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if someone served short topspin to your forehand, would you still push it?

I have a strong technical forehand flick, if is actually a relatively spinny one. My big problems are my right knee and my ability to read serve spin. Will try to drill it back so I can use it again. My problem is still have to make my movement less of an issue

Looks like this video is private, Rich.

I understand the point you are trying to make about the second topspin but I think it is precisely the kind of topspin I played for a long time before I rebuilt my forehand technique. Which is why I am pointing out that pedagogy is not the same thing as reality. For example, I would argue...

You are confusing a few things. I remember when an Iranians high level player told me that I don't spin the ball (I was already around USATT 2000 at this time) and I felt I did. And his main point was that I didn't play slow heavy topspin loops and had a drive spin game. Because in his...

Pedagogy is not reality. In fact, many of the things he is expressing are many of the things I feel when I play my own topspin. Are they literally true? Probably not. But are they communicating his technique how he thinks about and feels it so that someone else can replicate it? I would...

An article to give this some nuanced perspective. https://butterflyonline.com/modern-topspin-strokes/

You can do a lot more with the fingers I think. Here is my high level coach friend. I think of it as making a figure 8 of sorts.

Your backhand has whip but the backswing is a bit inadequate. If you can get the backswing to a C/L-shape (the wrist should lead the stroke) and play out of that base on the backhand, it will improve it pretty quickly. It is the tip I give most players and most players who adopt it see quick...

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Nah. T05 supports a relatively relaxed topspin game compared to D05. Whether it is sponge hardness or topsheet elasticity or something else, regular T05 allows for a spin style that is a bit unique to it in terms of quality spin for lower levels of effort. Only Baracuda I can think of comes...

Harder sponge is usually easier to control in short game so I think a fairer comparison is arguably harder Tenergy with Dignics 05, though 05Hard is more like Dignics 09c in sponge hardness. 05Hard was probably the first Tenergy I really liked and felt comfortable with.

Wait, so post-serve positioning and short push/over the table flicks then getting out of the table are now recovery steps? Okay then. I see it differently and that is fine. Those are technical details of footwork that one cannot avoid if one wants to continue the rally after serving or playing...

Not entirely sure that I would agree on the short game, but in the end, these are all individual things, but I know many players who prefer what Tenergy does to what Dignics does (and this is without getting into 09c which is a different animal entirely), and they prefer Tenergy 05 to Dignics 05...

It has to be done on powerful strokes that take you off balance, yes. That is not part of the stroke to me per se. But that it has to be done habitually to prepare a stroke? Nah, look at the limitations of your stroke preparation (and follow through) as well before determining that. Though...

Lots of pros are using Tenergy as well, especially the hard and the regular 05. The speed of Tenergy is better and the spin speed combination is arguably better for some players as well. Durability is not as big a deal to pros.

Not a bother at all.

Some of it comes down to interpretation. I look at the same video BRS provided and what I see is a player using her legs and her core to backswing and play multiple backhands. I see what she is doing as advanced technique for a backhand backswing driven by the legs and core (which makes it...

You jump into your backswing in reaction to the ball. You don't do it in advance of the ball being played unless you are certain of your anticipation, but that is a common issue with all footwork. It is okay to recovery reset, if it gets you fast enough in rallies do it. I am just parroting...