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Okay. Read carefully. Usually a player who can beat me with quality pushes against topspin is generally playing at a level where I don't compete. That is very different from saying they are strange or controversial. Hope that is clear. You may just be a 2400 level player since pushing with...

IMHO, you should coach as much as you want too. Try as much as possible to stay in a range of credibility where your strengths are known and you know how to plug and supplement your limitations. Since you already have DerEchre close to you, the fact he can mentor you on some things is...

This is such a bad idea that it is funnier. .

Okay. It's one of those things where again I will just have to take your word for it

Giving a no spin ball heavy backspin is made easier by tackiness but it still isn't trivial.. And relative to a push vs backspin, it is always lighter. Nothing to do with being Chinese or European there, I've beaten lots of players who push my no spin or side top and think they are safe...

IMHO, The differences are largely in how the backswing affects your timing and contact point (though that is obviously the most important thing for you). I don't see much difference in the two. There is no reason you cannot kill or spin the ball with either stroke, the full use of the arm is...

The accumulation is not infinite, no, it depends on both the serve and the receive or the incoming and out coming stroke. Of course a receiver can add spin, but a receiver can also kill spin - it is more common though to use the incoming energy to control the ball and add something it. There...

Whatever you choose you need the same thing on both sides.

You have a tutorial on this? I don't think it is trivial at all.

So the reason I ask is to make the point that the problem isn't the fact you loop, it is the fact that you would not play topspin the same way so your problem is that you are applying a backspin stroke to a topspins ball. This is more of the adaptation you have to do. The biggest part of the...

T80FX is a solid rubber. usually well respected in the backhand and I have seen guys use it on both sides of a ZLF blade. I think BRS used it ages ago and I know one guy who used to drive me nuts who used it on both sides too. Ultimately I wasn't really caring about the specific rubber, I...

Do you loop topspin as well?

While you almost never really know what is on the ball until you play it and compare the effect to what you thought would happen, you should have some general idea if you remember what you did prior and how what your opponent did prior affected the ball. In fact, very often, inverted rallies...

How many of us on the forum can beat the loser of this match?

Part of it is your arm/elbow is a bit too close to your body, but part of it is really practice as it is easier for many to make contact with confidence closer to the handle (the upper third feels risky). Some people cover up the lower half of the blade on drills in order to force them to...

Nah, you have had good serves way longer than I have, you have to have a good backspin serve for this to make a difference. Most people serve that basic backspin so they buy into the pips make serve return easier stuff. While when you serve the real backspin, you learn pretty quickly that the...

You beat them all, right?

You served long heavy backspin, be ready to smash or counterspin the ball no matter where it shows up. You serve long topspin, be ready the loop the backspin or no spin that shows up. You know what you put on the ball, the pips can't change the spin beyond a certain range, so as long as the...

Serving short topspin to a pips player is asking for backspin hit. How often do you attack a backspin or no-spin hit? It will be interesting to see the match footage. The most important thing is to get returns you can read or attack. And to learn to alternate push and spin. But I think...

Ok, the first rule is to stick with whatever you are using for as long as you can. So if you are used to T05, there is no great reason to change it. It is best to change only one thing at a time. For you, I would keep the innerforce ZLC blade, but I would switch the rubber on both sides to...