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Tbh his opponent knew how to serve hook, pendulum and the heavy underspin/no spin, and OP was completely overwhelmed by the spin variation. His opponent was clearly higher level in terms of spin understanding (though also having quite a few technical issues of his own) I didnt see any...

Yep, against better players i find that it is the variation and placement that is the killer, it is rare that just power is sufficient to win. For me i have 2 versions of my BH loop, one is a fake loop and the other is a heavy topspin loop and it is all just controlled by the fingers. Same...

Yep definitely that is probably the best place to use it because you can do a very strong shot, get out of the way and let your partner attack the next shot while you find your way back (if the point is somehow not over after 2 strong attacks lol).

It would be seriously very entertaining to see Xue Fei take on Felix Lebrun. I hope we would get to see that, imo that would have so many good rallies.

Tbh, I think trying to BH powerloop fast long serves (with varying spins and placements) is a losing proposition. So firstly, serve receive is already a bad position to be in because the server has absolute control over spin and placement and deception which already lowers landing rates a lot...

Yes, this is exactly the stroke I was talking about and LYJ uses this a lot (fade chiquita). But I'm not so ambitious to use it on short FH serves, I'm only aiming to use this against BH pendulum serves to my middle or BH to the opponent's wide FH as a variation to the normal chiquita.

There are a lot of Miu Hirano style players who focus on speed and power in the upcoming Japanese juniors (Odo, Yokoi). But I still think Miwa has the highest potential because her spin generation ability is a few levels above these junior players, while still having excellent table coverage.

It's good to take a step back and see TT for what it is, a fun hobby, and the competition is just that - as long as you play your shots and have fun that should be enough. On the technical side, I feel like the tentativeness (esp on BH side) has some reasons. In training it looks good because...

Yeah, tbh this video is close - you just need to extend the backswing until the bat points towards the stomach to make it more of a chiquita movement (also makes it even easier to contact the right side of the ball).

Yes some things are highly individual... but we can always learn from some general principles.

Basically, from my own understanding, bend forward at the hip (not knees!) until your eye level is super low (almost net level). This is the ideal preparation position to loopkill backspin. Also on the pivot (which I almost never used much until recently), I realized I have been doing it wrong...

It is easier to do it against nonunderspin serves for sure, but you can still do it against backspin or sidebackspin by opening the racket angle.

So the first few chiquitas (notice they are all done against reverse pendulum type sidespin) have opposite sidespin on them. As compared to something like 1:13 or 1:49 which has the normal chiquita sidespin on it.

Backswing position is the same as chiquita (upper body leaning forward and rotated, racket tip pointed towards your stomach) . I also know how to do strawberry flicks, but this is different because in the strawberry flick the elbow is going up during the stroke but for chiquita the elbow goes...

So I have been toying with this concept for a while, and I have seen some pros use it (LYJ, FZD, LGY, etc...), but I seldom see any discussion about it. So basically the concept is for a right hander, the BH chiquita flick will always produce clockwise sidespin. However, in certain situations...

Nah, for inverted you never know. It mostly depends on the player, and a lot of weaknesses have to be tested during matches. Even for pips, there are a lot of different styles (even with the same setup) which all have different strengths and weaknesses.

Tbh i would definitely use BH to loop this if they pushed it to my BH and this is one of my fav shots. With BH I just contact the back of the ball slightly on the left to go with the spin (ie spin it clockwise) with an open angle (to counteract the backspin) and I can then loop down the line or...

I tried vega series on a clubmate's bat today too and was super unimpressed by the topspin capabilities, I am not sure why so many ppl are loving it. The ball leaves the rubber way too fast and the topspin arc generation is weak and insecure compared to top rubbers like dignics and hurricane.

My default way of FH opening loops which works very well against reverse pendulum as well as serves without sidespin (and receives which produce the same spin combination) is initiated by the middle finger and brushing the ball around the 'outside' which is basically a hook loop. This pretty...

Finally practiced some TT today. Finally got to practice a bit of looping the BH fast push of my heaviest hook sideunder serve with FH which I always had massive problems with. Luckily i was practising with a guy who put massive spin in those BH pushes, so I could test out various loop methods I...