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Thata their training, one is traditional penholder and the other doesnt banana flip. But it does expose their game to a certain kind of weakness against a certain kind of player. Against lefties, if you can give them the first forehand wide and them block it back to the backhand, they tend to...

On the ideas that your backhand should be a shield and you can get to 2000 as a hitter: both ideas in their stated form are a relic of the era where forehand and footwork dominated the game at almost every level. In fact one could loop with short pips with the 38mm ball. But just having a...

There are two main options. 1. Practice with a grip that let's you play both backhand and forehand. Usually this means you are lower on the racket and holding the blade like a gun. Then learn to play forehand and backhand with it and do things like ball bouncing exercises. 2. Practice the...

A lot of things go into playing better, unless you have a coach observing how you lose and win points and developing a strategy and tactics to adjust for these things, it is easy to pretend that such simplistic advices as "get lower", "put the ball on the table more", "stand wider" are going to...

I didn't have to open to link to know what it was lol!

Primorac Carbon is as good as it gets if price is a factor. First of all really Steel blades will be be composites unless you are looking at 1 ply Hinokis. In the 3+2 Hinoki Carbon/composites, you can go with the ZLC( Nobilis or Amultart or Garaydia ZLC). Not a fan of the Garaydia ALC or Iolite...

Some coaches still recommend it based on Ma Long's obvious success using it, but by now everyone knows that what makes a player world class isn't completely technical. We just don't want bad technique to be a huge barrier but game reading skills and athleticism clearly play a bigger role.

Other thing, film the forehand a bit more often from the front as well as the side, most of us are used to seeing it from the front (as coaches or players) and can tell what is wrong more easily from the front even when it seems there is less information. The main thing one gets from the angle...

Hit the ball somewhere in front of your chest where the two arms meet. Usually, this will involve hip rotation and a lunge that will shift this point to the side of your body. Look at the backswings in the videos that blahness posted. Anywhere in between the center of the chest and the right...

Every rubber is different in how it is treated. Even the same rubber can play a bit differently if you put on a different sponge and boost it. And some people naturally hit through the ball more and some people brush more. I played with Golden Tango PS I didn't like it as much as I liked the...

So the most common scenario for what you are doing in that video is counterlooping a slower ball. So while there are some examples of arm compensation in this video especially in the matches examples (though more aggressively than what you did), I think you can see that most players are taking...

If you do the same loop with tacky rubber and the same loop with non-tacky rubber and you try to feel the differences in effect and you try to create the same effect, if you have decent technique, the adjustments will come intuitively. The tacky rubber will always require more power or thicker...

I've gone back and forth between tacky and non-tacky. The advanced rubbers all do the same thing, the question is what feels linear to you and what table distances you are comfortable playing at. Tack slows the ball release down, so it works against rubber elasticity at lower swing speeds...

Because with tacky rubber, you can sometimes hit one spin shot with so much power the point ends. That is torture for the opponent.

Yes, this is a far better way of saying what I Was getting at - the backswing is driven by use of the legs to lunge and fold the torso. Not by taking the arm backwards or forwards per se (there is some of that for very little additional power, but it isn't the core of the stroke).

This I agree with, I have not decided I want to change my stroke that much, but I have felt this a lot. What I will probably do is make the stroke path bigger but close over it.

I would argue that the first two are taking the ball later and the next two are taking the ball earlier and the last two are probably not the optimal way of taking the ball earlier and the first two are arguably not the optimal way of taking the ball later. I think you have gone down a rabbit...

Ah okay. That makes sense. What I would say is that there is a path adjustment you need to make when you hit the ball hard. That is what enables you to play full strokes closer to the table. It usually involves finishing a bit lower tha you would with a slower rubber. That said, Rakza X has...

The one I hit with and like had Dignics 05 on both sides. But I could do Golde Tango as well on one side. But more likely i will just get the Dignics 05. Or maybe even T05 Hard for forehand and T05 backhand.

I finally decided to try the Cyber...