aprice - yeah, what Ray says makes good sense.
My point is, on a different note, do not always practice to win.  That is a hard call I know. Practice is practice and without structuring your practice/training strategies do not develop automatically. Or, take 100 years to come to furition! Change happens when we ourselves decide to change things.

• Design your training schedule, then evaluate it.  Not play, then evaluate if it happened - the sort of back-the front method I am referring to.
• Unless you are in the middle of the court, and the ball in about 1m from the wall, power is probably not the right sort of attack.  Yes, you can attack but that does not mean it will leave you in an attacking position....do you get it?
• We must learn to vary our pace, have alternative strategies to given situations, so we can claw our way out of difficult matches against ALL opponents, not just the opponents whose game sort of blends with ours.

So long as your game is improving, and you feel you are building up your skills, do not be stressed about what I have said .......review what I have said in six months time, and it may mean something different to you.
Enjoy the challenge...remember, Hashim Khan said in his book "he happy he win, you happy you do few good shots".....winning is not the only thing.

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hi aprice 1985

i might as well have my say as well.

viper is correct but only to a point. it all depends on what attack means.

attacking does not necessarily mean going for a winner. to me, attacking could mean:

• making a volley when it might be easier to let it go to the back wall or
• playing a two wall boast unexpectedly (when previously you play drives)
• hitting the ball earlier rather than later  just about any time

as rita has pointed out in her tip, varying the play appropriately is usually an attacking game. the point i am making is that you need to attack to help get your opponent out of position in the first place

even when playing an attacking game, you still need to be patient. matches are usually won on the opponents mistakes rather than your winners, but you still have to apply pressure to force the mistakes

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Hi aprice - I have given some thought to your post and this link will take you to an article of how to train the decision making skills, particularly the attacking part of your game.

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Only attack after you have worked your opponent out of position.

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