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If you borrow the incoming ball's energy to make a shorter BH slow spinny loop which lands in the middle of the table, even if you misread it a bit, it will either go lower/shorter if it had more backspin and higher/longer if it had less backspin. But if you have too much of a misread then...

This is strange, I felt that with D05 i needed more of a brushing contact since it is already so fast - i always needed more spin to land the shots, whereas with D09c i need to go much more forward with my stroke. The rubber produces all the topspin easily.

I see ppl haven't seen the batsuju step tutorial still. So basically your aim for the split step is to load your feet with energy to bounce to wherever you want to go. How do you load your feet with energy? By having your centre of gravity drop down. You can't drop your centre of gravity from...

The spin heaviness also depends on what the opponent did. For eg going with the spin allows the opponent to add a lot of spin to your existing serve spin if they use all the mechanics well. But they could also not brush so heavily to get a lower spin ball. With really good technique they can...

Yes you are completely right on this.

If you serve it to short FH, there are 2 ways of receiving and you have to see if they went against the spin or with the spin. If they went against the spin (for eg after FH fade receive), it will be as if you are receiving a heavy FH pendulum serve back to you (ball is curving towards your...

If you do a YG serve to the BH, it almost forces them to push or flick with BH against the spin. This results in a ball with clockwise sidespin as if you are receiving a FH pendulum serve from your opponent. It is very easy to go with the spin and loop the 3rd ball with the BH, very difficult...

You need to learn the batsuju step or what they call the 'split step' in badminton, then you will understand why this is done.

For some unknown reason, I replaced one of my dying sheet of D05 with D09c. After some adjustments to my FH loop technique (D09c is super high throw so I had to go a lot more forward than D05), i think I am liking this change back. The spin/speed ratio on the FH can be really disturbing with...

Adding to this excellent comment, I would add that if you have suboptimal technique and use unboosted Hurricane, it is very easy to injure yourself because you need to put in too much work compared to a boosted Hurricane or a tensor rubber). Whereas you can relax more and focus even more on...

I would smoke the player that I was 10 years ago so bad lol. 10yr ago me wouldn't have even got past receiving my own nasty serves now let alone the loops.

All high level Chinese players who use hurricane boost. There are almost no exceptions to the rule. If you don't boost you're leaving too much performance on the table. If you don't wanna boost just get D05 or D09c...

Do you boost your Hurricane? If not you may have found your problem xD

Although it was shitty angle, colour and lighting, i did watch the final. WCQ played way too fast, Hugo's footwork was just not keeping up (probably due to fatigue). WCQ also looked more fresh and hungry while Hugo looked like he was physically out of it. WCQ's strategy of playing everything...

I also got 4 wrong, thought 4 was a dead serve. To me, a long fast topspin serve has a lower trajectory and kicks at me after the bounce a bit more. There's also mild underspin variant which slows down a bit but when you're ready for the short serve and get surprised sometimes the spin reading...

Unwatchable tournament sorry, Pink tables + side angle ???!! Badminton and tennis are way more fun to watch than this crap.

Imo short no spin (or even mild topspin) is the killer here, unless the opponent has a great BH chiquita, it is very difficult for him to receive properly. Throw in some short underspin with the same movement to keep him guessing only if he proves to receive the nospin well. But go back to no...

Just do more boosting lol.

Imo, slow setups only help you to mask inherent problems which is a lack of spin understanding (what is coming and your options to manipulate the spin), bad footwork, incorrect arm movement, lack of use of body to control the ball, etc... Regardless of setup, just solve these issues one by one.

For finger usage: For body usage, it is all about the hips. I wouldn't say the setup matters a lot - it is more about stroke principles.