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The sawing on that blade looks quite good.

kuka, your insecurity is so loud I had to turn my music up.

The point is that a slow blade will at least tell you that you suck, while the fast blade will just rebound off fast with no spin, might make it to the other side, and you think you did well if it doesn't immediately get killed.

The ball's path and velocity after the bounce on your opponents side gives more information than your racket motion, so it's not that your racket motion is a terrible telegraphed move or anything. It's small and fast enough to not be a dead giveaway, and you DO perform feinting motions which...

The spin is good enough and I can't see any big inefficiencies in the technique either. Only thing I can really comment is to add a feint movement, faking topspin for example, because it's quite obvious what spin is on the ball before the bounce on my side. Change the angle slightly, sometimes...

I'd have to be against modeling your game after a pro's as suggested. They would probably advise you to do what is right for yourself. Oh Sang Eun especially has some quite unique skills that other people won't be able to imitate exactly. Do take example, though.

I believe your consistency and power would increase, especially with your long arms, if you didn't tense the arm as much and let it swing a bit straighter on the backswing. You're doing it better in the 2nd video, but you're tensed up again in the 3rd video in a more match situation with more...

Why is it that most Chinese tutorials suggest keeping the wrist fairly neutral, and the angle about 45 in the basic stroke? The normal stroke doesn't differ at all from the western variation in the basics. About 45 degrees as neutral, same swing angle as blade angle, close for topspin and open...

The motion they are doing is what I mean. Experiment with swing angle to see what happens, and try to get a lot of spin. You are throwing the ball into the racket so you will get more spin than normal, but this is the idea. Practice at the table to get the right angle. Try to swing a bit...

Your serves are probably high because you're not so much brushing along the bottom and downwards as you are hitting the bottom with a horizontal angle and making the ball travel up and forward. Here's an exercise: Hold the bat in your serve grip, with the ball in your left hand. Swing your...

You always want to brush when looping, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't strike with force and sink the ball into the sponge.

I was more amused by them having "Thug life" in the video and using a censored version of "Smoke Weed Everyday" because it's be too politically incorrect to include the original lyrics. :rolleyes:

"If I don't know where the ball's gonna go, neither can he!" :rolleyes:

Now when Der_Echte said it, I think his advice is more accurate. If you would brush the ball with a good contact and accelerate as normal, no matter where on the bat you contact, you would produce more spin than you want. I guess I understood that subconsciously, but not consciously, because...

I believe he is asking how you yourself loop a ball in a way to produce low spin. Personally, I focus on impacting the ball low on the rubber near the side closest to the floor where it will get the least spin. It's really a touch shot and I think you'd need to spend a few weeks with it to get...

Excellent video, Brett. I use that shake at the end to analyze my serve quality. It works in reverse too, I'd imagine. If you want a lower spin serve, you might wanna tense more. What's your thoughts on that if I may ask?

It's a shame for your condition, NL. I don't know how painful or dangerous it is to move around with that, but with what you have, your footwork is not as bad as people are making it out to be. Your shots are constricted, though, and you would certainly be a bit higher level if you were in...

Xylit, I think NL would put away more shots than he would miss if you gave him the chance, though. I think the only way your strategy would work is if you yourself would not make a single unforced error, which we can agree on being unlikely.

That sounds good. Maybe a little over half a year ago, I played against some stronger people who could basically slam balls into my ribs with a sidespin loop if I started to pivot for a forehand even a little too early and gave it up. My backhand was not that great, footwork not as fast as I...

Vrael, my mentality against lower players is excellent. I imagine they feel what other pros feel when they must play Ma Long, hahahah. ;) 100% confidence in success, clear thinking and tactics at every serve and return, I don't get angry or upset, no excuses, I respect the opponent's game etc...