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Hi ttmonster
Thanks for the feedback [emoji3]
Yes I completley agree with formal coach training I'm lucky enough to have access to a coach every week who used to be ranked in the top 20 in England and I feel without him my level would be far lower. We do backhand exercises and footwork exercises as we both agreed that now I play shakehand the position of my feet is more crucial on the BH than with a Trad penhold backhand.
I play my backhand how you described (all wrist close to the table then add forearm when stepping away) my issue is doing that without thinking during a rally and I can only imagine that comes with practice.
Biggest thing now is EJ bug hit me hard now I've changed to SH viscaria is perfect blade so I will stick with that until it breaks but I'm iffy with the Xiom Vega Europe DF so I'm debating to change to T05FX and stick with that for 1 year and then maybe upgrade the FH to T05.
Carl,
I agree with your point you definetly cant take anything away from the retired penholders (Malin & Wang hao) and whag they have achieved but I can't see anyone with that promise coming through the chinese youth, Yes there are a couple of good one's but they are missing something which could be down to a numerous of things (penhold coachs have changed, Focusing too much on playing like a SH player and not improving the advantages of a penholder) Hopefully penhold won't vanish of the international stage but something in the back of my mind tells me otherwise [emoji17]
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Thanks for the feedback [emoji3]
Yes I completley agree with formal coach training I'm lucky enough to have access to a coach every week who used to be ranked in the top 20 in England and I feel without him my level would be far lower. We do backhand exercises and footwork exercises as we both agreed that now I play shakehand the position of my feet is more crucial on the BH than with a Trad penhold backhand.
I play my backhand how you described (all wrist close to the table then add forearm when stepping away) my issue is doing that without thinking during a rally and I can only imagine that comes with practice.
Biggest thing now is EJ bug hit me hard now I've changed to SH viscaria is perfect blade so I will stick with that until it breaks but I'm iffy with the Xiom Vega Europe DF so I'm debating to change to T05FX and stick with that for 1 year and then maybe upgrade the FH to T05.
Carl,
I agree with your point you definetly cant take anything away from the retired penholders (Malin & Wang hao) and whag they have achieved but I can't see anyone with that promise coming through the chinese youth, Yes there are a couple of good one's but they are missing something which could be down to a numerous of things (penhold coachs have changed, Focusing too much on playing like a SH player and not improving the advantages of a penholder) Hopefully penhold won't vanish of the international stage but something in the back of my mind tells me otherwise [emoji17]
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