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The pancake is the foundation of a wrist focused loop, the circle traced by the swing is smaller in a wrist focused loop and is larger in an elbow focused loop and still larger in a shoulder focused loop. These descriptions do not mean that the hips are not engaged in all three of these.I found the Ti Long FH vid - so a sort of forearm/wrist only open blade shot from what I can see. That’s my default BH loop that I’m trying hard to move away from - I’m consistent at returning balls like this but it’s weak and easily attacked. I’m trying to move away from this towards a more compact and attacking open up/loop that is more wrist focused and more rotational vs down/up.
The biggest thing is to get lower with your body and stay relatively low throughout the loop. This will keep the wrist focus. But the pancake is an important part of a good backhand against heavy underspin. It just doesn't look like a pancake for reasons related to how people look at strokes.