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To add, won't it be very good practice for your backhand to loop heavy backspin with it? If it can do that, it can do anything else, right?

In my experience, a very fast grazing movement will produce more spin than a hit. However, if you hit hard enough, there is still a good level of spin, so maybe I just need to hit harder. It's especially evident against backspin that I just basically smash into tangentially and the ball comes...

What are these kinds of setups good for? Some kind of ultra aggressive flat hitting style? To make rich, ignorant consumers feel better? An affordable solution to a small nation's dumbfire missile artillery needs?

Is this directed at me or suds?

It's time to get to 3000 USATT, bois.

Today was really, how to say it, bleh! I did find out one thing, at least. I have mainly two kinds of loop contact, and my usual contact is really not that spinny, but I can produce a different kind of contact that feels like I'm grazing the ball more, and it's much spinnier. I didn't get any...

Sounds pretty good. I think I made him do something like this when he was learning to counterhit on the forehand. I guess it's time to go to the bare basics. I've made him hold his racket still at angles to the corners and the middle while I loop into it, and showed him how to control the...

That makes sense, about the blocking technique. I rarely backhand topspin, so I'd understand why I block nearly completely vertical normally. This also explains why yesterday when I was doing backhands, I was blocking much more sideways when I was trying to get the ball back in control if the...

I don't think it's so much as keeping the tip sideways or more up is wrong per se, I don't know. A lot of good blockers block sideways, so there's that. I think for my partner, he is not blocking sideways because of a technique, but because of improper mechanics and understanding. It just...

I trained my backhand yesterday, for a few minutes, but we only had very little time and half of it was wasted. I have looked at hours of video of myself and my partner, and even though I have seen him do some stupid deliberate mistakes on the block, he fails to admit that his racket is doing...

I mean, I don't disagree, so what can I say.

Yes, but towards what end result do those resources go? Into developing a better player, coach, team, system or perhaps even equipment, right?

I do understand why something like this could be beneficial to the sport, but to act as if some kind of gimmicks are the end all be all secret to beating the Chinese just seems like denial of the fact that Europe isn't quite up to par with the Chinese on a technical, physical or mental level...

Yeah, so if all of the other costs are the same or even less, then you think they should shit on the consumer and over-price their product?

They could just increase the price. Oh shit, now I've done it.

Baal, how did the animals at your club like the ball? For a fair comparison, we'd need a fair survey as well. :rolleyes:

If it really is unbreakable from just hitting around, then I can see a benefit in long-term use but also the fact that it just doesn't change it's characteristics in the short term whatsoever, probably. I'm not sure if more fragile balls do, but I can imagine that it would have an effect on...

@suds79 Let me tell you, if you want to get lower and adopt a better stance, you've gotta video yourself and be honest. In my experience, what you feel and what is going on have nothing to do with each other at first. I always feel like I'm somewhat sensibly wide and low, but on video, my...

Perhaps the closest thing to a privately owned WMD that you can get.

I'm most impressed by the loaded chop at 15 seconds. Had it not been so heavy, it'd not have even netted.