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Why would you play a blocker style with Barracuda though? And on such a slow blade too? Clearly OP likes soft rubber but it isnt clear what he wants to improve about his forehand. I would say T80fx but not sure anyone wants to spend Tenergy money...

It is more about the player development and less about coaching in real time. For what I am discussing even watching video for 10 minutes after a match is fine or if the student can edit even better. Some students pay for this for sure and maybe more coaches should offer and charge for it...

Don't really care. In life everything has a reason, doesnt mean it is good or bad to point it out. My main point is that he could easily have watched Jslick record a match and use that as input. Too many coaches get away with stuff like this, which is unfortunate when you have a student...

It is virtually impossible to serve any pure topspin serve short, unless the topspin is extremely light or you are playing along the very longest diagonal, as topspin kicks the ball forward and upward. You can make the serve look short by making the first bounce closer to the net, but if the...

Your regular coach watching you is huge. I find it a form of coaching negligence for a coach not to watch his student in tournament matches (either live or video) and figure out drills/exercises to compensate.

The Cybershape Carbon should still be the same, the new one just has weights to make the blade heavier or lighter in the handle for feeling if the speed of the environment changes. The Cybershape Wood has limba, but that is outside the scope of this conversation lol.

So the one thing that Cybershape has in the plus column is that it is not ALC and it is not limba outer - it is Koto. But it is still innerforce. What that means for your feeling, I don't know, but for me that I hate koto, it makes a tolerable difference. I can't play with Viscaria/FZD/LGY etc.

Yes, Dragongrip is what they propose for that, maybe if I want to waste more money one day, I will try it. But for me, the attraction of Cybershape was going to a quick release rubber. but maybe for you, coming from innerforce already it might be different. But I will measure the blade...

It's a good blade but nothing super special. For some people, a bit better on flat hits and the thinner neck suits my grip more. Also encourages finishing forward since it has a bit more weight in the head. But I haven't used an innerforce ALC/ZLC in the while, it might be around that speed...

Curious how this blade plays, I have a few Garaydias that I never use, maybe this might be my motivation to use them if you like this setup. IMHO, the dwell time of Golden Tango makes every blade usable.

Yes, slowing down the opponent with variation and deception is helpful and if course if you have no chance in the short game, then go long. The most important thing is the quality of the serve and in my experience, a quality short serve is much harder to make than a quality long serve, but it...

The sport is complicated enough, in case it isnt obvious, that there are many solutions to issues, sometimes in blades, sometimes in rubbers, sometimes in practice and training and sometimes no significant solution at all. That's why we need evidence - to distinguish between reality and...

You should be able to answer all those questions with quantitative data to make your point and show why they are relevant. My point is any answer to them doesnr support your argument without assumptions that you have refused to be explicit about and when you are explicit about then, they show...

People have been selling asymmetric blades for a long time. But your original post makes it sound like most people are not buying asymmetric blades for reasons that you have not presented a strong factual basis for, including people who just want to copy what good players do and nefarious...

People do occasionally try things like that and while there is a point to it, it is important to remember that the blade itself vibrates at one frequency. So what asymmetry can affect has its limits.

Let's take the traditional view of the world for a second based on free market economics - if your argument is right, there is a huge market out there for asymmetric blades waiting your brilliant exploitation. Go ahead and exploit it, since all the dumb manufacturers are not exploiting it.

I was going to say wood, but I was like, this man has dangerous topspins, he must have changed by now because this plastic ball just makes wood painful unless you really need it. :ROFLMAO:

Tony is a penholder using Hurricane, those low dead blocks may just surprise you lol.

Northern California beginner ratings are deflated by lots of lower level events for looping juniors. In parts where ratings are more stable, that guy's skillset is easily over 1000, GM makes him look a bit worse that he is.

It feels that way with the sidespin but they, even the advanced player, are taking more risk to get those placements. And when you combine it with precise ball placement, the risks go up even more. So the speed when they place it unless the ball is high will be slower than the speed when they...