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Sorry bro, it is way too long, you need to analyze it yourself...

Slow setups are overrated... sometimes you just want big power from small strokes, because small strokes just have better recovery and better control than big ass strokes where you just lose if the other player counters your loop. A lot of all wood players claim they can produce a lot of power -...

The reason why it is slow is because you are not initiating the backswing with your hips and legs first, and also not initiating the forward swing with hips and legs first. One good way to get faster is to practice that hip rotation and weight shift on itself (without arm movement) and make it...

With his backhand serve, he is serving sidebackspin by having the wrist chopping downwards hard and then pulling the bat to the side (the true contact is the downwards chopping movement by the wrist). The sidetopspin variant is when he pulls the bat to the side to create the sidetopspin (the...

By the way, open angle can also mean heavy sidetopspin if the force is upwards. Closed angle (or more perpendicular to the ball contact) can be heavy backspin if the force is directed downwards. Ppl need to get over such stereotypes of 'open racket angle = backspin, closed racket angle = topspin'.

These fast long serves to the BH and elbow are also my bread and butter point winner serves - i serve them with the hook serve movement which imo is even worse to read than the guy's BH serve. That guy's BH long serve is good, it is fast, long, deep, and with plenty of spin and placement...

I would be the 3rd person to agree with that - it actually looks pro-like with that video.

Usually, the problem lies in the quality of your previous shot, if it was high then they will be taking an awful lot of risk trying to land the straight line shot. For eg if your prev shot was a long push, maybe consider placing it better? For eg half long push or super wide angle to the FH with...

1. Short balls require special technique to attack, not your normal FH or BH topspin technique. Most commonly with FH you 'attack' via flicks or sideswipes. On BH chiquita or the standard flick depending on your preference. Pushing is nothing to sneeze at especially if you have great disguise...

There are a trick to this. You notice that at max backswing the racket angle is super closed, at contact it is roughly open and then during the followthrough it is closed again. At first i didnt understand it either, but the closed to open movement really helps to lift the ball especially...

Imo against weaker players it is not that useful to do topspin vs block since their block is terrible anyway - and it is fundamentally useless for them and not enjoyable - it just feels like bullying. Just ask them to serve and then you loop their serves and then they can attempt to block it -...

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Yes i think the way you describe it is how I feel too, it is the most powerful when i get to feel that 'pull back' and 'sudden stop' in the forward momentum which somehow makes the whip effect stronger. For me i can also do BH countering / loop without this 'lat pull' mechanism but imo it is...

It's actually a bit more complex than that. Basically the reason why moving the elbow gives a lot more power to BH is due to activation of the lats which are very powerful back muscles. It's the same movement used to for e.g. tear a piece of paper apart or in a pullup. The action of the lats...

It all depends on your receive type. If you always aim to push short then D05 is indeed crappy at this due to its bounciness compared to say 09c or Hurricane. You really need to learn how to rob momentum to the sides in order to short push reliably with it, and even then it is difficult. 09c or...

If you mean FH defence say it because i did not see Harimoto missing many FH loops or counters when he is in position. In TT defence you have to focus your attention on defending some areas and that is a key tactical decision. Harimoto is correctly focusing on defending his BH side since it is...

This is insufficient analysis, you have to see if it is on attack or defence. If he missed most of them on attack then there is a problem on his FH loop. But if it is on defence, it is more nuanced than that. Players generally prioritise guarding the diagonal corner since the straight is riskier...

Probably a botched boost job but why suffer through this when there are easier to use rubbers out there?

The main issues is in excessive arm backswing (it literally needs to be nothing so that the body initiates the movement first), but other ppl have already mentioned that. The other thing is the contact philosophy which I think was not mentioned. It is a bit like Lin Gaoyuan where he tends to go...

Problem is time....