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In the the development stage beginner to intermediate, while everything is still super moldable what should your mindsets be towards certain things to not cap your game at a certain level say 1700ish. Not fearing a missed stroke, developing proper muscle memory of good mechanics. Play to win not to lose etc. What mindset would you want to give yourself if you were starting from scratch again today.

What pointers helped you the most in developing a consistent quality serve. Placement, spin, speed. Best cues or ideas about it. How much topspin vs backspin. Setup pre serve, recovery after serve. Whatever helped you the most or what top coaches teach. Want to to get my serve to be consistently quality so any helped will be appreciated

I have a flared violin that has been a struggle keeping a good grip and I thought it was a me problem. Then I tried my friends paddle and it fit like a glove. So now I know it’s the paddle causing inconsistent finger pressure, feel the whole nine yards.

What can I do? Is there a good grip tape solution, just be okay with it, or throw the whole blade out and start again

I want to learn how to store and release the power in my core. I’ve been leaning over in an attempt to do it properly but that messes up future shots and is inefficient. So how do I generate power with stability. Any cues or body feelings that have helped you or others get the feeling?

I want to start seriously reviewing my games so I’m able to see my mistakes and correct them etc. I’m not sure if there would be a quality one that’s able to be tall as well as fit in my backpack. What tripod would you recommend

One of the hardest things to learn in table tennis is the ability to separate the forearm and upper arm and to use your elbow as a pivot point. For backhand, pendulum serves, flicks, really about every shot. Now look at the guitar strum. It is a fixed elbow with going up and down with just the forearm (and you can even do wrist like in table tennis)! The movement patterns seem in theory to be very very similar so the question is guitar players who are quality at strumming how is your table tennis skill at keep a stable elbow as pivot point. (Guitar strumming as Table tennis practice 👀)

Finally upgraded my ipong to a nova pro (woot woot) and would love any advice or things you’ve learned while using it. Or any general robot training advice. So what are the best preset drills and settings, what does a good training session with a lot of them look like and any other tips.

I’m always looking for learning resources from the best. There is TT smash city which is masterclasses from Truls, Dimitrij, Lin yun-Jin, and quardi. All world class players I was wondering if they had any great insights or things that would make buying it worth it. It’s 120$ so probably too pricy but wonder if any have you have done it and any big revelations you got.

In a pendulum serve, should you toss in a straight line from your extended arm back you stomach area, or do it slightly diagonal so the hitting point is closer to your right hip? Is a fully straight flat arm starting position better or just a flat forearm? Of course, you can't hide the ball behind your body, so we want to skirt the line as much as possible and if we go past it like most pros do it will be okay.

Every player has different biomechanics so every serve will be highly individualized, but there are of course non-negotiables a high quality serve that every pro adheres too. What would you say these are from how they preform the serve, to placement, spin. Whatever you think is something all top serves do

My push is starting to get to a level where I can semi control where I put it. The question is what is the rule of thumb for default pushes. Both in returns a serve and off opponents push. So should I default short or long more to the sides, most of my pushes are probably middle short long and want to change that. So where should my aims be

I started playing earlier this year at 18
And was wondering what the peak someone who started my age has reached, and what training methods they used to get there. If there is no one that has ever made it pro, what’s the highest rated someone has gotten to.

Looking to upgrade my bot from an ipong to a bot that can do more different locations, spin, speed etc. I’m about it to buy the Nova pro to fill that need an was wondering if there was any reason to not go and finish the job. So is it the best machine or is there a higher quality one in the same price range

All you need of course is a racket, but there are always things that help or make the experience better. And if what brands do you have of bags or rags or any helpful things! I’m trying to get my bag setup and would love any advice

Learning a new motor pattern is very hard, so a helpful trick is to use one you know to help understand and preform it better. For instance for the backhand finish you can think of throwing a frisbee instead of finish with your forehand side facing up. As someone knows what throwing a frisbee is but not yet how to do a backhand finish. Or on the forehand saluting, to finish in the right position you try to finish in the salute position. Instead of telling someone finish a your forehead with 45 degree angle with an arm snap with your fingers this way blah blah. table tennis shots can have so many complex patterns you need to learn so doing something else that already is the movement is a better way of leaning than trying to do 5 different new things.

So what are some of your favorites that coaches have told you, (or if you are a coach) or you have just figured out that resembles how a quality shot should be. It’s one of the best learning tools and would love to know your favorites.

A short pendulum to the forehand is the most common and effective shot in the pros. Do you think the same holds true all the way up though?
From beginner to intermediate faster longer spinner serves may have stronger use as they aren’t able to hit strong winner and loops off of it.

What would you say is the best serve throughout the ranks. From 1000 to 1500 to even 2000. Is there a type of serve more effective in the lower skill levels

The 2 main components of good dream recall are. 1. Remembering the most amount of dreams you can in as vivid detail as possible, then 2. being able to recognize dream signs and tell yourself to recognize them. The what can be annoying part of this skill is that you have to actually write down your dreams, and once you start getting a lot, it can span 15-20 minutes of just writing. While that is a strength of it, it will also end up taking a large chunk of your life.

So what if, as soon as you wake up, you pull out your phone and start blurting out all you can remember in as many details as you can. Then you tell Claude what you're doing, that you're looking for dream signs, things to look for in your dream, and want to remember them, etc.
After weeks of uploading your dreams into it may be able to start seeing the dream signs that you don't. It notices how you were in this type of place 3 times this week. While you didn't connect those dots, as there were so many to put together, that's what an LLM is built for. Filtering through a lot of context.

Let me know what you think! I'm not an experienced LDer and haven't been able to put together dream signs even when I'm recalling 3-4 dreams a night. The time saved, the possibility of you being more consistent as it's easier, and you can get your day started, plus the possibility of knowing dream signs you would never see before! Sounds exciting in theory

We hear great advice everyday, but we don’t often apply it. My question is what actually made you make the life changing habits you wanted to make? Who changed your mind or made you think a certain way. What do you think made you change. Is it how the story they were able to tell, the confidence and trust they showed you? Was it based on getting a positive, or getting a negative future.

I want to improve my game skills, I want to have an actually plan when I go into every point. So eg serve here this is most likely what’s coming be ready.

What are the best ones to try to learn and do.

From a lot of the top level games I’ve seen they start really low and seem to rise with the toss then go into the push or attack. Is that what’s happening? If not how should one think about it