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It's not simple hook serves lol - there's like double and triple ultrafast fakes in there.... I think it could even be up there with Par Gerell if he hid it even more..

Never go short against LPs. Receives and pushes have to be long and deep. They also struggle when receiving deceptive long fast serves. Best is the kind of pure underspin/no spin/topspin long fast serves without sidespin. Then attack the return decisively to their non pips side (they're usually...

No wonder... loops is super far from where I live haha...

I played against a few juniors before but haven't actually seen them lol...

Everything matters a lot in serve spin. You have to use the entire body (with weight transfer), forearm, wrist and fingers to serve, otherwise the wrist/fingers will be overloaded easily. I remember Waldner even told Dan this in some recent video. But for developing finger/wrist movement I...

On FH flick against short underspin, it can be done as long as you read the underspin correctly. The key is to borrow the underspin not fight it. See 4:25 of Seth's video below.

Yes you can tweak the amount of lift and pressing down easily with your body instead of with the arm. There's also 2 ways of looping half long balls. One is a slow spinny loop (which the girl is doing) where you wait for the ball to drop - the other one (my preference) is much more forward and...

The biggest problem with the athletic guy is that his BH against backspin is very weak or nonexistent even. So many times the big guy just pushed long and he only pushed it back or was forced to pivot. If he had the big guy's BH he would have won for sure imo. Pivoting too much at this level...

Body usage on the loop has two parts, you have to lift the ball with your right leg and then press it down on your left. A lot of ppl do the former but not the latter and this is why the ball tends to fly off when its topspin - theyre always giving a lot of lift to the ball but never pressing it...

Boosted H3 is the king of all rubbers indeed. Unfortunately it's just a pain in the ass to boost. :(

I don't think LYJ does it via guesswork too, he's just fast af on his feet and I'm not lol...

Theres no way you can loop a short backspin ball reliably outside of chiquita. 2nd best option is sideswipe. It creates a fast sidespin ball which can be quite disgusting for the opponents to deal with. You can even control whether it produces sidetopspin or sideunderspin which makes it even...

I did some fun training to see if I can learn Lin Yun Ju's fade chiquita (chiquita with the opposite sidespin) - which is best executed against reverse pendulum type sidespin serves to the short FH. Well the answer is that it works amazingly - much better than my usual way (contacting left side...

It's not that straightforward- OP tried T05 and said it felt very nice. D05 would give him a similar feeling and more control while giving him easy to access spin. Furthermore D05 is quite durable and wouldn't be too expensive. A lot of amateur short pushes at OP's level aren't really short (2...

Unless your mom and pop are rich af and you can afford to do anything you want.... Pretty sad but it's too much of a financial gamble in pro sports or music, even if the kid is really good.

If you look at your opponents currently they mostly give you long balls (which is also a valid strategy). Short pushes are only valuable when there's a lot of short game play (which only happens when everything long is punished decisively). Even then, short pushes are not necessarily the best...

Just use D05 on BH, don't worry too much about the speed, because the rubber is already fast you can focus on spinning the ball (which is the thing that gives you confidence in ripping the ball hard) - luckily D05 is also extremely good at generating spin. No spin = mistakes galore if you try to...

My understanding of this is that you have the step on the right foot when you hit the BH. Once you do that the power from the weight transfer will be activated and the shots will have a lot more sting to them. Notice Dan's right foot in the session before (much more stationary) and the session...

Lol ox pips is easy... I used it for like 3 sessions with my off hand and already could do a lot of stuff with it, easiest being to directly attack short serves, hardest being to chopblock loops but I could already get to like 50% accuracy by session 3 or 4. I bet I can beat quite a few...

Wow this is some amazing play - a bit like Manika Batra in terms of style but with even more variety on the LP side - she has all the LP strokes including a lot of the offensive ones against underspin. I think Batra has a more powerful FH but that's probably an unfair comparison. Did she play...