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Using MXP or other euro or softer rubbers than chinese rubbers tends to allow you to get away with slower swings, I'm guessing that's why your consistency improved a little. The swing could be slow and inconsistent if you rely mostly on the arm to do the work. If you use hard chinese rubber...

There are plenty of pro players and coaches that struggle to coach adults well. It's possible that they're successful with juniors and talents, which is usually the case. It's possible that they all know what they're talking about of course and usually there's something you can take from every...

I wasn't just talking about top 20 or even top 100 players in the world. More rubbers that are harder and tacky/semitacky are now being manufactured - like dignics 09c. As your technique improves you'll better be able to utilize those rubbers, all players with solid technique use them and those...

Tacky rubber by itself won't really do anything with your improvement. But they might be more useful for learning technique than very soft bouncy rubbers. Tacky rubbers often have harder sponges, therefore you need fast racket speed to be able to dig into the hard sponge. To reach high racket...

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I get the feeling the vast majority agree that the player has control, it sounds ridiculous to think that equipment themselves have control and doesn't seem that's what people are thinking when they say that x rubber or blade has control. People use the word control quite ambiguously, which...

I forgot to mention I was referring to inverted grippy rubbers. Most recent modern rubbers are grippier, this is of course important. You don't want any risk of slippage. Another new thing seems to be softer top sheets with harder sponges. Regardless, I agree with BB that of course the player...

My guess is that players with faster swing speeds will have better control with harder setups, to get that swing speed and consistency they have to use the body efficiently. It's quite hard to get a fast swing, consistent by just using the arm. In my experience harder rubbers/sponges are less...

Hey Takkyu, Your strokes look pretty good to me. I think you're using your body well. You are going for a pretty short backswing most of the time. Nothing wrong with that, especially for the balls you're training against here. Would be interesting to see the swing against slower balls and from...

The booster will soften the sponge a bit and stretch the top sheet, so inevitably it will become a bit faster/springier. as it's tenergy I'd give it a go without booster first. It shouldn't be necessary to boost. Maybe later, to lengthen the lifespan you could try a thin layer of boost. Or risk...

I was recommended to try this rubber out (Nittaku PK50) but I thought it'd be a good idea to get some more info on it. I currently use Hurricane 8 hard, what differences can I expect with PK50? Seems like the sponge is thinner so I expect the topsheet to be thicker and maybe softer? Softer...

If it helps to think about, then I see no harm. I've been down that path and it never helped me. I don't see the serve as that different from the other strokes. With the serve most modify their grip to hold with mostly the thumb and index finger. When you've reached high racket speed from...

I also think it's not a good idea to do things consciously with the arm while it's being propelled by the body - speaking from own experience I have tried and failed. The legs and body propel the arm and the racket just happens to collide with the ball. Some say they pinch using their fingers...

I find it hard to say, but now that you point it out I agree I prefer the 3rd one. Maybe I rotated a bit more and put more pressure on my leg! Brett has told me to try to bring my right knee more in so it points to my left calf muscle, I'm not always doing this properly - if I do that the left...

I agree Carl - right is the wrong word, but even if it hurt or not, I think it was more inefficient than the alternative. Why it started hurting was probably more because I was turning my waist/hips as hard as I could to get more power and doing that over and over again too much.. bit stupid of...

It's funny how it works. I had a similar experience a while ago. There was one set where we had a couple of good points - I lost the match but still felt happy about it. Then I watched the match and saw that I made a large number of mistakes, more than the points where he hit winners and...

I think the wrong thing I was doing was the twisting of the hips/waist instead of pushing with my leg, and I was overtwisting to the right. Since correcting it I've had less pain but occasionally it's there when I accidentally do it by bad habit. I must've done the wrong thing for quite some...

Oh yeah, I was just trying to recall my experience from then, I'm aware you weren't commenting on that old FH :) And I completely agree with you about the context of relaxation that you're talking about. That's not the context I've been told to relax in my past experiences. People would...

@NL thank you, this is very helpful advice, recently I was trying to do the backswing closer to my body and I will try to do it even more like you say. I think before I've been doing the backswing too far away and then it's difficulty to get the feeling that the body is helping with the BH...

I really appreciate your thoughts! The weird thing is that I find it tricky to actually remember what has gone on before, so I can't be 100% confident even in my own experience and memory of it lol. In the 2 year old clip I was for sure consciously using my arm during the forward swing as I...