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From what I see from your serve, is that your movement seems a kind of slow. For the pendulum serve, you should focus most of the power into the wrist. To me, it looks like you are treating the pendulum serve too much like a pendulum. Completely control and whip your wrist. Your forearm guides...

Wow I tried the hand towel trick in the first video, and my towel moved super fast, and I ended hitting myself pretty hard. DAMN YOU BRETT CLARKE

Oh yeah, raising the backswing is pretty important if you want to counter loop. The way I got the idea of raising my backswing was actually through comparing the forehand and the backhand. If the ball is fairly high on your backhand, assuming you'll hit it with your backhand, you wouldn't...

Can I give suggestions? From personal experience, I have always loved looping underspin. However, that has created a habit of looping easy high balls long. I fixed this by raising my backswing. That way, by changing the starting point of your swing, you can get to the ball more easily without...

Yes. It's simple physics really. It's easier to see if your stroke was broken up into x and y components of velocity. Ehhhh half true. I made a post about this a while back. I forget where. The key is to be able to get a looping technique that is ADJUSTABLE. In fact, the loop is meant to be...

I have to go to a wedding this Saturday. So I can't.

Ah, then let me clarify. Larry Hodges's reasoning was that it is difficult to make a good quality return. And then you stated that professionals players probably are good enough to handle the many possible options and can do whatever they want anyways. That implies that professionals players...

I thought about that a little. But difficulty can be overcome with practice. Players can just train against it. I think it just comes down to the weakness and strengths of different types of serves and whichever serves fit you better. There's reason why players use different kinds of serves...

Larry Hodges reasoning is that it is difficult to return. My reasoning is that it gives the opponent options

I disguise my serves well enough. Many people can't read them

Can you give me sources?

I have Chinese rubbers. Just wipe the rubber with something dry. Like the shorts that you wear. I've seen Xu Xin do this before.

I use to think no spin was useless. Now, I get why it has a little use, but I still think it's not that useful. It's only okay for variation purposes. You're basically taking advantage of a weakness that lower level players have, and it's that they 1) can't read spin 2) can't deal with short no...

I hate it when the walls are super white and bright, and when lighting is terrible. I also hate it when the tables themselves are not straight and level. I also hate it when people don't pick up the ball. It makes me think that those people are both deaf and blind. Another is when players...

Should I mention the Alguetti brothers(Adar, Sharon, Gal)? Or the Hugh(Adam and Judy) family?

Definitely Shanxing Wang would be one of the most interesting guys I know. He was in charge of the Flushing Mall location when Robert wasn't around. I heard he went to Mexico, but is back in New York City, but I haven't seen him. He's funny, calm, and easy to talk to. I taught him how to play...

I'm David Song, and I'm a college student. I pick up and drop hobbies a lot, and it turns out, I like skill or stategy based things. aside from Yugioh, ahem, I've played the violin since 2006, but I've kind of stopped in 2015. I guess I was good at it. I would still play if there were any...

Here's one that Wally Green told me: If you are playing against a child prodigy and you happen to be good at counter attacking, then let the kid attack first (by giving them a hard ball first, of course). Then you can counter attack easily. ********** I found that advice really useful...

If you have been playing for a decade and still can't control your stroke, then there is clearly a problem. At the very least, you admitted that you have a problem there, so kudos. ******************* You know what the backhand is supposed to look like right? Have you ever tried to copy the...

I'm not really sure what your level is, or what kind of shot quality you want, but the shots that you are making are pretty good. Good job. Maybe you can show us when you need more spin; maybe it's against underspin, or against half long shots/serves. Against topspin, you seem okay. If you...