Recent content by iammaru

Individual training is necessary but I think you underrate group training which is also very important. IMO if you train 30 hours a week, at most 5-6 hours should be 1 on 1 with a coach, the rest should be practicing and playing matches with other players in group, integrating what you train...

I think we need to separate backhand banana flick from backhand flip. When banana flick was not mainstream yet, of course players like to receive with their fh, but if they want to return with Bh: For sideunder: push. If it has underspin, push will always work. For side or sidetop: backhand...

in double, it’s about what your partner wants. Personally as a right hander, I love left hander partners to have 3 main serves: 1. Half long side-underspin. 2. Half long side-topspin. 3. half long heavy underspin serve. The opponents often aren’t able to drop short or kill these half long...

It’s not like brushing is useless. I think he just exaggerated it, what he meant was you should hit through the ball more and make solid contact. Many people are obsessed with brushing the ball, making very thin contact, and it’s not necessarily a good habit. It may reduce unforced errors in...

If you mean coaching in matches, then I agree, it’s different from teaching technique. But I don’t think there are coaches exclusive for matches. Most coaches need to train and improve his players’ technique, and it requires almost the same qualities as giving instructions in videos. I...

Amazing. Maze and Schlager were great players and entertainers, but I expect a rematch when Kreanga is fit. I’d love to see his relentless rallies from both wings.

I was a big fan of him but he doesn’t seem a good coach to me. I’ve watched many of his coaching videos and they were very underwhelming. Only generic instructions, no valuable or unique tips that I expected from a grand slam winner. As a coach, you need to be very detailed and passionate about...

Yes, my point is videos like this can make people misunderstand about this “magic” stroke. If you want to produce enough topspin that your opponent push it off the table, the stroke need to be much more exaggerated/obvious than this. In this video, it looks like magic :)) still normal a push...

sorry but you need to learn physics again. It’s certainly possible to create topspin by brushing the bottom part of the ball and your racket goes a little upward and backward. People use this a lot in serves.

I understand you can create sidespin and even a little topspin with pushes, but in this demo, I don’t think that push stroke create that much spin, these guys are just exaggerating the effect. For the underspin push, he intentionally drives the ball very flat, even downward so it hit the net...

Hard to say because of low video quality, we need closeup slo-mo to analyze these stuff. But I guess it was the wrist. One had little wrist motion, the other one has strong flick from the wrist. It would make huge difference.

I think that it’s not the Butterfly hype. It’s about adjusting your technique and tactics to a much faster setup. I play with fast rackets since forever and if I play with a much slower setup, I would drop a few levels. It’s not just control vs speed, but if we use something long enough, our...

Samsonov was incredible. Look at the video in the first post. It was the era of hidden serves, yet his serves were more visible than 101% of players these days. Crazy stuff!! Did he ever hide his serves? I can’t remember.

Felix has been always a better rally player than Alexis, who relies on serves, tricks and kill shots. Alexis likes to finish the point in 1 or 2 shots, he plays too risky style. I don’t think there is anything wrong with being creative like Truls and Alexis, it’s exciting to watch them, but they...

I think most pro players must use their legs/hips more or less to hit powerful BH away from the table. It can be very visible but it can be so subtle that you won’t really “see” it. Without using the body, the shot will simply not have enough power. Returning to the main discussion, I think...