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I am going to persevere with my short pimples for now, but it will be hard work i think

well the seamed sanwei is horrible

there is no way the sanwei is the same ball as the joola flash? No way on this earth!! LOL

Interesting Martin, last year I played a tournament with SP and dhs 40 balls. I won 2 sets and lost 24, I could not play, it was so bad I gave up on using short pimples. And went into a mad EJ mode for a year. I think that the new balls will become more and more popular, so I am thinking what...

Well I thought that, but my pimples shots were awful, one my consistency went right down and two the shot was just ineffective even if I got it on. I mean really how can Spectol Red be slow on a fast carbon blade on a new fast table at a very fast venue. It is actually like playing a different...

Bit off topic, but earlier I had a practice with a different ball. A newer plastic one, not my trusty Joola Flash!! My bh was awful My fh was awful Ball was too slow, ball had not enough spin. To make sure it was not in my head, we changed the ball and my shots improved. So we went back and...

Thanks for all the great advice!! I have played for most of my life, but have only ever played for enjoyment/exercise and never played to improve or practice until very recently. I have a set up I am happy with now and have some direction to try and improve. Love this comment and it is so...

Would you advise me to stand more wide on my bh corner too and back myself to cover the fast one down to the fh on receive of serve? This may help combat the fast long serve and I guess might give me a chance to play a fh if it is served to my crossover? It would cover the wide bh serve better...

This is some video of my son playing, as in the title he is very keen and competitive and does not really listen to his dad! LOL Any tips for him to improve??

As ever there are some excellent posts on this thread. As a poor man (relatively) I can not afford coaching one to one, but some of the advice on here I can implement in practice, I do have some good practice partners!!

Not going back to inverted yet.

Cheers, it is difficult to do lots of variation IMO with the short pimples, if I roll back or play slow or push the third ball gets destroyed. I am considering twiddling and doing some spinny bh retunrs with the hurricane.

The first half was me returning quite well, the second half is the bad bit!! LOL

Here is a video of my serve return on Sunday at a tournament. All 3 players are higher ranked than me, a fair bit higher, In theory they should always beat me. I have beaten the last opponent once, sometimes i get a set often not. I feel like serve return is the biggest difference between us...

It tend to be the longer lower ones that cause me trouble, the short ones I am getting better at whacking or touching back.

As always some great advice!! I think I was asking if my terrible return percentage was affecting my results, which it clearly is. On the same day I beat a much stronger opponent in the morning I returned every serve to my bh in all 3 sets. I am trying to attack all serves to my bh with the...

So on Sunday I played 3 players in a group of 4 who all should beat me on paper at a tournament. The first player I returned 11 out of 17 serves to my backhand successfully. The second player I returned 12 out of 19 serves to my backhand successfully. The third player I returned 15 out of 24...

I have been using it for a few weeks and I really like it for my short pimples bh. I found it too fast when i used tenergy 05fx and too bouncy, now i am using hurricane 3 neo it is very very spinny, but i have enough control too hit the ball very hard too.

Sorry I have not tries the ZLC, there is a review of Yinhe M202 on here from Andy Smith. It is very informative.

When I have tried briefly to use short pips forehand not enjoyed it. I only played soft in this match at times because opponent was not attacking, I was very hot and not feeling that well. Always felt in control though.