How did I play today?

-forehand looping

Mostly just drilled with Jeff today and last Saturday for about three hours. He's been working on his forehand and I've mostly forehand looped and blocked to his backhand. I found that I need work on looping down the line and looping from the backhand corner. The biggest problem is that getting the corrent sidespin on these balls take too much thought. Looping crosscourt is pretty good now. I'm doing a much better job taking the ball later. I probably still need to take the ball later on looping backspin sometimes.

I've been trying to work on a new motion for a topspin forehand pendulum serve. I'm trying to mimic a similar motion to what Jeff uses. It's pretty messed up right now. I get it in at a very low percentage right now and the spin is not so good. I do need this motion to make my backspin and sidespin pendulums more useful. The advice Jeff gave to use only wrist seemed to help a lot.

I'm still working on the reverse pendulum. It's a bit of a mess right now, because I haven't been emphasizing this serve recently. I probably haven't made much progress in the last couple weeks.

With all this work on my forehand loop, it's really brought together the rest of my game. I played Fred today and won, but I'm not sure how. Mostly I was just more consistent. I didn't really feel like I was hitting many winners. Being able to loop lets me take a little bit more time on my shots. Now I need to work on being ready for my next shot. I'm not expecting the ball to come back on my harder loops and when it does I can't follow up. I think if I can improve my short game on my forehand side my game will really come together. Both flipping and pushing.