Hey guys,
Here's a video from a recent practice. Any tips?
Relax your shoulder, use your elbow. You look like you've locked your elbow and are trying to wrench the whole thing over with your shoulder. The whole thing should be a flowing movement.
Hey guys,
Here's a video from a recent practice. Any tips?
And Silver, I just have the review I wrote many years ago to fall back on as to how the blade played the first time around. If the sweet spot is altered in a big way I am sure I will notice and that will pretty much mean no more sanding of Cpen blades.
I feel I will be left with a smaller sweet spot, true, but not necessarily so small that it becomes ineffective. One can hope.
Relax your shoulder, use your elbow. You look like you've locked your elbow and are trying to wrench the whole thing over with your shoulder. The whole thing should be a flowing movement.
thanks, been trying to do that for months, been recording myself any noticed improvement but seems everyone says the same thing! will keep working on it!
Hi, I am a shake hand grip but I recently played using my friends penhold clipper racket and I really enjoyed it although it did hurt after a while. Should I change?
In what aspects did you enjoy?Hi, I am a shake hand grip but I recently played using my friends penhold clipper racket and I really enjoyed it although it did hurt after a while. Should I change?
Go practice looping in front of a mirror (shadow play) - do it slowly at first so you can coordinate the movement.
at 4:15 looks like she attempts to smack the ball with the reverse side which appears and sounds like it has no rubber on it. is that legal?
Had a real good hit a club last night.
Played my training partner who I haven't beat since Dec of 2016. Match started out rough. Think the first two games where 11-7, 11-8.
Then changed my tactics. Felt like he was getting too much an advantage on serve. So I tried something unorthodox. I started playing his serve standing on the far left of the table diagonally across him. As if I was a right hander. I normally stand in my back right corner being left handed. But that opens up his wide serve to my FH that for some reason I can't seem to figure out. Well standing in that far left corner took that away.
I was playing inverted on my FH, long pips on my RPB and I was largely moving into position to play his serve with a RPB LP chop no matter where it went. If he served diagonally to me, LP chop. If he tried to sneak a serve down the line, LP chop. I was looking to just neutralize and get beyond the serve where he was killing me while being on the lookout that if ever tries to dumd down the serve from the long pips (ie - no spin just put it in play type of serve), I'd be ready for a TPB inverted attack.
Worked out pretty well. Came back to win the next two games. Tied 2-2. Final game. Apparently lost focus and got down. 6-0. Came back but lost 11-8. So close yet so far. Darn. But I remember the last time I played him inverted/LPs, it was 3-2 also then. So apparently I just play better with this style vs duel inverted. If I keep up this strategy, I'm confident I'll steal one from him sooner or later just by throwing numbers at it. (ie - keep playing him a lot of matches)
The TPB block was money last night. He's like me in being somewhat taller but lazy on footwork so I was killing him with He Zhi Wen like TPB blocks really wide to his FH side for winners. Felt great and gave me confidence vs his power loop, which he assumed would be winners came back right by him wide out of his reach. He complemented me on the blocks saying as much.
Modern chinese penhold player, although I am still an amateur...I know it's the best way to go.
I will start (again) to play with jpen tomorrow.
I'm a shakehand player. I have tried jpen for a few months in the past but I couldn`t get used to TPB, but I'm motivated to try it once more. For me, seeing a jpenner playing is more enjoyable and also RSM is one of my idols.
Wish me lucky
Talking about jpen, what do you recommend for a 1 ply kiso hinoki blade?
I play for 3.5 years so I know the basics, but I lack consistency. I consider myself a beginner. I want a blade that I can use for several years as I develop more and more, I don't want to EJ too much on jpen (they are too expensive lol). I have a cheap america cypress jpen bought from taiwan that I will use to play for now, but I want also to have one kiso hinoki one. Any suggestions?