Hi Manuvernillo,
Thanks for sending us in these videos, it’s great to get a really good look at you in action and a few different shots too! Firstly your style is not bad at all, myself and Dan were very impressed with your level and strokes in general, we’ll of course give you some feedback and tips now on where to improve but don’t be too hard on yourself overall your technique is very good and it’s just small changes to focus on that will help you keep improving.
So with the fist 2 videos where you play the exercises, mostly it was good but we noticed the timing on your forehand was often a bit late and you were contacting the ball almost behind your body and when the ball has dropped too low. This makes your body lift up slightly as you hit your forehand and means you can’t recover as quickly and getting power is more difficult. So really try to focus when playing your forehand on hitting the ball earlier in front of you and keep your body low and forward this will really help and when you do this your forehands are much stronger. On a positive point your movement and weight transfer in your shots in these drills is really good, keep that up!
With your forehand opening topspin you have a very good contact and spin but sometimes as you hit the ball your body lifts up, which makes your bat also finish upwards too much and not forward enough. Try to keep the same contact on the ball but bring your bat more forward in the shot and not too much up, this will help you stay low and close to the table. Again with this shot try not to let the ball drop to low before hitting it.
Now the backhand block, this shot you seem quite confident with. The only thing to look out for on this is keep your body forward again and not lifting up, also making sure you get your bat angle closed enough to stop the ball going off the end. But to be honest from this video looks like a solid and good shot most of the time!
In the last video of match play, there were a couple of times when you got a long push or serve you played a push back instead of a topspin, mostly on the backhand this happened. So try to take your chances when the ball is long to play the opening topspin. The other small detail was that sometimes when the ball came to the middle of the table you stepped across and played a backhand where I feel a forehand would have been better, and your forehand looks strong so I would try to step around and play forehand from the middle when the ball goes there.
I hope that isn’t too much information for you, but most of the things I have mentioned are small details to think about and mostly we were very impressed with your overall technique and style! So keep up the good weight transfer and movement I spoke about and I hope the feedback here is helpful for you. If you have any questions about the comments just answer back on a comment here and we’ll get back to you.
Keep up the good training and speak soon!
