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So in other words, missing a shot makes it not level appropriate? I mean, you admit to have never developed a player before so it is okay to speak about something you have no clue about as if you are an expert. Then you start talking about how you have made players look like USATT 2000. USATT...

TTR 1500-1700 is about where a USATT 2000 player would be. One mistake people make when watching me play is to underestimate the amount of cognitive processing that goes into my play because they focus on what they can see and are too naive to see what is also possible to see if they had the...

You may have been considering these concepts over the past few months, but you were also the person questioning someone's post on Carl's thread where he posted his videos when he wrote that he plays conservatively and tries not to end the point. It's interesting that you couldn't see that he was...

Archosaurus, Good to see that the facade is finally fading away. Cheers, NL

I do have freakishly long arms but it is a technique itself. People just spend so much time thinking about the body and the knees etc. that they don't try to figure out what the arm can do. I have no knees so my thing is figuring out how much you can get from the arm - arthritis might ruin my...

Nah. This is different. I didn't even plan to put this blade together. I just did it by accident and it felt right. Then I realized that I had changed my grip so much that it wasn't going to work with straight handles anymore so I went FL this week. 90% of my blades are straight and I may...

I have a lot of blades for sale if anyone is interested. I have found my ideal combo and I am going to stick with it for a long time so everything else I have is for sale.

After playing with ST handles for most of my TT career, I changed my grip and can suddenly see the value in FL handle and can't use straight handles as comfortably anymore.

Hahaha - not sure what Carl is trying to prove here - these are obviously good players even if you don't know who they are. As long as you are not looking at the wrong things. In my match, someone said the estimate for the players would be 1200 and I wanted to see what others would actually say.

That is one I am learning to copy and thanks for sharing, Shuki. It also facilitates core rotation rather than trying to just backswing with your arm. The ball is always moving so it is easy to whiff when you don't look closely.

Pretend you don't know my USATT rating and assume that my opponent's USATT rating is not public info. Can you guess the ratings and give specific reasons why you give the players the ratings you would give them if possible? Thanks.

In my experience, all of these statements distort the truth a little. I speak as someone who used to hit backspin on my backhand because I didn't know how to loop it. And I remember when I was USATT 1700+ and talking to a guy from France (2200+ USATT) who said that I hit backspin that I didn't...

This only applies if you are applying heavier and heavier amounts of topspin to the ball. You reach a backspin equilibrum of sorts if you know your loop. Sometimes, looping is not about generating heavy topspin, it's just about putting topspin on the ball. Opening your paddle makes it easier...

You are supposed to do what you do when you are looping in the video you put up at the beginning of the thread. It's not supposed to be something different - it's just not supposed to come across your neck. I suppose you have some of the issues I do though for different reasons, and that you...

Only if you try to purely overpower it in my experience. Some of it can be mitigated with the intelligent use of racket angles and the result is to get a ball with a higher level of spin that one would get when looping a topspin ball, partly because of the rotational component of the stroke but...

So you are trying to say that when you loop backspin, you are going to have to kill the existing spin on the ball and then use your stroke speed to create topspin? EDIT: I read what you said more carefully and I agree with you.

Cantaloop, When I was starting out, I spent many hours hitting with my coach. Then I would go play matches and start hitting the ball as hard as I could. Then one day, a better player told me to work on my consistency. So I hit with a slightly higher rated player than myself and was...

Go slower. Both of you probably.drill better against higher level players who can feed you a consistent ball repeatedly and don't realize how inconsistent you are. Over time, you will both get better buy you need to start slow. Use multiball if you need to drill something that requires a...

Exactly. And while you are young enough to believe in your infinite potential, those of us who are older know that it may never go away with time and work. So writing with humility once in a while is the simplest way to avoid backlash, even feigned humility. Or if you don't want to, then...

It's only complicated if you want to sound complicated - it's actually pretty easy. It's how I loop almost everything. If you don't loop heavy underspin and topspin that way, you won't get better as a player. That you are coming round the side of the ball doesn't mean that your loop has to be...