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Have you tried playing without hitting into the sponge? That's what a lot of players do, and for that purpose H3 is very good as the difficulty in hitting into the sponge becomes a positive rather than a negative. With other rubbers, you may accidentally hit into the sponge, causing catapult...

Thanks, I haven't really explored that topic before, gonna have to look into it a bit more. I've noticed that my off hand is a bit "droopier" than pros. Maybe I'll try something like guiding the ball in with my off hand or something, see if it can help my timing and footwork.

Ha, in a drill perhaps, I'm far from that in matches! It's getting better, my club time these days is mostly spent trying to find any disconnect between match play and training form, then finding ways to bridge those gaps in practice. Coaching sessions are mostly for me to refine the base...

So here are some clips of my coaching session today showing where my technique is at right now: We worked on a number of things: FH: Most recent improvements are in more effective energy transfer from hip rotation to the arm. Next up I'll be trying to load my right leg a bit more, and try to...

I'm not saying slow, spinny loops are easy to deal with, they certainly present their own difficulties, just that people need to be a bit more careful about talking about spin and speed as if you can only have one and not the other. He did it against block, BTW! As for blade frequency, it...

So, I think my current BH technique may just be good now? After incorporating everything in my previous post over the past few days, my BH is feeling just fantastic! Even on softer shots I'm getting the feeling of solid contact and a bit of hold-and-shoot with the ball, and I can actually...

Yes, I believe Zyre is indeed very spinny. My issue with Zyre is that it just doesn't give you a lot of feedback. You don't really get that feeling of slinging the ball forward with Zyre, it kind of just bounces off. Two other points: 1) I agree with @canonFH re: optimizing for current...

All equipment have tradeoffs, there's no way around it. Best thing to do is to focus on yourself, figure out what your preferences are. It sounds like you don't really know that yet. You're not gonna solve the equipment question until you understand yourself better first.

What do you mean by feel the ball? It's more than just about feeling the ball, it's about feeling the slinging of the ball. Tenergy also make a really nice sound when you loop into it, do you hear it? If you just take a ball and just smack it with your racket, you should hear a cracking sound...

How easy is it for you to generate the feeling I mentioned, the feeling of hitting into the rubber and the blade then slinging the ball forward, especially against a low energy incoming ball? I haven't used those blades so I wouldn't know, but I've used enough to know it's not as simple as...

An easy way to tell is actually just try using your same technique on a more difficult equipment. Does it still work, but just requires more power, or does it not work at all? Note that very importantly, by working vs not working I don't mean whether the shot lands, but whether you can get...

The higher level player gave me quite a few advice on Friday, and I'm still digesting them. I've been too busy at work this weekend to go play at the club this weekend, which is just as well, as I got to test out some of his other advice at home against the robot. One thing I think is helping...

Even regular tournaments have consent and liabilities forms, I'm sure WTT would have the kids' parents sign broadcast rights and such.

Yea, yesterday at practice a higher level player was advising me to do that. He said what I think is a forward stroke is actually fairly upward. I'm tinkering a lot with my BH to try to find the optimal form. It took me a long time on the FH side but I finally managed it, wonder if it's gonna...

LSD needs to take some time off and revamp his game IMO. If he wants to be a contender for GOAT, and I think he has the talent to do so, he needs to work on his footwork and develop a more reliable FH finisher.

I agree, you should be able to hit at all timings. Later timing is a bit easier so that's a good place to start actually. My coach makes me wait for the ball to fall a bit in practices against backspin as I tend to take it early, it's a good timing to practice your fundamentals, but of course...

Over the past week I've been mostly focused on the basics of BH and FH loop. I realized that I can't just stop practicing FH and expect the new form to stick, so I did a good amount of FH practice this week with my training partner. I basically did a condensed version of my entire learning...

I don't think those stains on the blade face is grime from use. Glue is an excellent cleaner and every time you rip off a rubber the glue will remove everything on the blade face so there's no possible way for anything to build up on the blade face. That looks like wood aging from the elements...

He's been faulted for backward toss before.

Interesting that WCQ is being called for serving from in front of the line, and won his challenge.