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Makes sense, probably easier to put the bat vertical for sidespin in penhold than for sh.

I think the best solution would be to have a maximum exit velocity value for a bat rubber combo where you shoot a ball with a certain velocity onto a bat and then measure the rebound velocity or distance. Baseball metal bats are actually tested like that. Issue with that is that it is expensive...

Here is a video for reference, they are all like elbow down to the side serves and not raised elbow like pendulum serve https://youtu.be/zcgj22cKGzw

Hi, I'm not a penhold player but this is something I wondered about: if you watch top penhold players like xu xin or wang Hao the serve looks more like a hook Serve than a normal pendulum serve. Is there a reason why that is? Or do I see that wrong?

If it is only a little too fast I have read the suggestion of trying to get a lighter viscaria. Maybe you can sell yours and get a lighter one in the low 80s range.

Most clubs here have several teams that play in different leagues, so there are teams for every level as long you have some basic skills. You usually can just go to a training and do a free trial training, then after 2 or 3 times you have to decide whether you want to stay with the club. They...

Which 729 would you recommend? The super fx?

So something like an unboosted h3 would be good to learn proper strokes? But only for forehand, right? ​​​

For a true beginner I think one of those would 20 bucks "Walmart" type of rackets is just fine but for a serious player not so much. ​​​

I am not talking 14 yo national junior team kids but regular let's say 8-12 yo kids with some ambition to get better. Are they already playing like hurricane or more soft rubbers like European club kids?

I have been using gewo hydrotec latex glue. Easy to use and easy to remove either

I also read that boosters are easy evaporating oils so that always a bit evaporates very slowly over a few weeks so there always is a bit of gas in the sponge until everything is evaporated and then you need to boost again. Not sure if that is true though.

I would say play a lot into wide forehand and wide backhand. Traditional penhold is very strong when you aim at the body because he doesn't really have a "switch point". But wide forehand isn't as easy and wide BH really hard for a penholder, especially traditional. Don't be afraid of his FH...

I'm using the 37 degree on the BH now. I like it so far, not super fast but not slow either and can do good spin. Short game not bad either. Compared to the focus snipe I was using before blocking wasn't quite as easy though, it works better if you add some spin.

Isn't one reason that for jpen you can use a heavier bat because you essentially have just one rubber? Shakehand uses two rubbers which means another 50 grams or so of rubber compared to a jpen which just has a light paint sheet on the back. That means for shakehand you need a lighter blade to...

A lot of the backspin with long pips comes from the Opponents topspin. Thus sometimes at lower levels the classic chop doesn't work as well because at that level opponents will often attack with flat drives or Smashes with only a mild amount of topspin. I think there are some more grippy pips...

Sounds like pishing unlike the email by a Nigerian prince I got last night which is legit:)

BTW I think it is not just getting figured out but also that he must be tired or in bad shape because he was not just losing against top15 players but also against some lower ranked players. He for example lost against sgoroupolous and Katsman in the champions league, I Don't think you go from...

It would be much more work that way for Ittf because it would need to define viable combinations that look different enough.If you just have black you just need to regulate colors that are different enough from black.But if one side is not black then you need to define what goes, for example...

For technique development a slow blade and rubber is good because you learn to swing fast and it still lands on the table if you give it some spin. With a faster racket you need to be very precise which is not bad but usually if a beginner uses a fast bat he will start to push and hit slowly...