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I can't really understand what Takkyu is saying either, but the one thing that Brett tried to explain when he was here was that if you are a backhand player, you can often struggle with balls that are suddenly played to your wide forehand. That's why he worked a lot on cross step and pivot...

I personally find it more difficult to play a forehand if my right foot is not pointing to the side. Both my feet are always pointing outwards at about the same angle to each other. But I will try to give my best explanation of what you said the way I understand it.

The same motion that produced the serve will lift the ball, you just have to get lower and avoid driving the ball unless you have confidence in your swing violence. That is why I serve lots of no spin - getting low is too much work and at my level, if you don't put the ball past someone, it...

Well said. The real issue is technical competence when serving. I had decent serves but only a deceptive backspin no spin thing when I first started working with Brett. My game went in the last two years from serving to get into rallies to being unable to win matches if my opponent returned...

Suds79, It is good that you are figuring some of these things out. In general, it is the kind of stuff a good coach shows you if they know what they are doing. By the way. There is absolutely nothing wrong with serving flat and underneath the ball to get heavy backspin. You just need to...

Turn down the apin and have it hit into the table as if serving to reduce the spin further.

The blade construction and design will account for these things.

There are Hinoki ALC blades, why not spruce ALC?

My apologies I sometimes develop tunnel vision.

I haven't used ALC-S but there is something about the thickness of the ALC that is off putting.

Sure, but we are trying to figure out who Matt was referring to, not list all the good players in the USA. Gacina played as if he wanted Kai to just miss and Kai doesn't do that much as Westchester. He plays 50-100 pts better at that club than he does outside of it.

If you watch closely it is fairly obvious. A lot of CNT are Viscaria users if not all ALC users.

Nah. Junhan Wu is from Matt's club and had only lost one match on US soil. Different level from most players we see here, most of his competition is on the west coast.

They played the Semis at Westchester. In the second video above, he plays "beast" in the finals at Princeton. It was interesting talking to Azeez after the match. It shows you the kind of fighter he is.

Here are two Azeez matches:

My buddy! Where was the event?

That has not been my experience at all unless you consider Viscaria and HL5 slow blades. What they probably mean is that Schlager carbon is not common with young Chinese players (many older experienced players use it with Tenergy). What I find is that good players use a good offensive looping...

If you care, here is the match. Coaching tournament matches is not for me - it drive me crazy when I am supposed to be getting my player to play his best table tennis.

Me today, I played tournament coach and EJ madman. Bought aTenaly and long pips and coached a friend who wanted to make me pull my hair out through his knockout matches in the U2000. He lost deuce in the 5th, coming back from being down 3-10 to lose 12-14.