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Like all good teachers, I speak in terms people understand. It is more important for me in life to be helpful to someone than to communicate with scientific precision. Since that answer has been given to you by other smart people as well, I hope you will one day appreciate it. I have seen...

Look for rubbers without catapult or with relatively hard sponges if you want to powerloop the backspin ball. The point is that underspin is usually looped with a more vertical stroke so catapult make the loop harder to calibrate. So rubbers like Evolution MX-S, Baracuda, H3 etc. tend to work...

Stiga sock puppets again...

Only video tape can tell. Keeping the ball on the table isn't everything and even world class players are sometimes guilty of using blades that are too fast. Some people make it a pride thing but it really isn't - it is about what is best for your understanding of the game. Learning to rally...

If you have only been playing 4 months, the blades you are using are too fast.

Once you accept missing as well as experience, practice and time as part of the learning curve, relaxation comes naturally. Just focus on using proper technique, relax and let the rest follow. After periods of heavy practice, always de-stress your technique by looking for sources of tension...

It always depends on what you are trying to do. T05 requires more active blocking and looping game than T64. The reward is that if you are more active, you have more spin to control the ball with. But not everyone likes that pressure of having to be more active. So you make your choice -...

I would probably play better with an even more control setup and a change in playing style. Not in the mood to try. Cos I love putting heavy topspin on the ball...

Good point - that might fix it.

If a $400 blade isn't good enough for everyone, what is? You just don't know what you are talking about, and that's the bottom line.

If I had to guess what is really going on here without watching video, we have a guy who wants to play like Kreanga without compromising the forehand. Doesn't work that way, buddy.

Below is my teddy bear imitation video. I tend to have a limited body rotation because of my knee issues, but here is a session with a friend where I was teaching sidespin looping - around the 8th minute or so, I try to show him that he is swing too hard/tensely and that he doesn't need to...

For 6 months, you do play well. The flip side of that is that you are young and athletic, but if you exert yourself in the wrong way, you will get better because of your athleticism, but the effort will burn you out during match play if you don't take a step back every once in a while to...

1. Your overall game is tense and needs to be far more relaxed. I get the impression that you are fighting with the ball by trying to exert strength in a tense manner on all your strokes rather than just doing the stroke and letting the ball do what it does. IT shows up largely in your...

This is my position as well. Anything that keeps TT participation up is good. Someone tried to design an exercise program around TT in England, I believe, in order to attract women. I think the 1000s of hours of multiball drills from 2500+ coaches model hinders the sport's accessibility in...

Here is Schlager giving us an idea of what it takes to play a chopper with your backhand.

I know what you mean, but you have gone back to overstating it. Strength has always been an advantage - many people don't realize this but Waldner was a very fit player during his very best performances. But it is just one kind of advantage - spin manipulation, control/placement, spin...

Now you are talking. Which is why like I said, people should stop acting like Liang Jingkun beating Jun Mizutani is no big deal. To get to that level is very hard, even among CNT players.

Improving a weakness usually needs a slower blade, not faster.

I don't.