One super important thing you missed is that you should always shadow defend in line with your near post and postured towards your net to cover all angles better, this also helps improve your spacing and makes it easier to make reactive saves. Also making sure you don’t stop completely and keep your momentum up. Awesome vid bro, refreshed me on a couple things I’ve forgotten about ❤️❤️
@@roryroarasaurnear post is your own goal post that’s closer to the ball on defense. Far/back post is the post farther away from the ball. Sorry for being so late!
I forgot to mention fake challenges! But make sure to throw a few of them in every now and then to catch your opponent off guard and make them give possession away easily!
Thanovic would you be able to help me get my doubles rank up please because I am silver 1 and I can never get past silver 2. I try using tips but I need someone to help me get better or give me tips. Would you either be able to help me get my rank up or coach me please (I can't pay because I have no real money or good items). I am a big fan
At the silver level, the best thing you can do is focus on hitting the ball with power and trying to get fluid movements around the field. Also you probably just need to play the game at this point and you'll see improvement over time. When I was silver, I jumped into ones everyday for a few games to help work on my movements and shooting
I actually like 1v1's and hate 3's , 2 being the sweet spot for me . 1v1's is what i believe helped me get rid of some of my mistakes , really good at 50's and defending .
Thanovic is REALLY underrated. I love any rocket league youtubers like you but none of the really famous ones make as good content or interact with viewers as much. Keep up the good work!
I used to never use ballcam and suddenly I became a god at shadow defense. Shadow defense made me drastically increase my 1v1 rank and it's really easy to use once you get the hang of it. It also completely disassembled fakes from the attacker, by simply swerving left and right on your path to your goal. It almost always causes the opponent to get the ball out the way or do something which you can easily pick up on and take full control of the ball before they get the chance to turn around. Once you hit diamond opponents are a lot more aware of this though, so fakes should be relied on less ans a proper shadow defense should be relied on more.
Hi Thanovic I found you recently and I really like your style of videos. The tips you're giving are very good and the examples are awesome. Keep up the great work!
Was going 0-5 in games on silver 2 in 1s (iam gold 1 in 3s). I watched some back and saw I got scored on pretty easy. Than I watched some of your videos and straight after that went 7-0. Gonna spend some days whatch al it others tomorrow. I hope it will get me tot gold in 1s in my first ever season of playing this game:)
I feel like I almost picked up shadow defense from being big in hockey, I know its been talked about before... But the deeper I get into this game the more I see deep hockey roots.
People who are trying to improve on 1v1, I suggest you guys watch how Okhalid plays in johnniboi 1v1 salt mine and world series. He has an amazing knack for defending in a tight situation, and then suddenly taking control of the ball and then using those deadly bounce dribble to score goals that are nearly impossible to defend. Watching him closely in the last few weeks has helped me improve my 1v1 game, even though i don't have nearly as good mechanics as he does. Also, watch how he positions himself when the opponent is attacking or trying to use mind games on him. BTW, very good tutorial.
@Thanovic I've only been playing rocket League a few weeks and you and a few other creators have helped me so much in a short period of time. It feels like it gives me a unique perspective on learning rocket League that many would share if it were presented correctly. I've come up with a idea for a video that I feel you might appreciate. Asking nothing of it, just would like to share it with you. I feel like it will help base players in reality and might help guide them to focus on the basic things more heavily. I think it will humble gold-diamond players and help them realize they aren't as good as they are think they are. One sick play doesn't make them consistently capable, and consistently is the most important aspect of any skill. It's a couple training techniques I used to help humble myself. Me being the general player who doesn't play on PC and doesn't want to download and research a million training packs to get better. It's all done through everything the game hands you on day one. Doesn't even require internet connection. As basic as it comes but humbling to even diamond players Let me know if you're interested. ♥️
you have to remember there are ways to get around people if they only shadow defend (air dribble bumps, demos etc) so you have to play for some 50/50's in defence. Also, if you have a way to challenge the ball with low risk of a negative outcome, take the challenge, this allows the attacker to keep respect for you and not allow them to believe they can just dribble at you and set up anything they want
thx man this helps I have been taking a lot of criticism lately from my team I play with because I have been struggling but now I know what to practice thx!
So I took your advice in advancing to platinum by doing your two rules....defend the back post and watch my teammates. So when I defend from the back post as opposed to defending from the middle I get scored on wayyyyy more. Sitting at the back post makes the front post completely wide open. The distance to that post from the back post is twice as long as the distance to that post from the middle. I can cut distance much faster defending from the middle. It simply doesnt make sense or work well in practice.
I definitely could improve on this. But, the higher you go the more insane guys get. Sometimes you get air dribble bumped even though you shadow pretty well. Now I have to challenge much faster.
You need to understand. These videos take a hell of a long time to do. You pretty much do it because of passion and not for fame or money. Without a pretty quick following (to get paid) for doing videos, (these videos would take 10's of hours to do) then it can become demoralizing.
The double jump is used a lot for quick aerials which are used to get to the ball really quickly or to beat an opponent to it. However its not necessary to use it every time as you'll find yourself in a situation where you have to use your second jump to add power to the ball to either score a goal or clear the ball and defend your own. So you don't need to double jump before an aerial but note that you will have to if the ball is really high and/or you need to beat your opponent to it.
No hate thanovic but my opponents actually know how to dribble and flick so like what do I do cus my opponents can actually control the ball unlike your opponents
It has very uncomfortable saves because they are focused on car facing backwords when ball goes above you or near above you at some angle, which combines it for very awkward manouvering. Nevertheless those situations will happen more and more often once you progress in ranks because opponents will be more precise at booming ball above you when you just try to come back from failed offense attempt
Play and play and play. You are still learning the game and the only real thing I can say is try to hit the ball hard and just play a lot. You'll get to silver pretty quick bro dw
Imagine having the best attacking, passing and dribbling and good mechanics but have super bad defense.... This is something 85% of people who play rocket league have.
Me as aggresesive player and wants to play 1s is this vid so helpfull thx for another great vid👍 I suck at defending and in 1s my defence is so bad xd so this helps alot thx
One super important thing you missed is that you should always shadow defend in line with your near post and postured towards your net to cover all angles better, this also helps improve your spacing and makes it easier to make reactive saves. Also making sure you don’t stop completely and keep your momentum up. Awesome vid bro, refreshed me on a couple things I’ve forgotten about ❤️❤️
Thank you, well said and deserves the pinned comment for its advice!
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I'm extremely new to this game, what is near post? Like goal post or is it something to do with my car? Thanks so much for all the tips!
@@roryroarasaurnear post is your own goal post that’s closer to the ball on defense. Far/back post is the post farther away from the ball. Sorry for being so late!
I think I came to wrong place. I was trying to find "how to make car touch ball"
Naughty.
💀
Lol
I forgot to mention fake challenges! But make sure to throw a few of them in every now and then to catch your opponent off guard and make them give possession away easily!
Thanovic would you be able to help me get my doubles rank up please because I am silver 1 and I can never get past silver 2. I try using tips but I need someone to help me get better or give me tips. Would you either be able to help me get my rank up or coach me please (I can't pay because I have no real money or good items). I am a big fan
At the silver level, the best thing you can do is focus on hitting the ball with power and trying to get fluid movements around the field. Also you probably just need to play the game at this point and you'll see improvement over time. When I was silver, I jumped into ones everyday for a few games to help work on my movements and shooting
I do all of those but I always have really bad lag. I love the game too much to stop playing it
Chunkynugget 23 Ikr I lag so much
@@chunkynugget2351 ik its been 2 years but, what rank are you know?
Shadow defense, a repeated topic that never becomes tired just tried in new ways from underrated people.
You had me in the first half hahaha god bless brother!
I actually like 1v1's and hate 3's , 2 being the sweet spot for me . 1v1's is what i believe helped me get rid of some of my mistakes , really good at 50's and defending .
I’m not the first
I’m not the last
But when Thanovic upload
I click really fast
This brought a tear to my eye
So inspirational
*cries* so sad yet so beautiful
5:31 28/20. That's a pretty good score.
In my opinion u are one of the most underrated UA-camrs on this platform.
You should be way more famous.
Continue, what you do, I love it
I love you too
Thanovic is REALLY underrated. I love any rocket league youtubers like you but none of the really famous ones make as good content or interact with viewers as much. Keep up the good work!
I used to never use ballcam and suddenly I became a god at shadow defense. Shadow defense made me drastically increase my 1v1 rank and it's really easy to use once you get the hang of it. It also completely disassembled fakes from the attacker, by simply swerving left and right on your path to your goal. It almost always causes the opponent to get the ball out the way or do something which you can easily pick up on and take full control of the ball before they get the chance to turn around. Once you hit diamond opponents are a lot more aware of this though, so fakes should be relied on less ans a proper shadow defense should be relied on more.
Hi Thanovic
I found you recently and I really like your style of videos. The tips you're giving are very good and the examples are awesome. Keep up the great work!
Hey thank you very much! That's awesome to hear!!
I was doing this without even realising 😂😂 this still helps massively appreciate the video!
Was going 0-5 in games on silver 2 in 1s (iam gold 1 in 3s). I watched some back and saw I got scored on pretty easy. Than I watched some of your videos and straight after that went 7-0. Gonna spend some days whatch al it others tomorrow. I hope it will get me tot gold in 1s in my first ever season of playing this game:)
I feel like I almost picked up shadow defense from being big in hockey, I know its been talked about before... But the deeper I get into this game the more I see deep hockey roots.
People who are trying to improve on 1v1, I suggest you guys watch how Okhalid plays in johnniboi 1v1 salt mine and world series. He has an amazing knack for defending in a tight situation, and then suddenly taking control of the ball and then using those deadly bounce dribble to score goals that are nearly impossible to defend. Watching him closely in the last few weeks has helped me improve my 1v1 game, even though i don't have nearly as good mechanics as he does. Also, watch how he positions himself when the opponent is attacking or trying to use mind games on him.
BTW, very good tutorial.
I love Okhalid, big fan of his matches
@@Thanovic Me too, really an amazing player. I literally bought fennec after watching him play with fennec in johnniboi stream.
My best rocket league youtuber
God bless brother
@Thanovic I've only been playing rocket League a few weeks and you and a few other creators have helped me so much in a short period of time. It feels like it gives me a unique perspective on learning rocket League that many would share if it were presented correctly.
I've come up with a idea for a video that I feel you might appreciate. Asking nothing of it, just would like to share it with you. I feel like it will help base players in reality and might help guide them to focus on the basic things more heavily.
I think it will humble gold-diamond players and help them realize they aren't as good as they are think they are. One sick play doesn't make them consistently capable, and consistently is the most important aspect of any skill.
It's a couple training techniques I used to help humble myself. Me being the general player who doesn't play on PC and doesn't want to download and research a million training packs to get better.
It's all done through everything the game hands you on day one. Doesn't even require internet connection. As basic as it comes but humbling to even diamond players
Let me know if you're interested. ♥️
Excellent video, Thanovic! I've been tilting in my 1s due to this issue and bad kickoffs.
Thanks for the great tips!
No worries man! I might be making a kickoff video in the near future!
Literally playing ones as you uploaded this lol. Perfect
Hope you enjoyed it man
Thanovic always
you have to remember there are ways to get around people if they only shadow defend (air dribble bumps, demos etc) so you have to play for some 50/50's in defence. Also, if you have a way to challenge the ball with low risk of a negative outcome, take the challenge, this allows the attacker to keep respect for you and not allow them to believe they can just dribble at you and set up anything they want
Completely agree
They can also be ultimate ballchasers and just dont give a fick about your challenges...
Dude you have the best content as an educational and entertaining rocket league you tuber
Great vid, i started learning and now after 3-4 weeks i ranked out from gold to plat
Plat is full of 95% incredibly poor players. The ranking system is a feckin joke and badly broken. Either that or it is deliberately intended (fixed).
I've only ever shadow defended from a low rank. I didn't even know what it is, I just understood how it worked and what I needed to do.
you are the best RL content creator in the world love you
Great video man already has helped me a lot for 1v1s
Glad to hear man!
Thanks
thx man this helps I have been taking a lot of criticism lately from my team I play with because I have been struggling but now I know what to practice thx!
Thanks so much for the info I’ve been able to move a lot faster because of your videos very helpful and new subscriber!!!! 🙏😇
Wow whos that at 0:05 😍 What a great flick
You destroyed me that game hahaha
@@Thanovic there was a questionable demo at some point in the video 🤔
@@Radgy yeah man that cracked me up watching it back over during editing hahah
@@Thanovic heh heh gotta love USW
Personally the flick made me want to throw up 🤢
Another sick video from thano. Keep it up homie
Cheers man!!!!
So I took your advice in advancing to platinum by doing your two rules....defend the back post and watch my teammates. So when I defend from the back post as opposed to defending from the middle I get scored on wayyyyy more. Sitting at the back post makes the front post completely wide open. The distance to that post from the back post is twice as long as the distance to that post from the middle. I can cut distance much faster defending from the middle. It simply doesnt make sense or work well in practice.
Do goalies in real life soccer defend from the middle or do they stand at one of the posts?
Can't tell if you're trolling or not lol
Damn your subs been going up a ton lately, I remember u had a few hundreds and I subbed to u 😅
An og, you're a good man Relent. You always have been
@@Thanovic
@Mark Donald :D
Nice vid
Ty bro
I definitely could improve on this. But, the higher you go the more insane guys get. Sometimes you get air dribble bumped even though you shadow pretty well. Now I have to challenge much faster.
Yeah that all comes with time bro
Great video man! Hope you can get your stream going without lag again
Yeah me too!! Should be streaming at some point today!
Thanovic How many hours would you say that would be in? Not trying to bug you but I won’t keep myself awake if it’s not in the next couple of hours ;)
Love the vids bro 💙
Thanks man!!
keep grinding these great videos bro you'll soon get the recognition you deserve
Thanks Jaysu
You need to understand. These videos take a hell of a long time to do. You pretty much do it because of passion and not for fame or money. Without a pretty quick following (to get paid) for doing videos, (these videos would take 10's of hours to do) then it can become demoralizing.
Great video! Be sure to add in some fake challenges and real challenges to keep your opponent on edge
Oh of course!!! I didn't even mention fake challenges! Damn my bad hahah
This helped soooo much thank you
Nice vid G
Ty bro
This was super useful thxxxx
I had a perfect safe because of this vid❤
Your advice is very helpful! Thanks!
No worries man!
Wtf. I'm new to this game, (2 weeks) and this is exactly what I am doing (about gold level). Awesome, great content 🌟😎
rank?
Very helpful thanks
Awesome vid
I thought I was a subscriber. Turns out I wasn’t. Love the videos! Keep it up
Thanks man!!!
thanks
i agree
Thank you! Im here becauae Mr Napkin
What are you controller binds?
In my controller settings video they are shown
It goes in my corner and then for the next minute it's left to right corner ball passes
5:09 ankle destroyed 😂😂😂
What is the best defensive car?
I love that he says opponent and not enemy
Bro thanks for the clips with me in it idk why I feel so proud lol
Alg man hahah
I’m champ 1-2 in ones, still making mistakes and still improving, wish you guys luck!
Thanks bro!!
first!!camera settings please Thanovic?
I made a vid 2 weeks ago on them my man
Great video
Thanks man!!
Also i think you forgot fake challenges
@@TT-un3js yeah I added it in the pinned comment haha
The bell rang🔔
God bless you
OMG im used to watching sunlesskhan and musty so sorry if im being offensive but thanovics voice sounds pretty LOW compared to other RL youtubers
I accidentaly did shadow defense in a tournament :0
Well said :)
Ty bro!
Do i need to double jump before the aerial?
The double jump is used a lot for quick aerials which are used to get to the ball really quickly or to beat an opponent to it. However its not necessary to use it every time as you'll find yourself in a situation where you have to use your second jump to add power to the ball to either score a goal or clear the ball and defend your own. So you don't need to double jump before an aerial but note that you will have to if the ball is really high and/or you need to beat your opponent to it.
No hate thanovic but my opponents actually know how to dribble and flick so like what do I do cus my opponents can actually control the ball unlike your opponents
Haven’t watched the vid but I bet there’s something about shadow defending
That's some spot on guessing brother
thats soo cool
I think I got in a game with you you were really good
Thanks hahahah
@@Thanovic you destroyed me 1-12
I think i just dont understand why people dont like 1v1. Mean, playing since a week but is nearly jsut played 1v1 cuz i like it most Oo
4:27 what paint finish is that?
three years no likes and or replys is crazy
Who else shadow defends without thinking
You're a ninja so of course you do
or just watch flakes hes a god at defending
I have been, mans a machine
If it was a clip of the best save I would have joined the competition xD
It's just clips at this point man, you can use whatever clip you like hahah
I did the training pack way before I saw this and it is without doubt my least favorite pack I hate it
It has very uncomfortable saves because they are focused on car facing backwords when ball goes above you or near above you at some angle, which combines it for very awkward manouvering. Nevertheless those situations will happen more and more often once you progress in ranks because opponents will be more precise at booming ball above you when you just try to come back from failed offense attempt
00:48
Hmmmmm
Ah ha!
I’m bronze 2 any tips?
Play and play and play. You are still learning the game and the only real thing I can say is try to hit the ball hard and just play a lot. You'll get to silver pretty quick bro dw
Should, I use your settings
Waiting for teammate to rotate?,hmm that takes forever 😂
Ayyyyy I made it in the video haha
Of course man hahha
Im not bad at it huh maybe defense is my thing
I have stupid mission get 10 saves
Imagine having the best attacking, passing and dribbling and good mechanics but have super bad defense.... This is something 85% of people who play rocket league have.
POV jugador de latam teniendo que ver videos en inglés, porque no hay en sepañol
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I love yours videos
And you should love them too
God bless scansf
What country are you in thano?
Nz
@@Thanovic I think I've played you a few times, I'm Aus
Well then just demo the shadow defender
I need help right now!!!
pov ur name is ruben to
why you have just 7k subs bro
Working my way up brother haha
Name music plz?
There are like 4 different songs in here dude, they are all by Damma Beats
Imagine there’s a bronze that watches this and tries to shadow defense a bot💀
Me as aggresesive player and wants to play 1s is this vid so helpfull thx for another great vid👍
I suck at defending and in 1s my defence is so bad xd so this helps alot thx
No worries man! Hope the vid helps!
Bro if you play football you don’t need these this pop in my home
The best way to defend like a pro is to bribe them play for you
There is.. That method yes
Hey your birthday is one day before me
Jan gang is strong
I solo ones
I’m 5 hours late
What did I miss?
The important thing is that you're here ❤️
when your already shadow defending but still suck at defense
69000 views. noice
👌
@imadbruh for u
Roses are read
Violets are blue
I was a silver before
But not anymore!
I’m a High GC now cause of this
Hi There
hi there
This is just defending in football.