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To be fair there are a lot of unathletic inverted players who also just push with heavy af spin, and have impenetrable blocks and can just outlast you with a lazy af game just standing there lol. I guess the real difference is that with pips, you can have quite braindead serve receives and it...

Been talking about how effective the fake loop is for a long time and was pleasantly surprised to see a video on it! I think Seth does the explanation really well (tactics etc), but his no spin loop is not 'evil' enough because it is quite obvious he hit it with an open racket angle and just...

For me i had much better success against pips once I learnt how to serve without sidespin (ie the heavy under/no spin/mild topspin system). It took me a while to learn and incorporate it, but Im happy with what I learnt as it added an extra dimension to my game. As a good server i didnt...

For me the gold takeaway is how to kill incoming topspin (the dead pan block) and he definitely mentioned pros keeping on varying between the kick block (ie topspin block) and this dead pan block in order to try to throw the opponent off during topspin rallies. The method of bat moving backwards...

If you watch some Quanshibao videos, they do explain a lot of very important details which a lot of coaches dont do unfortunately. For eg the method of looping pendulum (clockwise) sideunder and sidetop vs reverse pendulum (anticlockwise) sideunder and sidetop for BH and FH are quite different...

I actually trained a bit of using BH rubber for a FH stroke with shakehand as I was attempting to invent a FH chiquita with the BH rubber. It works but it's a damn difficult stroke to time in 3d space against many different balls and also the arm movement is contorted and awkward af, similar to...

If you want to improve the grip, the middle finger should rest on the rubber, and the thumb should also rest on the rubber separate from the index finger. Then it might work as a solid grip, but there are some glaring weaknesses because the FH is almost forced to be hooked. You almost cannot...

There is a reason why this is a bad grip - almost none of the fingers are on the rubber and it doesnt allow for minute finger control of the blade angle as well as spin generation. Hence it is quite a bit inferior to both penhold and shakehand.

Unfortunately, this is a thing in the sport - pips/anti/etc... if they banned it tons of $$$ will flow out of the sport because in our society most $$$ is held by the old ppl, and catering to their needs/wants is pretty important for the sport. But there are definitely weaknesses of...

A good intermediate step is the no spin lift, where you simply lift the ball with mostly legs so that it clears the net. Once they get the security of clearing the net with ease, spin can be added easily with the fingers. Lifting the ball is way easier than looping it, and is also quite a useful...

To be fair, all of the top women players play with a lot of spin these days. In fact I think there some of Miwa Harimoto's topspin loops and it looks like it is even spinnier than certain players on the men's side....

Really bad idea, D05 is already fast and bouncy, why would you wanna make it even faster?!

Ma Long vs FZD WTTC 2017 final is probably one of the craziest, most exciting matches I watched...

D05 or worse, T05 is easy mode until you try to push amd receive serves with it - then it becomes hard mode lol

Some specific tips I would like to know: 1) How to completely kill off the spin against a short, super heavy underspin serve and produce a no spin ball with inverted rubbers. Whatever I do for the push there is quite a lot of underspin due to the incoming spin. 2) How to completely kill off...

Starting to really like med high toss serves now which just go above the head. Im doing med high toss FH pendulum, FH tomahawk and hook, FH heavy underspin/no spin serve now. Some pros: 1) immense spin with less effort or movement when you need it - this can be quite deceptive. Perfect for...

Pretty simple for me... TT is just really fun and addictive to play because of the sheer depth in the game. You always have something to improve. It is like a RPG when you slowly level up. There are no TT goals for me (maybe to win against ex Chinese provincial players but that is quite a tall...

It doesnt need to be super high level (in terms of match commentary). In fact, one real missing point is commentary on lower level players matches. Kinda like bronze league heroes in Starcraft 2 lol...

You can copy for eg what Quanshibao is doing in terms of commercial stuff and videos, they are putting a huge amount of TT content, just that it is in Chinese. There is everything from technique tutorials to trickshots to strategy to fun challenge matches to match commentaries etc... WRM is also...

Lots of 5 set losses are due to opponents starting to adapt and decipher your weapons while you ran out of weapons to introduce and dont have answers to their responses to your weapons. For eg if your serves are really good you can often win the first few sets easily, then when they adapt and...