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There are a lot of misconceptions around spin, and I might not be the right person to address them all. But hopefully, I can save you from some of the bad posts I have read on the subject (I will not reference them here out of respect for the posters, who I sometimes revered while learning TT)...

The way the backhand works, it is hard for even beginners to play it without some use of the body and many people have thrown frisbees before. On the forehand side, using the arm without the upper body is easier because most people who are not athletes don't do the throw the way the forehand...

Yes, there are things that help, but everything takes time. Getting stronger fingers (which most people coincidentally do from gripping TT rackets) helps, as being able to grip the racket with the fingers as opposed to building tension in the arm muscles allows you to relax and whip the racket...

You can take many routes as long as you are not in a rush. I provide my typical one below. Relaxing to hit the ball mostly means that you are trying to use the larger muscle groups in the lower body and core and not the arm. It takes a lot of practice at slower timing to get the body to...

There are clearly aspects of her game that are still not what someone would ideally want, but the key thing she did and which I think is coachable regardless of how you are coached is that she swung her racket through a path. She might not use her body optimally to do it, and this is not so...

Victor Moraga is far from a total noob so I find his comments interesting.

That makes some sense, though I am not fully sure what you mean when you say you can't carry the shoulder. The main thing though is that you need to expand your forehand window and that can only happen if you can play more towards the ball and not across your body. So maybe you need to adjust...

Great stuff - I admire your game - as an adult learner with no formal coaching, you have done very well. The lack of coaching is pronounced in your forehand for sure, but it isn't terrible, I think it you should consider making your forehand more of a salute movement so you hit the ball with...

The last one is especially important:

IT's not so much the power, but the activation sequence. It should come out clearly that the core of what is happening is being driven by more tension in the lower body and a relatively relaxed upper body. Even if you hit the body really hard or really brushy, there is a different feeling when...

It's partly because you aren't looping them, you are driving them. There are some things to point out about the whole approach to training that to me doesn't add up, but you are an experienced player, I suspect this has worked for you which is why you do it. In general though, I would focus...

It is interesting to see someone still focused on whip mechanics. Great stuff.

HI Dingvibvs, thanks for sharing video and it is nice to see you play. It takes a courageous soul to post practice for others to criticize. I think your leg work on bit strokes could be significantly improved, your upper body work on the forehand fine but you are not spinning the legs into a...

Other than your clothes, I can't tell your level from your form - which is good.

A lot of "footwork" is really tied to prior shot choices and hence anticipation. If you find yourself out of position, the question is how you sequenced your shots and whether you prepared for the next shot possibilities based on your prior shot adequately. It is about footwork, but is it...

You don't need to move much if your opponent doesn't make you move much - don't get caught up in the myth that there is something wrong with staying in one position - it's more about the tension in your legs and shot readiness if anything, but that isn't really about moving per se. If you serve...

If your recovery is too slow on your pendulum serves, just switch to backhand serves (like me), and then you can forget about recovery lol.

I was thinking more about match coaching - funny though that you both share the same coach.