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This is just devil's advocate speak and I am not sure you understand whip mechanics so you might just be having a meaningless disagreement with me. When you are looking at whip mechanics, you are looking not at some black or white thing, but at the efficiency of the motion used to generate...

Both players use whip mechanics. The problem is not their whip mechanics, but that they use these whip mechanics to play risky and relatively flat games. You see short whip mechanics all over DeWitt's game (he would be toast without it) and M's real problem is that he plays a forehand punch...

Well, if I am accelerating my racket at a certain speed to generate spin and power, you think you can just wave your racket at my ball and consistently stop it without any attempt to accelerate your racket even over a short distance? If so, good luck with that. It's a good theory, but the real...

OSP, every advice I give is in the context of the specific player. JeffM has some issues with health, but I doubt they are as and hope they are not as severe as mine. He is also young and seems to have a fairly fast swing. What he needs to develop is the timing to put more of that swing speed...

Both of you are on the inferior end, to be honest. You really need to learn and embrace the concepts of spin, semi-circular strokes, whippy swings and thin/thick contact. I don't think that your problem is your foot positioning or anything like that. The problem is that you were playing...

He really should start his own thread.

Hurricane is a relatively slow rubber. That is a part of the reason his swing is large. In all honesty, I am not sure what the point of the drill is, other than maybe as a short ball to the forehand, long ball as you are backing out drill, and I am not sure whether I could do much better on...

Every criticism is part of a system and should be tailored to how you want the player to play. All my post is pointing out is that you should be more detailed about what you are criticizing and place it in context. We should all take our comments on the play of others as seriously as we want...

I think Archosaurus and Shuki made comments that are neither here nor there, but need to be placed in context of the specific situation. I agree on the Hurricane comment but it all depends on where JeffM wants to take his game. Most of Hurricanes advantages show up in the short game and at the...

For many people, that is neither here nor there. There are good arguments for both.

It's often proper technique for the left foot of a right hander to not move when they are moving into the table to play a forehand. It makes in and out movement more efficient.

Hi, Sakumi. You may have done this elsewhere and I may have missed it but can you briefly discussed your playing history and current level? Generally, I think it is important for people to know the playing level and styles etc. of those giving them advice. Even more important if they have...

I lost to him 0-3 in th Open Quarters and beat him 3-1 in the U2000 Final. I have come to accept that part the problem here is that I am not used to playing long rallies. I usually don't play 3-5 forehands and lose the point, but it happened at least twice in the match I won and more often in...

Boogar, Carl, Some of this stuff would disappear if we were looking for what is best for our games. and not trying to be right or wrong. None of this is quite important - just get to an agreement on what the main details are. Won and lost today in tournament play. Worst loss and best win...

I doubt playing in World Championships qualifies as pverlooked. You just have to be in the top 3/4 and have consistent results in international competition, especially vs foreigners. That's where Hao Shuai and Chen Qi really fell short.

I think I am in my first ever camp, so to speak, possibly because I am the organizer at my home club. Brett has been trying to fix our games for the past 4 days of camp. We've worked on serves (of course), short game (flicks and pushes, especially with the forehand), proper forehand footwork...

The thing is that he can rest. He needs to realize that he has a standing place on CNT whenever he wants. He should take about 6 months to get ready and take a long term view. Skip CTTSL if necessary.

As some of you know, Brett has been in my city this week. Doing some training and learning some advanced things that I may never be able to do. But it is always fun to learn ;). A clip from one of the general clinics he gave the club. He does some specialized sessions with TTEdge members but...

Yes, I am looking at it. Thanks - it's definitely a possibility.

In the first match, I also hit winners off my second loop as well. I think that's the part you are missing.