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Wow at Darko - he really improved tremendously on his short game especially the FH short game. BH is amazing as usual. FZD's lack of variation in the serve/receive game nearly cost him the match. Not sure why there's not much discussion on the Dang Qiu vs Lin Shidong match- Dang Qiu was playing...

Can't really imagine it lol - it must be coming like bullets haha...

I actually kinda dig Wrighty's arm movement - he seems to have the right idea about how to shape the BH topspin (there is a lifting movement as well as a pressing down movement, and the bat angles all seem correct) - and you can see how easy it is for him to topspin the robot underspin. Imo if...

Yep I've been in a hall with Ma Long and Xu Xin, the ball hitting sound is super loud. It's also a lot faster than what it seems on video.

There's no need for full on 90 deg body rotation like Kreanga but it cannot be 0 deg - this shows that the movement is not coming from or being initiated by the lower body which is one of the most important concepts in powerful and controlled topspin play. You can see clearly Harimoto places...

First thing I notice is that you have no hip rotation at all. Even though you can't rotate as much as the FH you still need to rotate inwards anticlockwise as the 1st movement, otherwise the power from the legs is not coming out at all. The tell is to watch the right hip in relation to the left...

I'm also going to say one bad thing in this forum that many ppl would disagree with. Equipment makes a difference. You can definitely hit much harder much easier with something like outer carbon blade like Viscaria compared to some 5 ply wood blade lol. Same compared with D05 compared to...

Try medicine ball drills. I think PechPong did them in a video last and it was quite inspiring. 5:56 of this video. But watch the whole video, it's all good stuff!

It's funny. I'm almost the opposite to you, in that my BH is a lot stronger than my FH in general, especially in serve receive. I almost receive serve 2/3 of the table with BH at this point lol. I think I had some real improvements in my FH today (especially BH-FH transitions) by keeping my bat...

Wait till you try D05 on Viscaria - this BH combination is a real bomb lol especially with the sudden directional changes with almost no telegraphing. I think T05 kinda sucks (I never liked it) and D05 is flat out superior to it.

My problem with a lot of what brokenball tries to say is that he is always trying to simplify the problem to high school mathematics when the actual system is far more complex (and there are plenty of actual peer reviewed papers by zeio which show these complexities). That's why his math never...

Not much difference tbh, if you watch Alexis Lebrun or Truls Moregardh they too has a massive straight arm FH. I think the classic "Euro loop" is really a suboptimal Timo Boll loop which not a lot of top Europeans adopt anyway.

Man ill be happy to win 50% of them at the moment. I actually really wanted to improve my topspin rallying for a while already but I ended up honing my serve/receive skills even more to avoid it lol...

Mine is to become a topspin countering and looping machine - if the ball goes to a topspin rally I wanna win it at least 60% of the time!

Think most ppl sand their blade heavily to make it easier to open the racket. I've held my friends sanded racket and it was tremendously easier to do RPB with it.

I recently had some insights to down the line BH. The most dangerous fade BHs (with the left to right bat movement) are pretty much only possible if the incoming ball is placed a bit to the middle and doesn't exit the sides of the table. Once the ball exits the side of the table, this is close...

I figured out something very simple that caused me to have very bad transitions between BH and FH loop close table lol. Keep the racket up (slightly above elbow level)! If the racket is dropped prematurely what that would cause is to have too much upwards looping and not forward enough and not...

Yes - with Viscaria you have to focus a bit more on brushing because the ball will fly out if you try to hit too much. You still need to sink it into the sponge tho with the body. What I like about that there's a very nice separation of concerns between the body and arm - the forearm is used for...

Yeah if you came from shakehand I think just skip tpb, I think it's a bit hard to learn imo...

I finally figured out how to do quite a nasty FH snake as a weapon against dropshots haha. But my movement is opposite of Adam's. Adam always fakes a fade and does the hook. The one I can put a stupid amount of spin with a fade movement and end with a hook. Gonna learn it for the BH too!