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You use your body very well, so it is not easy to isolate it. The backswing should feel like you are slowly throwing something behind you until the ball shows up and forward swing should feel as if you have ended that motion and recoiling from it. You have short arms so you might be doing...

I am curious where you are with this. Looking at your usage of your arm, there is still a little room for improvement there but I am curious as to whether this perspective on looping has improved your approach to the ball. If you compare both this video and your previous 53 loops video to a...

Definitely not the same.

This article explains it best: https://thoughtsontabletennis.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/throw-angle/ Seems Susanne quoted it without referring to it :cool:

). I have tested them (like Baal, I test all the 3 stars and since I coach, I also test the ones that are not 3 star). The ball gives me hope. The sound is not great but it seems consistent. I haven't put it through matches though, just some practice hits.

Yeah - the thread title should not be permitted and if necessary the thread closed.

It is usually loops and loop drives. Hurricane is good for someone with the footwork to get into position and loop drive consistently. In fact some people will tell you not to rank Europe and China rubbers along the same continuum as their strokes don't respond to the ball the same way. I...

Usually, when I am up 10 - 4 or something like that, if I do a flashy point to end the match/game and miss, I can call a timeout to remind myself of what is important. I have learned my lesson from doing that and watching others to not assume that you have things so under control that there is...

Youtube has 1.5X and 2.0x speed settings. USeful for getting through the fluff.

I used to prefer straight, now I prefer flare. Flare forces my fingers to stay where I think they are supposed to be for me to play my best.

It depends on the technique and the type of the loop. Some rubbers bottom out earlier than others and some rubbers also need more racket head speed to activate their throw. For someone who swings at a certain speed that is medium paced, they will find T25 low throw or dead while T05 is really...

DerEchte has now been re-armed with a 88-90g KJH blade with Karis M and Evolution MX-P. People beware...

You've been trolling in his defense since he joined, have you noticed?

I think those things are all technical choices - you can open harder with a slower blade and still get the ball to dip. If you don't like the feeling, I think a harder top play is the way to go, not necessarily a faster blade. That said, you do seem to know what you want, but I don't think it...

Yes the lack of exposure to high level TT explains his appeal to certain amateurs. That said, I am not so sure that all these things are "fundamentals" so much as things that you pick up over time as you hang around and play better and better table tennis.

Your approach in my experience is completely wrong. If you want to play more third ball attacks, you need a slower blade/ spinnier rubber so you can power through backspin confidently, not a faster blade/faster rubber which will often lead to you overshooting the table. As a general rule, the...

Any Butterfly ALC or ZLC blade will give you what you are looking for. Sorry but the blades are more expensive.

Great points. I have seen Chinese people come to my club and watch me for minutes loop, play and serve, even though I am just USATT 2000. If we were to believe stories about Chinese amateur table tennis which some people never seriously think through, this should never happen. But the truth is...

I got two. The blade was too bouncy and lacked feeling. The baLloyd always flew off before I could do anything with it. Even when I got one of them back a couple of weeks ago, my opinion was unchanged. It was head heavy and lacking balance.

I know. Everyone is different. I know people who change their Tenergy because they don't like how it looks after 1 month of play.