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On correct angles, contact points and brushing technique against different spins: The biggest problem with most ppl's BH usually is vs a deep,fast long spinny af underspin ball and is the primary problem - on the contrary BH countering against topspin is easy for most ppl. This comes from a...

Ti Long's video above transformed my BH. The core spinning mechanics is based on the thumb and index fingers used to drive the supination. With it I can get some crazy spin even with a no backswing 1 inch stroke. This is very advantageous in match play because you are almost immune to jamming...

Unethical, but can't fault a player for bending the rules a bit. It's not just WCQ but Ito also borderline hides the serve with her head with her serves which fooled everyone in the beginning. Imo its the umpires who are at fault here. FZD and other players can also train up more head hidden...

It's easy to ensure you have a legal serve without hiding. Simply take away the left hand, and make sure the ball passes in front of your face as it falls, not behind your head near the ear. Tbh WCQ is taking a big risk too. What if the Paris Olympics umpires are super strict with ball hiding...

It actually depends on what you do with the shot, ie your shot placement and quality should determine where you recover to (cutting off the angles from the opponent and making them do a low percentage shot to hit the ball past you). But there definitely needs to be a recovery reset split step...

Harimoto had a new serve with some serious heavy af underspin and was doing a lot of alternating heavy underspin / no spin pushes. Unfortunately Harimoto also succumbed to the crazy WCQ serve (borderline illegal to downright illegal in most instances already especially serving over the table and...

Fan Zhendong serves too clean tbh. If nobody is actually enforcing the serve rules he might as well learn a few illegal serves. He is the king of the topspin rallies and even got close in most games vs WCQ. If not for all those cheap points from misreading WCQ's serve, I think FZD would have...

That guy (Sun Ting) has some insanely fast racket movement like a cat - I pretty much only understood the serve in slowmo haha. The really annoying thing is that he is intentionally not showing his secrets on the Fang Bo channel, saying some crap like hit the ball on top of racket for topspin...

What imo Craig and also WCQ doesn't do (imo it is a missed opportunity), is to have the exact same preparation movement between the hook and the pendulum serve - so the opponent basically has no idea if he has to prepare for a pendulum or a hook. So basically you pretend to prepare for a hook...

See if you would be able to read it lol. I earn a crazy amount of points using this serve in my games - the only thing that really works reliably against it (what I really hate) is a LP receive (all that beautiful effort to disguise like a magician and they just blindly push it with LP and...

No way it's so simple. It can go from extreme sideunderspin and sidetopspin to no spin to even pure topspin or pure backspin to reverse direction sidespin, not to mention all the direction changes. It all depends how the ball is being brushed. And at the higher levels its all being controlled by...

In TT quality is related to how certain you are of the incoming shot (spin, placement, speed). Harimoto is forced to play safer otherwise he wouldn't even get any shots on the table. WCQ was serving insane this whole match - those hook serves were deadly af and almost downright unreadable...

I think if LYJ matched against LJK in Frankfurt he would have lost too. LJK is a different kind of player, you just cannot hope to win by blasting topspins at him - it is precisely what his game is designed against. LJK's weakness is against ppl who can disrupt his rhythm and give him weird af...

It's easy. Just do chopblock against topspin and sideswipe against everything else and you'll be fine.

Excellent PechPong video - I found the analysis excellent as usual!

I have a dirty secret/ shortcut for you. Since you don't really play BH topspin - there is no point going for inverted rubbers. Put some deceptive long pips on BH (the ideal chopblocking rubber there is) and you would have solved serve receive without needing to acquire serve spin reading skills...

LYJ's chiquita against LJK is like banging your head against a wall, with LJK being the wall. Worse, LJK is serving with huge underspin component with low trajectories so LYJ couldnt add a lot of quality in his chiquita. And LYJ's lack of variety in his receives other than chiquita got really...

For me, Ti Longs video about using the thumb and index finger as lever arms to spin the ball was the most eye opening and made the most impact to my BH game. Once I had the spin generation from the fingers, everything else fell into place easily (because then it's all about applying more forward...

Yes, everyone hates the camera angle but they don't change it. I suspect it's so that they can sell the actual good footage (from better angles) as collectors items to high net worth individuals (conspiracy theory from my part).

Worse, he pretty much plays the classic Ma Long style - serve/short game, aggressive FH pivoting, big FH loop. Ma Long almost never loses to this style because he knows all of its weaknesses.