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Yes, my problem with my FH is that I had either a weak af counter, or a very strong loopkill with no gears in between. I've recently been trying to change that - to have a stronger short stroke FH quick counter as a middle gear to deal with faster balls. Tbh I really dig how Timo Boll does it, I...

I also learnt how to go down the line easily against a fast BH pendulum serve (both sideunder and sidetopspin) with a stroke that has no backswing, thanks to my penhold training partner. It's all about having the correct angle and not trying to be a hero on the stroke, just focusing more on...

Precisely.... This sport is technical af and very difficult. It's also what I enjoy about it, there are so many different shots to learn! And tweaking your own shots is part of the fun too.

The video quality is atrocious. I'm very, very surprised that Timo got past Lin Yun Ju. I would have thought LYJ could just chiquita and out rally Timo to avoid Timo's heavy spin opening loop to win easily, but well I'm wrong!

I changed to new D05 sheets on both sides lol. It played just terrible lol. The main problem is that it's way too tacky (weird, it appears it became tackier than what I used to have?! I remember only D09c had such tackiness). My shots all didn't work much because it ate the incoming spin full on...

Yeah, without that transition shot, sudden punches or switches down the line from the opponent are almost impossible to loop back. This was the camel that broke the straw for me too which led me to learn this shorter FH swing (with bat high). I was trying to be like ZJK and forcefully trying to...

Yes those long no spin balls have to be looped with really small spinning strokes. For me mainly it is in the forearm and fingers. And the speed has to be borrowed from the incoming shot. But I guess I play against pips quite a bit so I'm no stranger to fast no spin shots. Imo key for long...

Dima is one of the best tomahawk and BH servers on the circuit. No surprise that Wang Chuqin is respecting the serves more to land the shots first. But imo, the sidespin serves to the wide BH (the ones that exit the side of the table with a very wide angle) are a trap of sorts for chiquita...

You can just keep it loose until you need to use it for spinning. I can't imagine keeping it pressed all the time, it would be tiring af!

3,4,5,7 is on Chinese tiktok, don't know the youtube links for them.

I use quite a fast setup too and have the same feeling as you do. It is an absolute cheat code lol. The only problem is the short push which really takes a lot of technique to keep it short - I binged Fang Bo's short push tutorial and practiced it a lot of sessions. It's not bad now, I can...

Harimoto's method is in the video below and is basically driven by left leg straightening (which actually rotates the entire body to face as much to the left as you want). Imo this is the most advanced method to go down the line because you can apply a lot of power while still going down the...

The pushes likely are landing all in different positions with different spin (ever so slightly). If he's not using the body correctly it's almost impossible to cater for so much variation because he's not even reaching the correct positions, and it's probably even worse he doesn't have good...

Yep I did all that and was starting to get the hang of it, then he stops serving it. Suddenly at 9 all he brings out the crap again and I again get caught and miss the ball. Pips players can be assholes like that lol

Yep I did that, still missed it. Also with long fast serves you cant wait that long otherwise the ball will pass you and you have even lower percentages. It didn't help that the serves were not all LP - the twiddle happens out of view so you only really see it during contact. My suspicion is...

I think keeping bat high on FH has made some huge impacts to my topspin rallying game. I feel like I'm now dominating a lot of topspin rallies against my He Zhiwen wannabe practice partner. It felt good being able to handle almost anything at any angles he tries. I won most games until he tried...

I knew about this keeping grip loose and firming up at impact some time ago but never really understood it, until I came across Ti Long's method of using the fingers to spin the ball. Once I started doing that intentionally, I was automatically keeping grip loose and then firming up during...

And the idea of differential straightening of the knee works extremely well in changing directions too because its something your opponent won't be able to see or detect. I pretty much straighten the right knee more when I want to go diagonal and straighten the left knee more when I want to go...

I prefer using the right knee to explain the hip rotation, because the hip is a ball and socket joint which has too much freedom and it's easy for ppl to do it wrong. With knees there's only bending and straightening and thus very easy to replicate.

The problem with waist rotation as a term is that many ppl dont understand that the rotation is not coming from the waist (a soft joint which can only rotate maybe 10 degrees max) but at the hip area and knees. So they don't do the knee actions and just try to rotate at the waist which doesn't...