Videos of MYTT Members Playing

I played "Ovtcharov" at Nationals last year and he plays a similar style to you, probably a little harder on the aggressive strokes since he moves better and uses inverted on both sides.

I've found that even when I work on my game, even if the results show up in club matches in 2-3 months, they take about 6 months before they show up in tournaments.  I think the improvement in your forehand offense is great.

Hey, we can only go by how people actually play, not how they should play.  At the events he performed best, it was his defensive tendencies that messed up the players who were too inconsistent to hit through them (myself included).  I am supposed to be two-winged looping, but my game is really more push-block rallying.  Someday, hopefully, it will all change for the better.

Well, they both lob, but Eric is a chopper who sometimes lobs and Michael is a looper who sometimes lobs.  They both range a lot around the court, moving in and out, back and forth.  Eric's defensive style is mostly by choice.  Michael's defensive style is more of a fall back; when he's feeling really confident -- or has a coach watching over him -- he doesn't do much defense (nor does he need it).  It can feel the same when both players are busy retrieving everything you throw at them, but the differences are large when they're not retrieving and that means you should approach playing them with different strategies.

any chance on sharing you and PP's equipment in details?

I did play one kid who taped the match but his family was insane.  Pretty sure I'm not getting a hold of that one.  They were yelling at me and to the kid the whole time, and I was saying commentary into the camera.  Would be funny if it surfaced.

Us mucking about in Fred's grandparent's garden earlier in the summer.

On the equipment:  That's pretty insightful and I arrived at the same conclusion after reviewing my matches yesterday - my setup is too slow for quick countering, but I slowed it down for a reason to work on my movement and my long term game - it does hurt on a day like Sunday when I am playing with half a knee instead of two knees.

On the backhand technique question, I don't think there was any real difference other than youth and mobility.  He didn't do any flicks - he mostly pushed the ball and I didn't have the mobility to take the ball in my strike zone.  I did more actual flicks of short or half-long balls than he did.  Obviously, I missed my fair share as well.

I didn't put the camera there, it was Philippe's camera.

The worst part is that he used some sort of fisheye lens, distorting the pictures and making it impossible to get a good view of the match. I normally really like watching Larry's matches but I couldn't even make it all the way through this one.

You chop very well for someone who just switch to SH.  Very nice video.