I had to read your comments in the vid description to see you were the dude on the far side near the wall away from camera in this vid.
I see you like to push or block a lot. No national crime to do that at your level... but the WAY you are doing it is asking for a lot of inconsistency trouble that is making it much more difficult on yourself.
One simple thing to remember, practice, and eventually do is to BE CLOSE TO THE BOUNCE with your bat. Loosen grip. You will be able to block like a pro doing that... or at least a lot easier than you are doing.. and your blocks will have more possible angles... will be quicker to give opponent less time... will be a lot easier to control as blocking a ball way away from bounce requires a lot more precision and touch to do the same thing.
The same thing applies to your push. SO MUCH EASIER to do it off the bounce and make quality.
You are knda tall, so you need to bend knees and waist some more.
On serve, you do not present the ball properly. You d not stop or pause and show the ball. You are cupping the ball and do not put the ball in the center of your palm. If you do tournaments, opponents should and will see this and fault you, or they will get an unmpire. Better to start practicing a legal serve now. You also drop you hand with the ball below the top of the table sometimes when you try to dip the arm and hand on your toss.
When you are trying to BUMP the ball for a good angle pressure, you are reaching and off balance... you make a lot of errors doing that. Take a step to the ball and bump it on the rise net height or so and you will have many hundreds of percent increase in your consistency and quality... you might actually win points doing that instead of pissing them away like gatorade.
I am not going to get into the "You must serve short" deal with you... for how you play, you want oopponent to attack you want to bump or chop back, so no problem with length of serves... what you could do thought is find his middle with the faster deep serves and also make him take a wide step serving fast/deep to his wide FH and challenge him to be consistent and qualty while you are ready to block...
In general, when you are not attacking, you do not step to the ball, you are to tight a grip, use too long a stroke, take ball too far from bounce and give up advantages or piss away points directly. it is a an area that can see very rapid improvement if you get to the ball with softer grip and use only a shorter lower arm if that at first to impact ball.
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