In a recent blog post I highlighted the visual analysis of an elite baseball swing. Today’s post is from boxing. Even though I play racket sports and boxing is not my cup of tea, I have profound respect and admiration for the skills and attributes it takes. The video below is an example of the […]
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If you’re a keen table tennis player, the table below might just blow your mind. We know the serve is important, but it’s much more important when you look closely at the statistics for competitive league players with an ITTF ranking of less than 2000. IKR? This is definitely food for thought – IF you […]
The two previous posts focused on two different, but related Deliberate Practice Principles; the first to watch your opponent while he/she hits the ball and the second, to ANTICIPATE his/her next shot. Admittedly, the second is a lot harder to master. You’re in luck, you can learn to do this even when you’re not on […]
This is one of the more contentious aspects of Deliberate Practice Principles. Focusing on ONE element or component of the skill you’re trying to acquire. For example: For a table tennis serve, focusing… JUST on increasing spin or; JUST on hiding your racket behind your body or; JUST on the racket contact point to affect […]
If you’re using a table tennis ball-feeding robot to practice your return of serve, you might be seeing this damage to your table… There is a simple solution: Use a wood plank to cover the service contact area on the robot’s side of the table. It needs to have a smooth surface to avoid altering […]
We’ve all heard the idiom: K.I.S.S. Keep It Super Simple. But what does it mean in our day-to-day lives? Today’s 1% Improvement is to be creative and use what you have. My community table tennis “room” has a white ball “scooper” to get the balls from under the table (shown below). I used a marker […]
One of the key principles of Exponential Mindset Thinking is “Perfection is the poison of profitability.” Simply put, stop trying to be perfect and just get SH*T DONE. This table tennis ball “picker-upper” has been repaired and looks far from perfect, but it’s fit-for-purpose to pick up ping pong balls. My local club has people […]
A recent post revealed a great table tennis training tool to help increase spin. Someone asked a great question: “Why bother with a stationary tool like this if you have a ball-feeding robot that can place the balls consistently in the same place?” The answer is: One of the core philosophies of Deliberate Practice Principles […]
We can’t all have fit-for-purpose training facilities for our chosen sport. Often, when it comes to table tennis or ping pong, rooms are unfortunately carpeted. If you’re more than a casual social table tennis player, you’ll soon start to have sore knees! There’s a simple solution, get yourself bowling shoes! These are “KR Strikeforce Aviator […]
Deliberate Practice Principles are how World Champions and Olympians consistently out-perform the average elite, competitive player by accelerating their skill acquisition – systematically and predictably. One of the CORE FOUNDATIONAL principles is the use of Mental Models. In table tennis, for LONG/FAST serves The Mental Model is NOT about the intended targets (green and yellow) […]
