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Smart choice, they have a real shot in the women's team this way imo. If Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng or Wang Manyu have a bad day they could quickly fall victim to such a team.

Interesting that you prefer the softer brushing flicks. I also do that as a variation (i try to do it short and low) but it's not what I prefer to do in general - i just prefer my flat flicks and sideswipes. However, I think D05 is also very good for brushing flicks, it can produce a surprising...

Actually with this approach angle you can still control whether you want max topspin or a dead ball. Truls definitely does vary it very well, other players tend to stick with just trying to loop with max topspin. Anyway, the concept is to use the angle of approach (as well as blade angle) to...

Most ppl fail when they try to brush too much against backspin to lift it up. I try to hit the ball from below which will achieve this slightly more than 90 deg contact. See illustration below:

Very interesting tactics for 1 and 2. I've recently been playing against this SP penholder who is somehow able to block my loops back with reversed spin (ie it's coming back as a weird backspin ball) and it's fast and well placed to boot. If I push it back he starts attacking and I'm toast. Tbh...

I thought you were a T05 guy?!

If you have some kind of injury and need some help from the setup it's probably best to play bouncy fast rubbers like D05, the setup can generate a lot of speed from you so that you don't need to stress your body so much. But beware trying to short push with D05 - it is very difficult and your...

I personally think FH flick is much better using less sensitive (ie lower dwell) rubbers, because you don't want the spin to bite too much into the rubber and cause you to make more mistakes. Also the faster it releases the ball the more sudden the FH flick would appear to the opponent. Imo the...

Yep, the real nasty ones are the guys who actually train to disguise the followthrough of the no spin loop so that it looks exactly the same as their heavy spin loop. I think Waldner abused this a lot when he was playing against Timo in the 2004 Olympics. Timo was simply blocking most of...

If you can't beat them join em right? Haha....

I use a very fast setup (Viscaria + D05 both wings), and there are tricks to blocking properly. The first is to use the body to find and control the ball at all times, not the arm. Especially using the weight of the body to press the ball down. Second is to really make use of going to the...

Finally someone is talking on the internet about the usefulness of the no spin loop which can be very devastating if you combine it with a heavy topspin loop. But I think PechPong is still not evil enough to try to disguise it with the normal loop by adding a fake wrist and supination/pronation...

Slower, less spin sensitive rubber is a definitely a cheat code for blocking and short game. But, similar to how using slow rubbers force you to hone your topspin technique (so that you rely more on your own strength), using fast rubbers forces you to improve your technique on more passive shots...

I used to own a Cybershape too. My opinion is that the increased air resistance + greater rotational inertia slows your acceleration and reduces your top end racket speed (for me its especially noticeable on the BH and chiquita), and hence the spin capabilities are just not as good. Even Truls...

Crazy, I remember that he actually destroyed Samsonov in a match, and then he just disappears?!

Where is Asuka Sakai now?!

So I met the retired SP master there who was giving everyone a whooping lol. This time I came with a plan. I was gonna show him the power of the BH down the line switch. Turns out it's a killer even against players of his calibre - because hes always waiting for the ball in his BH corner lol...

I use the left leg straightening to go down the line which works amazingly well against topspin, plus my previous training for it has been all about topspin rallies - which I never get against all these penholders, it's always some disgusting ball - anywhere from sidespin to sideunder to no spin...

Playing against the SP guy made me realize that my sudden BH down the line switch has to be working even against nontopspin balls for max damage. Otherwise I will never get the chance to play the down the line BH at all because it'll be the opponent that is punching hard or doing any kind of...

Isn't it just easier to use ChatGPT for this?