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@ttmonster For a long time I had big problems making power, and even getting drives over the net consistently was difficult. So I took big swings at everything. Now with the same setup, I'm moving on to smaller swings, mostly because they're much more reliable in quality and consistency and...

I've only really used hard sponge rubbers, to be fair. There's probably something in the feel that I'm missing. I know how to adjust between "thin brush" and "thick brush" but it's very on/off. Not much inbetween.

Just because it makes sense doesn't mean it's right. :rolleyes: My overall quality has increased lately, and I'm not swinging much faster at all than before. So I understand where ttmonster is coming from. It's not just the energy, it's where it goes, really. You can swing as fast as you want...

That's where timing comes in I presume. I'm pretty sure they swing with a hell of a lot of acceleration, even if it might not look it.

Yeah, but I can bet you that if you add more acceleration to the blade face, it's just gonna keep increasing the spin up to a point where humans just can't reach.

From a physics standpoint, racket head speed makes the most sense out of all the "secrets".

Just a word of warning, but the Stiga Allround Evolution is quite fragile, and comes very unfinished. If you tend to bash your stuff around, I'd watch out with Stiga blades. They will get dents: mine has several. The good thing is you can sand it down to just how you like it.

Honestly, to me it looks like pros mostly just get a whole lot more racket head speed than we do.

It's hard to judge when we don't know at all what really happened. It could all be a load of bull for all we know.

I think I'm going to be doing a lot of feeding backspin in the coming weeks. My back felt a bit weird last monday when I did one stroke, so I took it easy. After that I've got the same kind of small tingling and occasional soreness in my back like I got during my injury. I took the week off...

I don't think any amount of equipment upgrading will allow you to consistently beat higher level players. They're higher level for a reason.

Men: Zhang Jike Women: Ding Ning ZJK has been playing one hell of a game recently and he delivers in big competitions. I want to believe.

I think what rain is trying to say is that it's reasonable to assume that sponsors pay athletes similarly, and we can make conclusions from that. What's wrong about that is that sponsors probably don't pay all athletes equally.

If you can provide a real reason as to why the difference is due to the dye color, I will listen. Saying "The red rubbers are less spinny than the black ones" can easily be true: if the red ones have water on them, some kind of unwanted material, are more worn due to sitting longer on the...

So I'm browsing random videos about lower level rubbers on YouTube, because all I see all day is Tenergy DHS Tibhar so I was curious. I come upon this video, and the shot at 4:00 or so from the kid in the blue shirt looks really familiar. I'd been reviewing some 2 months old video yesterday...

Listen to ttmonster. Don't get something too fast. Nothing with carbon. ttmonster suggested a pretty good setup for a beginner. The setup I'm running with now (Stiga Allround Evolution with 729 FX on both sides) was a result of low budget and about 1.5 years of experience with premade rackets...

And why would this be?

Do serve-push-loop drills and serve-flick-counterloop drills. If your training is towards rallying, you will rally. If your training is towards 3rd and 5th ball, you will 3rd and 5th ball.

I must say one thing, though. Don't hate the guy for hustling you, Michal. IIRC you said that he was indeed talking about how good he is and being a bit rude about it even? So that it happened that you underestimated him and thought he is joking or is full of it is just a result of your own...

@Michal_Z To me it really looks like it's just mostly your own spin coming back. Maybe he is doing some stuff that I don't see.