First of all, it’s even more evident here how much you’ve worked on your foundational skills. You position yourself well at the table, stay focused point by point, and skillfully alternate between offensive and defensive play, along with varied placements. Your training has really paid off - great job! 😊 It’s also fantastic to see your joy coming through, like at 16:41, where you clench your fist and show strong body language. That kind of energy and positivity is amazing - keep it up! Show even more of how much you enjoy table tennis, the sport itself, the movement, and the table tennis community. Another highlight is at 14:50, where you hit the ball right along the sideline. It’s a great example of how, to win in table tennis, the ball doesn’t always need to be fast. In this case, the placement was so wide that your opponent had too much ground to cover. An efficient and smart way to earn points! In general, I’ve noticed two key areas for improvement: Serve returns: You often contact the ball a little too late, which makes it hard to play short returns. Backhand topspins: These are slightly early and could benefit from more wrist and body rotation. (But I’m confident you’ll work on these in training!) By the way, adding some jogging or gym sessions as a change of pace could also help. There’s definitely potential for optimizing that in 2025. Keep up the great training, continue this awesome video diary, and who knows - maybe we’ll see each other sometime. 😊
@@LCK_TT thanks so much for the great comment, very helpful 🙏🏼👍🏼. I’ll keep working!!! I knew for a long time that relaxation would be the biggest catalyst! I felt it bc the tension from martial arts was always eminent, well still is. I said that so many times to everyone. It held me back like crazy. Not just technically, also for match intelligence and off course the motor of everything, the mindset.
Congratulations! You really played well…especially not folding while playing the anti-spin guy. Fun to watch you win your first tourney! Thanks for taking us along. 😀👍👍
Congratulations! Regardless of your great acheivement, your mindest is a ture inpiration for me. Seeing you play, it seems you've managed to transform this goal-oriented journey to something more meanigful, and I think that's what it's all about. I mean that right there is the kind of stuff that make great content. Generally I am fasfinated by this sway between "the goal" and "the moment"/"the way", if that makes sense. Thats why I love trekking so much. I wonder what you think. Btw: why is it called 3k tournament?
@@nimrodlavie8477 ty 🙏🏼 the funny thing is that in my every day life it’s already normal for me to prioritize the present moment, letting go of attachments, realizing that I am not the ego or the story my mind wants to tell. But in table tennis I got right back into the trap of the mind. This made me suffer again. That is the reason why I could change it in a matter of moments bc I realized what was going on suddenly. It was just a story of the mind that I believed, an illusion. Its not easy to describe these spiritual things with words. Everything is more enjoyable if you stop being attached to it. I enjoy table tennis so much more now, it’s really nice. 3K Tournament bc of a German holiday called „Heilige 3 Könige“
Awesome tournament! Two of my biggest struggles are pips (which I call low skill table tennis) and the mental game so to see you beat both is awesome. You had me worried with 4 consecutive unforced errors in the last game 😂
@@dbish23 ty 🙏🏼, yeah tt without pips would be much nicer. Off course just a personal opinion, I accept it as it is. I think that’s also the first step of beating pips/anti and so on, acceptance and then finding ways to deal with it.
I understand that pips can be frustrating but using pips is everything but low skill. Only low skill vs low skill players. To play pips vs good player takes a lot of skill.
Awesome play. The final made my stomach ache from anxiety. As for timing, I have a bit of a different take: I thing that when receiving with topspin a long underspin serve one has to wait for the incoming ball to pass its highest peak of the arc and hit the ball when it is starting to come down. For example IMHO @ 15:51 ( ruclips.net/video/eYZgYgivW8w/видео.html ) if you waited a bit more you would have made the receive. Of course I may be wrong.
wow, congrats Andreas, enjoyd watching the plays. So tommorow i will play a tournament. i'll keep in mind, don't think about winning or loosing, blank mind between the points and what else would be new?😄
@@janbalompie9844 Ty 🙏🏼, good luck 🍀. I would start with acceptance of whatever happens in the tournament, whatever the outcome will be it’s ok. Also all emotions you may face before and during the matches are ok and can be accepted. They will naturally go away if you let them be there. And then off course relax yourself in the present moment and find your „zone“ as it is often called and perform your plays without fear.
Wow! Huge improvement! Congrats! Im am especially impressed by the change of your mindset! Btw I don't think you have (too much) trouble discerning the spin on serves. You maybe need a bit more conviction on attacking those long serves (pushing those long serves coming to your forehand is the only obvious mistake I can see in your game play). But I am sure I can't give you better advice than a pro player like Matthias can. But I would like to know if he is giving you the same advice my coach is giving me because I have very similar problems in receiving than you do. My coach told me to shorten the movement (forehand and backhand) and to increase the speed of the racket when hitting the ball. This is probably what you mean with increasing the dwell time because that way the ball does not leave the rubber so fast. Increasing speed to increase dwell time felt counterintuitive to me at first. But it actually worked for me. I had some (from my point of view) impressive wins against several opponents with 130 to 210 points more in rating (LPZ and in one case Q-TTR).
@@TP-mp5lk ty 🙏🏼, yeah it’s definitely for a big part the execution with the receives of the long serves. I need to just let them drop a bit as the. Topspin with enough touch or dwell time as you said. Always when I do that the outcome is best. Bc that works against most spin types if done right. Also I noticed that I need to be really ready for the serve and decide quick what I wanna do and the just do it in a relaxed but committing way. Mathias always pointed out that I need to keep the ball in the rubber and really create enough rotation.
The one that caught you again and again was the pendulum top-spin coming into your forehand. From the footage 90% of those serves were top-spin btw, he very rarely did no-spin / backspin ones, but maybe because he did not need to as he had lots of success with the top-spin one. I have quite a bit of trouble with those top-spin serves in my forehand as well, even when I read them properly. My rule is to attack every serve that comes long, in fact I'm always pro-actively expecting the long serve so I'm ready to attack, and I'm reactive if the serve comes short - a tip I got from my coach. What's tricky with those top-spin long serves is that if you block them pretty passively with average placement, a good player will just kill you on the 3rd ball. Best is to top-spin and really attack them of course, but then you have to be careful to adapt your motion vs attacking long back-spin serve: keeping the racket high and short motion. Easier said than made of course. Congrats on the wins and the great level of play all along this tourney!
Iam testing atm, usually after a few sessions the mxp 50 (harder) setup worked awesome. This time I came back from a break and the rubbers were fresh. But np I can always adapt to the spare racket quickly.
@@limittless. Hi, bin nur sporadischer Zuschauer. Daher meine Frage: Was spielst du denn genau? Ein MX-P (vorallem in hart) ist schon sehr anspruchsvoll und nichts persönliches: Vielleicht tut dir ein etwas weicherer Belag gut, da solche meistens fehlerverzeihender sind und deine Topspintechnik auch etwas verkrampft und relativ wenig Zug haben und daher weichere Beläge dich mehr unterstützen können. Matthias wird sich wahrscheinlich auch in diesesn Härtegraden rumtreiben, aber er hat halt eine perfekte Technik und einen extrem schnellen Armzug. Da braucht er halt keine ''Unterstützung vom Belag mehr'' sondern die Härte um bei seinen Topspingranaten die Konstanz beizubehalten und nicht aufs Holz durchzuschlagen. Da du schon bei den Evolutions gelandet bist, gibts ja ne farbenfrohe Auswahlmöglichkeit. Ich persönlich spiele ein EL-S. Für mich super Belag. Vielleicht etwas zu katapultig für dich weswegen ich dir eventuell mal den EL-D ans Herz legen würde. MfG Bl4nkyy
@ hey, das Ding ist ich kam mit den mxp50 direkt super klar, besser als mit den elp. Sind jetzt bereits die dritten, kann mich erinnern das es nach dem Wechseln immer ein paar Sessions gedauert hat bis ich dran gewöhnt war. Hab heute das dritte mal damit trainiert und es geht schon wieder. Habe mehrmals zwischen dem elp und mxp Schläger hin und her gewechselt und irgendwie ging beides gut. Beides hat vor und Nachteile und in der tat verzeihen die elp etwas mehr dafür kann man mit dem mxp mehr Druck machen und er ist direkter. Ich werde auf jeden Fall weiter testen, denke aber das die mxp weiter gut passen sobald ich die wieder gut eingespielt habe. Wir werden sehen. Hatte es damals extra mit Mathias abgestimmt und er meinte auch das ich gut mit den mxp gespielt hab, bessere Qualität als mit den elp. Aber man eben auch aufpassen muss das man trotzdem technisch sauber bleibt.
@@nextlvlng yeah, don´t tell anyone but all you need to do to beat me is serve half long and long onto my elbow - forehand side and vary backspin and sidespin. game over...today i even managed to only get 1 out of 5 easy rolling serves into my forehand, idk why that is.
@limittless. most of those serves are long so if you guess with a good half long forehand topspin, you will probably return them better than you think.
@TomasSchneider-ie2gn if this would have been ttr relevant for sure but it wasn’t 🥲. Whatever I don’t care anymore, results will always follow sooner or later.
@ Well I gained 0 points bc the tournament was without ttr relevance. Also I stopped caring about the 1550 goal, just like winning the tournament. I’ll be happy to achieve it but then quickly move on to the next goal. That being said, who knows how long it will still take me to get there 😂. I will definitely come up with another project or more likely a few. Ideas are already in the back of my head.
First of all, it’s even more evident here how much you’ve worked on your foundational skills.
You position yourself well at the table, stay focused point by point, and skillfully alternate between offensive and defensive play, along with varied placements. Your training has really paid off - great job! 😊
It’s also fantastic to see your joy coming through, like at 16:41, where you clench your fist and show strong body language. That kind of energy and positivity is amazing - keep it up! Show even more of how much you enjoy table tennis, the sport itself, the movement, and the table tennis community.
Another highlight is at 14:50, where you hit the ball right along the sideline. It’s a great example of how, to win in table tennis, the ball doesn’t always need to be fast. In this case, the placement was so wide that your opponent had too much ground to cover. An efficient and smart way to earn points!
In general, I’ve noticed two key areas for improvement:
Serve returns: You often contact the ball a little too late, which makes it hard to play short returns.
Backhand topspins: These are slightly early and could benefit from more wrist and body rotation. (But I’m confident you’ll work on these in training!)
By the way, adding some jogging or gym sessions as a change of pace could also help. There’s definitely potential for optimizing that in 2025.
Keep up the great training, continue this awesome video diary, and who knows - maybe we’ll see each other sometime. 😊
@@LCK_TT thanks so much for the great comment, very helpful 🙏🏼👍🏼. I’ll keep working!!! I knew for a long time that relaxation would be the biggest catalyst! I felt it bc the tension from martial arts was always eminent, well still is. I said that so many times to everyone. It held me back like crazy. Not just technically, also for match intelligence and off course the motor of everything, the mindset.
Congrats, well deserved after all this hard training work
@@sbechamp5022 ty 🙏🏼😊
Congratulations! You really played well…especially not folding while playing the anti-spin guy. Fun to watch you win your first tourney! Thanks for taking us along. 😀👍👍
@@JonathanAdams-z8r ty 🙏🏼, yes that was probably a the biggest achievement, playing out of my comfort zone vs the pimple player.
Awesome man, congratulations on the victory, it must have felt good after all the hard work and training!
@@simsey33 ty 🙏🏼 yes it felt good, the whole
experience did bc there was no stress or fear. Well the body had stress 😂😂
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Always love the struggles of an adult learner! Good job!
@@nextlvlng 🙏🏼ty, I know for a fact I am not alone 😉
I enjoyed !
Your comments are very nice, as usual 😊
Thank you
@@danielrenaud4639 🙏🏼
Impressive! I remember on of the earlier encounters against pips, still not comfortable but still, way way better. Congrats!
@benjaminmoreau3560 Ty 🙏🏼
Let's gooo!
Really enjoyed watching that!
@@joshwalsh4797 🙏🏼ty
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
@@christineLill-z5g ty 🙏🏼
Congratulations!
Regardless of your great acheivement, your mindest is a ture inpiration for me. Seeing you play, it seems you've managed to transform this goal-oriented journey to something more meanigful, and I think that's what it's all about. I mean that right there is the kind of stuff that make great content.
Generally I am fasfinated by this sway between "the goal" and "the moment"/"the way", if that makes sense. Thats why I love trekking so much. I wonder what you think.
Btw: why is it called 3k tournament?
@@nimrodlavie8477 ty 🙏🏼 the funny thing is that in my every day life it’s already normal for me to prioritize the present moment, letting go of attachments, realizing that I am not the ego or the story my mind wants to tell. But in table tennis I got right back into the trap of the mind. This made me suffer again. That is the reason why I could change it in a matter of moments bc I realized what was going on suddenly. It was just a story of the mind that I believed, an illusion. Its not easy to describe these spiritual things with words. Everything is more enjoyable if you stop being attached to it. I enjoy table tennis so much more now, it’s really nice. 3K Tournament bc of a German holiday called „Heilige 3 Könige“
Awesome tournament! Two of my biggest struggles are pips (which I call low skill table tennis) and the mental game so to see you beat both is awesome. You had me worried with 4 consecutive unforced errors in the last game 😂
@@dbish23 ty 🙏🏼, yeah tt without pips would be much nicer. Off course just a personal opinion, I accept it as it is. I think that’s also the first step of beating pips/anti and so on, acceptance and then finding ways to deal with it.
@ I will try to take the same mindset in my next match. Hope to see more tournament videos in the future!
@@dbish23 start in training matches!
I understand that pips can be frustrating but using pips is everything but low skill. Only low skill vs low skill players. To play pips vs good player takes a lot of skill.
@ I didn’t say it’s low skill, I only said I don’t like playing it. In fact the better the pip players are the more I like playing them.
Awesome play. The final made my stomach ache from anxiety.
As for timing, I have a bit of a different take:
I thing that when receiving with topspin a long underspin serve one has to wait for the incoming ball to pass its highest peak of the arc and hit the ball when it is starting to come down.
For example IMHO @ 15:51 ( ruclips.net/video/eYZgYgivW8w/видео.html ) if you waited a bit more you would have made the receive. Of course I may be wrong.
@@verysmellygarlic ty🙏🏼yeah letting the ball fall a bit can help a lot. Discussed that with my coach
wow, congrats Andreas, enjoyd watching the plays. So tommorow i will play a tournament. i'll keep in mind, don't think about winning or loosing, blank mind between the points and what else would be new?😄
@@janbalompie9844 Ty 🙏🏼, good luck 🍀. I would start with acceptance of whatever happens in the tournament, whatever the outcome will be it’s ok. Also all emotions you may face before and during the matches are ok and can be accepted. They will naturally go away if you let them be there. And then off course relax yourself in the present moment and find your „zone“ as it is often called and perform your plays without fear.
@limittless. thanx, i'll go for that
Wow! Huge improvement! Congrats! Im am especially impressed by the change of your mindset!
Btw I don't think you have (too much) trouble discerning the spin on serves. You maybe need a bit more conviction on attacking those long serves (pushing those long serves coming to your forehand is the only obvious mistake I can see in your game play). But I am sure I can't give you better advice than a pro player like Matthias can. But I would like to know if he is giving you the same advice my coach is giving me because I have very similar problems in receiving than you do.
My coach told me to shorten the movement (forehand and backhand) and to increase the speed of the racket when hitting the ball. This is probably what you mean with increasing the dwell time because that way the ball does not leave the rubber so fast. Increasing speed to increase dwell time felt counterintuitive to me at first. But it actually worked for me. I had some (from my point of view) impressive wins against several opponents with 130 to 210 points more in rating (LPZ and in one case Q-TTR).
@@TP-mp5lk ty 🙏🏼, yeah it’s definitely for a big part the execution with the receives of the long serves. I need to just let them drop a bit as the. Topspin with enough touch or dwell time as you said. Always when I do that the outcome is best. Bc that works against most spin types if done right. Also I noticed that I need to be really ready for the serve and decide quick what I wanna do and the just do it in a relaxed but committing way. Mathias always pointed out that I need to keep the ball in the rubber and really create enough rotation.
The one that caught you again and again was the pendulum top-spin coming into your forehand. From the footage 90% of those serves were top-spin btw, he very rarely did no-spin / backspin ones, but maybe because he did not need to as he had lots of success with the top-spin one. I have quite a bit of trouble with those top-spin serves in my forehand as well, even when I read them properly. My rule is to attack every serve that comes long, in fact I'm always pro-actively expecting the long serve so I'm ready to attack, and I'm reactive if the serve comes short - a tip I got from my coach. What's tricky with those top-spin long serves is that if you block them pretty passively with average placement, a good player will just kill you on the 3rd ball. Best is to top-spin and really attack them of course, but then you have to be careful to adapt your motion vs attacking long back-spin serve: keeping the racket high and short motion. Easier said than made of course. Congrats on the wins and the great level of play all along this tourney!
@ Ty 🙏🏼, yeah long serves are on general a huge mystery for me still
Finally you defeat your fear of playing long pips
@@angnguyenkhoa5093 yeah 😊
Did you serve short a single time in the final? Looks like all long service to me
@@DQ2121 yeah most were long, against David I mostly serve long bc it worked well in the past.
@@limittless. gotcha. you played really good. Both players level dropped in the last game but you were able to keep focused despite the nerves.
What’s your set up ?
tibhar j7 and mxp50 rubbers (currently elp rubbers in the mix as well again)
Semi final guy objected to the camera? Or why is he pixeled out?
@@simsey33 yeah he didn’t want to be on RUclips
hard training pays off .... congrats! 1550 in 2025 .... here you go !
@@wabumu 🙏🏼ty Andreas!
Maybe stick to this racket setup??
Iam testing atm, usually after a few sessions the mxp 50 (harder) setup worked awesome. This time I came back from a break and the rubbers were fresh. But np I can always adapt to the spare racket quickly.
@@limittless. Hi, bin nur sporadischer Zuschauer. Daher meine Frage: Was spielst du denn genau? Ein MX-P (vorallem in hart) ist schon sehr anspruchsvoll und nichts persönliches: Vielleicht tut dir ein etwas weicherer Belag gut, da solche meistens fehlerverzeihender sind und deine Topspintechnik auch etwas verkrampft und relativ wenig Zug haben und daher weichere Beläge dich mehr unterstützen können. Matthias wird sich wahrscheinlich auch in diesesn Härtegraden rumtreiben, aber er hat halt eine perfekte Technik und einen extrem schnellen Armzug. Da braucht er halt keine ''Unterstützung vom Belag mehr'' sondern die Härte um bei seinen Topspingranaten die Konstanz beizubehalten und nicht aufs Holz durchzuschlagen.
Da du schon bei den Evolutions gelandet bist, gibts ja ne farbenfrohe Auswahlmöglichkeit. Ich persönlich spiele ein EL-S. Für mich super Belag. Vielleicht etwas zu katapultig für dich weswegen ich dir eventuell mal den EL-D ans Herz legen würde.
MfG Bl4nkyy
@ hey, das Ding ist ich kam mit den mxp50 direkt super klar, besser als mit den elp. Sind jetzt bereits die dritten, kann mich erinnern das es nach dem Wechseln immer ein paar Sessions gedauert hat bis ich dran gewöhnt war. Hab heute das dritte mal damit trainiert und es geht schon wieder. Habe mehrmals zwischen dem elp und mxp Schläger hin und her gewechselt und irgendwie ging beides gut. Beides hat vor und Nachteile und in der tat verzeihen die elp etwas mehr dafür kann man mit dem mxp mehr Druck machen und er ist direkter. Ich werde auf jeden Fall weiter testen, denke aber das die mxp weiter gut passen sobald ich die wieder gut eingespielt habe. Wir werden sehen. Hatte es damals extra mit Mathias abgestimmt und er meinte auch das ich gut mit den mxp gespielt hab, bessere Qualität als mit den elp. Aber man eben auch aufpassen muss das man trotzdem technisch sauber bleibt.
Wow, congratulations! How long have you been playing?
@@heydanijel1735 started November 22
The last guy seems to have questionably legal serves? Or is that just me?
@@loganb1325 idk, hard for me to see but no clue if it’s illegal.
@@limittless. his serves wee fine to me, you just didn't trap the sidespin sometimes since you pushed beneath the ball.
@@nextlvlng yeah, don´t tell anyone but all you need to do to beat me is serve half long and long onto my elbow - forehand side and vary backspin and sidespin. game over...today i even managed to only get 1 out of 5 easy rolling serves into my forehand, idk why that is.
@limittless. most of those serves are long so if you guess with a good half long forehand topspin, you will probably return them better than you think.
You should probably have 1550 TTR by now after all these great wins againnst these good players?
@TomasSchneider-ie2gn if this would have been ttr relevant for sure but it wasn’t 🥲. Whatever I don’t care anymore, results will always follow sooner or later.
@@limittless. I suggest you change the video series to Road to 1650. I will miss it if you reach your goal :)
@ Well I gained 0 points bc the tournament was without ttr relevance. Also I stopped caring about the 1550 goal, just like winning the tournament. I’ll be happy to achieve it but then quickly move on to the next goal. That being said, who knows how long it will still take me to get there 😂. I will definitely come up with another project or more likely a few. Ideas are already in the back of my head.