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Wait till someone deciphers his serve - his weakness in terms of stability in the topspin rallies will be exposed.

Crazy upsets in this tournament. Never thought Lee Sang Su would lose to Omar Assar and the great European champion Darko Jorgic losing to Achanta lol, with Darko making numerous amateur like mistakes (so much that he was just pushing back long pushes!), and also Darko's half long sidetopspin...

I did it with curled fingers too, which is maybe why I felt a bit more comfortable. There is quite some pressure on the 2nd joint of the middle finger tho so I can see how the pain can start if I tried it long term. The penhold FH is really something else, I felt like the angle was always more...

I actually did try 2 wing penhold and I didn't feel the same way, the RPB felt really natural and easy for me...chiquita was so much easier with RPB. The transition was even easier than on my FH where the angles were all wrong lol.

True, there's no real "upper limit" to pips... at least not in the amateur space. Arguably in the pro space I think there is no such upper limit either.

Not saying that it doesnt work, its just not the most advanced way of BH receive. He's also doing basic tutorials, not advanced tutorials. In most WTT circuit games, you never see this passive way of receiving heavy topspin much, they will always spin the ball hard if anyone dares to serve long...

I guess the real problem is that I literally can't even buy one to try, nobody is manufacturing say standard Viscaria like composite blades in such a shape.... But I don't see the huge advantage in off the table strokes, shakehand strokes are not so much wrist based these days, a lot is finger...

It is not a fade (youre doing a topspin still), but yes the feeling is a bit similar to doing a fade. Regardless of whether it's pendulum or reverse pendulum, as long as it's heavy topspin, it's very useful to direct the stroke to the right and downwards to control the heavy incoming topspin and...

This blade design would also make it a lot easier to serve very topspinny pendulum and you can serve reverse pendulum without so much contortion of the arm (because of how naturally dropped the blade is). For hook serves it would be good too since it's already naturally hooked, but imo it's not...

The reason why Gozo is not really suited to the inverted BH because he is very far away from getting the true benefits of the modern inverted BH (safe, heavy spin opening loops, topspin rallying and chiquita), but is suffering from all of its cons especially on service return. He could probably...

Lol this is what I suggested many times on this forum already too! Just dew it haha

Guy won against FZD before...

Just buy some balls and practice your topspin brushing in a room, towards the curtains or bed or whatever (i like curtains because you can catch the ball easily after it bounces back towards you. Looping underspin into the net may not necessarily be a brushing issue. Imo too many ppl try the...

Where though?

But is there something that is a bit like the Viscaria except for the angle of the handle? Anyway for shakehand FH flick which is a notorious weakness of shakehand (the natural angle to use pronation has the blade slightly tilted up (look at Ma Long flicking vs Ma Lin - he doesnt really drop...

Lee Sang Soo always had really great power but often he goes crazy wild and misses all his shots. What he really improved is not doing that but actually spinning the BH loop viciously when he doesnt get a good chance of ripping the ball hard - he actually gets incredible spin in this BH opening...

I agree. This design would be tremendously better in terms of short game (particularly FH flick, but also it will make the chiquita more deadly as you can make more variations with less differences in preparation), while not really sacrificing much in terms of the main strokes. But tbh, making...

All of the above answers are wrong lol, it almost shows that a lack of experience against really strong kicking topspin. I would happily serve fast long heavy topspin all day long if those are the responses lol. Regardless of what ball comes you still have to brush mainly the back of the ball...

Damn Akula is playing almost exactly like a shakehand version of my practice partner lol, with all of the same disgusting patterns and balls with weird spin. Funny that even the pros are so susceptible to this! Tbh there's no easy way to deal with such LP play, you just have to grind hard on...

There will never be a resolution about serve legality until they introduce Hawkeye and a challenge system.