Okay, let's figure out. The table industry where I am, okay. So. I think that I'm clear on. Item. Priority number One is. To. Hone. Your winning shot. Okay. So it's focus on your strength. And the idea here is that when you get a ball, when you get an opportunity.
To use your winning shot. You have practice. Too much that the chances of you missing that shot not being able to hit it in the moment. Very low. In order to get to that point. You need to overtrain that shot.
Like crazy so. My. Winnie Shot is when the ball pops up a little high. Anywhere on the forehand 50% of the table. I'm going to make. A very strong forehand loop. It's going to be either an over the table flick. It's going to be a loop. It's going to be.
Well, no, I take it back. It has to be a little long. It can't be too short. Because if it's too short. Then that's a different shot. That's. Mine is really in via forehand loop. So it's important that you pick a shot where the technique.
And it's more about your positioning. So my shot is a forehand loop, and that's going to be. Up to the table. Off the side. Deep, half long. Whatever. I'm going to move that ball. Okay. Now. That. 's the ball. If.
Second most important. Is. To create that opportunity. So how am I going to create that opportunity. I am going to. Push. Okay, wait. The opportunity that I'm looking for is that. It is. Long. Yeah. No, it's that it's long. It's not that it's hot. It's not as long.
Okay. Well. Problem is okay. Guess you could list. Yeah, my learning shots are one forehand smash against a high ball, two forehead loop against a long ball. To my forehand side. Those are my two. Winning shots.
In order to get to play those winnie shots. It's definitely more likely that I'll be able to create the opportunity. For the long ball, right. Because the high ball. High ball is a mistake. It's emergency. It's.
Yeah. So. Well. Interesting, actually, how do you force it on a twist. I don't know what category? That long. Okay, so to recharacterize this shot, actually, it's not that it's my main winning shot. No, that's exactly what it is. It is my main winning shop.
It is the opportunity, that. I'm confident that I can make. Happen. The most. And what I'm going to do with that. Okay. My whole game will revolve around me trying to get these opportunities. That's what this is about. Okay.
So. Then. So my main weighing shop. My forehead. Was that hard. So then my second. Most important. Son should be something that helps me create those opportunities. And what's going to do that for me.
Is going to be. My push. On a forehand and backhand side. Okay. We want to build a dangerous player. What is a dangerous player? A dangerous player? Someone who has a dangerous zone. At least one danger zone.
That means. That if you enter that danger zone. This player. Is a very high likelihood of winning that point. At the beginning. You don't even have a danger zone. It's all about just staying alive for as long as possible. Guys, whatever you can do.
But once you get a little better. You need to develop at least one danger zone. And as you get better, even beyond that, you develop more and more. Right. So if you look at the highest level players in the world.
They have so many. Dangerous. Shots. That they can hit. Those are all dangerous. For them. For us. It's a sliding skip. So for me. Where I'm dangerous? Is it the ball is high. Or long. In my forehand.
Path. Okay. And if it's higher, long to my forehand half, I need to learn how to flip that ball away. That is how I'm going to create my danger, though. Yes, this is right. Everything else. Everything else.
The main focus. Will be consistency. Green. Me stay alive put the ball on the table. Try to hit a good controlled shot. So at the beginning. Everything is a red zone, because. You are just learning basics, right? So.
You don't have the ability to really put pressure. You don't have the ability to put pressure. If you can't control the ball, you don't have the ability. To hit a winner if you can't apply pressure, you can't apply pressure.
On control. So step one is control. Okay. So the control shots that everybody needs. To. Have. So basically you want to be able to do 20 in a row. Easy. Let's just give us an arbitrary line. There 20 in a row.
On the table. No mistake. Easy. You don't have to get it every time nobody gets 100% sent. Obviously. But that's like a rough. Goal. Try and hit 20 in a row. Okay. This should be. Your. Drive. Top spin drive on both sides.
Popspin drive on both sides. Topspin, drive. To cross court and. Well. Would I count that in the yellow, though. I'll just drive on both sides, going to be able to do an underspend push on both sides.
And you want to be able to do. A control top stem loop off of. That's kind of the base. Say those are the basic shots. There's flicks. Okay. So maybe you have, like, a whole catalog of shots. Right. But the ones we're really going to practice are going to be the yellow and Gray shots. So yellow are the shots that you're going to apply pressure. These are what's going to.
Draw. Out a green shot. So in my green shot is a luba gets underspend or no spin balls. My forehand. My yellow shots are going to be. My. Back end push. Basically. By doing that. Telling my opponent.
Here on my forehead. Punish you. So. Then. They're going to. Pressure if they're a good player or they're going to pressure my back hand side. And if they do that. I can continually apply pressure. Yeah.
That's right. So. You practice your winners, and then you practice your pressure and then everything else. And I think you should split it like that a third of the time. Practicing your winner although.
The time practicing your. Pressure shots which are going to be multiple, right. So if you have one winning shot, then you probably have. Two pressure shots. And everything kind of gets cascaded out from there, right.
And then a third of the time for literally every meal. Okay. So then in order to do that. So each person is going to pick one winner. No, actually, let's split this into two groups. So Lindsay and I.
Are going to do. The intermediate version which is going to be one winning shot. Two pressure shots. Three. Everything else. Philippe and Nathan. Should have two winning shots. Four pressure shots. Actually.
Let's just double. Yeah. So Lindsay and I should be working on one winning shot. One pressure shot. And then two consistency. I don't like both of them ice around. One, Two, and four. Two. Three. Consistent.
One, Two, and three. One, two. Doing. Okay, how about we do it like this? Because everyone, no matter what your level is, you only have a certain capacity for taking in new information. So every single person.
Should have. Should be working on. Four things at any given time. Okay and say, I don't know. We try to stick to the same four things. For three months at a time. And you can pick either. You're going to be focused on.
Building that shot into winner. Making the shot a very safe but dangerous. Thing. Or just trying to fix your technique and creating a basic foundation. Okay. So those are kind of the two levels. The three levels.
Of focus. And. You have four total areas of focus. So. For a more beginner player, you'd probably want to use all four of those. For. Basics for consistency. For intermediate. You should definitely try to have one winner.
At least one. At least one of each category. And then. For our more advanced players. We'll probably just do one consistency item and then have the other three items. Be. Pressure winner. Yeah, I think that's right.
I mean you could even. Do. Yeah. Because consistency here means you can get on the table. That's not enough. Once you're an advanced player. Your kind of baseline needs to be putting pressure. So I would say.
Maximum one consistency item zero to one. Yeah. Okay. Just with it. Like that. Yeah. So for me, for example. I'm going to turn my I'm going to practice. My forehead loop as a winning shot. I'm going to practice.
My backhand push as a pressure shot. I'm going to focus on. My. Forehand. Flick for consistency. And my forehand. Bush. For hand push. Okay. Yeah. So you can kind of pick. Me really specific. Or dial it up. Or be more general.
You want to be as specific as possible, so you want to be as specific as possible for the winnie shots. And then less specific for the other. Two, respectively. Jeez, this traffic sucks.