Asking recommendation please. My sport is okay i suppose. We have simply been promoted to Division One and it is fairly a step up in tempo and ability.
So I can smash by means of just about anybody. It takes some warming up but it surely’s there. So my excellent accomplice (moved to London xD) ought to assault the online. Both taking part in a web kill, or setting me up for a smash. Nice. I am equally pleased to attempt to play the online and arrange a smash for my accomplice. I really feel stronger from rear court docket although. And positively weaker on the entrance on account of response pace!
Appears that EVERYONE else is pleased to carry from a serve, after which inform me to work on my protection. I’m engaged on it, however mid 40s, and restricted response pace (sluggish), tall, I’ve lifelike expectations. Additionally it is largely avoidable, in my thoughts at the least. I am additionally discovering that if my accomplice punch clears after my web play I’ve no time/probability to get again and defend. If I HAVE to carry, i ship it into the rafters to play for time.
In a current match it obtained so dangerous that I actually did not transfer to defend any smashes – they have been both a direct win, or my accomplice relifted till eventual loss, or my aggressive counter assault (once I truly bothered to attempt) is adopted by one other accomplice carry, so my effort is wasted. I will not relift a smash until trolling or really feel its the appropriate shot, this playstyle makes me suppose I’d as effectively hit up in opposition to a wall. I’ve a clip the place my accomplice performs a excessive midcourt shuttle, excessive to the midcourt (!?!?!) and I am strolling off court docket earlier than the shuttle slams into the bottom the place I used to be.
All this defending ruins my assault too, it does not get warmed up. So if opponents do ever carry, I am nonetheless hitting warmup stage of smash.
This can be off on a tangent and warrant a separate thread….
Most smash returns come again straight in entrance of me. So I request my accomplice to cowl the straight block and something cross court docket is on me to get, or to not play a weak sufficient smash that opponent has probability to play this counter. Appears most different individuals cowl the cross, and worse case step again, normally to clear the relift that i used to be going to smash. I discovered smashing cross court docket kinda helped, however this feels as unnatural as speeding the online after a smash and anticipating my accomplice go go full nook to nook to cowl me as a result of I am too sluggish to vary course.
So is there a approach to make my mind pleased with this playstyle of secure, keep sides and hope they error first (puke face emoji, at this stage there are only a few unforced errors), or are there some golden pictures I can use? I do suppose I must study to comply with in my very own smash, however i’ve a accomplice for that???
When you obtained this far, sorry, and thanks. Feels good to rant.
