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Does anyone hit the ball harder than Ionescu?

Here is one good player on the subject. In fact, your joints are all circular so unless you are trying to force your racket to act differently, it will generally follow the shape of the ball. https://youtu.be/eJuCMb79oWo The issue then becomes whether choice of racket path can accentuate...

Yeah. We disagree and we are both obviously trying to be civil despite intense disagreement. But I remember what the follow through doesn't matter theory did to my game. So I don't want someone who is trying to figure TT out to make the same mistake I did.

Okay. I think it is more important than that but your view is fine as well. I think a stroke is a vector as is spin. The turning effect of the whole stroke is what influences the contact. If I say start st 9 and finish at 3, the turning effect is very different from if I say start at 9 and...

Watching a stroke at half speed sometimes gives a deceptive idea of what the player is trying to do because you think what happens at half speed is what determined the full path and trajectory of the ball and forget that strokes need to be played in a large path with no pausing so you have to...

I 100% agree with this. At least, for my preferred playing distance, the 2 to 8 o clock paradigm to put it extremely is what is working for me. That is what I am trying to say.

Lula, How would you replicate this stroke on the forehand side? https://youtu.be/JilVcyc0k_E?t=2100

I think very few people stress the importance of finishing the stroke down. Stroke like an upside down U. Maybe people don't with their body when they are low. But I think you have to go up and down to be reliable close to the table. But I could be wrong. Of course saying low is not an...

I had an epiphany today. I have been trying to figure out how to play close to the table topspins for a while especially countertopspins. It has been a struggle as no coach or video has been able to give me good insight into how to think about it. I have tried a lot of stuff but none of it has...

I was about to point out that she was likely gluing but you mentioned it.

Yasaka Extra or Yasaka Allround. Relatively thin and small head and well balanced blade.

Yes, try a Tenergy. Cost is not the main reason I don't use it. It is too fast for my passive game since I don't train that much. You may prefer 80 or 64 to 05 but 05 is for close to the table and mid distance topspin. Tenergy topsheet and sponge is better than most but I cant control it in...

He is not playing Marvelous 12. Has he silently retired? Or will he still try for Olympics without WTTC 2019? Not sure how...

Yeah he needs an opponent with that style. I remember playing s tournament and was in the same group with an LP blocker and a looping junior. I beat the LP blocker 3-0, the looping junior beat me 3-0 and the LP blocker beat the looping junior 3-1. You get the gist.

That style is hard to play against without practice, it takes advantage of everything a looper is trained to do. You cannot back off the table because the ball usually stays short and backspin doesn't look like backspin nor topspin like topspin because of how it is being created. But finding...

I am partly taking a jab at someone like Wang Chen (and her supporters) who is not happy with how the next US Olympic team will be selected. Not so much because I don't think she has a point, but because she acts as if the people doing it are inherently corrupt and immoral.

When did he leave Yasaka?

For the Batos blade not MX-K.

The Batos blade sounds interesting. Given my love affair with Nexy handles and ALC blades, I might give it a try. I like the Boll ALC, I just wish I could magically install a Nexy handle. Lol. Nexy should make an ALC Calix 2 or Qabod.

Probably Korea but Karis is not a control rubber per se - I think the reason it ended up being that way was partly because of who produced it. Karis was supposed to be first and foremost a linear rubber - a rubber where you could gauge the output very easily based on your input and with a...