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Step one - serve no-spin when they think it is spin. Serve spin when they think it is no-spin.
Step two - when they get upset and start to talk to themselves, Cho! their missed...

Thanks guys, all of those sound fun and very possible. I'll pm each of you for details.

Gozo, you have a coach and a great plan and are improving fast. So I say this more for anyone else lurking on the thread than to you.

Pure sidespin and no-spin are the same thing when you hit...

One technique comment: the backhand hit you ended a point with around 8:55 in March four was lovely. You should use that hit to return all the long fast sidespin serves to your bh. These penholders...

Full Disclosure: I only watched match 3 & part of 4 so far.

So what do you want to take away from this competition? Imo that's really important in deciding whether and how much you want to...

Excited for the finals tomorrow in WS and WD. Ito and Hirano both seem in good form. I hope that's a strong match.

I'm going to be staying near University College London WC1E from 2 - 9 July and would like to play at some clubs if possible. Any recommendations?

And if any forum members are interested in...

The OP says he has 40 degrees H3.

The one piece of data we have about Ralph other than his setup is that he posted on a forum to ask if people thought his equipment was okay. That suggests...

Sounds like a setup for a high-level player. T11 is quite fast and the 40 deg H3 requires good technique.

Otherwise it's a pretty standard setup - composite blade, hard dhs fh rubber and soft...

Play someone with a solid third ball attack. Every time you push back a long serve he will crush the ball right past you, and as you sadly walk back to the barriers to pick it up he will smile and...

You are setting up a false choice here and you will play poorly if you trap yourself into thinking like this for no good reason. Let's start with a couple principles and see if we all agree on them....

Hi Gozo,

I can't add much to NDH's marvelous post, but I did want to say about 3rd ball attack. You don't have to end the point with some crazy strong attack. All you have to do is open with...

I am weird in this respect, but I find inner composite less controllable than outer, and not playing like all-wood at all. I do see how the feeling of contact is more like a five ply wood. But the...

Oh, well I guess I'll just ignore the coach I train three hours a week with and go with whatever you, a random nobody on the Internet, says about my playing with SP. This kind of shitposting is why...

I like the acoustic carbon (the outer carbon). It uses some Nittaku-branded thing called FE carbon. I don't know if that is just ALC under their name, or if it is actually a different weave. Does...

Take a break from training forehand topspin and work on some new stuff. Work on your long pushes. Work on receiving serves with your backhand. Work on blocking. Various types of footwork.

If...

Imo serve and receive is closer to 75% of points. Many points that get into the rally are already over due to the receive and only get finished off with rally strokes. We have all had that...

Good for you posting video. I agree that you play very well after such a short time. You have nice feeling and your forehands are spinny enough.

This one game (small sample) has all the hallmarks...

Roughly 2500 is in a way simply shorthand for very, very strong. That's a top 25 player in the US. But probably he is better than that, like around 2650. 150 points at that level is a massive...

The benchmark for cheap Chinese rubber is whatever Iskandar Taib thinks about it. He is the Man for cheap Chinese rubbers.

Gozo, do not feel bad. Everyone is slow at learning to receive. It is the hardest skill to learn and hardest to practice.

I get what your coach is saying about sidespin. You can't return it...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xoy4nzDSAVU?autohide=1&controls=1&showinfo=0Watching a very nice U15 GS SF from Berlin (match starts about an hour in), and noticing that Yoo Ye-rin (in blue) stays...

To me it really doesn't look that bad. Random is so much harder than a known drill like 2 bh - 2 fh or whatever. It's not twice as hard, it's 10x harder.

One simple thing I think could help is...

Yes it is actually necessary.

Buy more blades.