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Hit a bit today. It's been some time. Fortunately, whatever habits and techniques I had before my hiatus, good or bad, are still there. Just had to take it easy so as to not injure myself immediately, with the body not being used to it and all. @NextLevel Unsurprisingly, nearly everything one...

Nice stroke economy. Did you do pencils first for the last ones or just directly?

Gonna go play a bit, maybe get some video too. I bought some Stiga Cup 40+ balls: time to see what big-brand plastic balls are like nowadays...

Trained today. Took a lot of footage. 99% of the time it's picking up the ball, and nothing very remarkable happened so I'm not gonna weed through all the crap to edit it. However the advice I got earlier helped me figure out some things. My form is now actually kinda consistent with what I...

Aerodynamics of the swing? I don't think we're moving our bodies enough for aerodynamics to realistically come into play with anything but the ball. If you're only talking about the blade's attack angle relative to it's path, then I guess.

This is about what I do, except more water and less rubbing. Can attest to it working.

The only thing I'm sure it is is spin avoidance. At least it really does feel so. Without it I don't have any time to do anything to the ball, it just flings off. I'm still not understanding what "covering the ball" is. You've described it many times and better players probably get it, but I...

@NextLevel Today I was looping topspin to topspin with my partner, I gave him my spinnier setup and took the worse setup. He can spin pretty well in fact, he is just not consistent against difficult balls. He was generating enough spin that I couldn't loop his loop with my normal swing against...

Why do you need to do more drives, blocks and topspins? Do you lose in the pushing game and don't even get to play your game?

Alright. I'll try to get my serve tighter, and tell my partner to push randomly next time. I posted some other videos as well from today, much of the same stuff. Serve's still not anywhere near where I want it. Need to get used to serving heavy and short, even if my partner will hit the first 20...

@NextLevel here are the videos I promised. Like the titles say. No magic happened obviously but I'm onto something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceBwxOcMjGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dDfTXexxcE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZivTgFx9tEc EDIT: @Der_Echte @OldschoolPenholder In...

@NextLevel Nice timing! I just got home. Yeah, that's about it. The drill worked enough to feel that I got something out of it. It could just be placebo but I feel that today was slightly better. Now to review the footage. I played some games with some kids, asked them if it's okay to video...

Did some drilling on monday. This is the drill that Carl suggested. At least, we tried. :rolleyes: Backspin short serve, long push, loop, free play. I just focused on the serve and loop for the most part. My body wasn't feeling 100% okay so I took it a bit easy, and my serve was very off so...

@NextLevel Thanks a lot for posting that training video. A lot of good stuff in there.

@Hridoy You're a lot better than I am so I can't really give you advice or solutions, but I noticed while watching that it looks like you're a bit stuck leaning to the side and tensing your shoulders and raising them while you hit the ball. It looked a bit awkward to me so I'm pointing it out...

Alright. We've done some drills before where I push fast and deep, he loops and I counterloop close to table. It's hard to get spin on it and not just smack it. I'll work on that more next time.

@UpSideDownCarl What do you suggest for a random drill? Start out with my partner pushing deep off my serve anywhere on the table, then random placement blocks along that wing?

@UpSideDownCarl Alright, I guess I should have served him backspin. I served him no-spin thinking he will have an easier time keeping it low, fast and deep: then complained that his returns are slow, high and not deep enough! I didn't realize it in person, but goddamn those are some high...

Yep, as I thought. I am not even taking my backhand very seriously because I feel I really need a coach for that. In every video I look at my worst shots and my best shots and do frame by frame and video comparisons to various pros and see if I can pick up something. Now I know it's a bit...

@NextLevel I've only heard stories and seen some footage of amateurs playing with my rubber and a similar blade, and even compared to them I am very far off. I can imagine a world class player could do a thing or two that I don't even think is possible. Well instead of worrying about that, I...