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The weight room awaits... all puns intended.

It depends on the player but while the backhand usually is a shorter and more spin oriented stroke that can be helped by a softer rubber with more speed, some players just prefer to think of their forehand like their backhand. In those cases, harder sponges help. I might play better with q...

You need to get out and meet more pros. The decision to use a rubber is about what you are trying to do with your stroke. If your approach to looping and blocking on both sides is comparable, then using the same rubber on both sides is perfectly fine. Samson Dubina is one of many players who...

Bending the elbow is not the Same thing as raising the upper arm which is what usually causes the blade to hit the head. Getting lower with your body by folding the torso and lowering the knees is always the preference unless you have a good reason not to.

Lower the body, use the wrist and keep the elbow down throughout the stroke. Don't raise the shoulder or upper arm. Lift the body with the core or legs.

Yeah. Lula clearly needs to meet and play DerEchte to know how to read DE's posts properly. They are really sandbagging posts.

If you backswing close to the body, your racket will be almost always pointing down and low to increase the speed of the rotation especially if you fold your torso. It is just the nature of the backswing.

Just about every modern player recovers the way he recovers if they are not excessively rushed by the opponent. He backswings close to the body and his rotation and the close to the body motion keeps the racket down but when he wants to come forward, his body orientation and adjustment brings...

Taking the racket back to the hip (which is what gives the appearance of keeping the racket low) makes it easier to backswing quickly as it makes the backswing shorter and rotation required easier. Also makes it easier if you recover for a backhand. If you do the straight line, it takes more...

The racket is high. See him loop against backspin to know what a low position really is. If you see him loop one backspin and one topspin, you will see the difference. You are confusing his close to the body backswing with dropping the racket.

For anyone who plays primarily for speed not spin and who doesn't use a Tenergy, what rubber do you use?

I heard that they use different rubbers and can go between H3 and Tenergy. But yes, that changed too. But the technical change was far more pronounced, I remember a couple of people wondering whether Ma Long was playing like an amateur with his thumb so high and flat on the rubber.

Yeah the plastic ball is harder to move. And Chinese coaches are now everywhere. That is why I am saying that these things have gone now. People should just start understanding good technique and understand the special uniqueness of someone like Timo or Maze with excessive wrist rather than...

Not sure what you are trying to say. That Timo Boll is not low on his legs? Or that Timo cannot play with a more open arm if his equipment was slower? Or that Timo does not use substantial body movement when playing his stroke?

A lot of the distinction is the speed and nature of the equipment and the fact that Europeans tend to train in structure later than the Chinese. But the essentials are the same. The Chinese also use better short game to get an early attack so they get easier chances to put away forehand. In...

Even the forehand is not that distinctive IMO but I will leave it at that. The question is always what are you looking at.

People still think in terms of these things?

It matters at every level but at you point out, the question is what you are trying to get out of it. Of course for someone who wants that extra spin to become world champ, it is different from someone who has bad technique and hopes the best equipment will help him. But even for you and me...

Shylock, the Merchant of Venice, Butterfly, the Merchant of Table Tennis.

If I want to try Short pips, then most likely Nittaku Moristo. If Medium/long probably something from Dawei, But it means lots of practice and that is the thing I want to minimize. But I think that I will have to twiddle a lot on both sides because I will want to mostly play inverted strokes...