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Badminton is not a spin less sport, sure, its not used in the same way, Cut smashes and drop shots, net shots rolls make the shuttle wobble and spin!! But yeah, generally badminton is spin less.

irregular drills largely a waste of time?? !!! I Don't agree with that, everything has it's time and place. But practice games and points where everything is irregular is real life scenario!!!

Hi FF33, How often do you play with the ‘big boys’ ?? There’s a lot of talk about playing with pips, and Der has shown that you need to play against pip players, fairly regularly. There’s a lot of talk about serve, serve receive, 3rd ball attack. I think that playing against better players...

Serve return adjustments are where I have issues, not adjusting blade angle enough. For example a 1/2 long Back spin serve to my FH, the number of times I don’t open the blade enough when I push return!!!! Don’t get me wrong, sometimes I misread completely. But the adjustments for high, medium...

With older players, coaching them is not straightforward or a cut and dried situation. It depends on what skills they have, and these skills / techniques maybe far far FAR from text book!! You can see that some have had a good amount of coaching previously, others, less coaching and more self...

Ritchie, do you class reading spin as ‘feeling’?

Hi FF33, Do you have any footage of you playing? would be a great help!! Without seeing you play it's virtually impossible to give any really good advice. Generalisations then take over. Such as improve serve and receive / 3rd ball attack etc we can advise to improve this 'generally' but...

Serve and serve receive are very important, as are many things in table tennis!! If you can learn to serve with quality, variation and deception then you can put the opponent under extreme pressure, before you even serve!! Learning to read spin when receiving is also crucial, if you receive...

i don't clean em, it's called patina, adds at least $100 to a 2nd hand blade sale price !!!!!1:ROFLMAO:

I’ve played a few DHS rubbers, and only boosted 2 or so, the memorable ones were H3 Neo 2.15mm, and Skyline 3 provincial. I had no issues playing unboosted H3 Neo (various versions), H8 and H3. Ignorance is bliss!! No doubt boosting is the way to go though, but I’m to lazy to do so, got mixed...

I used both H8 (hard) and H8-80 un-boosted. H8 was probably better on my FH than H8-80 was. H8 had lower arc and better kick. But it's about 4yrs since I used H8 and 2 since H8-80

If you are EJ'ing, then get 2 or 3 blades, a defensive blade, an all round blade and a off/ off- blade. you may already have a blade or 2 that may be suitable?? If you can, load all of them with the same rubber (new), if you do 1 side of each blade, then you only have to get 3 rubbers. It's the...

Anyone out there that has info on whether ‘Biomechanics’ is creeping into the Table Tennis coaching? Probably at higher levels. Is there any evidence that National level coaches / coaching staff are specialised in Biomechanics? Do degree level coaching accreditations have part of the syllabus...

If we use the underlying principles of biomechanics to evaluate how to maximise power, speed, accuracy, recovery,etc and reduce likelihood of injury, does this lead to a superficial form?

The follow through doesn’t affect the ball after contact. That’s not the point. My golf coach used to say that you could have a textbook take away and down swing to impact and the worst follow through AFTER impact and hit superb shots. But the follow through is part of what you are trying to...

Didn’t do any ‘swipe’ pushes in the “serve, stumble, recover, stagger, bounce on your arse vid”!!!! That session was 6 or so weeks ago, last session was 2 weeks past, when playing the ‘only 1 server’ games, I threw a couple in , if you get em right they skid through carrying a good amount of...

Forgot to mention, we also play games, to add some pressure. Receive only games, where I try and win as many points as possibly when Tom serves. I may start 5 - 0 up, can I win a game?? Ditto with myself solely serving, I don’t get any start advantage, bummer!! Games are close or can be if I’m...

Ha, 1hr of 2hr session was recorded, editing can do wonders!!! Maybe 5 mins out of an hour used, not hard to imagine what the other 55 mins was like!!! More bad than good!! Anyway, the sessions are based on 3 main areas. 1) Serve and 3rd ball attack, 5th ball follows on. spin rather than...

I used Bluestorm Z3 on BH and Z2 FH for the 1st 1/2 of the season before last season, about 1 3/4 yrs ago!!!! like them both, those 47 degree, or 45 degree rubbers have (generally) great controllability and high spin levels, super blocking as well!! Just like some tackiness though. Glazers...