Table Tennis Skills - Slowly Building

 Here's me working on my forehand in November 2025 (can you see what I'm doing wrong?  The video was shot to show me):

And here is what I look like playing at the Butterfly tournament at BTTC - Broward Table Tennis Center -  against Jorge Santiago. July 26, 2025. My performance is certainly nothing to write home about but it's better than it was.  I've stopped making videos at tournaments since I think it's distracting.

Here's (below) my rating after the Jan 2026 Tournament at BTTC. I was 5-3 on the Friday night. I feel that I'm still underperforming and that I belong at about 1200 at this point but of course, I need to do more winning (and less losing) to get there. 

My plan (or ambition) is to add 100 points per year to 1400-1500 (in three years) when I suspect that I'll max out (ie I'll lose my intensity, find further progress really hard, and of course, I'm not likely to be getting any younger).  So the goal (assuming I belong at 1200 now) is to get to 1300 in Jan 2027.  

First step: Fix my back and regain cardio so I can play for more 90 minutes at at time.

My rating late Jan 2026 (after Jan tournament)

Here's my rating at the start of 2026. It had dropped :-<

Here's where one logins to see the ratings: https://usatt.justgo.com/ 

The old places to see ratings don't seem to work anymore.

- https://www.usatt.org/usatt-ratings

- https://usatt.simplycompete.com/info/ratings