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You don't move faster per se, but because your knees are more bent, and usually your weight is more forward than if you were standing, you will have more mobility. It will take less time to get moving, it will be easier to make small adjustments via hops, you won't be at so much of a risk of...

Carl, getting low is for the sake of mobility primarily, isn't it? I've also seen it to help in everything to do with strokes, but I'm primarily interested in the mobility aspect. I'm experimenting with where I keep my weight and what muscles I bias in the stance. Normally I am more forward...

It's not my playing that I'm embarrassed of. It's having to essentially have someone stand there, filming just me for however long it takes to get decent material to analyze. I'm enough of a tryhard as it is. :rolleyes: Although I have filmed some ancient sessions from a pretty crappy angle...

That does make sense. Do you just flip it normally and kind of hit along the bottom?

I'm back. Today was slightly better. I'm moving more towards a super loose grip, mostly only really holding on with the index and thumb, but it'll take some time. Haven't really got much whip going on consistently, so I gotta relax more. Every time I feel like I'm relaxed, later in the day I...

Yesterday, I was tense as hell and couldn't play well. My goals for today are playing as relaxed as I can and going slightly lower by squatting more. I've done the conditioning and I can control my muscle activation well enough at my current level to play relaxed, there's no reason I shouldn't...

I've never seen a TTD thread on a somewhat complex subject that hasn't got derailed in any way. It's the only forum I know where people understand that you don't need to open a new thread for every silly thing and can instead just discuss whatever interesting/moronic comes to mind. :rolleyes...

I'm just waiting for NL to get in here and preach about racket head speed. If you hit fast enough, anything's possible. ;)

When he said off the hook, he wasn't talking about harpoons...

OP, I'm sure you've read this, but I will post it nonetheless: http://www.tabletenniscoaching.com/node/1531

I'm quite low level myself and not exactly coached so that standing low is a habit, so I can understand where you're coming from. I am overcoming it slowly, though. My advice would be to first, do the physical training, because it will only get easier to stay low then, and just deal with it...

JSH is fantastic. Although I reserve my favorite defensive player position for the great Matsushita-dono. :p He may not have been as successful as JSH in the grand scale of things (JSH's track record is insane for a defender), but the man was like an artist.

Ach, the evidence is there. I did indeed mention the forehand originally, my bad. I had entirely forgot. ttmonster probably talked about forehand flicks vs backspin because apparently, a backspin forehand flick isn't really possible, and he didn't know why the hell I'd be asking such a thing...

I am just a lowly beginner so bear it in mind, but I did notice that grey consistently stands a cm or two relatively higher and less crouched than black. The level of both of you is high, don't get me wrong. I just feel that grey would really benefit from working towards lowering his stance...

It's like poetry.

Wait, so let's get this straight: You're standing on the outside of your forehand wing, and he is standing in his backhand wing. Opponent 1 serves crosscourt to him, and he steps around to loop it crosscourt at Opponent 1. Opponent 2 returns it crosscourt and you must now take the ball with him...

Hah, so you weren't talking about flicking backspin from the forehand, but you were talking about flicking vs backspin, from the forehand. No wonder it wasn't making too much sense. I presumed it was just way beyond my head. :p It's advanced indeed, I dare not even try it in games. But it's...

Is your partner's body straight and high as normal, or has he fully transferred his weight onto his left leg and his back is in a more horizontal position? I believe this would be a practical way to get out of the way in time. He can easily spin around while moving out of your view and get back...

That's good to hear. I somehow knew it was something actually important. I guess it's worth cancelling your martial arts for that, hah. I believe your house buying venture will go well. I used to serve very upright. I'm young, so I figured that I have no excuse. But I can understand what you...

Carl, ttmonster brought up FH flicks. I can't really FH flick, and even my BH flick is pretty weak. But I've been talking about the BH originally. When I replied to ttmonster, I noticed he was talking about the backspin FH flick, and although I don't really understand how exactly you'd do it...