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ZApenholder 
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-How many hours you play per week on average -Level or USATT rating -How many years you have been playing for -How your time is split (routines, match play, multiball, serve practice, just playing for fun with no structure or physical training).
- Train 0 hours a week now, play maybe 2 to 3 hours a week - USATT - i'm 0 too - I have been playing for 23 years or so - 99% of my time is coaching - around 15 hours a week. |
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Skyline
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I play 8 to 12 hours a week. I spend 8-10 hours doing drills and 2-4 hours of friendly matchplay, in the season I also play leaque matches and tournaments.
I've been playing for 12 years. |
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Gerkkou
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Posted: 05/30/2014 at 7:54am |
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I play about 15-20 hours a week. I don't do drills anymore. (that will change next season as I'll be doing about an extra 2h a week doing drills) About 8 hours a week friendly matchplay. Another 8 hours a week competitive matches. About 1-1.5h a week coaching.
Since I'm in Belgium I don't have a USATT rating (I estimate to be 2000+) I've been playing for about 12-13 years.
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murraylp2
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Posted: 05/30/2014 at 8:13am |
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Interesting how many people spend very little time doing routines. Do you think you can improve faster doing practice matches, do you find it more fun or why do you mainly do friendly matches over drills
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Gerkkou
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Posted: 05/30/2014 at 8:56am |
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Murray: The reason that I don't play drills anymore is that I play in 2 clubs. In 1 club I'm the highest ranked. There's only 1 person who can consistently play rallies against me. If I play friendly games in that club I usually focus myself on 1 specific aspect (e.g. receiving all short serves with a backhand flick or running around my BH corner more) This allows me to test some stuff out if I'm capable of doing them in serious match play.
In the 2nd club I will start doing drills next season because I firmly believe that no matter what level you are, you can still benefit heavily from drills (Consistency, footwork etc.) However I only joined that club this year so I didn't get any chance to go to a training session there. The level there is also higher than in my first club so I'll be able to get decent sessions going on there.
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murraylp2
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Posted: 05/30/2014 at 9:00am |
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"I firmly believe that no matter what level you are, you can still benefit heavily from drills" That sentence suggests that, that is a surprising belief, and one that is not shared by everyone? I thought that for anyone, intermediate to profesionsal, about 70% of time on drills would result in the fastest imrpovement rate? Is this not the case for players over 2000 or over 2500 etc
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geswin
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Posted: 05/30/2014 at 9:06am |
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Currently doing 4 hours playing in a week divided in 2 2 hours.
1hr@ training and drills 1hr@ playing friendly matches In the next week i will play 10 hr 2 times 2 hours training sessions with multiballs and practice play againts my coach 2 to 4 2 hours playing friendly matches My friend who used to play at usatt rate me arround 1700 last year. |
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DDreamer
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Posted: 05/30/2014 at 9:19am |
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You have much to learn young Murray. The fastest improvement rate can be achieved by upgrading your equipment.
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I know that faster equipment will make me better, I don't need to come here to figure that out
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murraylp2
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Posted: 05/30/2014 at 9:26am |
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What happens when you reach something like a Butterfly Boll Tricarbon? And im sure if i went any faster i would infact become worse, losing all consistancy. I already feel like my technique suffers due to equipment being so fast so how could i benefit from even more speed? :/
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TheWongTim
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Posted: 05/30/2014 at 9:42am |
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I Think he means reduce your equipment speed but what am i saying I'm younger than you!
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murraylp2
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TIM! its actually you, TIM WONG? Its murray paterson :P Ive gone for atleast 6 months without meeting a single scottish person on this forum yet today you are the third scottish person ive met here! Whats happening :/
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TheWongTim
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yeah it is me! I thought it was you because i saw your set up, you live in scotland and your older than me and as you know i just bought my tenergy!
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murraylp2
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i replied to your tenergy topic twice without even realising. Just when you said younger I checked your profile, saw your location and full name. Can't imagine theres many people using innerforce AL so that's pretty distinctive I never knew you were using 80fx though, would of asked for a try if I knew haha. How much did you pay for it and how do you think it compares to standard T80, which I use on BH
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Oh, I think I know who you are. (You don't know me.) You are Miss Lau. 柳嘉靜 I've seen you play at the South China 華南 club in Shenzhen. You're a penholder with long pips. Sandiway |
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ZApenholder
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Posted: 05/31/2014 at 3:16am |
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correct, and I showed her your blog and she knows Jing wenting they are around the same level |
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kaching
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Posted: 06/01/2014 at 6:29am |
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yes，i am
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So, you are a penhold twiddler, 0X LPs?
Are you going to try RPB? |
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kaching
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what is rpb？ |
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murraylp2
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Posted: 06/01/2014 at 6:05pm |
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Short for "Reverse Penhold Backhand"
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kaching
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Posted: 06/01/2014 at 6:09pm |
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yes ，i have |
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ZApenholder
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Yes, she is OX LP with RPB (She had to ask me what you were saying :p) |
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Posted: 06/02/2014 at 12:52pm |
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I never played Table Tennis. Just a couple of hours of Ping Pong hitting around every week
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I just played about 10 hours this past weekend. So I'd say between 15-20 hours a week for me.
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murraylp2
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Seems that most people play from 5 to 13 hours. About what i would of expected
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Posted: 06/23/2014 at 3:08am |
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Always depends on my work schedule. If I'm on vacation or something I can play 6 days a week at 3 different clubs(25 hours).
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Posted: 06/23/2014 at 11:21pm |
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Minimum of 10 hours a week...maximum of 20.
It doesn't feel like enough!  My wife might disagree... |
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