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Experience and very good feeling for the ball will often beat "good looking mechanics". I say good looking mechanics because there are players that mindlessly copy the technique of pros (for the sake of looking like them, not for the efficiency of the technique) without understanding how they...

You should be feeling it mostly in your dominant leg, quad and glute muscles (for the FH). It's no surprise that the pros have such big quads and strong legs. And their movement is so efficient you can hardly tell. That's what makes this so difficult, a lot of it is difficult to spot even when...

Played a tournament for the first time in 2-3 years yesterday. There were some nerves.. but they calmed down later in the day. I lost in the quarter finals 2-3. But I'm still happy with how I played, it was quite an epic match, got some nice points out of it, this being one of them:

This advice feels a bit outdated. These days To be able to quickly switch to backhand many players play FH even with their feet parallel. But it depends really from where you're hitting your FH and the type of ball. There can't be a hard rule on how to exactly position your feet because there is...

I honestly feel like I'm just plagiarizing Brett Clarke's work so all the credit should go to him. I really recommend checking his stuff out. He has a video of me where he helped improve my FH against backspin.

I was rotating like a madman to get more power in the second video and I'm seeing a physiotherapist as I did get some problems with my right hip from around this time lol, I can't remember it feeling strained but it wasn't good. So yes - you are correct!

Thanks for your comment, always happy to hear your feedback! Yeah, you're right. And my non-playing hand has always been awkward, in my older videos I have it completely down by my side and it looked very awkward, I've been trying to fix it by raising it to keep the balance a bit better. But...

I think it's more that I sometimes don't anticipate where the push or where the next shot is going.We're playing for fun and don't always go full out on every point, we get a bit lazy and mess around like you saw in one of the points. We've played each other a billion times. Right now I train...

Glad it helped! A few years ago I'd also have some occasional back pain from practice, I think because I was twisting my waist and doing some odd things with my back a lot. I remember Nextlevel said I played a lot of "upper body" table tennis. He was pretty spot on. Funny how I've wandered...

Yeah you need to find that feeling. I think it's important to do things in the "right" order. This channel talks quite a bit about that, I've found it useful: There are many ways to do it, I just think pushing with the legs is the most efficient. Like I said, you could turn the waist and still...

From my experience, most players and coaches do think that using the legs is important. There's a lot of talk about weight transfer. But there seems to be some confusion as to how it's done and over emphasis that one should "use" the wrist, forearm etc. Maybe it's just a language problem and...

Some points from a recent practice match with Nicky, we had a really fun and tight match as usual 😀. Also gave me some ideas on what I want to work on

Right or wrong technique is kind of the wrong terminology like you say, which Carl on the forum has made a good point on. You need to adapt the technique to your body. However, if we look at the players at the top level, they all have very efficient technique and are doing very similar things...

And off we go to the next controversial topic.

I've run into a few, especially older swedes that understandably have held that belief, with those arguments, emotion and I guess nostalgia. But this has put the nail in the coffin where it's hardly even possible to use those arguments, this achievement is too visible and too great.

I agree with you, but I think when people say more forgiving they mean easier to put the ball on the table. Since many amateurs don't have that efficient technique and overuse the arm it is easier to play with euro rubbers. It mostly comes down to how well the tool (rubber) suits the skills and...

I'm not so sure even changing from tenergy to chinese rubber requires much technical change per se. What it does do though is put more pressure on you to improve and have more efficient technique. So, you might have been able to get away with that with tenergy and and if you switch to chinese...

This. It's easy to watch from the couch and be like he should've done this, should've done that. I'm fairly certain Harimoto and his coaches know better than anyone here and did the best they could at the time.Harimoto might as well have won the match, would anyone be saying that he should've...

Stroke-style probably has to do with who you were coached by and how your peers played. The stroke would probably be adapted if you played with a very hard rubber compared to a softer rubber. Longer swings with efficient technique means higher racket speed in comparison to a shorter swing...

Pro players are pretty adaptable as they have all the skills and core mechanics that are needed to play with any (inverted) rubber and this is evidently the case as many of them are now starting to move towards grippy/tacky and harder rubbers and are doing fine with them. If you have good...