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After a night of using Harimoto ALC, my short push and general push control has returned even with D05 :) although it wasn't my strategy of choice against penholders, I still used a few and I know the touch is back. Way easier than when I was using Viscaria. I also definitely had more pace...

I can do that dropshot. The problem is that without a smash, they already know you can't do anything to the ball and so will just not retreat from the table. When you do the dropshot, they will be able to do some extra nasty stuff to the ball and you have to work for the point again. Heck I...

I played with my old partner the LP/inverted penholders and managed to hit 4 such badminton style FH kills of short balls. Hehe it seems quite effective!

He's still one of the top players for sure and has defeated both Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong which is no small feat! I think in his losses he tended to push long and block a bit way too much, not sure if it's just for fooling around, experimenting or that he's just feeling lazy. When he is BH...

Waldner also closes the racket angle subtly if you noticed haha, but that is nowhere near the amount of wrapping that Fan Zhendong does for sure.

The followthrough affects the quality of the ball significantly. Nothing the pros do is by accident - it's all by design to maximise consistency and speed/spin quality. The followthrough is a sign of the nature of the contact because of inertia of the various parts of the body. So if you have a...

To address some misconceptions about the limits to human reaction to achieve the precision of hit then brush. Contact occurs in milliseconds, however you can still "time" the activation of various muscles in the stroke down to millisecond precision. For an example of human limits to timing...

If you notice, he goes up during the stroke and sidewards/down during the followthrough. Also he contacts roughly perpendicular to the ball, and finishes with a closed racket angle. This is what we refer to as wrapping. Now there are ppl who use linear strokes with minimal wrapping. This is a...

It's quite interesting because here he kept pushing on his BH, no sign of the crazy BH game that almost defines him these days. Whereas with Harimoto I could already see his excellent BH stroke structure even in this video.

Sorry to pour oil onto the fire xD Here is Fan Zhendong illustrating the wrapping technique. You can see how he presses the racket angle down and finishes more to the side on the followthrough - the prime indication of wrapping. It is very obvious when he doesn't use his body fully for eg at 0:29

It's because tacky rubbers allow him to push very short even on the BH with ease and also allow him to slow down incoming rockets significantly on the BH block. Also Ma Long's BH is not weak contrary to popular opinion. In fact he was winning most of the BH-BH rallies against ZJK in the Rio...

I also do the side chop smash but I have had that looped back at me hard, believe it or not.... And other times ppl read it and push it back correctly and then they get back into the point. I just want it to be so fast that the ball just ain't coming back at all. After all it's a high short...

I guess it's more like a mini version. So you have your racket roughly at 12 o'clock and then pronate downwards strongly. Traditional FH flick kills have your bat at around 2-3 o'clock. It doesn't produce topspin but probably some weird sideunderspin 😂

Would also be interested to learn from anyone who has developed a devastating FH net kill against high short balls (for eg a high very short ghost serve)

My FH flick is strangely better against low to medium height short balls than it is for high short balls. I never managed to master the flick kill off a high short ball (I can do it if not more than like 2-3x net height). For some reason I also often can't execute the loopkill against it due to...

I'm not sure what other term to use in English for this stroke...

With aggressive serve receives, you need to involve body rotation and weight transfer. Although the table is in the way, you can still throw your upper body weight clockwise (for BH flicks/chiquita), and anticlockwise (for FH flicks).

No spin dead balls can be pushed short. Just contact the ball on the side with a 90 deg ish racket angle, and thrust forwards like a fencer. It'll be short. I also like the sideswipe a lot if it is a dead ball. Easy to control and doesn't take a lot of energy.

Damn how many setups do you have... I pretty much only have 1 blade with 2 operational rubbers at any time....

This is a pretty comprehensive video, the recovery reset step being discussed here is present almost all the time.