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The sport has evolved so much!

Nah, mostly technique. The higher level players recover faster because every movement is done using their core muscles and lower body with good centre of gravity management. you can actually test it - see if you can do FH loop at frequencies of more than 90 times / minute. The faster the...

This is also why, LP is super good for those who arent athletic and still want to play a "sport".

The LP "sidespin" serves are a mind bending nightmare because you always think they brushed it sideways so the ball should curve sideways, but because it is LP it actually is just a dead flat ball with mild spin which they can manipulate depending on their contact. It is super annoying to deal...

Actually the way i view it is more of an angled hitting brush. There is a brush component but the force is not directed completely tangentially but more through the ball. what i meant by thin brush is this and usually is quite error prone. Although they both contact the back of the ball, they...

One thing that i never really learnt up till many years into the sport is that to loop truly heavy backspin (the ones that almost stop mid air and start rolling back once they hit the floor), you cannot brute force thin brush the ball - it will never work and most likely you will miss the ball...

Yes but how long does it last?!

Another tip is that if you can't read the spin you have to play a stroke that has less aggressive trajectory (ie a bit higher over the net) and speed (ie a bit slower) and also put a lot of your own spin on it (to override effect of incoming spin as much as possible), to give you the best...

Badminton is surprisingly quite a deep rabbit hole which helps a lot with footwork - the literature in footwork and centre of gravity management is probably one of the best among all the sports, while TT is seriously underdeveloped in terms of the science behind footwork.

For me few things that were crucial: 1) bending down to have eye level lower to see the contact point and ball trajectory much clearer. 2) time split step at contact to react quickly because first step in receive is always to move to the ball no matter how close it is. 3) less arm, more...

It should be by default a FH counter with a forward bend to get the eyes quite near the ball. You can see a lot of SP penholders like to do that for eg He Zhiwen, Liu Guoliang, etc...

I never saw good FH sp attackers ever retreat from the table... either they land a vicious counterattack or block or they miss. You gotta be fast and have no fear lol

There were a lot of hidden hook serves from the Indian opponent but I feel like FB could have simply use sideswipes and safe, slow long pushes to force his opponent to play more shots and try to drag it out to a 50-50 rally. Instead he went for a lot of all or nothing risky BH flicks or short...

Nope, put LP on his racket and he will be forced to play less aggressive and safer. Lol

There's a lot of footwork exercises you can do anywhere. Split step, lunge, etc...