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Apparently this video is old, but I'm still going to say it: A tighter follow through would benefit you a lot. You have power and you can land shots, but I think you will hit a wall eventually, if you haven't already. Some day, someone's gonna return those big shots into your groin and you'll...

@Nextlevel We are mostly hitting, due to his level. My shots have enough topspin on them to be topspin shots, but these are more so powerloops, except I'm not swinging very hard, perhaps about 50%. It's surprisingly hard to really topspin a return that doesn't have much topspin or backspin on...

@Nextlevel Why is the timing dodgy? It's a half-long fast serve leaning towards long most of the time, and I don't want to return it at a late trajectory. I'm not purely driving like a rallying stroke, and I'm definitely not looping, if that's what you're thinking. The video IS unclear. If...

Check out the general section, I thought you guys might have a laugh. I promise I'll post some respectable footage later. :rolleyes:

So I put my stone-age phone down and filmed some video of me ****ing around at the school's table with a friend, because something felt terribly off in my shots and I couldn't put my tongue on it. Today wasn't a bad day per se, but let's just say I wasn't running on the best amount of sleep and...

Isn't that common sense? If you can find someone who will instantly bump your forehand loop up several levels just via text alone, send me a PM. :rolleyes:

Well, it'd be nice if my advice helped him get any close to 0.1% better. That's the point: maybe it sticks, maybe it doesn't.

ttmonster, if coaches always took all of those into account at once and commented on all of them at the same time, their students would just have brain aneurysms. I simply give a "quick fix" that has a little bit of all of those and we see if it helps him. Shuki has a coach, it's her job to...

Well, I feel a lot better knowing that you have judged my abilities of living to be insufficient. To think I was going all of this time without knowing that someone else knew me better than myself and could judge me in such a personal level, so objectively and wisely. :rolleyes:

If a professional coach gave you advice, would you change your opinion on the exact same advice if they revealed themselves to be a professional coach? Even if the advice was completely wrong/absolutely correct in the first place? We're talking about mechanics here. The matter is the exact...

I don't think I was ever judging anyone, seeing as I don't have any material to work on. How can you criticize or talk bad about something if it doesn't exist? If I would have said "Whenever I have problems like that, my forehand is usually constricted on the follow through. Whenever I have...

No, I don't have to. Furthermore, all I'm doing is comparing the technique shown to the technique demonstrated in the Stiga video. I believe to more accurately follow the video, you should step back slightly. I don't know what's so bad about that. Even if I don't step back in my own serves, or...

I give advice based on my own experience, and this is what I get in return? Can you stop the elitism circlejerking for one second?

Shuki's forehand is probably too short and constricted. Perhaps not up to the contact, but probably on the follow through. Whenever I have problems with lining up a forehand, it's lack of rotating into the shot and playing it more in a backhand like mentality. I'm relaxed, and my forehand...

It'd be a lot better if you physically stepped backwards. That's the point of the step, to get you squared and farther away. If you don't do this, what do you do? Face the table sideways?

This is what I'm looking for. I've felt that a slow, spinny shot played high rather than low is more effective, but couldn't really understand why because unless I'm terribly out of position, it's no problem. Thus, you play this shot to a position where your opponent will be out of position...

My point is that I was not aware that such a return can even work above the "not terrible beginner but not still any good" level. I don't think my loops have as much spin as his does, but people can still only half-attack my serve returns, like his opponent in the video. Thus I'm surprised at...

I don't consider that an aggressive return. It's an offensive return that provides initiative, but he got counterattacked even despite all the spin he put on it. I've had a lot of success with this kind of return, and get a very similar return back at me, but I thought it was just because the...

At 1:30, his opponent serves to his forehand wing with a reverse pendulum serve. He does the looping motion I am talking about and returns the serve. They exchange forehands and he eventually wins the rally, pushing the opponent on the defensive. ??

Some time ago, I used someone's racket with what I am 90% sure of being Yasaka Rising Dragon on both sides. My form was not as good as it is now, but I remember the rubber being quite good. Really tacky, for one. I also remember it as being quite soft.