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Yes, it seems to be so. Just, sometimes when you are an un-coached, low level player, you know these things, but they do not work due to whatever reason. So you do stupid things instead. I'll try to hammer it in my head.

Yes. I'm not sure if more backspin will help. I've trained some guys in serve return, and it's half worked. Everyone just seems to find the idea of properly returning my serves terribly boring and they'd rather do hitting drills or games. Then we play a game and they moan and complain that...

So basically drop it over the net without much of a chop? Do I take it early or late, if it's very light? Or it doesn't really matter?

I can probably prop the phone up and film the shot I mean. Most likely I can. I will do it tomorrow if I remember. The shorts, well, that's not happening. For one, at this time of the year, it doesn't matter how much I move: my nutsack is going to freeze solid and become one with my leg if I...

Yeah, my push is not that good. It's gotten a tiny teeny little bit better though. I take it a bit earlier sometimes. However, these are not drills! The level difference is pretty high, so I guess it just evolves into a kind of drill-style routine. You might have forgotten, but serving is very...

Is there something I can do to keep the ball lower against much worse players? It's like they're voluntarily fishing.

@NextLevel Huh. My best shots feel like a combination of brushing and hitting, but I always imagined them as being more of a brush. I try to avoid hitting as much as possible. Then again, when I do that, I just miss the ball and if I just indiscriminately hit into it with an angled bat, I get a...

Did you pay attention to how many of my shitty backspin serves were netted in the videos? I was brushing the back of the ball, not even the front! I can do a very short, almost Werner Schlager like backspin serve, and I am literally yet to see anyone except the best players here get them over...

It was a joke, don't worry. Actually, funny thing. Today my spin was so terrible that I did just that long after I filmed these. Just went close to the ball and snapped my forearm with whip. It was easy to time because there was not much body involved. It wasn't a ton of spin but it was far...

Roger. From now on, 150% commitment on all shots.

Video or it didn't happen!

Yes, I agree. Today, I just wasn't making any spin, so I was reluctant to swing faster. I used to play this kind of slow, shit game against worse people, but I noticed that they can handle spin better than speed. So I can just spin the ball up with a lot of racket head speed and they will be...

I tried my best but chicken wing-itis has really got me this week!

Here they are. Fourth part is not edited at all: it can go **** itself. It crashed on me in the very end, being the 2nd video to **** up on me. After my most recent HDD wipe I had to do, I lost all my utilities, so I can't even edit video properly locally. Oh well... Yesterday and today has...

YouTube gave me an error after editing out a lot of unrelated crap from a video I took today. Now I have to do it again. I haven't been this mad in a long time. Oh well! Videos soon...

I'm currently at school, so I'm going to take a look at it once I get back. I'm not sure if I can take the buffering speed. However, let me remind you that I busted my tricep from my chicken wing form. I hope you never had it so bad. After the injury, I got so mad that I had enough of it.

Lies. I've never seen you execute proper chicken wing form. :p

@Player87 For me, it happens because I hit the ball too much, but the real reason is because I use my arm to swing at the ball, not the hips as much as I should. I've just done hip twists and shadow strokes and drives against block for a few months and the problem has lessened as my form got a...

My forearm is still a bit tense nowadays, and so is my wrist. But it's getting better indeed. I will try to get the same opponent together to film another video as soon as possible. I think it will be a much better game.

Yes, true. I've worked hard to eliminate that, and it's been needing a complete revamp of my forehand form. Worth it. Still, it happens once in a while maybe once or twice a session, and it feels the same as when you hit your toe on a piece of furniture, or bang your elbow onto a sharp corner...