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Last comment before moving on - these serves are usually long and should ideally be topspinned not flicked. But if you flick/attack them too early, you think they are short and get into trouble. The serve would likely drift long and be an easy topspin point for you - but only if you realize...

Let's look at some ball abuse... https://youtu.be/cMQ3TYKUrO8?t=409 These should always be taken with circular technique ( an windmill topspin of sorts, not a smash) unless you practice smashing in drills and have a very very high percentage. https://youtu.be/cMQ3TYKUrO8?t=440 My favorite...

I suspect if you played him without the history and the pressure from it that you put on yourself, you would have won (that's my opinion). You have lot of the right tools, the key is to combine them to make it work, a little less power, a bit more placement, but stepping to the right place to...

Your hard work and your initiative in seeking coaching has done you a lot of good. The level of opposition might be different, but your technique is much cleaner here. You are playing over the ball on both sides with solid topspins and not flat shots. A radical difference to me from the last...

Aria is closer to a Korbel or Korbel speed which are typical 5 ply looping blades. Yes the modern blades for the plastic ball have thinner harder outer plies not sure why the plancello of the Mazunov (which was also used on the diode/JSH) fell out of fashion because it is also a hard outer ply...

I know many good learners/players, usually young, who didn't spend a notable period with a 5 ply thin blade if at all. With the modern ball, it might even be a hindrance for some players. I think adult learners need them if they have a specific feeling problem, but I know many good learners...

IT has been EOL for over a decade now - the thing is that the design is classic and people in Japan keep it alive because it is so good. When Boll signed mine, he went out of his way to say it was a great blade. It is a hard and fast blade, but *relative to its speed*, and that is the important...

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Hahaha - when I try to do footwork, while the technical movements are important, the key for me is stable elbow position. That is why I think you need to develop a backhand stroke because it will affect your forehand as well. When you develop stable elbow position, then you try to get into...

I'm late to the party but for an advanced player who is addicted to all wood, the best blade with the new ball is the Butterfly Mazunov. The only issue is the head size/weight might make it harder to use with modern rubbers for some players but if you can reduce the head size a little on the...

People keep underestimating Kanak to their own surprise. They keep refusing to accept that he is young and improving and delivering on the predictions that he could be top 20 some day which was expected when he was very young given some of the results he showed. In this case, Karlsson's...

World Table Tennis Youtube channel. You have to look for the live stream as they hide it after.

I agree a lot with Takkyu, LDM7 has an adult learner game where the arm is always adjusting to the ball position because the footwork isn't putting the body in the right place for the strike zone to give good impact. But we are all there but unless you realize that you need to try to play the...

There is no easy answer - a lot of it comes together with years of practice and experience as some muscles get stronger and other things become natural. backhand. Elbow position is the key to a lot, even more than the grip. And racket head speed beyond that, The thing about grip is that if you...

HI, LDM7, Have Der Echte serve you long serves for an hour or two, both good long serves and lousy long serves. Almost all no spin and topspin, both weak and heavy, maybe some light backspin. Your requirement is to play a stroke on all those balls. Not a block, not a stab, not a push, a...

You make a good point which gets into the subtleties of equipment - Butterfly had a very good video comparing the 05,80 and 64 pimple configurations that was one of the best tutorials on how some rubbers support brushing/looping better than hitting/blocking and vice versa. Of course, with...

Questions like this are usually best posed to good players around you. In general, if you need more arc/spin relative to your equipment, brush more. If you want more speed relative to your equipment, drive more. A lot of it comes from practice and training and trying to see what happens with...

Maybe I didn't sufficiently convey my happiness at being able to play again. I underestimated the muscles I used to play TT, having played for so long and then not played for so long, this is the surest I remember being after playing ever. But for me TT has a massive dopamine release, I can...

Best loops against a chopper are to the middle. But it isn't an easy thing to do in matches as most of us are used to looping cross court and down the line almost all the time.