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You need more zen in your life, Archo. How pros learned and think is not on video. If you pretend to do what they do without learning or the right thought process, the results will often be very different.

IMO, Andy, I think you will realize, hopefully not when it is too late, that you don't experiment with your technique enough. You are always playing shots when you are early to the ball and on time and the ball is above net height. I tell people that this is what builds anxiety when you have...

Practicing with a partner has more benefits once you understand your technique and your primary focus is on reading the partner and the ball. Quality of said partner also matters and the lower the level of the partner, the more work you need to put into making the practice work. When you are...

IMO, this is very right and very underestimated. I wouldn't say necessarily improve technique but it might be semantics - I would say understand your technique better. Experiment with different contact points on the ball, experiment with different stroke trajectories. Experiment with spinning...

IMO, this is very wrong. Very wrong.

Everything you have said is on the money. But I keep telling people that this is not a sport where you win points for looking good. I look bad because I don't have good knees but my mechanics are often correct as far as my arm usage but some people will tell you I have no technique (I am now...

FWIW, I don't believe in using traditional rubbers to do anything in TT related to topspin unless you just like to use them for the blocking. Advanced topspin is just harder to play with Mark V etc. What I do for cost and commitment reasons is to start most of my students on Dawei XP 2008...

I know Parvis. The key thing here is that you are both close to the table loopers - that is part of the problem - therefore, your loops will tend to have lower and more easily blockable trajectories. Sometimes, you have to let the ball drop a little and load it up as a variation or use some...

Here is NextLevel vs JP. This a long time ago and my game has changed slightly. That said, I would play JP similarly to the 5th game in terms of strategy. But whether I would beat him I don't know - he beat some people at FIT that were pretty good.

Two points: 1) note that the existence of a switchover point as a weakness depends in part on how trained a player is at making a decision to use a stroke at the switchover point. Some players are so good that they will not look like they have a middle. 2) If someone is comfortably blocking...

Sidebar: closing your paddle over the ball will retard your blocking for a long time. Learn to shape the ball or come round the side of it or raise your paddle higher.

If the catapult from a fast rubber is driving you crazy, I recommend to people to use 1.9mm-2.0mm sponge. Dont use max, especially if the sponge is hard (44 degrees and above). You are probably a good player, so don't take this as a recommendation for you. The other thing is that slow vs...

IT's always best to get coaching from the people who see you most often if everyone coaching is equally qualified. The only way to get proper feedback online is to share video. Otherwise, people are shooting in the wind.

RL, its almost the same.as mine. I just let my finger come off by getting deep. Yours is more similar to what many Asian coaches recommend but there are some that also use mine but like to raise the index finger for forehand. I play my forehand without consciously moving the finger or trying to.

My fingers are naturally long, but that said, most people would have a finger come off anyway. The key to that positioning is to keep the racket anchored even when it moves around. I can create just about any racket angle and use my wrist similarly for FH and BH play. The FL is not sanded...

Yes, and my answer only focused on loop. So you are addressing someone else. Find that person so he knows how smart you are. I would be surprised if anyone said that slower rubber improves your pushing or blocking technique. In the end, with good coaching, all these things make little...

I am an amateur. It all depends on how you use these words. I am speaking from my experience - it is easier for amateur to loop with tensor or Tenergy than with Mark V or Sriver. It is easier for them to block and push with Mark V and Sriver than with Tenergy. Read what I wrote earlier...

I have attached mine for comparison. I picked that grip because it was extremely neutral and allowed me the most wrist flexibility while retaining a high level of control.

ttmonster, Good players use both grips. That said, there are differences in how I modified mine compared to yours.

Coaching is the most important thing. Then training. If you have neither and want to topspin, get a tensor or Tenergy. Slow rubbers are only good to train topspin if you know what you are doing and want to push yourself.