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The most important thing is to realize that the ball is not topspin and you can't spin over it. You have to block with an open racket and hit/spin with a relatively open racket. My opponent in the above video uses worn inverted to play a short pips game and you can see that if I just block his...

Depends on the coach and culture. You are not in the same country or state as Nuke.

That's what some people are missing. Touch downs in foot ball are not trivial. Neither are clutch plays or points in basketball. But celebrating every point as loudly as Tomo does is just bad manners.

I played a tournament that put me back in EJ hell. I beat two players above me and lost to one below - went 3-5 in a Giant RR as the #7 seed. The one below me was the most painful as I had lost a 5 setter to him during another tournament which was just a bad day. As for my best win, it was...

IT's not as critical as you might think - I know a chopper/defender who used an extremely small blade head size because he liked to serve very heavy spins.

So I hit again on Thurday and Friday night (no video) to review a couple of things. I am realizing a few things about aggressive stroke timing and controlling the height of my loops. On Thursday, I mostly wanted to test the Eternity VPS. I came away pretty impressed by the blade. I want to...

Usually, I tell the person that I need to warm up, but if I am warmed up, I just start a match like drill or play a match. There is no reason to get worked up about it as not everyone who plays well or even decently has warm-up etiquette taught to them. If you need to warm up, it is one thing...

Lizard serve from a match --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRH4oloV7jQ&feature=youtu.be&t=447--

I think this highlights Siva's handspeed really well. I wonder what Brett will say. I still have not been able to serve a snake serve that fits my RP motion (which is not the same as Siva) and which doesn't disgust Master Snake yet. Most of my efforts have been lizard serves.

BH serve is not that hard to hide. Just requires a higher toss followed by putting your arm in front of the contact,. The real issue is that good illegal serve hiding is not easy. The best servers who hide serves do things with their racket angle before and after contact that throw you off...

Yes. It really depends on how you are swinging at the ball. There is nothing wrong with fading sidespin on any stroke as long as the stroke is still predominantly topspin.

This too:

Practice, practice, practice. Use a circular upper arm motion to whip the wrist around the side of the ball - don't try to spin hard behind it, I try to teach it here: --https://youtu.be/N04Nb52GKfU?t=2144--

The CNT are really afraid...

Played yesterday but no videotape (skipped Monday and Tuesday for travel). I tend to experiment a lot when the camera is not on and I am trying to work on holding the ball even longer than I currently do. My knees started hurting yesterday after a tough match and another match where I Tried to...

It's almost like no one here has heard of the snake serve... your version is impressive to me, Siva. I am going to share it with Brett.

The Mizutani ha the ZLC ply closer to the exterior like the ZJK ZLC, but has limba outer plies, like the Apolonia ZLC.

I would say that if you have used the original Innerforce ZLC and liked it, don't assume you are getting the same thing. Treat the new blade as a new thing in terms of balance and play and see whether you enjoy it.

Maybe it is when the player grunts and hits the ball past me that I get annoyed. It is also quite possible that as I have tuned it out better as I have gotten better.

I play everyone. I am still allowed to have things that annoy me. I will still try to beat them. But I still get annoyed when everything has been silent then all of a sudden, I get a grunt on a third ball power loop out of nowhere. If it was something that made me lose matches all the time...