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Topspin causes the ball to dip down via Magnus effect. So in effect the blocker has to lower the position of the racket accordingly to intercept the ball correctly. So if he underestimates the spin this can cause a mishit due to the racket not being in the correct position (probably too thin a...

Most probably: 1) footwork is slow and you are looping when the ball has dropped too much (the lower it gets the harder it is to land a fast loop) 2) you are attacking mostly diagonal and there are not enough straight line attacks. If this is the case the blocker can literally just wait for...

My goto is short nospin / sidetopspin, and fast long sidebackspin lol. Against certain players it just flatout destroys them - it is a 'skill check' of sorts - controlling pushing against topspin is not easy and many players have weak flicks, and as a BH player I also love to force the BH-BH...

Tbh you can adopt an even simpler approach to force the rally. For eg short low heavy sidetopspin against 2x inverted, what is the guy gonna do to avoid the rally? If he flicks, you just enter topspin rally automatically, if he pushes it is gonna be an opportunity ball or at least a long ball...

Tbh you have come a long, long way now! This already looks as good as someone who had proper training from young and that is probably as good as it gets from an amateur point of view. However, converting these to match situations is a bit more tricky imo.... which is why I suspect that working...

Basically as TT is all about spin, the fingers have to also act to "spin" the ball. This also depends on how you grip the racket and where your fingers are positioned on the blade face. So it can be a highly individual thing. For e.g. for me i use the 2nd joint of the index finger (if you...

For me, I like H3N even better but it is a pain in the ass to boost when there are 10001x better things to do with my limited time. So D09c is a perfectly nice replacement (for boosted H3N). A lot of people have similar mindsets too. If DHS can nail a boost free H3N that performs 90+% as boosted...

09c is normally more suited as a FH rubber because 1) Dead feeling helps huge on FH short push 2) High spin to speed ratio means that FH short serves and FH opening loops are easier to control 3) FH side naturally has a lot of power so the lack of speed doesnt really matter that much For BH it...

Yep, even CNT players dont straight arm loop all the time now. It is mostly bent arm (esp against topspin pressure), and only going more to straight arm loop for slower and opportunity balls.

Back to the topic, I also used to ponder this question but do we really have to choose one? If the ball is to your left and closer to your left hip, your upper body will be closer to your left foot, hence a left to right weight shift is the most ideal. Say if the ball is a deep jamming one...

Heavier rackets can store more energy with greater stability so you can hit harder with them (provided you have good body mechanics). Also they can absorb incoming momentum better. But, say for BH chiquita, every additional 1g hurts shot quality significantly because of limited leverage. Same...

It is situational. The most important is to use the hip rotation to power and control the ball. Most of the time it is clockwise, except when switching down the line.

Yes, if you watch his other matches against other people it is exactly the same issue. This is also why he gets upset quite often too.

That is true, but it also means that he will stay a rather 1 dimensional player where players like WCQ will always be exploiting him unless he has a very good day.

Yep Harimoto definitely has a few bad habits for eg only doing slow spinny BH opening loops which opponents aim to counterloop hard, lack of variation in receive, no reverse pendulum/hook serve variation, weaker FH defence (which is basically his kryptonite at the moment). However, Harimoto is...

Imo the true liability in OP's game is the BH, not so much the FH. Not sure how changing FH rubber will do much.

I watched the match - Tomo played well but his structural issue is that he has way too little variation on receive which really makes WCQ's life a bit too easy on the 3rd ball and he is just under too much pressure. So basically Tomo has 1) short push, 2) long push and 3) chiquita (with various...

Still wins the 1st set tho lol....despite struggling af on the receive

I'm not a chopper, but my experience with upgrading my push is that the wrist and fingers are super important. For shakehand BH push, pressing on the index fingertip was crucial in my journey of upgrading the spin.

The answer could be straightforward. The Magnus effect (ie downwards force on the ball from the ball spin) is proportional to the square of the velocity. So an extra 10% in spin is an extra 21% in the Magnus effect which makes the incoming trajectory deviate further from the "normal" trajectory...