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Few comments: 1) when you do the FH serve, you are still using the arm for the most part. There was way too many occasions that you were not ready for the return after your opponent successfully returned your serve. The correct way to serve is to transfer your weight to right foot during...

Agree that Viscaria is the bomb, never used anything as good as it!

How do you get any chance to powerloop against players like this? LPs are not just defensive - defense only LPs are usually of lower level, similar to inverted players who only push and block.

Yes you can and in fact it is easier to attack heavy backspin with LP than inverted. You can watch some LP tutorials on Chinese internet, basically backspin balls are opportunity balls for LPs. Tbh a lot of LP players don't realize the full potential of LP strokes due to limitations in their...

Contrary to popular opinion, it is in fact not that difficult to attack with LP, especially against underspin balls. Those LP ppl who can't attack are just handicapped and it's relatively easy to deal with them imo. I had an experiment where I tried penhold LP on my offhand and attacking...

Yes definitely the body needs to be involved for any real quality to be generated. The thing that's really difficult with this shot is the lack of time and the power that still needs to be produced. So even the body movement needs to be highly optimised. You cannot afford to rotate body 90 degs...

The weight in the shot is because the energy in the ball is a lot higher (both spin and speed), and this comes from players who can use more mechanisms (body, fingers, forearm, etc... ) into their loop. Basically the better the mechanics are the stronger and harder to block the loop is.

Bit of an unfair comparison as both are lefties. Way easier to overcome the pips/anti when it's facing the inverted FH diagonally in a lefty-righty catchup. You don't have to deal with the stupid BH - BH pressure where the only way to get out of it is to play the very risky and difficult BH down...

Didn't play all that well today. So did a lot more topspin practice today. I found a way of FH counterlooping close to the table after a BH loop. So basically keep the bat high, and try not to do any backswing, and brush hard after the right leg gets into position. Same as before, any dropping...

I actually like 09c a lot and it definitely has a higher ceiling, but 05 is just cheaper (due to longer durability), and also I don't like playing push games (I barely push these days), and 05 is just less spin sensitive than 09c in aggressive receives.

I tried Dawei 388D-1 and it was bonkers how easy it is to do all the LP shots even just using my offhand.

Inverted Bh is very hard to develop. There's a lot of pitfalls and the strongest shots (for eg chiquita, BH down the line loop/switching etc...) are not trivial at all. And to integrate it with an existing strong FH, it's even harder. I second @Takkyu_wa_inochi - just slap LPs or anti on your...

I play against more pipsters than I do against inverted these days lol.... it's damn hard to be able to read and decipher all of these confusing styles.... I think there is in fact a penalty to playing "standard" in amateur table tennis. Although I play double inverted too, I no longer play...

Lol the Indians play like the shakehand version of my practice partner 🤣 funny that even Sun Yingsha being so strong would lose that bad to LP in the same way...

The other thing is swift recovery. After your stroke you should recover explosively using the body again to pull your arm back into neutral position (elbow close to body) with a reset of your feet. Never stay there watching your shot.

05 for sure. 05 is the longest lasting rubber I've tried and one of the more economical options for sure.

I started playing with pips on my left hand for fun, and I can play with both hands together if I wanted to (with one bat on each hand). Some ppl are doubting the legality of it (I think it should be allowed). I'm way stronger just with my right hand though. The 2 hand set up is just for fun...

For FH loop, OP's elbow is way too far away from his body during the backswing. From this position a lot of the body power is lost in transit. If he tucks it in he will be able to control it using his body and use a lot more body power in his shots. And yes, going more forward rather than...

You need to stay leaning forward with your centre of gravity above your left foot. The weight transfer is from right to left foot, not down up. You are leaning backwards at the end because you're trying to go up as much as possible. It's a matter of conviction but you need to be brave enough to...

The way to measure efficiency is with the backswing speed - time yourself how long it takes for you to get to the backswing - the shorter the time the better. Stuff that matters include using the body for backswing not the arm, and keeping elbow very close to waist during backswing.