips are here to stay on my backhand and I will continue also to perfect these short pips strokes. Thanks again.

Vassily wrote: Perhaps try to stay closer to the table. It will force you to be faster and have more compact strokes. Put a barrier behind yourself, about 1.3m is plenty. You should only back away from the table when you are forced/pressured by the opponent to do so. Moving away from the table makes your angles worse. Better that you stay at the table and the opponent retreats!

I agree, good point on the angles. While I do not like being OVER the table, I don't like being too far that often as it usually gives the opponent enough time to do what they want. Thanks.

koshkin wrote: You already got some very good advise here.  I only have a couple of minor comments. You have too distinctly different FH strokes and neither includes sufficient forearm snap.  Focus on transferring your weight and snapping the forearm.  Everything else will fall into place.  Make sure your arm never crosses your body on the follow through and that you contact the ball in front of your torso, not to the side of it. As far as the BH goes, honestly, I think you should just focus on timing and the rest will fall into place.  What will help there is staying closer to the table and bending your knees a little more. ILya

Thanks a lot. That's a very good idea about not letting my arm cross my body on the follow through. I've also been thinking today after reading some comments about how to make my forehand stroke snap so I've been watching some Timo Boll since he has a forehand stroke that I would like to have.

I'm with no footwork on this. Until I see a match vs an opponent I know, or whose level is obvious, I wouldn't be able to give you a ballpark figure. You land your BH and FH enough to trouble some 1500 level oppoents, but how do you serve/attack or receive/defend/take initiative? Let's go with NF's initial rating and see how it goes from there.

This is my idea! If you play pip, then you should stay close to the table. The way you practice is not your game. Try more practice SERVICE and ATTACK before the tournament come up. Remember bend your knee then your forehand will better. Your first touch the ball on back hand is weak. I am proud about you to post your video up here to ask some advice. Good Luck.