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blahness
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Posted: 02/10/2019 at 5:55pm |
How do you incorporate new strokes into your game when you have limited practice time? I find myself regressing to old habits very often when I try to improve my strokes :(
For e.g. the use of the nonplaying arm to "aim", whenever I use it my FH feels amazing, but then for some reason I slack and go back to my old habits with the nonplaying arm being fixed and hindering body rotation. There's other things like returning to ready position after serves, applying more force on BHs rather than playing a safe passive stroke which ends up less "safe" due to lack of spin, maintain an intense focus on the ball rather than chilling, not tensing up when hitting opportunity balls....
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Viscaria FH: Hurricane 8-80 BH: D05 Back to normal shape bats :( |
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serr
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Focus on 1 bad habit at a certain amount of time. Don't try to fix everything at once, it creates a mess.
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mjamja
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You may need to quit playing matches for a while so you can retrain your muscle memory. Closely monitoring video while you train is also important when you do not have a coach providing real-time feedback. It is real pain to stop and check video every 5 min, but it may be the only way to make sure you are training what you want to do and not training the old habits. I quit playing for 6 weeks and did shadow training and then robot training to change my countering. It really changed the way I hit the ball. So much so that now I have difficulty looping because in the heat of play I fall back into countering. TTedge had a series of videos about re-learning the Fh loop. I think it required 6 to 8 weeks before you were actually playing. There was shadow stroking, dropping a ball and looping, looping slow (both speed and frequency) balls from robot at a fixed location, looping not quite playing speed balls at fixed location, looping with footwork in fixed patterns, looping with random balls, and finally looping game speed random balls to Fh. In each phase you videoed yourself and monitored the video often to see if you held form. As you held form you monitored less frquently. You had specific competincy goals to meet in each phase before you moved to the next phase. It required a lot of patience on your part. By the way I once laminted to Stellan Bengsston that I was hopeless because I just kept reverting to old habits. He said I was not alone. He told me that for years Persson would come visit with him and complain about how bad his Bh had gotten. Everytime Stellan looked to help it seemed Persson had reverted to an old habit of dropping his hand way too low in the backswing. Persson had no idea that he had changed his stroke that much. Once told, he (unlike us mortals) easily made adjustments and got back in form. So do not feel too bad about reverting to bad habits. It happens to the best unless someone is closely monitoring them. Mark
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Slowhand
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Great answer from Mark. I find it almost impossible to override muscle memory under the stress of competition. Not only do I revert to bad habits I'm trying to correct in training, but the bad habits regain strength from being repeated in competition. Strongly recommend putting competition on hold while making significant changes in technique. Also agree that video monitoring is one of the best tools available. It's extremely helpful even if you have a good coach because you see yourself making the technical mistakes your coach is trying to correct. This saves a lot of time.
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blahness
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Thanks for all the replies, I think for me I might just get some multiballs and do some high quality practice with my practice partner...aside from lots of shadow practice!
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Viscaria FH: Hurricane 8-80 BH: D05 Back to normal shape bats :( |
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mickd
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Lots of great advice. I completely agree that taking a step back, going back to the basics and drilling them through multiball, then fixed drills, semi random drills, followed by random drills is the best. That said, I feel like having matches while thinking about what you want to change helps a lot too. You don't want to overload yourself, so even during matches, consistently remind yourself about the one thing you're trying to change. Of course, ideally this wouldn't be in a competition that matters. But during league or everyday matches, it can really help you integrate it into your game. I'm always surprised that with a little bit of active thought on a particular movement or technique or anything, I'm able to pull it off quite well during matches too. It's when I'm not reminding myself that I end up doing something half-arsed, resulting in low quality balls and misses. Good luck!!
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blahness
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Yes we kinda share some of the same faults of "taking it easy", and doing half arsed balls For me it's usually my BH because I have a bad habit of just trying to bring the ball across to the other side of the table rather than making an aggressive stroke (which counterintuitively is much safer due to the extra spin). It's also because during practice I help to block a lot on the BH, maybe a bit too much that I forget the timing of the BH attacking topspin. |
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Viscaria FH: Hurricane 8-80 BH: D05 Back to normal shape bats :( |
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