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This can be quite devastating but needs the right ball to do it (best against middle ish short balls with sideunderspin).

Yes, and the space is defined as a 3d volume which is the infinite upwards extension of a flat 2d plane defined by 3 points (the ball, and the 2 sides of the net). It's as clear as day that this excludes anything below the flat plane (which the playing arm in this instance is). Maybe it's...

No - it even says in the description - the flat plane formed by three points - the ball and two sides of the net and its infinite upwards extension (meaning anything above the flat plane). Note that it is "infinite upwards extension" not "downwards extension". Hence, if the free hand is below...

I can do the flick regardless of length. The shorter it is the more you have to be more precise and use more of the fingers. The longer it is the fuller the stroke. The thing is that you shouldn't drop your racket or arm at all even against long balls - this ensures that you have a smooth...

Move aside Par Gerell, this guy is the OG true master of the hook serve lol...

But in general I agree that most top players are serving illegally because the ball is hidden by their shoulder/head on the way down. The only way to avoid this is to stand mostly sideways to the table (for eg Li Xiaoxia high toss serve). If it's not called obviously they will continue to do so...

The screenshots are still legal. The rule is that the ball itself must have visibility of the net at all times. If you imagine a triangle between the ball and the net, that is the no go zone where no body parts can be. In the pics, the free hand is well below the ball and thus not hindering the...

No, it's simply that speed and power is a dichotomy because for any one ball, you can only select one hitting point. Mind you Felix Lebrun is not even yet at Harimoto's level. Harimoto beat Ma Long and Zhang Jike at age 14 and many other extremely good players, and only last year beat both FZD...

Not so easy, there were a lot of speed based players recently but they too had bottlenecks (for eg Hirano, Ito Mima, Chuang Chih Yuan, Yan An), but they all shined at a very young age. Most World Champions in recent years are more power based. Harimoto is building up a lot more on the power...

If it's half long you can loop it. So with sidetop FH pendulum, what I do is I contact the ball with loop stroke going towards the left (because the ball is gonna curve to the left, you should also match it to get max accuracy, i like to think from 2 o clock to 10 o clock). I cover the ball...

Hurricane is excellent except the boosting process is really dumb and gets old. This is why I'm on Dignics...

Probably not very suited. It's not so much the short arm but he doesn't rotate enough to generate max power. Felix's game is not about power but sheer speed. Harimoto was super fast on the BH but not so much on the FH, Lebrun is super fast on both BH and FH.

His short game is already very good with his setup. Having slow tacky rubber (slower ball release) means he won't be as much of a speed demon on his FH which will make him play worse. I like his playing style as it is and he shouldn't change it too much other than refining the techniques he...

You need to play lots of practice matches where you use all of the new techniques without the stress of league imo...

I found a much more effective way to tweak the split step so that it's faster and smoother, just do it with a very slight delay between the landing of the two feet. So for eg for service you transfer weight to the left foot during contact, then using that momentum rotate such that your right...

Larger air resistance = more clumsy to handle and less flexible in terms of last minute adjustments to the ball. Also it will absolutely hurt your wrist more if you do chiquita with them.

This is only for short serve receive - the ball won't be that fast during a short serve.

For chiquita, I have a system against all 6 main types of serves (FH pendulum side under, FH pendulum side top, pure heavy under, no spin, BH pendulum side under, BH pendulum side top) I always contact the slightly on the left side against BH pendulum type serves. Side under I will contact near...

I had another look at the match video and I understand why you were always forced to use BH receive instead of FH receive, when you used the FH receive you pretty much missed all the balls with a huge % being direct mistakes. I think your coach was basically targeting that area all the time and...

Are you talking about BH chiquita flick?