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Exactly - Chiquita is like a straight forward stroke round the side of the ball to generate mostly sidespin. Over the table backhand loop drive is around and over the ball or sometimes just through the ball. Many people have strokes that mix both but I still play mostly the drive version as I...

The tomahawk was blatantly illegal and the difficulty of reading that kind of tomahawk is one of the reasons why a ball toss became necessary to add to the rules. I tell people that it is too easy to control the ball height when no toss is done. If I were you, I would have called an ump, but I...

The pirate is not the player he once was, but that was a good win regardless. Like I said, your stroke technique on both sides is sufficiently poor and your movement sufficiently good that you could be 1800 very easily with fixes that seem minor but are major. On your backhand, your elbow is...

I know it seems like a tip but consider it a major technical fix that even you incorporate into some of your better shots. It's a common seperator of amateur and pro technique. To accommodate it with a smooth swing, your stroke might need other changes. Post some video of your early attempts...

Your English is good. Everything you have written shows you understand your game. I do not like your rubbers but they seem to suit your game. For backhand, you can also consider cheaper traditional rubber like Dawei XP 2008. If you like tensor, some people like Joola Rhyzm in softer sponge...

Your forehand topspin finishing position is the lowest hanging fruit. You swing too low and shallow and the inconsistency leads you to not trust it when swinging hard except on very easy balls. If you finish in the salute position consistently (you do the underspin salute decently, but have no...

Ariel, you don't trust me? Is your first opponent using pips? BTW, if you had told me that you were going to Westchester, I could have met you there or at least agreed to meet on Sunday. How did you do? NL

Switch to short pips whenever you have agreed to stop counterlooping or that attempting it is a waste of time.

The conclusion of some of us at MyTT was that ZJK's back went out so he started playing with more risk and was unable to do his forehand shots as effectively. Other people thought ZJK was fine and that we were just seeing things, but to me, it was clear that ZJK was injured in the 5th to 7th...

No - I was saying that this is what FZD was relying on, but Ma Long obviously practiced pivoting that wide especially for him. FZD should have relied on a more deceptive scenario with two possible locations and then get ready to play the point out - Ma Long was baiting that ball. You can't...

Here is the proposed first drill:

I am not that old, you know. Diseased but not that old ;).

Yes. IF you look at the World Cup Final, to shut that down, what Ma Long did was serve straight into FZD's backhand and start and early pivot. What he banked on was that FZD would have faith in how wide his banana curves (FZD is not a power banana like Dima on those plays). Of course, we all...

I don't have any video to post here yet but this thread is about killing the robot (or your multiball partner) when practicing. Feel free to practice something crazy like putting the robot on superheavy backspin and performing 10 Ma Long loop kills or something like that. Don't get injured...

Sure - so what should the first shot be?

I will open a thread and try to film something this week. My knee has been killing me. Should we allow editing or not?

I have always felt that the Banana flick would lose its "importance" over time. The real issue initially was that most people were used to being safe when serving short heavy backspin. So the original issue was that they were not trained to attack the fast topspin or side-topspin ball after...

The main things that worked against FZD were nervousness and a lack of experience. I watched the match again and concluded that Fan is still too tactically and psychologically immature to coach himself through a match like this. I don't believe that XX or ZJK would have failed to find ways of...

Both 05-FX and FX-P are hard and spinny enough to be used on the FH and BH - it all depends on your style and approach to the game. If someone stuck me in a tournament and said that I had to play with a racket with both sides having either rubber, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

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