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IT's good that you sent him the video, you should have made him watch you earlier as most good coaches want to see how their students are playing. In fact, I would usually call a coach who never watches you play useless. Training general things cannot improve your game if they have no relation...

You are 100% right. Moreover, it's usually difficult to work with coaches who don't speak your usual language and I suspect I would get more out of the lessons if I spoke Chinese. But on the other hand, I am advanced enough as a player to appreciate what she says even if I don't understand it...

For those of you who are really into watching other people take lessons: I decided to despite my injuries and overworked body make a push for 2100-2200 level with training from a local coach. I haven't spent any money on organized coaching on a regular basis for almost 2 years now so this is...

It was a joke, people.

Then how did Liang Jingkun make the national team? :confused:

How many new threads on the same topic?

Usually, it means you are playing a flatter style (which compels your opponent to sometimes play a flatter style) or your opponent is playing a flatter style. Those styles usually involve more risk so you have to play with more spin to reduce the opponent's luck.

The -P evolutions use a booster that wears off after a period of time. Some people can't stand the way they play after the booster goes, some reboost, some just live with it. If you get the -P Evolution, or a Bluefire M series, smell the rubber, you will smell a sweet smell similar to to...

Could you be more graphic please? LOL!!!!

No, he wasn't referring to you. And don't worry, we like new members of all kinds (except the ones that come to cause trouble and you clearly aren't one if you are trying to meet other members on the forum in person - the trouble makers don't do that). It's the old members that don't let go of...

I am good against most styles but trick topspin serve and attack players are the ones that frustrate me especially if they smash. I like to play at my own pace so I hate being rushed.

The ready position you return to looks very different from how you would set up for forehand. But it might be the same. Just make sure the starting position is similar or you will be rushed in transition.

Point the racket more upwards at the end of the backswing and try to more aggressively hit the left side of the ball with your stroke. You might be struggling because under pressure, you don't expose enough of your racket to the ball to feel safe about the contact. The stroke looks fine in...

Yes, that was one of the reasons I stopped using Big Dipper - I used ALL+ blades, but the problem was that the rebound didn't let me block weak loops and I wasn't good enough to counterloop all the time. The thing is that some Euro rubbers have strong catapult. That is obviously not what...

I felt physically good that day. I unfortunately don't feel that way all the time or long enough to usually build on it.

Yes, but he is boosting heavily and using a Viscaria. I know how Musaab feels, it is when I play people like Leshinsky that I learn the limitations of taking strokes that you can't recover quickly enough from. Musaab can get away with it now at his current playing level but over time, it will...

You couldn't control it because you were focused on getting the ball on the table and your muscle memory could not adapt. Like I said, the solution is to learn now to do this by broadening your concept of ball control using the racket, not to try to go to slower equipment necessarily, but...

This is an important point, but I will make it in my response to Musaab as many people give bad advice on this subject in my experience as they don't know the difference between *hard sponge* and *tacky rubber* from a practical perspective.

Champions league RR stage. Orenburg and Sporting Lisbon have already advanced so it is more for show.

Sometimes, using cheap rubber is part of the problem as the rubber is not responding as well to the stroke in a way that encourages you to improve along the right path. So your perspective is very limited by your experience and is not relevant. The simple question to ask is which world class...