Using too much shoulder for power will mess up your balance and make it harder for transition. That is why you were out of position after one or two balls. Use your feet/leg for power and transition and you will feel much easier.
A little too much shoulder and elbow was fixed all the time. You will miss the ball quite often and hard to create good top spin without side spin.
Maybe too close to the table and have relatively big swings for fast incoming balls?
All these reviewers in China used special blades by WRB for reviews and I don't think the commercial version will be similar. Is Stiga waiting for WRB to become world champion to release the blade (three years from now?)
I had a Xiom ALX pro and the handle got loose and make cracking noise too. I reglued it and it seemed OK. But it got loose again and I had to reglue it with more glue this time.
I hesitate to buy any more Xiom blades now as this was one of their issues.
The coaching systems are totally differently between China and Japan. These players in China are almost like staffs working for their boss (coaches). In Japan, I guess the national coach is usually temporarily guiding players during short training and maybe on court coaching. The bonding among...
Does winning the championship mean CNT still very strong and continue to dominate? My feel is maybe not. LJK will retire soon and LSD could not solve his technique problem here. WCQ is still the only one standing for CNT ATM. We will see how WRB progresses in the near future, another WCQ or...
That is maybe why Harimoto's game has not evolved much and he has not learned more versatile/styles. He did not even try another serve (or did he?) during the period that LJK came back from 3:8 to 11:8.