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Don't do it.

You could also watch any short pips penholder obviously but he is just one that comes to mind. There is a huge emphasis for how the wrist starts and a massive acceleration towards the ball and through it. It's easier for them to kill backspin. They can smash topspin too, but since short pips...

suds79, A lot of your short pips technique looks like it is modified inverted technique and not technique actually based a close study of short pips penholders. You don't seem to commit to either smashing or spinning and even the smashes are not sharp. Maybe you could watch your favorite HZW...

He serves it a lot, you just don't see the full trajectory of the ball.

When it is live I can watch it. But I can't watch the replays.

I was going to make fun of this thread before you posted. Oh well... Usually, the first thing any serious player with a table does is practice serves. But of course, OP wants to challenge us to a duel of self hitting targets. Seriously? He probably can't even serve backspin.

Played a tournament today. Got there late because my car didn't start as the battery had worn down. When I got there, I found out that they had put the girl who beat me on Tuesday in my RR for the U2350. Her and a guy now in college who I don't think I have beaten in almost a year now. Oh...

Archo, fwiw I perfectly understood what you meant by jackoff. Intellectual masturbators know that feeling too well. But doing it over stuff that you have lost all credibility on is dangerous.

Or ML is a choker...

Groth is too good for anyone to shephered Calderano into the final. And Walther from Germany seems to have taken a quantum leap in form. This is overall a great tournament.

There is some truth to this but it is a bit overstated.

You guys are funny. A couple are members of the current junior national team prepping for the WJTTC event in South Africa. They didn't even play in the Under 21 event and most if not all of them lost to top 50 players on the fast track. China will be fine.

Isn't the potential ML-FZD match (really the Bayi-Shandong Weiqao match) this weekend?

Don't spend forever trying to get a leopard to change his spots. There is some degree of delusion tied to greatness, though such delusion without any achievement is quackery. Very thin line. In Archo's case, the line is not that thin, but I find that the delusional people really enjoy it -...

Thanks. It's really in this case driven by the need to modify behavior. It is extremely hard to modify behavior that has been engrained over a lifetime of TT, talk less of a couple of years. Look at my attempts to fix my elbow position which were helpful but largely unsuccessful. So I am...

The best way to do this is to go back to your basic backspin serve and work on the timing of your toss and your backswing. Toss the ball up and let it come on the way down before swinging into it. To make your brain see that this is possible, just toss the ball up and leave the racket there...

There is still room to go with practice, but I think you can see that your serve control has improved significantly. I saw one serve with extreme break and I saw the last one which was short topspin that your opponent popped up into your smash. With penhold, it is much easier to hide the wrist...

"Rocket" serve practice.

You played well, Boogar. But you need to bend your knees and loop and stop pushing those long balls, especially on your backhand.

The last two points were crazy! Damn lefty loop around the net...