Hah, that's one thing we differ on. I don't want to learn many shots, I just want to learn all the basic shots and do them as well as I can possibly do! I want to know every intricate detail about those relatively few shots and execute them to perfection in every single situation. After all, no matter what trick you pull it's gonna be some combination of back, top, side, and no spin, and I just wanna be able to attack them with as all with the most powerful topspin I can unleash. 以不变应万变
I don't think so. We trained with wristbands a lot between the '75s > '85s. The only purpose was to generate speed when we played without wristbands, not to create more power. In those days, strength was of secondary importance, that only came much later.
I think it has to be mostly a combination of everything you list above. Combine that with innate talent and there is a future in you (overall). Otherwise, it will be hard, very hard work.
Agreed. I don't agree with @brokenball too often but he's right here. Extra weight on the wrist will not allow you to generate more power. It may allow more energy transfer from the wrist/hand to the ball, but it'll decrease the energy transfer from the body/arm to the wrist/hand.
Momentum (mass x velocity) is the key. Both components contribute, not just the velocity/racket speed. You hit harder with a weighted wrist band if you maintain the same racket speed. You also hit harder if you increase your racket speed (with no wrist band). Both scenarios involve increasing the power you generate. You trained with a weighted wrist band to develop your fast twitch muscle fibers, similar to the way sprinters develop explosive speed out of the starting block by training with resistance bands.
Ah, this actually makes a lot of sense, I do this naturally executing chiquita where the FH leg goes under the table and extends throughout the stroke giving it power. I should try this for other backhands then. Thanks, blahness your stuff is always illuminating.
Some people can do better BH looping before they develop FH, maybe because the ball is closer to their eyes and they see it better.
Just seen this (regarding the 2nd clip where he fixes mistakes). Hoang wants the student to have his thumb on the blade handle and not the rubber. This is opposite to what i see other coaches teach. He says this makes the wrist less flexible which makes for better consistency. I was thinking its actually the opposite - Thumb on the rubber for consistency.. Anyway.. Is this advise good for people when they start and want to have a more consistent strokes and then later on change it and have the thumb up in the middle of the rubber (like all pros and high level amateurs).
Grip is something that is infinitely flexible and there are so many tips that in the end, the most important thing is to try stuff and see whether it works for you if you can't pay a coach to take complete ownership of your training. I have played with both my thumb on and off the blade for backhand topspins and I play good backhands either way. Karaksevic and Persson play backhand with barely any fingers on the rubber. The Chinese train advanced and technical use of the fingers, if it works for you and you can find a coach that is putting you through the nuances, do it. But IMHO, it is more important to find ways of measuring your ball quality and getting feedback (including recording yourself), trying ideas, and seeing whether they have promise or not. Timo Boll raising his finger to the rubber to do short push is not something a coach really taught him, but since it made him feel better, thr coach told him to continue doing it. That's how most technique is built and developed in reality see whether it works, see that it has no real minuses, then just continue doing it.
"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
I think a weighted wristband might help for different reasons. Something weighted enough that makes it uncomfortable to quickly flick your wrist and/or only your arm muscles will give you an incentive to use your body to generate force.
I agree there are a few different ways a weighted wristband might help, though it also might hurt by encouraging some bad habits (e.g., too much shoulder extension to compensate for the extra weight) and stressing your rotator cuff.
I played arm only backhand loops for years and I turned out okay. We sometimes over intellectualize the learning process because we don't know how many roads can lead to Rome including thoae that take a seemingly wrong path. In the end, the main reason why you don't hit proper backhands in matched (assuming this is true in the absence of video tape review) boils down to two truisms - your body is using the stroke it trusts under pressure and you haven't trained the proper backhand under pressure enough for your body to feel it is worth initiating. Without pushing thr limits of your technique (which many people don't do because it hurts the practice session unless you are doing it as part of rapid multiball or with a coach who understands what the goal is), it is hard to develop technique that you trust under pressure. Very often the player that hits the ball better under pressure is simply the player who has practiced it more. And this is usually true regardless of technique, though when practice is balanced out, technique begins to make a difference (of course, I am missing such important things as reading the ball etc. Which invite a pressure of their own...)
