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Can't play the modern game with premade bats unless you just plan to be a pushblocker. That said, it doesn't need to be too expensive - if you see the video, the $100 racket actually fared really well. But personally I like my expensive setup and am not gonna change it hahah.

For BH elbow positioning, I find that using the lats to pull the elbow clockwise (similar to say doing a pullup) is the best power amplifier there is. The tell is that on a full power BH topspin they will have the elbow pointing to the right or even front during the backswing, and then by the...

Aren't this videos like few yrs old now and completely irrelevant? Thought you changed the stroke a lot by now....

Biggest difference is in the hips. He tucks the left hip inwards during the backswing and you don't. This allows him to use an explosive hip rotation for power. You can see physically his upper body is turning such that the left hip is behind the right hip

Learn the chiquita - these balls are super easily killed by someone with modern chiquita technique. With FH it is a lot harder and more technical if you wanna flick kill or loop kill it.

I actually really hate playing against quality BH servers, even though I use a lot of the same patterns with my hook serve very successfully. It is always that annoying cat and mouse game between short FH and fast long deep to BH or elbow. If I focus too much on fast long serves then my short FH...

Yes, but then the bump will also fail if you misread the topspin and it turns out to have underspin, or have more topspin than predicted. Basically, my point is that active strokes like looping are actually less dangerous than they seem, especially against ambiguous spin. If you take it late you...

Imo, thinking of killing services is not a good mindset to be in as a receiver. It is just too risky. Just looping long serves with great variation and placement is already sufficient to get an advantageous position to leverage off from. Now I just think of contact points on the ball against...

Really impressed with Heming's FH and footwork - any new video on that? :P

I have so many. 1) FH pendulum (sideunder or sidetop) short and very wide to the BH. If they BH loop or chiquita it, it will always be sort of diagonal unless they go around the net which is a super high risk shot for them and you applaud them if they make it. So if they like to loop it be...

Even if the opponent does not attack anything but is serving long heavy sidetopspin would you still push it? Pushing a long heavy sidetopspin is not easy at all and could lead to a lot of pop ups and direct errors.

Most important for me is reaching the backswing position with the body and legs. Hand can just follow the body and be relaxed. And then just wait for ball to come to the optimal hitting position and you start the forward swing. The faster and more accurately you reach the backswing position with...

Imo pushing a long heavy sidetopspin serve is actually even lower percentage shot than looping. Now chopping works but a lot of ppl can't do it properly. For me looping it is a higher percentage shot and also more deadly. I basically bully pushers with long fast serves with wildly varying spin...

I play at a club where they just give me short sideunderspin tomahawk chopblocks when I try to do FH loops at them and then random topspin blocks, and then they giggle and laugh when I miss my 2nd loop against them. What amazes me is that they can somehow execute this rather consistently because...

You just had to FH loop his serves to win against these players. Show no mercy and really give them the max topspin. His serves (BH pendulum and FH tomahawk) all turn anticlockwise (from your perspective), and your normal FH loop movement is naturally anticlockwise too, so you just need to ride...

It is a combined effect from all the different sources of power all working together in a well coordinated and tightly timed sequence. Imo from my journey: 1. I had to figure out how to generate heavy topspin just with the forearm and fingers. Penhold is different to shakehand but for me I use...

If you look at how Ma Long and Fan Zhendong combines both techniques, it is not impossible to use both. Basically Harimoto's BH (higher finish forwards, short stroke) is extremely good in terms of speed, recovery and defending/counterattacking against incoming topspin. But the breaking BH (反撕)...

Today i actually played a lot of mid distance FH looping which I really liked. I finally found a really good feeling in connecting the body with my arm. Tbh this is more valuable than trying to loop against all the nonsense blocks from the old players with their random sidetopspin...

If everyone is serving from the same distance (almost at edge of table), changing it up means other players have to make an adjustment when playing against him, since the rhythm and trajectory is different. Personally I serve almost at edge of table too because this leaves the least amount of...

No such thing, either you use a fast blade and work hard on short game and pushes (see Harimoto for eg) and benefit from not having to put in so much work. Or you use a slower blade and then work hard on producing the power on your attacking shots (for eg most CNT players).