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To be fair those restrictions are downright unfair lol... Xu Xin has a great shakehand BH!

Yes but that's against weak pushes, I'm thinking even for eg directly punching the opponents weak opening loop straight away, not even waiting for the opponent to push.

This is why players need to fight fire with fire - the problem is that the umpire might not agree with you. In this case just hide your serve more so that you create a more even field.

Best way to handle sidespin or topspin serves is a flick or sideswipe. You can also push against sidespin/topspin by contacting it with a vertical blade face on either the right and left side, go forward and downwards with your body and forearm. Short push against sidespin/topspin is also...

Serve receive is the hardest skill in TT :( everyone struggles with it tbh.

Damn, my practice partner is starting to become a god at block/counter now and it's becoming increasingly difficult to attack balls past him even when Im looping all sorts of ridiculous balls. He does all sorts of ridiculous balls (sidespin chopblocks in both directions, Ma Lin style off the...

Yes I was - it's keeping the elbow bent and close to the waist at the end of the backswing, and only straightening it as you begin the forward swing (body first, and arm lagging behind)

Lmao this shot (supination style FH flick) absolutely doesn't work at all, I did some tries. It cannot produce any topspin at all haha.... I guess it's back to the topspin flick or the dead flick or the sideswipe.

I can actually do rather dangerous chiquitas and sideswipe attacks against short heavy backspin with my BH. The problem is with players who know to avoid serving short backspin to my BH but to the FH instead. Obviously if I can attack it straight away, it's more advantageous in terms of game...

He is still pronating when he FH loops for sure - ive seen dozens of slowmo videos. With FH loops there is overwhelming amount of power available to cancel out any backspin anyway, I'm not too concerned about that. It's the short balls that the shakehand FH receive is very weak at. Maybe a...

Pivoting does stress the left knee especially if you put a lot of power in it. This is why I try not to pivot so much anymore and just use BH lol... Maybe another way is to look at your shoes in terms of the shock absorption, that could help. Otherwise, strength training is very useful, and...

Yep that is also my general approach with BH nowadays. I wonder if a similar principle can be used for the FH flick vs heavy underspin (ie supinate rather than pronate). Gonna try that out next time I play.

I have way too many FH receive styles for my own good lol....I feel like the nospin FH flick, the sideswipes and wide angle sidespin push/flicks are the most devastating aggressive receives, but this short spinny FH flick may be quite something too, I'll have to test it out. I too figured out...

On the hooking issue I second Carl's opinion, the easiest path to fix that is to train up a fade topspin. The normal topspin is basically just somewhere in between the fade and hook. Then you can fade or hook to your liking which is very useful to increase the angles that your opponent needs to...

For a lot of stuff you need to do a shit ton of shadow training + visualization away from the table to fix - imo this is the fastest way. At the table with ball pressure - this is very hard or even impossible. When you go back to the table to train you should use very simple exercises with...

While experimenting I came across a very interesting technique for the FH flick to create a lot stronger spin than ppl think can be generated from a FH flick. So the way is letting the bat drop down to 4 o clock and then really using the fingers and forearm pronation to spin the bat up to 10 or...

This is where ball picker + a box of balls comes very handy. I do like 30+ balls minimum, and even if the blocker makes a mistake here and there I still get a lot of practice in in a very short amount of time. The limit is more on the endurance rather than ball picking. I never hold back when...

This is why they will always be low level players... but there is some value to training against weird af blockers like that in that your footwork and adjustment capabilities really are tested to the limit. It's way harder to loop against those junk blocks than proper blocks from a coach which...

Yeah his partner doesn't really block properly, sometimes he adds energy to the block by moving forward and sometimes he goes back and even down with the block which is gonna kill all the topspin on the ball and even add some weird underspin. But it's good practice in terms of adjustments. It...

One more comment I had was that the FH swing looks a bit too big because you're completely straightening your arm during the backswing. One thing I learnt from Coach Meng to keep the backswing compact is to keep it bent and elbow close to the body. You straighten the arm before hitting by having...