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The ball doesn't have to be flying towards your stomach to play a backhand. It really depends on your technique and how you understand what your game is for. I don't believe you should develop a stronger forehand than backhand - I believe that the forehand is NATURALLY more powerful and...

This video will give you an idea of how it is done. Watch the part beginning at 2:23 especially. Some people call the technique of this or other shoulder driven guys wrong. It's not as easy to do fast topspin exchanges with it, but for opening against chop or adjusting to balls with awkward...

One guy is talking about something he has no experience with. I on the other hand, want to dissuade people from saying things about backhand looping that are not true. Watching Schlager, you can see why he can play a chopper with his technique while Ma Long cannot. People with a backhand...

Tt monster, master a reverse pendulum no spin, it may be what the doctor ordered.

Limited is not the same thing as weak.

It's probably language but you need to distinguish between "backhand vs backspin" and "backhand vs heavy backspin or chop". The players who can play choppers with their backhand use a slightly more shoulder driven technique vs chop so it makes it easier for them to adjust. Ma Long has a...

Yes. That the first blade is an original and that Korbel likes heavy blades...

I tried to get a lighter Korbel from an NA distributor. They sent me a 100g Korbel. Read between the lines.

Not just into the topsheet, sometimes into the wood to the degree the ball deforms or the wood flexes.

Can you graze something and make it rebound off your racket? Of course not. It is really the tangential element of the stroke that creates the spin, and that tangential element has to turn the ball. The grazing is thicker than it seems to be, and thick grazing may actually get more spin if...

As long as you don't move the table, the only part of your body that cannot touch the table is your non-racket hand. If you a) move the table with any part of your body or b) touch the table with your non-racket hand, you lose the point.

I don't think rankings are supposed to predict results. Rankings should reward performance. I for one have no problem seeing Timo Bollinger drop to #44 or so in the rankings or Zhang Jike fall lower. It is part of making the tour a quality product. That said, sugard pointed out the...

What people think is grazing so usually much more than that. But there is no need to make this about language. It's really the turning aspect of the stroke that adds the spin. Rubbers with higher throw can add this turning effect into their design so you get it on hits. I prefer Rubbers...

I practice backhand topspin against chop all the time. One of my best strokes. There is a sense on which ERT is right but he didn't fully discuss it. I also find at the lower levels vs chop and definitely at all levels if power is not an issue that the backhand topspin is a harder stroke to...

Suds, though it likely applies to both of you.

You are making a mountain out of what I think is a molehill. Modern rubbers let you hit the ball when looping. I tend to get much more spin than I would like to when smashing. It comes with the territory. Though on the other hand, since you limit yourself to cheap Chinese stuff, I can see...

Yes. You technical inconsistency and lack of ideal practice conditions may make this a nightmare, but get him to put the ball into the table on his side, work up to the net bottom, then to the net green, then to the net white, possibly even off the table. The range of information and racket...

Mostly vertical is old school. Modern is sideways or diagonally upwards and sideways. Reason is that being vertical interferes with your ready position to play a backhand topspin or adjust the blocking angle as the wrist and forearm rotation in that plane is limited on the lollipop/vertical...

My latest practice - you can see how heavily whip factors into my technique - forehands the first 8 minutes, backhands the next 5, inside out forehands the next 7, mixed stuff the next 4, then a match to close it out.

You still aren't listening.. but you may have been frustrated. Don't learn this lesson the hard way. Good job! Get there soon!