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hi paddle drivers how you doing I'm
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Gonzalo the coach of Rocket paddle
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Bristol the biggest paddle center of the
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UK and today we are going to cover the
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three areas where almost everybody
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struggles in paddle the things that
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we're going to be talking today is super
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important that we fix them if we want to
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become a good paddle player in the
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future as always we will be giving some
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Advanced tips throughout the video so
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make sure that you watching until the
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end to be the best paddle player
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possible so the first reason why you py
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at paddle is because you don't play with
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a hook paddle racket wait a second Karim
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which racket do you
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use forget about this
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then okay so now jokes asides the first
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area that we need to work on is our game
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from the back so we're going to go to
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the back of the court because the first
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thing that we need to understand is when
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are we going to play with the glass and
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when are we going to play in front of us
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so the rule that I always give I want to
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stay when I'm playing at the back in
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Post Number Four which is the
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intersection of both glasses why because
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now I can use my feet as a reference to
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know when I'm going to play with the
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glass and when I'm going to be playing
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in front of me if I'm standing in this
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position I know that everything that
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bounces at my feet or behind is always
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going to make it to the back glass
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however everything that bounces in front
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of me I can generally take it before it
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touches the glass super important
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concept when we are at the back of the
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Court we are not trying to win the point
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we are trying to win the net so it's
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very important that we are patient okay
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I'm going to be playing from here and
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I'm going to be basically waiting my
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time to play the L okay these ones are
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quite hard so I can play like this this
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one I take in front this one is easy so
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it's my time to play the L and get to
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the net now focusing on the glass the
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first thing that we need to fix is the
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early preparation okay I need to bring
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my racket back from the very beginning
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okay what I cannot do is wait till the
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end and then I hit super important as
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soon as I know that I have a forehand I
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bring the racket back so that I'm ready
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and I can save a lot of time for
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myself the second thing that we need to
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be very careful with when we play off
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the glass I want to give myself enough
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space so that I can swing basically I
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don't want to end up hitting like this
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so I give myself enough space so that I
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can swing properly however if the ball
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is too close to me and I have to move
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away from the ball I will never be able
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to push the ball
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comfortably
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a really good way to see if you are
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doing this correctly is to see the tip
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of your racket if when you are hitting
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the tip of your rocket is pointing to
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the floor it usually means that you are
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hitting too close to your body however
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the tip of the racket is pointing to the
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Side Glass it means that you are giving
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yourself a nice space and now I'm going
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to give you an advanced tip that is
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going to change completely the way you
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play off the back super important the
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ball is going to tach the glass and is
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key that I wait for the ball to be in
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front of me from here I can push and I
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can play Fast if I want to however if
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I'm hitting a little bit behind me I'm
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going to start playing with my wrist and
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this is going to affect my control and
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my
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power and now we're going to go to the
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second area of the game by the way if
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you like this last tip it would really
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help us if you could leave a like And
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subscribe if you haven't cuz we really
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appreciate it the second area is the
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volley so the first important thing that
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we need to be careful here is my ready
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position okay I'm going to be standing
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between post number one and post number
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two okay with my racket pointing up in
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this H ready position I wouldn't like to
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see the racket here or of course here
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because it will take a lot of time to
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hit the ball in the right position so
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racket in this position knees a little
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bit bendy so I can have a little bit of
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tension when the ball comes to me and
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this is how I play a really nice B when
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we talk about tactics remember that at
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the back we said that we were not trying
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to win the point we were trying to win
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the net now we are at the net we can
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start looking for opportunities to win
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the point so whenever we spot an easy
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bow it might be a good time
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to put a little bit of a
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spice the best tip that I can give you
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to improve your B 100% is that you play
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with your elbows close to your body okay
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I'm going to be in a compact position if
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the ball comes far away from me I don't
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want you to stend your arm really far I
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want you to approach and hit in a
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compact position with elow close to my
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body of course we cannot do this all the
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time because if I don't have time I'm
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just going to attach it there and of
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course if it goes a little bit higher
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it's hard to keep the the elbow close to
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my
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body and a very important tip to improve
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your body is to play around with the
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point of impact so in this case let's
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say I have a for hand B if I want to
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play to the parallel Direction I will
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have to play around here however if I
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wanted to play crosscourt I would have
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to move the point of impact behind me so
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that it allows me to play there if I
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don't do this the problem is that I will
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start adjust in the Direction with my
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wrist and this is way worse because
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again we won't be able to play with good
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control and with good
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power
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and the third area of your paddle game
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that definitely needs improving is the
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overheads so I see so many mistakes here
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of course is something technically quite
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difficult because it needs a lot of
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coordination and it will come with time
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but the most important concepts are the
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ones that we're going to mention here
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for me is super key the first moments of
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the motion okay I start from this ready
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position and I qu quickly go back here
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it's important that this footwork I do
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it as soon as possible because I can
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always adjust from wordss but it's way
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harder if I adjust backwards because I'm
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going to be with my weight backwards and
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then I takes me a lot of time to recover
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my
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position the other tip that is super
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important when we are playing the Vanda
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is that our body is not facing forward
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we have to be facing sideways okay so
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this also relats with the footwork I'm
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not going to be running like this I'm
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going to turn to a side position from
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the very beginning so let's do a few
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demos what is that feeling
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Karim
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and now an advanced tip that for me
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changed completely my Vanda is the point
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of impact it's very important that we he
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at the height of my eyes and also that I
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give myself enough space so that we can
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translate all this body rotation if I
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hit quite close to me I won't be able to
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push the ball properly so my
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recommendation is that you give yourself
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enough space with the ball it's always
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easier to adjust and get closer than to
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move away okay so Karim please from here
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enough distance with the ball and I'm
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going to swing forward with all the
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K he's so bad at feeding
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terrible when you do a good intruction
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that's what I
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actually okay guys so now I would like
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to share with you a personal opinion on
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this topic about the real importance of
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being good in paddle because I feel it
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is a sport where H there is so much ego
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and everybody cares a lot about the
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platonic level H being better than this
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person or this other person and I think
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the worst enemy in this sport can be
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yourself I think there is nothing wrong
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with being bad we would really need to
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admit that there is a lot of room for
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improvement and this is actually
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something very good because you will be
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motivated to get better every day this
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being said I really recommend that you
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go to the coaching sessions if you live
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in Bristol you can come to my coaching
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sessions here in rocket paddle and we
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can try to take a look at these things
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that will improve your game remember if
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you think you are too good it will be
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hard for you to get better so let's
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admit that we are all very bad cuz
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otherwise we will be professional
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players of course this is my personal
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opinion but I would be very interested
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to see in the comments down below your
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thoughts on this topic this being said
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thank you for watching and see you in
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the next one
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b
