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Okay, wiseguy. You are back on my ignore list.

It's probably unfair for me to put you on the spot like this but you just don't know what you are talking about. What pisses me off is that this is the kind of crap you like to do - not post video, say nonsense and then start acting like you know what you are talking about. Below is the Sun...

She probably realizes that most intelligent people know it is not real and is just having fun with it.

Sun Wen's backhand is not huge and it is extremely standard and good technique. You either have a very vivid imagination or/and a lot to learn, take your pick.

I agree. But unless one is extremely lucky or talented, even those online videos are of limited value compared to being able to play against or hit with better players. I was lucky to be picked up by a coach who got good as an adult and had worked with Alex Polyakov of "Breaking 2000" fame...

Fair enough. My point is not so much that they are relevant or not - I forward all those videos to my students all the time and I sent Greg's articles on pips out all the time and even watch his videos, which are often much longer than I think they should optimally be to fully hold my...

Okay. How are you sure that the problems that high-level players face are relevant to the problems that you are facing? The original TTEdge site with William Henzell's coaching was a good example - lots of "good" advice, but plenty of it was pretty advanced - I like parroting it, but I am not...

How do you know you can trust Brett, Gregg or Pingskills?

To be fair, a lot of stuff can be said in defense of the lower rated player. I generally agree with you and Greg though, but I am not that highly rated my self. But the lower rated player has more justification than people admit.

Don't try to diagnose him please - he knows he wants to EJ!

You just don't know own your game. It is not a good thing to be an advanced players and not understand how you win or lose points. People in your club tend to know. Opponents who beat you tend to know where they get their points from. If you don't know, then you can play into their hands...

I can serve with heavy spin with just about anything so I may be the wrong person to ask. When someone says that it is hard to serve with a rubber, I shake my head. I remember a rubber someone said was bad for serving that I had extra sheets of. I gifted those sheets to a world class server...

Short backspin to the forehand corner is a down the line serve. Unless you are a down the line serve specialist, the bounce distances can mess you up because they are slightly different. The other issue as DerEchte pointed out is racket angle often being misconceived. You need to really open...

So I finally settled on using the Tibhar Kim Jung Hoon as my Nexy blade, currently with Karis M on both sides. Very controllable and consistent set up with good spin. Will continue to explore it for a while. Haven't lost a match with it yet but I have also played the more dangerous opponents...

Given the amount of spin that man generates, that is impressive for a chopper.

Carbon blades and ALC blades have come a long way according to many people I speak to on the subject, even more so with the plastic ball. I remember talking to a friend of mine and he felt that the TBS/TB ALC were relatively woody. He just didn't think the extra expense was justified until he...

I tend to share what I can because 1) I coach, 2) I need my practice partners to get better so I can get better, 3) I need to test some of my findings and 4) I like to see people get better. But there aren't as many secrets as people think there are.

I think my facts were wrong - he is not a professor at MIT. But you know who he is - the old man VS.

So my quick story with Karis: I had read the Nexy President's rubber design history posts and was intrigued by Karis. When BH Man hinted it had arrived and he had stock, I order a couple in the harder sponge, M+. I used T80 on a Yasaka Extra (I have 4 or 5 of those YE blades) so I put Karis...

It's the modern approach. But the specific issues I am talking about show up when a backhand player after hitting back hands gets a ball to the wide forehand. Most players reach for the ball and are lucky to stay in the point with any quality. Brett tried his best to improve what I did to the...