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Dont serve underspin if you dont like their pushes. Just serve for eg fast long heavy sidetopspin or pure topspin even, and see if he can push that lol. If they dont attack, there is literally no point in serving short except for variation. Against good blockers you gotta aim for the places...

I sometimes toy around with penhold too. Think this looks more like a shakehand BH than a penhold BH? Usually penholders have the racket tip more "dropped" ie pointing more towards the ground (a bit like how you had your penhold FH). I think the angle you have it lends itself to quite a lot of...

Most likely culprit, your elbow is not pointing down.

Yeah the different tables and bounces really wreak havoc with bigger strokes.... better to play more controlled spin with smaller movements and a huge focus on watching the ball, before increasing quality later on. The way the ball kicks and retains spin can also be vastly different. I played on...

You should be able to do both at will

8-80 is good but the sponge bottoms out way too easily - and the shot quality tops out easily too. And it is quite spin sensitive to boot so literally it is the worst of all worlds. Even H3 37 is way better than this.

I use a nastier version of this using the differences in finger action (with fake actions) to vary the spin which is way less perceptible to the opponent. If you use obvious stuff like using lots of wrist action to add spin vs just touching the ball forward for no spin, advanced players will...

Topspin causes the ball to dip down via Magnus effect. So in effect the blocker has to lower the position of the racket accordingly to intercept the ball correctly. So if he underestimates the spin this can cause a mishit due to the racket not being in the correct position (probably too thin a...

Most probably: 1) footwork is slow and you are looping when the ball has dropped too much (the lower it gets the harder it is to land a fast loop) 2) you are attacking mostly diagonal and there are not enough straight line attacks. If this is the case the blocker can literally just wait for...

My goto is short nospin / sidetopspin, and fast long sidebackspin lol. Against certain players it just flatout destroys them - it is a 'skill check' of sorts - controlling pushing against topspin is not easy and many players have weak flicks, and as a BH player I also love to force the BH-BH...

Tbh you can adopt an even simpler approach to force the rally. For eg short low heavy sidetopspin against 2x inverted, what is the guy gonna do to avoid the rally? If he flicks, you just enter topspin rally automatically, if he pushes it is gonna be an opportunity ball or at least a long ball...

Tbh you have come a long, long way now! This already looks as good as someone who had proper training from young and that is probably as good as it gets from an amateur point of view. However, converting these to match situations is a bit more tricky imo.... which is why I suspect that working...

Basically as TT is all about spin, the fingers have to also act to "spin" the ball. This also depends on how you grip the racket and where your fingers are positioned on the blade face. So it can be a highly individual thing. For e.g. for me i use the 2nd joint of the index finger (if you...

For me, I like H3N even better but it is a pain in the ass to boost when there are 10001x better things to do with my limited time. So D09c is a perfectly nice replacement (for boosted H3N). A lot of people have similar mindsets too. If DHS can nail a boost free H3N that performs 90+% as boosted...

09c is normally more suited as a FH rubber because 1) Dead feeling helps huge on FH short push 2) High spin to speed ratio means that FH short serves and FH opening loops are easier to control 3) FH side naturally has a lot of power so the lack of speed doesnt really matter that much For BH it...

Yep, even CNT players dont straight arm loop all the time now. It is mostly bent arm (esp against topspin pressure), and only going more to straight arm loop for slower and opportunity balls.

Back to the topic, I also used to ponder this question but do we really have to choose one? If the ball is to your left and closer to your left hip, your upper body will be closer to your left foot, hence a left to right weight shift is the most ideal. Say if the ball is a deep jamming one...

Heavier rackets can store more energy with greater stability so you can hit harder with them (provided you have good body mechanics). Also they can absorb incoming momentum better. But, say for BH chiquita, every additional 1g hurts shot quality significantly because of limited leverage. Same...

It is situational. The most important is to use the hip rotation to power and control the ball. Most of the time it is clockwise, except when switching down the line.

Yes, if you watch his other matches against other people it is exactly the same issue. This is also why he gets upset quite often too.