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It's pretty wrong for a variety of reasons even in intent. I can't find the articles anymore but Butterfly used have in its All about Tenergy articles how pip configurations affected blocking and pushing. It's far from as simple as purely adjusting your stroke, especially when you have...

T25 is not usually part of the conversation but if it is, it isn't low throw, it is just built for a different style.

But this is hard to discern without knowing what and where you like to serve and what the opponents do with those serves. The one thing you do way too much of is serve half long, get a push and then float the ball back, and sometimes after getting a push back, float the ball back again. Yet...

Have you tested the rubbers that people have recommended to you and provided feedback?

Exactly. The funny thing is that all the Tenergy rubbers are *relatively* high throw, but the idea that it is easier to get a higher arc or more spin with one rubber vs. another is real and can be experienced by someone using the rubber no matter their level. It also affects blocking...

You give people on the forum credit, I like that. The truth IMHO is that these things matter to some degree at all levels, but because we agree that technique determines *most* of the level, the equipment should not be the focus once one can adapt to it. But when a player is not going to...

Whenever someone says they hate Butterfly prices, I smile because they keep complaining about things that Butterfly has done the most work to educate people on, and think that this research and exposition should be free to everyone and when Butterfly builds it and more into the pricing, they...

This is just not true.

You are too generous. I get why people say that one shouldn't focus on equipment. But people who think equipment is not that important are always underestimating that the higher the level of the player, the more they think carefully about the equipment they use. Depends on the pressure of the...

Not sure where you got this from, they are both still in the tournament in singles and were seeded out of the first round. XD teams are hard to seed especially if you don't seed deeply. Unless you play XD often, it's hard to have a good seeding.

I would argue that many "good coaches" don't even take these steps in the context of real points and hence their students, getting generic coaching not tied to improving technique in the context of real points, tend to improve their match results more slowly. But when you combine this process...

It's one of the unspoken secrets of TT. You have a great and tricky server in your club, and you struggle with the serves but get tolerably bad at returning his serves. Then you go to a tournament and you face a tricky server with a similar serve. And after a couple of serves, you go - this...

Your form is supposed to break down when you start anything in TT, you ae not supposed to start out being good at it, and you may never really even get good at it, you just have to get better at it. This is the hurdle people who focus on good looking technique sometimes never cross, they don't...

This is overstated. There is some value to play players below your level or players with weird styles once in a while. But doing it too often or almost exclusively except as part of regular training will degrade your level. You need quality opponents who play with the right speed and quality...

That's why everything costs money in life. Many people would not take jobs they don't want to take otherwise.

On another thread. How many threads on serve return issues do you have? Being unable to consciously read a serve is a problem, but very often, if you have a technically correct return stroke, you will find that you will return many serves when you cannot read then. This happens simply because...

Do whatever you want. What you are looking for is not in equipment. I have not drifted off topic, I have told you that taking every problem you have to the forum is a waste of time. If you are going to train with the players, pick the equipment you want to train with, hit a couple of balls...

Then your drills are poor and do not challenge your anticipation.

A lot of people told you the solution to this and you argued to high heavens with them so they left you to go your own way. You need to develop short stroke (forearm and wrist technique. but mostly forearm) that can use small swings at the ball to generate quality on both forehand and...

No, you are not brushing too much, not everyone has the same style or timing or approach to the game. Focus less on technique and focus more on what the ball quality is doing to the opponent out of a specific pattern and what shot you should have selected. Brushing and driving are situational...