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First option: Step one - serve no-spin when they think it is spin. Serve spin when they think it is no-spin. Step two - when they get upset and start to talk to themselves, Cho! their missed receives loudly Step three - watch them lose all confidence in their own spin-reading ability and...

Thanks guys, all of those sound fun and very possible. I'll pm each of you for details.

So what's the difference between the H9 topsheet and H8, now that both come with #80 sponge? Is the tackiness of H8 the only difference? Oh, it doesn't matter. I'll have to buy a sheet of H9 no matter what. Purple or green is the only decision point.

Gozo, you have a coach and a great plan and are improving fast. So I say this more for anyone else lurking on the thread than to you. Pure sidespin and no-spin are the same thing when you hit them that flat.

One technique comment: the backhand hit you ended a point with around 8:55 in March four was lovely. You should use that hit to return all the long fast sidespin serves to your bh. These penholders won a lot of points from you with that serve. This hit would completely take it away from them.

Full Disclosure: I only watched match 3 & part of 4 so far. So what do you want to take away from this competition? Imo that's really important in deciding whether and how much you want to compete at your current level. I disagree (respectfully!) with Tony and Der about not competing until...

Excited for the finals tomorrow in WS and WD. Ito and Hirano both seem in good form. I hope that's a strong match.

I'm going to be staying near University College London WC1E from 2 - 9 July and would like to play at some clubs if possible. Any recommendations? And if any forum members are interested in meeting up to play that would be great. I'm a fairly decent club-level player, rated usatt 1950.

The #80 red sponge feels very different from the #20 orange or #22 blue sponge. 80 is not made to be boosted, or at least I can't imagine why anyone would choose it and still boost. It's not dead out of the package.

Okay this news is not official, but two sheets of H9 showed up at my club yesterday. The neighborhood ej only glued up the purple one 37 degrees. I didn't get to hit with it, there was a queue. But it's not tacky at all. Picks up a ball for zero ms. I'm trying the H8-80 38 and I like the...

The OP says he has 40 degrees H3. The one piece of data we have about Ralph other than his setup is that he posted on a forum to ask if people thought his equipment was okay. That suggests (doesn't prove!) that Ralph does not have a relationship with a coach. Ralph, if you do have a coach...

Sounds like a setup for a high-level player. T11 is quite fast and the 40 deg H3 requires good technique. Otherwise it's a pretty standard setup - composite blade, hard dhs fh rubber and soft esn bh.

Play someone with a solid third ball attack. Every time you push back a long serve he will crush the ball right past you, and as you sadly walk back to the barriers to pick it up he will smile and CHO!! After twenty or thirty walks to the barriers you will magically gain the courage to loop...

You are setting up a false choice here and you will play poorly if you trap yourself into thinking like this for no good reason. Let's start with a couple principles and see if we all agree on them. The goal in a competition is to win. It is not training time. How you win doesn't matter...

Hi Gozo, I can't add much to NDH's marvelous post, but I did want to say about 3rd ball attack. You don't have to end the point with some crazy strong attack. All you have to do is open with topspin. At our level the opponent will almost always block not counterloop. And then you...

I am weird in this respect, but I find inner composite less controllable than outer, and not playing like all-wood at all. I do see how the feeling of contact is more like a five ply wood. But the actual result is not linear. There is some tipping point with inner construction where suddenly...

Oh, well I guess I'll just ignore the coach I train three hours a week with and go with whatever you, a random nobody on the Internet, says about my playing with SP. This kind of shitposting is why the video footage safe thread got created.

I like the acoustic carbon (the outer carbon). It uses some Nittaku-branded thing called FE carbon. I don't know if that is just ALC under their name, or if it is actually a different weave. Does anyone know? Anyway it feels more controlled to me and simply nicer than a TBC ALC or viscaria, or...

Take a break from training forehand topspin and work on some new stuff. Work on your long pushes. Work on receiving serves with your backhand. Work on blocking. Various types of footwork. If you have worked on those skills much less then you should see more improvement faster. When your...

Imo serve and receive is closer to 75% of points. Many points that get into the rally are already over due to the receive and only get finished off with rally strokes. We have all had that experience where you return the serve on the table but too high, or long into your opponent's power, and...