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Hurricane 8-80 is quite good at lower power levels, without boosting. I used it on FH for a while.

Agreed - unboosted Hurricane is a pain in the ass to play with. Hurricane 8-80 is good but on the FH definitely too soft (very good at low power levels, sucks at high power levels). If they created a 40 deg version of the 80 sponge or replicate Butterfly's Spring Sponge X tech that'll be...

The chiquita winners from the short FH side to the opponent's wide FH feels the most amazing for me, but it's very hard to execute and recover from them :(

Backhand down the line is a tough stroke especially with the traditional FH stance (left leg in front) and requires a few adjustments which I think Jeff probably doesn't need yet. His diagonal BH varying between targeting the wide BH of the opponent or the middle is probably deadly enough. I...

Not saying that it's not possible, but it's difficult to focus on both "improving strokes and using them" like what JeffM has been obviously doing with his BH loop, and still having the tactical senses to probe for weakness, develop a strategy and execute it. I do compete from time to time in...

Hindsight is always 20/20. I admire those ppl who do all these tactical adjustments on the fly (I'm not one of those). Sometimes it's habitual placements and we have to mentally force ourselves to place the ball differently. However, it's really hard when you're focusing on technical...

Had a quick look and your BH has improved some leaps and bounds compared to the last videos. Some of those deep high underspin balls I would definitely have missed them with my BH loop 😂 seeing you attempt those and succeed is amazing. I hate those high deep balls to my BH regardless of spin...

With all the recovery reset training, I realised something about my transition from FH back to BH. Basically, the end position of the full FH powerloop (with racket tip pointing towards left) is very close to the BH backswing position. Using this as an advantage, it is possible to make the...

It can't be topspin based on the way he has contacted the ball (brushing forwards and contacting the ball at the bottom). Also note how open the racket angle is on the followthrough which is a key telltale. I can show you a cockscrew topspin version of the hook loop that the same guy does for...

I understand cockscrew spin and I agree it is present, however the shot is not pure cockscrew, it has a backspin component due to the forward component of the brushing. In fact, I can actually show you another video where he makes it double bounce due to the backspin. This guy is kinda famous on...

Not saying that there's no cockscrew spin but the way the ball dropped down on contact with a largely open racket angle on both my video as well as Simon Gauzy's "loop" (notice that Dan also attempted to push it with an open racket angle) is an indication of backspin present as a component. Of...

Lol the guy pushed it, and the ball went straight to the base of the net. This is a ball with no underspin? Sidespin balls never behave like that :) Btw there's also some other pros doing it like Ma Long and Simon Gauzy (in this exact same thread) showing that the underspin is very, very real...

8-80 is a lot softer and easier to use than 8...

How does he do it? Interested to know what the movement looks like.

This ties in amazingly well with a solid hook serve. So the idea is that, often people focus a lot on sidespin pushing on the hook serve which allows them to control the ball reasonably well just by adjusting angles here and there. However, this version of the hook serve is pure topspin and...

Yeah the two main trolls on TTD (whom everyone knows) are in the thread 😂 Tbh I had wished for some more interesting technical and gameplay discussion on the execution part of the stroke (including how to play against it) but the trolls have just derailed it completely. Agree that table tennis...

It's really a marketing problem imo like what Nextlevel said and WTT is really dropping the ball on this. Some of the Korean TV shows with amateurs on have more exciting "matches" than the pro ones 😂 especially with good commentary, slowmos and dramatic angles.

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/creating-side-underspin-with-a-loop.30738/ For those who think that upwards movement cannot create underspin :)

The contact point is actually bottom half of the ball. You are right that if the contact is on the side or back of the ball, no underspin can be generated with this movement.

Yep. Everyone thinks it is sidetopspin but it is in fact heavy af sideunderspin. This is the true power of the chiquita, the sheer amount of variation in it that one can produce. Well ppl like James Z would never understand it 😂 no wonder he needs his illegal pips to compete.