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Go practice looping in front of a mirror (shadow play) - do it slowly at first so you can coordinate the movement.

yup i found it and re-read it, but then realised it was years ago. And possibly your impressions would have changed. Hence my comment.

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.

Looking forward to how it plays. Too bad you didn't refresh your memory of how the blade plays prior to chopping it. On serving - I serve with fingertips touching the back of the blade and felt that you either have to do scoopy style wang hao serves (which I typically do - very easy to do...

i really meant the wing or shoulder that you put your index finger on when i said index wing. Shoulder is probably more commonly used, but I recall a blade with smoothed shoulders called a wing?

Are you using the Taksim in your signature? From what I recall it was a fairly narrow handle but a thick blade? The two major changes I made was to scoop the index finger out and flatten the back of the handle. It's almost a Jpen grip. This relieved a bit of stress on the knuckle. Untitled by...

Apparently I joined 7 years ago :)

I was flicking through here and saw a few notes on finger and knuckle pain while learning to RPB and thought I'd chime in with my 2c. I was a pure rpb player for a number of years before giving up the sport, then recently decided to restart playing (as a sh). I started off my rpb with a stiga...