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I finally understand why CNT players train FH to FH with their right foot in front or level with the left foot. I gave it a try as well and it became so, so much easier and faster to transition between BH and FH because it's basically the same stance, no stance changes required. Furthermore, the...

Even in China, badminton is significantly more popular than table tennis especially among the younger gen. Over here in Australia, the badminton courts are almost always fully booked well in advance while TT is just languishing. Table tennis is a bit like golf - it's a lot of old ppl and not a...

Agreed, but to be fair, there's ppl like OldUser who often uses these kinds of abusive language and he wasn't given any warnings officially either.

There was a nasty "spin serve" that cropped up in badminton recently. The shuttlecock would spin and tumble aggressively in an uncontrolled manner such that their opponents simply outright missed the serve return or gave low quality pop ups to be smashed. It was quickly banned within like a few...

Yes, my go-to strategy is to do strong loops against them and push their short chopblock aggressively (fast and early timing to the corners) to force the weak "push" back to attack strongly. I can beat them, but it's just not something I find fun to play against, and it doesn't produce the...

No I said I enjoy playing against legal long pips (one of my regular training partners also use long pips). What I find unfun to play against is treated or illegal long pips like the one Tony played against. I have faced off against them and they are a net harm to the sport's legitimacy for...

For eg, in China there was a guy called Lei Lei Lei (penhold illegal long pips guy) who actually defeated a young Lin Gaoyuan. It was the most ridiculous crap which would just be a laughing stock from the perspective of normal ppl in other sports. There should be no way he should even come close...

No problems with choppers using legal long pips, I enjoy playing with them too. But illegal long pips (the kind that can block full blown loopkills back short) - that's just plain unfair and unfun to play against. I still can beat them often, but the experience is usually quite unpleasant. To...

Yes, the illegal long pips can actually block loopkills back short and with heavy af underspin. Legal long pips usually can't keep it short. Imo it's pretty unfair for the inverted player to put so much effort into the ball while the illegal long pips player can just stand there and block. In...

I literally cannot serve the pure topspin variant short it is always half long or long even if the 2nd bounce is really close to the net... the spin just carries it long unfortunately. If people read it correctly they will attack it for sure. Sidetopspin is easier to keep short if it's more...

I write with my left hand but play with my right hand 🤔 I regret not starting out with my left but here I am...

Tried tweaking my FH to incorporate the upper body guiding technique and I think it definitely works. The spin quality and control is definitely much better, I just need to learn how to control this movement. It too often resulted in me applying too much power to the ball and it going long. I...

You should check out the hook serve imo, it's a major point winner for me personally because people don't see it very often, and also much easier to execute compared to reverse pendulum. There's a ton of tutorials on WRM which teach the hook serve.

Agreed with all points. Imo serving long is indeed Russian roulette (offering the 1st attack to the opponent) but it's essential to keep opponent's guessing so that they miss the perfect timing on the short serves. Even if the serve is short, if a high level player anticipates it and catches...

Yes, with high level penholders especially with the likes of Tony, you can loop all day long and there would hardly be any blocking mistakes unless you changed the placement (cheating lol). And Tony blocked for a lot of world class players before so he's used to the intensity of pro loops, not...

I also served with a violent wrist and finger movement in the past and then I had some nerve inflammation issues so I had to completely change it to a full body serve which is a bit more sustainable and relaxing for me.

GM has some highly developed forearm muscles and coordination. The serves are quite a bit spinnier than what the movement looks like it could produce - a bit Timo Boll esque actually.

Was wondering if it's the Joola Golden Tango you're using, and is it the PS version? How long does the performance last typically? Agree that D05 is a hard beast to tame especially on FH... I can make some ridiculous loops that wow everyone and then miss a ton of easy balls after that (mostly...

Yeppp you can see the rubber is kinda loose at the middle and flapping around, I blasted a full blown high speed loopkill at him and it came back as a short super heavy underspin ball that double bounces 😂 it was the most ridiculous thing I've seen. Tbh LP ppl are usually not so innocent...

Let's be real here. Boosting has some serious advantages (in increasing the spin and speed of loops without compromising too much on control), most ppl around me boost, and a lot even glue with speed glue too lmao. Why would they go through all the trouble otherwise? Similarly lots of LP...