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I bought some of the DF 1 star orange training balls when a couple of players mentioned that when playing from one end of the table, the lighting and background at the opposite end had the effect of making the white balls harder to see, a minor niggle, but I thought that an orange ball should be...

I Know, but if you read the posts, he set up this point by using other serves. the very short heavy back spin serve is in Pro players arsenal. but it's very difficult to reproduce the quality required consistently.

How boring would it be if every serve was like that by both players in a match!!!!!

You can see from both of these clips that his serve action is almost identical, although the resulting spins and length of the serve can be different. and this is really the main point of good serving. you can set up the receiver to return in a certain way and then throw in a different variation...

This is Ma Lin's 'ghost' serve.

This is a link to one of Ma Lin's famous serves, which is not the shorter ghost serve, I'll post another link to a practice session showing his short high backspin 'Ghost' serve as well as some other variations.

A lot of the time a Pro's backspin serve will return back to the net, we just don't see this because their opponents don't 'air shot' a push return (completely miss the ball). In general, I found that when learning serves, the 'ghost' serve was the hardest to master and consistently reproduce...

Felix Lebrun is the 'more consistent player' at the moment, this is backed up by his world ranking. T Harimoto & F Lebrun have played each other twice now (according to the commentator) both have been quite surprising results, in that they were both 3-0 wins and pretty one sided. Both players...

Everyone is jumping on the so called 'hybrid' bandwagon!!!!!

Definitely needs a breaking in. I have LAC on both sides of a blade, the red BH rubber is older and faster than the new black FH rubber. things are starting to even out now I've played for a few hours with the new rubber. LAC isn't slow for a Hybrid type rubber with the amount of tackiness it has.

K3 is more towards a ESN tensor type rubber as is Bty D09C / dragon grip etc these rubbers have less tackiness than other Hybrids and traditional Chinese type rubbers such as the 'old' H3 or Battle 2 rubbers. that's why K3 is faster, if you try some traditional Chinese rubbers they are going to...

Too expensive to buy, too difficult to pronounce!!!

I Think SilverCup77 is talking about 'fake motion' after the contact point when you serve. You can try making a reverse pendulum motion after normal pendulum serve contact point, I find it's easier to do this compared to serving reverse pendulum and trying to add normal pendulum fake motion. A...

Not tacky, so not a hybrid??

What do you mean? lack of spin? I find I can really load serves with spin using Tau 2, Spin capability is very high, up there with RZ, GT, Dragon grip, K3 etc etc

Regarding spin, sure the 40+ ball has reduced spin, mainly because of the size, aerodynamics etc However in very simple terms, removing the aerodynamic effects etc. the larger ball spinning at 3000 rpm has more, how to put it, spin energy than a 38mm ball at 3000 rpm does.If they are moving at...

Carbon blades were first brought into the game during the speed glue / old 38mm ball era, rubbers hadn’t really changed for a while during that period, Mark V / Sriver were the, in general go to rubbers (Perhaps in Europe and Japan) So if you wanted more speed (other than speed glue) carbon was...

I have to agree with Lazer (reply #5) Go for a slower all wood blade all or all+ rating. ESN tensor rubbers with similar sponge hardness are all going to be pretty similar, in the same ‘ball park’ although not identical. Everyone is different, but generally a softer rubber on BH, harder on FH...

Hi, I use TT11 a lot. I haven't had to pay VAT, charged by Customs, it may be charged at source ie TT11 BUT IMPORT TAX is the one to watch for, keep your order below £135 (which I think is the max spend BEFORE Import tax is charged by Customs) with other companies that charge for delivery...

There are a few things a serve can be called 'foul' for in badminton. If a serve was blatantly foul, it would be called, borderline was generally similar to TT - suck it up- because it's harder to really get an advantage. Badminton react pretty quickly to serves that give an unfair advantage...