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I think once you get below the ball, and you backswing with your racket pointing towards you, you will be able to use almost anything to swing at the ball as long as you get the right contact point with a reasonable stroke plane. I have started trying to stop backswing downwards (in my head at...

The ball cares both about the point of contact and the swing plane/trajectory. My point is that you can keep the swing plane and contact point the same for both strokes and get similar effects regardless of backswing, it just may not be mentally comfortable for you. The balls will not be...

This was the first analogy that came to mind, but I actually have experience doing what I should never have done lol. So I have a more informed opinion than most, though of course, just like anyone's opinion on whether murder should be legal or not, it is only an opinion.

There is no scientific proof that anything is good or bad,, to make that statement is to misunderstand the nature of science. If thinking anything is good or bad is an opinion, sure you are on safe ground. What you need to ask is whether you are more likely or less likely to have certain...

No, it's not just my opinion, but I don't know you and you don't know me. By all means, treat your girlfriends as you please.

Pay someone to coach her - again, coaching her is a big mistake.

Okay. Read carefully. Usually a player who can beat me with quality pushes against topspin is generally playing at a level where I don't compete. That is very different from saying they are strange or controversial. Hope that is clear. You may just be a 2400 level player since pushing with...

IMHO, you should coach as much as you want too. Try as much as possible to stay in a range of credibility where your strengths are known and you know how to plug and supplement your limitations. Since you already have DerEchre close to you, the fact he can mentor you on some things is...

This is such a bad idea that it is funnier. .

Okay. It's one of those things where again I will just have to take your word for it

Giving a no spin ball heavy backspin is made easier by tackiness but it still isn't trivial.. And relative to a push vs backspin, it is always lighter. Nothing to do with being Chinese or European there, I've beaten lots of players who push my no spin or side top and think they are safe...

IMHO, The differences are largely in how the backswing affects your timing and contact point (though that is obviously the most important thing for you). I don't see much difference in the two. There is no reason you cannot kill or spin the ball with either stroke, the full use of the arm is...

The accumulation is not infinite, no, it depends on both the serve and the receive or the incoming and out coming stroke. Of course a receiver can add spin, but a receiver can also kill spin - it is more common though to use the incoming energy to control the ball and add something it. There...

Whatever you choose you need the same thing on both sides.

You have a tutorial on this? I don't think it is trivial at all.

So the reason I ask is to make the point that the problem isn't the fact you loop, it is the fact that you would not play topspin the same way so your problem is that you are applying a backspin stroke to a topspins ball. This is more of the adaptation you have to do. The biggest part of the...

T80FX is a solid rubber. usually well respected in the backhand and I have seen guys use it on both sides of a ZLF blade. I think BRS used it ages ago and I know one guy who used to drive me nuts who used it on both sides too. Ultimately I wasn't really caring about the specific rubber, I...

Do you loop topspin as well?

While you almost never really know what is on the ball until you play it and compare the effect to what you thought would happen, you should have some general idea if you remember what you did prior and how what your opponent did prior affected the ball. In fact, very often, inverted rallies...

How many of us on the forum can beat the loser of this match?