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How do you know that I don't study engineering, science and business? For the rest of the thread, all I can say is, you're right. I don't think I have a reason to try to deny it. If you get a laugh out of it, then all the better, at least someone's having a good time. Although I should...

I'd need really good players to challenge me and a good coach to get really relevant experience, but I'd have to disagree that good equipment won't change the dynamics of the game enough to warrant my experience being more relevant. Waldner used both his feet just as well as other top athletes...

Monster, I've ordered myself a good setup a few days ago. So I will come back soon with more relevant experience. I've also never said I'm intelligent. I make far too many mistakes and don't deal with them well enough to be intelligent. It's not about that. Maybe I will come back and...

I understand your point, but you don't need to be able to perform something to understand the gist of it. Shuki, have you seen what kind of balls Waldner could get back in his heyday? He is also retired and has not been playing at the highest level for quite some time. Although I know we'd...

What do you mean "most"? Everyone at the top level has far above excellent footwork, and even the lower ranked players are very much so excellent. They just don't look that good to beginners because Xu Xin is so exceptional, so they hide in his shadow, I'd bet.

I don't see what's wrong with not treating footwork and strokes as completely separate things. They're not that separate in game, and different footwork will require different slightly strokes, will it not? Now, in game, you're not gonna start swinging before you're relatively in position...

We're talking about exactly the same thing. Essentially playing blocks/counters and attempting to always have a completely uniform stroke, at a slow pace. To do that, your feet need to be in the same position relative to the ball. It's not like this was the absolute first drill that I ever...

Forehand. Three points. No missing, so it's more controlled and slower than a fast multiball. I've seen pros do this drill on video most of all drills, probably. Coaches usually feed with the multiball method, and do it slower. Or is it something else?

So, isn't this one of the "standard" drills that pros do?

I'm not exactly the best in this, but when I had problems with my short forehand and wide balls, I worked on making the stroke and footwork be one. So instead of thinking "move to the ball, do the stroke" I just did this "one-ness" of the footwork and stroke in one. For example, when someone...

Doing anything distracting during an opponent's stroke is definitely against the rules. In the event of a loud noise, a let can even be called. What constitutes distraction or a loud noise isn't exactly specified to the detail.

WRB should increase stiffness, in theory. How applicable that theory is and how right it is in reality, well, I'm sure we all remember a certain physicist's posts here. I'm not actually sure myself if putting a hole in the handle would change the inherent properties of the blade face. There IS...

WRB doesn't just decrease mass. It changes the center of gravity along the blade face as well as lowering the mass, but more importantly it changes the natural frequency and spring rate of the blade face. In other words, the blade becomes stiffer. I don't need a very stiff blade right now, and...

I've been playing with dead bats for so long and they didn't let me swing halfheartedly anyway. A non-dead rubber on an ALL+ or faster blade feels like a rocket launcher compared to them. The rare chance I get to play with a real nice setup sure does feel like something else. Can't wait to...

I've played with a friend's OFF premade and even if it didn't have the best rubber (sponge hard as a brick) it spun well enough that it was very easily manageable with full swings. Shortening your technique and chicken winging it is what it punished. I'm eager to see what I can do with a...

I tried stomping a few times. I'm not sure if my opponents were even reading my spin in the first place, and I injured a few children in the nearby elementary school, so I stopped. :rolleyes:

Carl, check the first post. I ordered the Evo. I am very, VERY delicate with my equipment, be it whatever, because I don't have a lot of money to replace anything, so I don't think the durability will be a problem. I treat other people's equipment like it's my own. It also can't be any less...

Jesus christ Echte, you've seen a player's stomp move the table several centimeters? Do they squat elephants? :p

SilentRain, hahah. I will choose the AE then, because it's cheaper and it has more control. If it's a better blade for me, cheaper AND I like the wood color more, then why not? :p @kukamonga Well, to be honest, I "suck their socks" because they've generally given good advice and I can rely...

For what reason would you recommend the AE over the OC? Mind you that the AE will run me a bit less, so I am inclined to buy it if it's a better buy. But if the OC is better, I can handle the extra 2 or so eur it'd cost me. ;)