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I saw nothing wrong with it either other than knowing who was posting it and knowing that he was repeating exactly what other people had posted elsewhere. Archo has a penchant for plagiarism that we can decide to ignore if we want to. But in his case, he probably still fails to understand that...

Other than how busy they are, one of the reasons why many pros do not interact in forums is because of the attitudes lower rated players show to them -rather than ask questions, they criticize or make suggestions. You will hear a lower rated player saying to a pro that his loop form is bad and...

Until you start posting videos, just realize I will start ignoring your posts. You write like someone who likes to pretend he knows what he doesn't and that just sends me up the wall. Here is the comment made by someone closer to your level on the same issue. Read it and compare it to yours...

Yes, everyone knows it is an elbow positioning problem, including me who posted the video in order to share my struggles with people. In fact, if you see the shadow swings, you see a higher elbow position. I also have shoulder issues from my arthritis. The question for me is why the higher...

Thanks, Archo. Do you have any video of your pendulum serve to share? You seem to be an expert on the subject so I was wondering...

Played a few matches yesterday. Got to the club yesterday as I Wanted to work on my pendulum serves. I saw a chopper there that I hadn't played in a while. Played him in the first match and missed a lot of power shots and lost 1-3 (3rd game was 1-1 with multiple deuces and it was losing that...

If you have been reading what I wrote elsewhere, the light spin on the ball can still be used by good players to good effect. Brett actually got me to confirm that his no-spin serve was extremely light topspin by the time it got to me(as in the ball was rolling forward). This was his way of...

The instruction I got from Brett was different, but there are always different approaches to serving.

But none of the options are as strong as they would be vs the spin serves they are designed for. In any case, you have given your opinion and I respect it. Zhang Jike almost never serves corkscrew serves and Ma Long almost never serves reverse pendulum. People are successful with different...

http://butterflyonline.com/the-power-of-a-low-short-no-spin-serve/

Given that the most common serve at the highest levels is the no-spin serve, don't you think this sounds pretty uninformed? The key thing about no-spin is the height. If it is low, then it is hard for the opponent to be aggressive.

I had to pull out of that tournament as I have a commitment I made months earlier that I thought would be cancelled but wasn't. I might be able to make it but will have to see how I feel on Saturday afternoon.

Yes, but some opponents can use the backspin against you because they can dig into the ball more (or at least enough) to make the light backspin heavy. That is much harder with real no spin. In the end, your customer matters a lot.

IT sometimes becomes light topspin, but the problem is that long serves are long and loopable. You need to serve that into the elbow or somewhere the person will just block - if the person gets a looping stroke on that ball, your counterloop or block had better be set. On the other hand...

Sometimes, you have to realize that part of the reason why an opponent can be deceptive with a ball is because relative to what he is used to, your ball isn't overwhelming him. For example, if you serve long to a chopper or defensive player, it is easier for them to float the ball or dig into...

Yes, you do. Initially, when you want to fake, it takes some practice because people can't believe that they need to control the ball and hit it flat. I used to serve with much more backspin on my serve than necessary until I started hitting the ball softly with my whipping motion. When you...

And there are many different ways to sell - in fact, you never know which sales jobs work best until you find the customer. I sometimes fail to fool people with my highest level deceptive serves, but I fool them with a very trivial fake that I couldn't fool my mother with and which Brett would...

Yes, but saying that you make it look "heavy until it is too late" makes it seem as if you can make the no-spin ball look heavy, when it is really the serve motion that looks heavy. I was making sure you weren't as confused as your description of what was happening was. You still seem to be...

Yes. Yes. The latter doesn't have to roll softy. What I mean is that the rotation is insignificant so if you look closely, you can see the label.

Never happened to me before. What has happened is that I either misread it as heavy backspin because of the serve motion, or I see the no spin but I don't use the right return. But I have never looked at a no-spin ball closely and thought it was a heavy backspin ball. Never.