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This is true for a lot of your training and is food for thought. What I feel about multiball and robot training is that the key is to forget about ball accuracy/consistency/power and to focus on just exercising the muscles in the right sequence slowly and to build things up over time. As a...

Yasaka Extra is still an good blade and is close enough to some of these. The one thing I will say is that the Acoustic can be the beginning of a progression to Carbon. None of the other blades offer that path.

Every night I come to TTD, it seems the spam bots have taken over. What is causing this and is there a fix?

That's partly a taste thing, some people don't like the non-lineariry of innerforce blades and prefer to just leave that to the rubber. The most popular blades in the world are not innerforce (Viscaria and clones, Mizutani and clones), though I have to admit that Innerforce ZLCs have become...

What he means by not so much wrist is very different from what I mean by not so much wrist. In general though, his backhand is a bit overrated but not going to hate on him, he is a strong player and professional athletes are professional for a reason.

Can you do a lunge without using your hips?

Being able to keep the ball short is easier with a tacky rubber. It is one of the reasons why the Chinese dominated because they always found it easier to keep the ball short than most of their opposition, even against side-topspin serves. It is also the reason why hybrids are becoming more...

The issues are more than that, though they mostly show up in higher level play. Regardless, if you like the rubber when you use it, that is the most important thing.

You can keep it on your backhand, there are lots of tacky tensors that are doing really well. I know a couple of people who really like Joola Golden Tango and this is going on my bat when my order comes in tomorrow.

She definitely mentions it, she doesn't emphasize it, likely because her motion speaks for itself. Most people don't squat and lunge enough to practice high level technique but if they can it helps.

It's a clone of the Timo Boll stroke. Timo Boll just has faster and more pronounced wrist action and he probably uses the back muscles a bit more dangerously to so. She drives hers a bit more visibly with the legs.

Jun Mizutani used ZLC. That probably helped a lot. But I am fairly sure if I remember correctly that Jishan Liang uses ZLC.

Okay I lied. Tom Lodziak posted this video today so I couldn't resist. When you know what to look for, everything makes sense,

Last video to make the point since some people want physics/science.

So when your wrist usage improves a bit we will revisit this, but while the serve quality wasn't quite there, you did get him to not attack a few times, The real issue is that you pushed long many balls that you could have opened on, often into his forehand. Players who kill loose balls give...

If I give Richard the same balls that Wrighty gave him, Richard will beat me too. At a certain point, it is your responsibility to figure out that you can't let someone attack on his terms. It doesn't mean you will be successful, but you have to try something. You have to serve multiple...

Think of your wrists as whips (not as joints to be controlled, but as whips to be cracked.) They may not be flexible or have good range, but whipping them within the range of motion that one is comfortable without *injury* or *overuse* and to the degree that you can control the extra speed from...

The use of the fingers/wrist varies from player to player and is often not visible the more you use the body as the whole stroke has to be stable. But when you are getting less from your legs, you get more from other body parts. the most important thing is to draw a curve with your stroke but...

Here is WRM TV - their over 60 series which unfortunately is not a playlist is extremely underrated. They have a backhand topspin video as well which makes me wonder whether it is really for over 60s. Notice how he uses his elbow snap and how he always keeps the elbow at the bottom of the...

Here is an old video by Greg Letts where he talks about how he modified aspects of his wrist usage to use his forehand better. Not *exactly* how I would do it, but if you understand the principles, they can be helpful.