Hey Tom, your videos are gold. Whenever I want to get help with something or learn new things, I can confidently go for your channel. What's nice and dynamic is that you often invite other players to share their thoughts and tactics. Thanks a lot! And yeah, lot of improvement on your game! 😎

My only two wins at the lowest league, basically, this season, were the two games against the same defender. But it was way easier: He could defend, but he could not attack or handle spinless balls. So I just went and played slow spinless balls, and sometimes attacked with my relatively quick and well-placed, although risky, backhand. When I fully committed to this strategy and when I was concentrated, he did not stand a chance.

@TomLodziak

Ай бұрын

Yes, I have had success with this approach too. If the defender does not attack, you can be quite patient and play many shots with little spin, and wait for the easy ball to attack. Well done for the wins.

Excellent job!!!! You have improved so much your set up seems to work very well !!! Some great tips !!! Keep up the good work 😃

Wow your game has improved so much over the last 12 months. Looking very solid. Nice work!

You've improved a LOT Tom, you made that look easy, well done!

@TomLodziak

Ай бұрын

Definitely not easy. The editing of this video is kind to me. I made a lot of errors too!

@simsey33

Ай бұрын

@@TomLodziak haha, I love the honesty there Tom😂 And I appreciate the editing too, I don't need to see examples of it done wrongly, those I have plenty of!🙄

great video! really like her tips! can we get 2 other videos: (1) Tactics to beat an aggressive offensive player. (2) How to be a modern defensive player (one that chops occasionally just to disrupt, but primarily hits w/ offense and loops player. this would be really fascinating!

Thanks for those infor

The video is very helpful, thank you

Great advice.

usefull lesson, merci Tommmm!!!!!!!

Tom, your skill has increased noticeably

Thank you.

This was great. Especially the mentioned short long variations are working good. Additionally a good advice is trying to play short rallies and avoiding 10-10 and 5th set situations. Over time a defender will get more confident and an attacker has already shown everything they have. It is also psychologically much easier reacting to than forcing an action in tense situations.

Wow, it was a good job keeping and offloading the ball. In local leagues the most of defencers would make a mistake if you don't pop a ball a lot.

Really good vid.....however I spent far too long repeatedly trying to wipe that dust of my screen at around 1:50 though...😂

Some decent tips here, you gotta consider that pure Defenders are pretty rare thou and that nowdays almoust ever Defender is "modern" and attacking on his FH or even switching his racket sides. So those will basically wait for your lazy pushes to attack them themself and it will be much harder to beat those than a pure oldschool Defender who basically lose to ppl who can play hard winners with a good percentage.

This is GREAT. Thank you! Your videos are so accessible to beginners like me, but real skills that can help play better players. Question: I'd like to be a defender/chopper but 99% of my practice is in garages with limited space (not terrible, maybe 5-6ft behind the table). is it possible to get good at that skill and use it well with limited space?

@TomLodziak

Ай бұрын

This is quite tough. You can certainly learn close to the table defence - pushing, blocking, chop-blocking - but it will be challenging to do traditional chops as you just don't have enough space. To learn strong chopping skills away from the table, you will need more space.

Good morning! What kind of pin does she use? Is it Tibhar D-Grass? My daughter uses it.

Its been a while with orsi

Nice tips Tom 🏓👍 I will practice your tips Full watch 7:34

Looks like u playing me 😂😂😂

@TomLodziak

Ай бұрын

You = horrible sidespin / topspin. Orsi = horrible backspin. Both of you = horrible!

@JAREK_TT

Ай бұрын

@@TomLodziak when u ready for rematch using tips from video?

@TomLodziak

Ай бұрын

We should get a session in before nationals. I'll message you.

Use long pips to beat defender. Like ni xia lian vs suh hyo won