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The racket may be good for your game if your age can handle it. I personally don't like too much catapult anymore, I just prefer to generate the power myself so I know what I put in is what I am getting. I just need to be more calculated on serve return with it. But at least you have your old...

Are you left handed? It sounds like you are largely in a good situation. Better player doesn't necessarily mean better coach, especially for a specific player. It is more important as an adult learner go find good mentors who invest time in you and the fact you and your coach review your...

This is really not an equipment discussion but in any case, you have.a coach.

I actually disagree, you just need to open your racket a bit more for heavier balls. That is the standard way to loop heavy chop.

This is not as good as blahness video but it makes some of the same points and is another perspective.

This is how my second coach taught me to approach backspin (he also added in avoiding the main spin axis). So I have never had that fear of heavy chop that most people have. It's partly why I teach wrist flexibility because you can compensate for some of the angle requirements with...

@zouless, Let me give you my honest opinion, which you may not want. You can spend a lot of time working on footwork basics, but other than spin reading which is always the X factor in my view as you can't tell whether someone can handle the challenges of serve and and serve return well, there...

So you haven't played that much. Well you have a lot to learn and hopefully it will work out as you play more. Are you happy with your current improvement trajectory?

Swing is too long usually means the upper arm not being driven by the body movement. In the video posted here, you can see your upper arm is still going by itself well after you have contacted the ball. You have a lot of power but you use too much upper arm to play the ball. Just do a short...

Makes sense - how long have you been playing for now?

I am fairly confident that @hclnnkhg is just following up on my question and is making the point I am going to make here which I am sure you agree with. But the truth (and I am not telling you anything that you don't know) is that all these movements are designed to optimize your ability to get...

When you wrote this: "I know some of these players are or have been in the top 50 in Norway, and all of them certainly are in the top 100. Not to be mean to those players or anything, but they all have their own peculiarities in their strokes, but the main theme is that they have acceleration...

That's impressive - I can't even pretend to do that.

Thanks for the kind words, Takkyu. I trained a lot of forehand the past 7 years and I have played matches where people tell me my backhand is bad but my forehand is good, or that I have balance, so your POV is not unknown to me. I did some work to change my backhand 3 years ago and my...

The main point here is that it shouldn't be an impression, he needs to know your goals, you need to know his plan for you, and then you both need to figure out the intersection. He might assume you are playing somewhere on the days you don't train with him, and the things you are learning are...

I guess one day, we will get to see your backhand. Until then, we will just have to live with your description of it :D.

Pulling the elbow back as part of the full stroke is pretty important. The backswing with the wrist makes it easier to go forward doing so. That said, I suspect that there are players who can get good spin without back swinging as aggressively. I would still argue that backswing is a major...

Since you are going to spin the ball you will be fine no matter how early or late you are. The contact is a bit on the side so it is a bit thicker when you are early and a bit thinner when you are late. The stroke feels very different from how it looks - it is much safer than you might think...

I think BRS started after the age of 40, and he is very much against overthinking, in fact, whenever I make an elaborate story around technical control, he points out such verbiage doesn't help him at all. Ultimate if you get better in TT at playing matches, it will be through some kind of...

You never answered my question about whether you think your pristine technique will help you beat the Norwegian players without the pristine technique and what the reason for your answer was One can deliberately practice many things and even improve those things, it is still important to know...