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If you backswing close to the body, your racket will be almost always pointing down and low to increase the speed of the rotation especially if you fold your torso. It is just the nature of the backswing.

Just about every modern player recovers the way he recovers if they are not excessively rushed by the opponent. He backswings close to the body and his rotation and the close to the body motion keeps the racket down but when he wants to come forward, his body orientation and adjustment brings...

Taking the racket back to the hip (which is what gives the appearance of keeping the racket low) makes it easier to backswing quickly as it makes the backswing shorter and rotation required easier. Also makes it easier if you recover for a backhand. If you do the straight line, it takes more...

The racket is high. See him loop against backspin to know what a low position really is. If you see him loop one backspin and one topspin, you will see the difference. You are confusing his close to the body backswing with dropping the racket.

For anyone who plays primarily for speed not spin and who doesn't use a Tenergy, what rubber do you use?

I heard that they use different rubbers and can go between H3 and Tenergy. But yes, that changed too. But the technical change was far more pronounced, I remember a couple of people wondering whether Ma Long was playing like an amateur with his thumb so high and flat on the rubber.

Yeah the plastic ball is harder to move. And Chinese coaches are now everywhere. That is why I am saying that these things have gone now. People should just start understanding good technique and understand the special uniqueness of someone like Timo or Maze with excessive wrist rather than...

Not sure what you are trying to say. That Timo Boll is not low on his legs? Or that Timo cannot play with a more open arm if his equipment was slower? Or that Timo does not use substantial body movement when playing his stroke?

A lot of the distinction is the speed and nature of the equipment and the fact that Europeans tend to train in structure later than the Chinese. But the essentials are the same. The Chinese also use better short game to get an early attack so they get easier chances to put away forehand. In...

Even the forehand is not that distinctive IMO but I will leave it at that. The question is always what are you looking at.

People still think in terms of these things?

It matters at every level but at you point out, the question is what you are trying to get out of it. Of course for someone who wants that extra spin to become world champ, it is different from someone who has bad technique and hopes the best equipment will help him. But even for you and me...

Shylock, the Merchant of Venice, Butterfly, the Merchant of Table Tennis.

If I want to try Short pips, then most likely Nittaku Moristo. If Medium/long probably something from Dawei, But it means lots of practice and that is the thing I want to minimize. But I think that I will have to twiddle a lot on both sides because I will want to mostly play inverted strokes...

Who says the textbook form is the best forehand if someone can get a better quality shot with another form? The textbook itself is continually refined by those looking to innovate at the highest levels. While Timo has a spin based forehand (which he has changed a little for the plastic ball)...

I have played with Big Dipper and Omega V Asia on both sides so I could definitely play T05H on both sides if the weight didn't kill me. More realistically though, that is a lot of money for me to spend on just two rubbers. And fastarc G1 still exists.

So I looked at the Butterfly catalogue and concluded that Viscaria is not meaningfully better and ZJK would likely make it worse so I sanded the handle of my Boll ALC. Much flatter and comfortable now. Will play on Wednesday.

More and more people have been recommending that I put pimples of some kind on one side. I can't do with backhand because my backhand loop is my best shot but maybe I should just put it on the racket and let the twiddling do the rest as maybe I can use it on backhand and twiddle to loop...

Where is Dyjas nowadays? His backhand power was monstrous when he took out Dima a while back.

I also think his new B game.makss him a much better player and allows him go conserve energy for later rounds. His backhand is just much more consistent and that is a good thing.