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But if they can always get to loop first with good percentages, it is a bad sign for your game. Even if you can block 1 or 2, can you block 4 or 5 consecutive loops to various nasty placements?

I have a bit of a different approach in that I use my fingers mainly to control the topspin and then go around the sides of the ball for better control the trajectory. So basically i am using the thumb + index finger lever arm combination to manipulate the incoming spin. For me straight blocks...

I generally also have the elbow closer to the body too, it makes it easier to explode with power from the body. Also makes it a bit easier to connect with the FH. But I will have my elbow further away from body if the ball is more towards my right side if I need the reach, but that is not an...

Another thing is that if you don't have RPB, it is almost impossible to deal with dead or underspin fast serves to your BH without giving up the attack. This is why I almost exclusively target the deep BH with various spin fast long serves. If they like to pivot i will give them fast loaded...

I'm not sure if you're changing too much stuff - your BH looks very good already from last time we seen it. The only thing I would add is the finger usage and better/faster positioning and linkage to FH, and focus a bit more on 3rd ball attack drills and service return.

If you borrow the incoming ball's energy to make a shorter BH slow spinny loop which lands in the middle of the table, even if you misread it a bit, it will either go lower/shorter if it had more backspin and higher/longer if it had less backspin. But if you have too much of a misread then...

This is strange, I felt that with D05 i needed more of a brushing contact since it is already so fast - i always needed more spin to land the shots, whereas with D09c i need to go much more forward with my stroke. The rubber produces all the topspin easily.

I see ppl haven't seen the batsuju step tutorial still. So basically your aim for the split step is to load your feet with energy to bounce to wherever you want to go. How do you load your feet with energy? By having your centre of gravity drop down. You can't drop your centre of gravity from...

The spin heaviness also depends on what the opponent did. For eg going with the spin allows the opponent to add a lot of spin to your existing serve spin if they use all the mechanics well. But they could also not brush so heavily to get a lower spin ball. With really good technique they can...

Yes you are completely right on this.

If you serve it to short FH, there are 2 ways of receiving and you have to see if they went against the spin or with the spin. If they went against the spin (for eg after FH fade receive), it will be as if you are receiving a heavy FH pendulum serve back to you (ball is curving towards your...

If you do a YG serve to the BH, it almost forces them to push or flick with BH against the spin. This results in a ball with clockwise sidespin as if you are receiving a FH pendulum serve from your opponent. It is very easy to go with the spin and loop the 3rd ball with the BH, very difficult...

You need to learn the batsuju step or what they call the 'split step' in badminton, then you will understand why this is done.

For some unknown reason, I replaced one of my dying sheet of D05 with D09c. After some adjustments to my FH loop technique (D09c is super high throw so I had to go a lot more forward than D05), i think I am liking this change back. The spin/speed ratio on the FH can be really disturbing with...

Adding to this excellent comment, I would add that if you have suboptimal technique and use unboosted Hurricane, it is very easy to injure yourself because you need to put in too much work compared to a boosted Hurricane or a tensor rubber). Whereas you can relax more and focus even more on...

I would smoke the player that I was 10 years ago so bad lol. 10yr ago me wouldn't have even got past receiving my own nasty serves now let alone the loops.

All high level Chinese players who use hurricane boost. There are almost no exceptions to the rule. If you don't boost you're leaving too much performance on the table. If you don't wanna boost just get D05 or D09c...

Do you boost your Hurricane? If not you may have found your problem xD

Although it was shitty angle, colour and lighting, i did watch the final. WCQ played way too fast, Hugo's footwork was just not keeping up (probably due to fatigue). WCQ also looked more fresh and hungry while Hugo looked like he was physically out of it. WCQ's strategy of playing everything...

I also got 4 wrong, thought 4 was a dead serve. To me, a long fast topspin serve has a lower trajectory and kicks at me after the bounce a bit more. There's also mild underspin variant which slows down a bit but when you're ready for the short serve and get surprised sometimes the spin reading...