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The other BH rubber which is really underrated is H3 37. I used it on a friend's blade and the spin output was insane, and it also had lots of gears.

09c pairs really well with Long 5, it was one of most enjoyable setups to play before my Long 5 got stolen in a club :( It was a real spin monster which can churn out heavy af spin easily.

Tbh although Xiang Peng won, i felt that there had been no improvement in his BH. Not exactly sure why given the vast knowledge in the CNT he cant upgrade his BH just like what Ma Long did. Otherwise, it is looking like Lin Shidong is the future indeed. Unfortunate indeed.

Tbh i think this is where the limitations of robot training start to come in - i think it is quite important to mentally link the stroke to the incoming racket movement + ball trajectory. Robots dont provide that.

No idea. Truls complained about his serves and got a yellow card for complaining! Imo if he didnt have his serves he would be solidly behind Ma Long in the Paris Olympics race. On the other hand, FZD is almost too clean that he enjoys no advantage from his serves at all...

Typically, most significant long term improvements I made are structural in nature, and I know precisely what I have changed. A lot of training (esp if not targeted) I would say is just training the feeling in the hand, and cannot be totally relied on for long term improvements. Dont rely on...

Tbh im guessing here, but for me a very important cue is to keep the elbow close to the hips/waist during backswing and not to move it at all (regardless of straight or bent arm). This ensures that the body leads the arm swing and not vice versa, so that the powerful larger muscle group such as...

I gave up on trying to flick that (reverse spin to FH short) while defending my deep BH corner from long serves. I have to admit my footwork is not good enough to do that unless I guess a bit and just aim to finish the point straight away (pretty much the fade version of the BH chiquita with...

Not just backspin and no-spin, there are 5 other spin types to practise against. Furthermore, there are also placement and speed/length variations - middle/deep BH/wide exiting sides + half long vs fast long. And against a server who can vary all of these it is quite important to be able to...

This is why fast long serves (with variation) to the BH/middle are so popular these days. With BH there is a limited target window and once you miss it (ball exits your triangle created by the body and your 2 arms), it is super difficult to control it. For me, i use a very similar body posture...

Not sure why you wouldnt snap your forearm even in a straight-arm stroke. For me if that doesnt happen there is a massive loss of spin. The benefit of going from straight to bent is that it increases the rotational speed of the bat which all acts to increase spin generated. Even if the snap...

Imo highest percentage receive is the sideswipe, and it works against all serves on both wings. If you know how to do a sidespin pendulum serve you know how to sideswipe. The nontopspin flick is actually quite a high percentage shot once you get the hang of it. Chiquita is also quite high...

I dont think it is that difficult if you understand the principles - i think dingyibvs also learnt it easily. I pretty much just followed Fang Bo's tutorial. Basics is to ask someone to hit a flat or even topspin serve to you and you have to rob the ball of its momentum to the sides until you...

You can push short against all those non underspin serves too btw. You can check out Fang Bo's tutorial on how to do that. It is advanced technique but I had a blast on learning it.

For me the best response is a chiquita to a nasty placement which usually wins the point outright, or is weakly returned so I can just finish the point with a strong FH topspin. But it is not an easy stroke to learn. Sideswipes (撇) are really good and error tolerant too (ie even if you misread...

I got almost 1 yr out of my D05's. Like what you said it loses most of its tackiness which will change how it behaves - so there is a bigger difference in feel over its lifetime, and then when you switch to a new sheet then there is this adjustment needed because the old sheets feel too...

Glad it helped! Yes it is the key to the chiquita against short underspin, once you got it the chiquita is not that crazy difficult. Then if you start to use the body then it becomes even more physically easier. Positioning is damn hard with the chiquita and is the hardest thing. Once you prove...

Check out the original comment by turbozed here: https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/bounce-with-the-ball-split-step.30960/post-449010

a lot of ppl dont factor durability into their calcs but it is not really correct. Imo one should be calculating based on estimated $/mth or $/yr. So a $50 rubber which lasts 2 mths is more expensive to use than $100 rubber which lasts 6 mths.

Sharing some more stuff I learnt recently. Basically forward lean management (the angle between thighs and upper body) is actually quite important and is not so straightforward. A few scenarios: 1) the action of reducing the forward lean is very important in lifting heavy underspin for both...