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It is the best way of practicing to straighten the arm on easy balls and it is what improved my third ball when people didn't return my serves properly. Look at this one here. youtu.be/kkYEwe0xjxE?t=653 If you learn to straighten your arm on easy balls, the potential you have on killing the...

This post is like an Archo submission but since you are Carl not Archo, I have to ask - what did MC tell you?

I agree. The reason I made this point is because the way you play becomes a habit and you have to be careful about building your game around something that you have to change when you get better. That said there are some good players who take pride in their long serves - Jimmy Butler comes to...

There are options yes, but they all prey on opponent's technical weaknesses and footwork - once an opponent knows how to defend his elbow and has good technique, all these things become parlor tricks, the exception being the fast topspin/nospin serve and stepping back, though some players know...

Would be interesting to see what you call really fast. I spoke to Brett about this since he is an incredible server and he said that World Class players will loop anything that comes off the table anywhere, including the snake serve, so you could fool them once but once they had seen it, their...

I agree with this. The forehand footwork thing is a common problem with strong backhand players (even I have it) and it takes significant forehand footwork coaching in cross step footwork to address it. The real problem I see for you is that Ben has large strokes so he is going to be able to...

IT's very common for even 1900-2000 players who have not gotten the memo to fall into this trap that big leads are insurmountable. But at that level, people have put in enough hours into training that you can't just wait for them to miss, especially the players who thrive on consistent defense...

I would prefer either what you currently use or the ones you proposed. I know people who use that and they are mostly trying to save money - it is soft but playable on FH. IMO, it is better to play with something that at least one good player you are familiar with and like their style plays...

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Maybe the part you need to close the gap is that these guys are making their money doing this and can be extremely conservative in order to avoid hurting their daily performance? It has always been possible to play at the top level without Tenergy especially if you want to boost. Samsonov...

I'm sure if you see that a player can have good memories with a blade, you can also see that they can have good memories with a rubber or just believe that a rubber suits their style better than another rubber. It's not necessary to consider it Butterfly brainwashing. But I do agree that if...

I am fairly sure, even though I have no hard evidence, that part of the reason he left Tibhar is that Tibhar forces you to use Tibhar equipment. He probably didn't want to switch to MX-P.

If you have used a blade for any significant period of time, you will know that the longer you use it, the more it becomes like a part of your body. He is not going to change his blade unless he is forced to do so. As long as the Maze and the Freitas ALC are similar, I don't see what the harm...

Here is the Kanaph match - not a good ad, but I am working on it...

To make this point clearer, when I was 1200, I never used to come back from 4-10 or 2-10 down, even against 500 players. But when I got to 1900 approaching 2000, very often, I would play a 1700 player and be down 4-10. And in their heads, they assumed that the game was over, because they were...

The match is online - Rich was just on fire and I had nothing left. All the tricks that worked up to the 4th game, he had adapted to all of them and I was too tired to do anything.

Here is my own 2 cents on nerves: 1. The biggest thing that helps nerves is understanding and accepting the strengths and limitations of your game. If you are trying to loop and smash with long pips without extensive training and coaching or are trying to smash low heavy backspin with...

Today I went 4-2 at the NJTTC Giant RR. It could have been 5-1 had I managed to beat Rich DeWitt up 2-1 but he won the 4th 11-9 and I lost the 5th without winning a point. But I also saved a match down 0-2 (thanks in part to the gracious manner of my opponent, who could have taken the match...

That get out of jail was enough for me to not like EL-S

Buddy, got any daily chit chat to share? We have enough refs here that saw innings 1 through 8, no need to play umpire in inning 9.