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Watch the Killerspin video I posted above, it shows the drill well. It's very soft and you'd really need to do things wrong to wreck your paddle. :p

@OP if you didn't understand my second method, it's basically this method with the bottle, described here. The bottle is probably a bit safer for your blade and you'll not feel limited by being afraid of hitting the edge.

What Carl said. You're probably underestimating just how tricky a good brush contact is. Once you get the hang of it, you can start to improve, but if you don't, you'll just be doing drives for two years like I ended up doing. The "Looping slow no spin balls" thread is pretty good. Skip all...

NL, hahaha, true. There's actually a ton of places where balls can get stuck and go out of view in my play area, so it's a bit of a pain, but I think I will still find some kind of practical way to transport a dozen balls or so with me. It's mostly a question of space in my bag, and I'm not...

@NextLevel "Under-promise and over-deliver" is great. Definite +1 for that. @SilentRain I read your post, and I followed it today. I've narrowed my focus down. My only goal is to get more spin with the same normal speed I play shots at, placing it just simply down the line from the middle...

I'd really like a 250FPS slow motion camera: that'd probably make pretty clear just exactly how much am I brushing or not brushing. ;) Barring that, I think the phone would do fine. I'll look into getting my partner to hold my phone next time. Even without seeing my current strokes, I feel...

According to Larry Hodges, a no-spin serve that looks exactly like backspin is one of the highest level things you can have.

I played a bit today, under an hour. Warmup then we did some games, with my usual partner. No battery left in the phone and I had to come home fast to attend to more important matters, so I didn't get the video. Good news are that I've improved a bit. I've stopped caring about spin and speed...

Nowhere did I say that blocking inconsistency is not my fault as well. There's a clear "How good I'm doing vs how good they're doing" correlation. What do you suggest I do, attempt to not produce more spin? Am I not attempting to learn a contact where I'm producing more spin and less velocity...

That's what I was trying to find out. I don't want to keep practicing the same, wrong thing. So the only explanation is that I'm not applying force as purely towards generating spin as I'd like. Probably still "cutting into the apple" a bit.

Quick question: What exactly is happening if it feels like I'm brushing, but I still need to increase velocity if I want more spin? Am I driving into the ball very gently while I brush, which results in this need to increase velocity every time I increase spin? If I had a more pure brushing...

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monster, I noticed the angle in the video is more closed than I'm thinking is correct. For no-spin, I imagine it'd be even closer to 45deg. I think I have an idea of how I could do this stroke, now. Carl, I'm talking mostly about self hitting balls, but also balls in rallies. I'm having an...

It's better to observe how the ball reacts on the table than the arc to gauge spin, right? I've noticed that my fast topspin shots look like they're not bouncing off the table and instead just skipping forward off it, and they're also not coming back from the wall too much anymore, so I'm...

I don't think he's referring to muscle tenseness. Think of Ryu Seung-Min vs Oh Sang-Eun.

@Shuki Every time I learn something new, 3 new questions arise. It's very pleasant, actually. Instead of a rigid goal to aim for, you find out that there's many ways to do whatever it is you're doing. So while new questions and struggles might arrive, they also bring new opportunities. That's...

I have some experience in very technical things akin to TT, so that problem doesn't plague me terribly. For this matter, I just find answers for every single problem I could have at this level, except the one I'm intending to fix! Maybe eventually I will get to the point in the long list where...

Der_, I understand you've served as active mil. Exactly how many years of service time is mandatory to be able to spin first, ask questions later without batting an eye? :rolleyes:

Either you're not understanding that I'm talking about specifically a very vertical shot, or I'm not understanding that the fundamentals are exactly the same no matter how vertical or horizontal the shot. Whatever it is, I guess I'll have to post a video later so you guys can see if my form is...

Carl, instead of telling me how I should have presented myself, which is welcome in itself, I would still rather prefer it if you would give me help on the exact problem I am dealing with and asking about. And @songdavid98 do post any further thoughts you have. Just understand that I'm not...