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Sometimes blocks are created by a lack of correct training. No one ever taught you the right technique, so you learned the shot the wrong way and it got muscle memoried like a concrete block into your stroke/body.
Sometimes blocks are created by previous injuries. Not only is the body torn/hurt, but the energy pathways used parallel to the muscles/joints are also hurt. If they are not dealt with, and reestablished, the body can never attain full potential.
Sometimes blocks are created by psych conflicts, such as a junior would have with his parents. Kids can block learning due to parent dissociation, or the desire to rebel/misbehave.
Sometimes blocks are created by the wrong equipment for the wrong style. Or holding onto junior set ups when no longer a junior. Or holding onto junior strategies when capable of more power/consistency.
Sometimes blocks are created due to conflicting internal desires not concious, such as a desire not to get hurt, not to spend money, not to be made fun of when losing, not to be shown up by an opponent, not to_____.
There are solutions to each block. Believe you can stop resisting them and you can. That starts with accepting the block for what it is: the result is a weakness. Watch video of it without feeling bad about it. Accept it for non emotional reasons: you want to improve, not to stay blocked. Believe you can accept it and find out why it's there.
First learn your weak points. Then use video to check progress. Your block will try to stop you from improving. Don't let it. Find practice partners who are fun and cooperative and challenging, not just sand bag weaker guys. Find the right coach/and string, and frame. Shadow swing every day on the dog walk. Dissolve the old stroke with visualization: see it melting away, and see yourself using the perfect stroke in your minds imaginative eye, and you will improve. Play to improve, not to win.
Most stroke weaknesses are caused by a lack of coil, or no coil, or jammed coil, or fearful coil, or timing weaknesses, such as too early on low balls, and too late on high balls. Unit turns must be made quickly. Upper body must be relaxed on coiling/reaching back. Energy used to uncoil must be like a powerfully fast sneeze. The hips must close off, and lead the shot out first, like a frisbee thrower, or a baseball batter, or a golfer, or a boxer, or a great server/ground stroker. They all uncoil hips first off sideways coils and whip lash the shot off the "dragged" kinetic path way.
We often hold onto any block we resist. Acceptance is the best way to dissolve them.
Sometimes blocks are created by previous injuries. Not only is the body torn/hurt, but the energy pathways used parallel to the muscles/joints are also hurt. If they are not dealt with, and reestablished, the body can never attain full potential.
Sometimes blocks are created by psych conflicts, such as a junior would have with his parents. Kids can block learning due to parent dissociation, or the desire to rebel/misbehave.
Sometimes blocks are created by the wrong equipment for the wrong style. Or holding onto junior set ups when no longer a junior. Or holding onto junior strategies when capable of more power/consistency.
Sometimes blocks are created due to conflicting internal desires not concious, such as a desire not to get hurt, not to spend money, not to be made fun of when losing, not to be shown up by an opponent, not to_____.
There are solutions to each block. Believe you can stop resisting them and you can. That starts with accepting the block for what it is: the result is a weakness. Watch video of it without feeling bad about it. Accept it for non emotional reasons: you want to improve, not to stay blocked. Believe you can accept it and find out why it's there.
First learn your weak points. Then use video to check progress. Your block will try to stop you from improving. Don't let it. Find practice partners who are fun and cooperative and challenging, not just sand bag weaker guys. Find the right coach/and string, and frame. Shadow swing every day on the dog walk. Dissolve the old stroke with visualization: see it melting away, and see yourself using the perfect stroke in your minds imaginative eye, and you will improve. Play to improve, not to win.
Most stroke weaknesses are caused by a lack of coil, or no coil, or jammed coil, or fearful coil, or timing weaknesses, such as too early on low balls, and too late on high balls. Unit turns must be made quickly. Upper body must be relaxed on coiling/reaching back. Energy used to uncoil must be like a powerfully fast sneeze. The hips must close off, and lead the shot out first, like a frisbee thrower, or a baseball batter, or a golfer, or a boxer, or a great server/ground stroker. They all uncoil hips first off sideways coils and whip lash the shot off the "dragged" kinetic path way.
We often hold onto any block we resist. Acceptance is the best way to dissolve them.