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I also spent quite some time moving and running with barefoot shoes. It really developed the musculature in my feet, up to the point I have dinosaur feet which is all veiny and muscly lol.... I feel it really helps with TT (although I still wear TT shoes when playing TT)

Yes - it appears that Felix has the strongest penhold RPB game now out of everyone else. He also plays a similar rallying game (except even closer to the table and speedier than Wang Hao).

It'll be too big of a risk for CNT to allow Ma Long to take WCQ's place in the Olympics as next cycle they'll be way too vulnerable with only FZD having Olympic experience...

Not sure why you're concerned about FZD when he is 2x back to back world champion (including this year!). So in terms of majors he is leading big time. He even destroyed WCQ when it mattered the most at the WTTC. Furthermore, stylistically imo FZD has a significant advantage against Wang Chuqin...

How long did your 09c last? Just asking out of curiosity.

One theory that I had for the FH is that the left leg landing position after the FH stroke allows for a great deal of flexibility after you have put weight on your right foot. For eg you can perform a big crossover step by placing the left foot significantly beyond your right foot. Or you can...

I figured out how to short push properly with the BH especially against FH pendulum serves. With D05, going against the spin (ie doing a left to right movement) basically will be extremely hard to control the ball especially if it's sidetopspin. The fundamental issue is that you can't engage the...

This is the correct answer... another thing is lifting against heavy af backspin, the lift from the right leg required is so large that you often launch the body a bit into the air before landing on your left. But if you land on the right foot first after looping in the air, it's basically...

My 09c only lasted 4 months which is complete crap lol.... this is why I'm with 05 now which lasts long like a tank 👍

Yes if you're kinda sick or sluggish or not performing at the best physically, D05 or D09c is a great help! Tacky Chinese rubbers can be very unforgiving especially in hard topspin vs topspin rallying. However, tacky hurricane is almost a cheat code for short push and receive, there are some...

It depends on who gets to introduce their weapons first, and how you can prevent the opponent from introducing their weapons. For eg, if you can serve very heavy spin fast long serves with huge spin variation to all corners, I bet they can't "flathit" the ball with any kind of good success...

Most hitters struggle af against heavy af topspin, but do very well against half hearted medium pace topspins. When you loop just load up the spin like crazy and I guarantee that he won't be able to punch it consistently. also like what you said heavy pushes with lots of variation will make...

They should start cracking at it then... it's just rubbers and not rocket science....

If you contact the ball at an angle to its incoming trajectory, the outward speed will be lower as compared to contacting perpendicular to the trajectory (which may be causing it to hit the net). If you also have a stroke going along this angle, you can even reduce the momentum of the ball. This...

Koki Niwa would probably have lost too - he looks good in some highlight reels but in reality he loses a lot. Also, Yoshimura is tall af wirh long arms long legs and still lost...

It's always good for companies to keep investing in research and development to stay ahead of the curve... If they manage to develop some spring sponge they can sell higher price rubbers and increase their profits, surely shareholders would be more than willing to embrace this aim.

Yes, in this era BH is equally important or even more important to develop. I think playing this blocker, you probably realised that if you pivot he's gonna burn you on the wide FH (which he did many times). Unless you have shot quality on the FH that opponents cannot control, pivoting is...

They need to develop some spring sponge technology and get rid of the need to boost....

Sorry to say but the red shirt uncle has a blatantly illegal hidden serve, guy doesn't even bother to remove the free arm at all! I wonder why the kids didn't complain at all and the umpires didn't care either...

Was reflecting on an interesting technique I used to FH smash a semi high short ish ball on the BH side recently. This is coming off a short push off my heavy short sidetopspin serve. What I've been trying to do unsuccessfully is to loopkill it with a pivot FH. The problem is that sometimes the...