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Haha I think ppl like that are too steeped into the dark side to share their secrets 😅

guy won't be happy about me sharing it unfortunately... but if you play around with it, it is really capable of a lot of nasty LP shots. I would characterise the types as chop, chopblock, fade, bump, sideswipe and punch. The LP RPB chiquita is the ultimate, it produced the weirdest spin ball...

I would highly recommend simply putting LP on the penhold BH rather than a complete switch to shakehand which means relearning almost everything. It is one of the most effective styles I've seen at amateur high level TT. Heck some players with this style have won against some state/national...

Your technique is still quite arm based and not coming from the legs + weight transfer. That said you have good touch and you're getting a lot of balls back on the table, and your ball feeling on the topspin looks OK. If you know Chinese I would highly suggest watching some tutorial videos by...

D05 is the ultimate BH rubber

I had the same issue, now I just save the trouble and got D05 instead. Besides short pushing everything is even better imo compared to 09c. H8-80 is decent only if you don't hit hard. It loses stability at hard hits.

Practiced a lot of BH switches down the line at home using the Harimoto method of straightening the left leg to enable the body to face the wide FH of the opponent. Managed to do it quite well during training today with my usual training partner but I think it has limited use in matches against...

The one loop one push method works for me very well with good results. The key is you need to have very high quality shots for both the loop and the push - any weak ass shots and you'll get punished by competent LP players. So for the loop it needs to be really spinny, not slow, deep with good...

There's so much deceptive fake movements in high level serves that imo, you can't rely 100% on information gleaned during contact, but rather watch the ball trajectory and read it like a hawk, that also allows you to be a lot more precise in the receive. I would say that contact info only...

H8-80 is the only DHS rubber that can be played unboosted imo. But it's too soft on the FH imo, and it becomes unstable during harder loops which is undesirable. For BH I reckon it's a good rubber for sure.

The main benefit to serving closer to the end line is that there's less reaction time available to the opponent because the time to the first bounce is vastly decreased. Also there's less information about the ball trajectory which means more chance for misreading the serve. Most pros now do...

I think I might be getting to something here. It is the same principle as reading LP serves. The thicker the contact on LP pushes, the less spin reversal there will be and they can even add their own underspin on pushes with sufficient force. The thinner the contact, the more the spin reversal...

Played yesterday although I was still a little sick and surprisingly did very well (was about 50-50 against the inverted + LP penholder) especially with chiquita and looping, all credit to Viscaria + double Dignics 05 making it so easy. I reckon i would have played a lot worse if it was any...

Now it's my turn :(( the flu is amazingly potent this year in Australia too... Never had such a bad flu in my life

Interesting matches for sure. I'm surprised that the Chinese juniors only pushed when dealing with FH short balls and Ni Xia Lian was always able to initiate the first attack off their pushes which is a very bad way to play against pips. Imo they should have FH or BH flicked these balls...

I do my FH pendulum disguise in a very similar way too. This is one of the best ways to disguise the FH pendulum because you use almost the same racket angle to serve both sideunder and sidetopspin. Furthermore, because you're going forward when serving sideunderspin and side + backwards when...

Wow what happened?! 😳 I guess I'm the only one still on full Gozo mode lol 😂

I know the basics - long pips basically reverse spin on a push, so say if you served really heavy underspin it will most likely be a topspin and vice versa. However, after more plays against my combination penholder partner, one thing I noticed is that he actually manages to make a long pips...

I prefer non head heavy setups below 190g otherwise chiquita becomes a pain (figuratively+ literally).

@JeffM I found a video which illustrates what I have been talking about in terms of more variation on the FH receive. Your opponents will hate you if you master these :)